Old Berlin

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Berlin, Mitte - The city palace (”Stadtschloss”) and the Berlin cathedral (“Berliner Dom”), around 1920

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Berlin, Mitte - traditional milk-merchant “Bolle”, 1915

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Berlin, Mitte - Jewish bakery in the Scheunenviertel - 1926

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Berlin, Mitte - Restaurant “Zum Nussbaum” in the “Nikolai”-quarter - 1903

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Berlin, Mitte - Bus station on Spittelmarkt square - 1909

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Berlin, Mitte - Shops on Königstraße - 1906

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Berlin, Mitte - Klosterstraße looking at Parochialkirche, 1913

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Berlin, Mitte - Berlin cathedral ("Berliner Dom") with river Spree, around 1900

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Berlin, Mitte - Kaiser-Wilhelm bridge looking towards Marienkirche, 1898

Except for the Marienkirche in the back, all buildings were destroyed in WW2 or demolished afterwards.

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Berlin, Mitte - A car in Friedrichstraße, 1926

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Berlin, Mitte - Filming a movie on top of the Berlin cathedral  ("Berliner Dom"), 1920

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Berlin, Mitte - View of the Waisenbrücke and the river Spree, 1904

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Berlin, Mitte - Construction works on the "Kaiser-Wilhelm" bridge (now "Liebknechtbrücke") are underway, 1887

Not a single piece of architecture on this photography has endured the times. All buildings were destroyed in WW2 or demolished afterwards.

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Berlin, Mitte - Sausage sales cart before the Stadtschloss (city palace), 1906

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Berlin, Mitte - Horse driven omnibus on Leipziger Straße, 1910

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Berlin, Mitte - View from Waisenbrücke onto the river Spree, 1900

The photography was made by Heinrich Zille, a local painter, photograph and graphic-artist, famous for his ingenious sketches of the Berlin streetlife and milieu around the change of the century. The view is into the direction of midtown from the Waisenbrücke, which was destroyed in WW2.

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Berlin, Mitte - Gendarmenmarkt, 1900

Built from 1780-1785, the two towers are called the "German Dome" (in front) and the "French Dome" (in the back). The place of the "Gendarmenmarkt" also gives home to an older church behind the german dome and a concert-hall in the center of the place between the two towers.