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Karl-Liebknecht-Straße, or Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse (see ß), is a major street in the central
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district of the
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. It is named after
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(1871–1919), one of the founders of the
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. The street connects the
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boulevard with the
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arterial road leading to the northern city limits. Although part of the street dates back to medieval times, most of the buildings at its side were built in the 1960s, when
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's centre was redesigned as the capital of
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.


History

The origins of the street lie in the quarter that arose about 1270 around
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, located north of
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's initial settlement. The "New Market" (''Neuer Markt'') square beneath the church was first mentioned in a 1292 deed; there were three alleys that went southwest from it down to the
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river. They had had different names over the centuries and were ultimately known as Papenstraße (“Bishops' Street”, named for the Berlin residence of the Havelberg bishops), Brauhausstraße (“Brewery Street”) and Kleine Burgstraße (“Castle Street”, named for the
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on the other side of the river). Since the 17th century, a wooden pedestrian bridge, known as Castle Bridge, later called Cavalier Bridge or ''Sechserbrücke'' (“Sixpence Bridge”), would lead from Kleine Burgstraße across the water to the Berlin Palace on
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and the eastern terminus of Unter den Linden. However, traffic from the west crossing
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still had to turn right in front of the Palace and continue its way to Alt-Berlin via the parallel Rathaus Bridge. In the 1880s, plans for a new traffic routing were developed when it was decided to build a northeastern extension of the Unter den Linden boulevard through the Palace's
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. In 1884 the German Emperor
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gave his consent to replace the pedestrian bridge with a much larger, richly ornamented stone construction. Beyond the river, after lengthy negotiations with numerous property owners, the three historic alleys were combined to a broad street, built according to plans designed by August Orth, to complete the interconnection from Unter den Linden to the New Market square. Opened in 1887, this new street was named Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße in honour of the emperor. The road then led from Spree Island across the new ''Kaiser-Wilhelm-Brücke'' through Alt-Berlin, turning slightly north at St. Mary's Church, pass under the
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tracks and ending at Münzstraße in the adjacent
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(“Barns' Quarter”) neighbourhood. In 1892 the street was extended to Hirtenstraße near modern
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. During the
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era, demolition of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Brücke began in March 1939 to make room for the ''
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'' plans developed by
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; nevertheless, works ceased shortly after the outbreak of
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in September. Most of the buildings on Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße were largely damaged and several lost completely in the British and American air raids on the city between 1943 and 1945. During the final
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in April 1945, German
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troops blew up the remnants of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Brücke in an attempt to hold back the
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advance. After the war, the street became part of the
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-occupied sector of Berlin. The Soviet Military Administration had it renamed Liebknechtstraße in 1947 for Karl Liebknecht, co-founder of the German Communist Party. Liebknecht had his lawyer's office nearby and during the
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had proclaimed a "Free Socialist Republic" at the Berlin Palace on 9 November 1918, shortly before he was murdered by ''
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'' paramilitaries. The bridge to Spree Island was rebuilt in a simple form in 1949/50 and equally named
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. However, the lost buildings were only replaced in the 1960s when the East German
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and the
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decided to rebuild the area to fit the government's visions of a modern socialist city. The new broad Karl-Liebknecht-Straße started on Spree Island at the Marx-Engels-Platz, between
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and the Palace of the Republic inaugurated in 1976. On the other side of the Liebknecht Bridge, large ''
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'' apartment blocks were built along the street, while the right side became a large open green, stretching from the
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to the foot of the Fernsehturm (TV tower). Instead of turning north at St. Mary's Church, the new Karl-Liebknecht-Straße, finished in 1969, now goes straight ahead, bypassing
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to meet the
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Prenzlauer Allee at the site of the former city gate (''Prenzlauer Tor''). The former northeastern section of the street, beyond the church, is today known as Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße - named after
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, another co-founder of the Communist Party who was likewise killed in 1919. Unlike its surroundings, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße has not changed its look too much since the
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in 1990. However, the former
Palasthotel Palasthotel () was a hotel that belonged to the Interhotel chain and was located at Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 5 in the Mitte district of Berlin, behind the Berliner Dom and along the river Spree. It was built between 1976 and 1979 on a design b ...
near the Liebknecht Bridge has been demolished in 2001 and replaced by the large ''DomAquarée'' hotel and office building complex, comprising the
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, the
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aquarium and a
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. The adjacent apartment blocks and the row of shops below have been steadily refurbished. Plans for the reconstruction of the neighbourhood north of Alexanderplatz have been made.


Route description

Karl-Liebknecht-Straße starts at the Schloßbrücke (“palace bridge”) on Spree Island as part of the German federal highways
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and B 5. On the left lies the
Lustgarten The Lustgarten (, ''Pleasure Garden'') is a park in Museum Island in central Berlin at the foreground of the ''Altes Museum''. It is next to the (Berlin Cathedral) and near the reconstructed (''Berlin City Palace'') of which it was originally ...
, while on the right is the Schloßplatz, the name of which refers to the old Baroque style ''
Berliner Schloss The Berlin Palace (), formerly known as the Royal Palace (), is a large building adjacent to Berlin Cathedral and the Museum Island in the Mitte area of Berlin. It was the main residence of the Electors of Brandenburg, Kings of Prussia and Germa ...
'' (English: ''Berlin Palace''). After being demolished by authorities in
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following the
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, the DDR-era
Palast der Republik The Palace of the Republic (, ) was a building in Berlin that hosted the '' Volkskammer'', the parliament of East Germany, from 1976 to 1990. Also known as the "People's Palace", it was located across the Unter den Linden from Museum Island in ...
was built here in 1976, until it was demolished in 2008 following the Bundestag's decision to rebuild the historically renowned palace. The street runs northeast, crosses the Liebknechtbrücke, leaving Spree Island, and meets Spandauer Straße, where the ''Bundesstraßen'' turn to the right. Karl-Liebknecht-Straße continues northeast, passing the Fernsehturm and
Alexanderplatz (, ''Alexander Square'') is a large public square and transport hub in the central Mitte district of Berlin. The square is named after the Russian Tsar Alexander I, which also denotes the larger neighbourhood stretching from in the north-ea ...
through the old Königsstadt quarter to the border of Mitte borough. There, at the place of the old ''Prenzlauer Tor'' (“
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gate”) it crosses Torstraße and Mollstraße and continues as Prenzlauer Allee to the north of the city.


Buildings

At its start, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße passes by two of the most prominent sites of Berlin, the evangelical
Berlin Cathedral Berlin Cathedral (), also known as the Evangelical Supreme Parish and Collegiate Church, is a monumental Protestant Church in Germany, German Protestant church and dynastic tomb (House of Hohenzollern) at the Lustgarten on the Museum Island ...
(Am Lustgarten 1) and the
Berlin Palace The Berlin Palace (), formerly known as the Royal Palace (), is a large building adjacent to Berlin Cathedral and the Museum Island in the Mitte area of Berlin. It was the main residence of the Electors of Brandenburg, Kings of Prussia and Ge ...
(Schloßplatz 1), which is currently under reconstruction (currently projected to be fully completed in 2020, as the
Humboldt Forum The Humboldt Forum is a museum dedicated to human history, art and culture, located in the Berlin Palace on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin. It is named in honour of the Prussian scholars Wilhelm von Humboldt, Wilhelm and Alexa ...
).


Numbers 1 to 5 – DomAquarée

The numbers 1, 3, and 5 belong to the new DomAquarée building, completed in 2003. It houses several restaurants and shops as well as the
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Hotel Berlin, the
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with the
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aquarium and the
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museum.


Number 8 – St. Mary's Church

At no. 8, there is the St. Mary's Church ''(St. Marienkirche)'', the second oldest church in the centre of Berlin and the oldest one still in use. It was first mentioned in 1292 as the church of Berlin's “new town”, right in front of the New Marketplace. Nowadays, St. Mary's is one of three churches of the Evangelical St. Mary's & St. Peter's parish, which has around 3,100 members.


Number 13 – Berlin Carré

Number 13, the northernmost part of a ''
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'' apartment block, holds the Berlin Carré, a shopping mall of about , which was built in 1969 to replace the Zentralmarkthalle (“central market hall”) at the same place. In 2000, the cabaret theatre ''Sündikat'' (“sindicate”) also found a home in this building.


Number 29 – Pressehaus am Alexanderplatz

Number 29 is known as ''Pressehaus am Alexanderplatz'', home of the Berliner Verlag, which publishes the popular ''
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'' daily newspaper. The building also houses the Berliner Journalistenschule (“Berlin journalists school”), a college for the further education of journalists, which has its own radio and TV station.


Former buildings

World War II and the subsequent reconstruction of East Berlin as the capital of the German Democratic Republic meant the end for several of Berlin's important and well-known buildings. The most prominent of course being the
Berliner Schloss The Berlin Palace (), formerly known as the Royal Palace (), is a large building adjacent to Berlin Cathedral and the Museum Island in the Mitte area of Berlin. It was the main residence of the Electors of Brandenburg, Kings of Prussia and Germa ...
(“Berlin Palace”). It was first built as a castle as early as 1443 under
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. It was largely rebuilt as a palace a hundred years later and became the family seat of the
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, rulers of the
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and later of the
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. The building was demolished in 1950 on the order of the East German government. It was replaced by the
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, which was demolished from 2006 until 2008, after the removal of asbestos. Another well-known building was the elite school
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, which had moved to the premises of the modern DomAquarée in 1650, after its old building in Joachimsthal had been destroyed in the
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. The school moved out of the building in 1880. In 1886 the ''Zentralmarkthalle'' (“central market hall”) opened in two buildings left and right of the street, right at the railway tracks. It was built to replace the weekly markets at the ''Neuer Markt'' (“new marketplace”) at the foot of the St. Mary's Church, which had taken place for several centuries. The market hall survived the war, but was demolished in 1969 to make room for the current buildings. Another part of East Berlin's reconstruction program was the five-star ''
Palasthotel Palasthotel () was a hotel that belonged to the Interhotel chain and was located at Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 5 in the Mitte district of Berlin, behind the Berliner Dom and along the river Spree. It was built between 1976 and 1979 on a design b ...
'' (“palace hotel”) at Liebknechtbrücke. It was built between 1976 and 1979, based on a design by Ferenc Kiss. The hotel had 600 rooms with 1,000 beds and a conference hall with about 2,000 seats. It was closed for all East German guests, as one had to pay in a
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instead of the local
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. In 1992, the hotel was taken over by the
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group. It was demolished in 2000 to make room for the new DomAquarée, which was opened in 2003.


Public transport

Karl-Liebknecht-Straße is serviced by five BVG bus lines with stops at Memhardstraße, Fernsehturm, St. Mary's Church and at Lustgarten. The lines are ''100'' between
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and
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, ''200'' between Michelangelostraße and Zoologischer Garten, ''248'' between Alexanderplatz and Südkreuz, ''M48'' between Alexanderplatz and Busseallee in Zehlendorf and the express bus ''TXL'' to
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. The northern part of the street is also serviced by the tram line ''M2'' with stops at Mollstraße and Memhardstraße. ''M2'' connects Alexanderplatz and Heinersdorf (
Pankow Pankow () is the second largest and most populous Boroughs and quarters of Berlin, borough of the German capital Berlin. In Berlin's 2001 administrative reform, it was merged with the former boroughs of Prenzlauer Berg and Weissensee (Berlin), W ...
borough).


Footnotes

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