Hotel Fürstenhof was a luxury hotel facing both

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and

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, Germany. It was designed by architects Richard Bielenberg and Josef Moser and opened in 1907. On 22 November 1943 the hotel was destroyed during an air raid on Berlin in

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; the ruins were completely demolished in the 1950s. Originally, the hotel was built in the

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in the second half of the 19th century. After its renovation, enlargement and reopening in 1907, the architecture of the hotel had elements of

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, the onset of

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and the

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. The interior of the building was elaborately decorated, including a fountain by Ludwig Mayer and carvings by

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