The Stettiner General-Anzeiger Building in

Szczecin Szczecin (, , german: Stettin ; sv, Stettin ; Latin: ''Sedinum'' or ''Stetinum'') is the capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the German border, it is a major s ...

() was an

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, which was located at the corner of today's Opłotki Street and

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, in the

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, in the Centre district. It was destroyed in a

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in the 1940s.

History

The house was built in the late 19th century. It was designed by the architect C. Kelm. The building replaced two older buildings: tenement house no. 3 inhabited by a

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Brünnlein and tenement house no. 4, which was owned by an

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keeper Müller. The new building became the seat of the editorial office of the newspaper Stettiner General-Anzeiger, founded by Ewald Gentzensohn in 1848. During the bombing of Szczecin between 1943 and 1944, the New Market area was destroyed. The surrounding buildings were demolished in the 1940s, but for unknown reasons the ruins of the Stettiner General-Anzeiger building survived until around 1954. After 1995, construction work began on the site of the building in connection with the revitalisation of the lower Old Town. However, no decision was made to restore the original appearance of the Stettiner General-Anzeiger building. The original division of the plot into two parts was reinstated and a new,

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building was erected on plot no. 3. In 2005 the editorial office of Głos Szczeciński was moved to the new building.

References

{{Reflist Former buildings and structures in Szczecin Buildings and structures completed in the 19th century Buildings and structures demolished in the 1950s Old Town, Szczecin Buildings and structures destroyed during World War II