Old Berlin

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

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

Berlin, Mitte - Jewish bakery in the Scheunenviertel - 1926

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

Berlin, Mitte - Bus station on Spittelmarkt square - 1909

Berlin, Mitte - Shops on Königstraße - 1906

Berlin, Mitte - Klosterstraße looking at Parochialkirche, 1913

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

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

Berlin, Mitte - A car in Friedrichstraße, 1926

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.