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	Palast der Republik. Who is Palast der Republik? What is Palast der Republik? Where is Palast der Republik? Definition ...
		The Palast der Republik (Palace of the Republic) is a building in Berlin, on the bank of the River Spree, and on Schlossplatz (formerly Marx-Engels-Platz).
		It was built on the site of the old Berliner Stadtschloss (Berlin City Palace), which was demolished by the GDR authorities in 1950 as a symbol of Prussian imperialism.
		In November 2003 the Bundestag decided to demolish the building and leave the area as a green space until funding for the reconstruction of the Stadtschloss could be found.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Palast_der_Republik (276 words)

	Palast der Republik - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Palast der Republik (Palace of the Republic) is a building in Berlin, on the bank of the River Spree, and on Schlossplatz (called Marx-Engels-Platz from 1951 to 1994).
		It was built on the site of the old Berliner Stadtschloss (Berlin City Palace), which was damaged during World War II but finally demolished by the GDR authorities in 1950 as a symbol of Prussian imperialism.
		In November 2003, the German parliament decided to demolish the building and leave the area as a green space until funding for the reconstruction of the Stadtschloss could be found.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Palast_der_Republik (361 words)

	Germany Info: Culture & Life
		The parliament has voted in favor of a proposal that calls for the reconstruction of the baroque facade on three sides as part of a building that fills the footprint of the former structure, a space that has been for the most part a void in the city landscape for half a century.
		As with all of Berlin’s historic center, the palace was in the eastern side of the city.
		With this printed canvas, residents and visitors to Berlin in 1993 got a taste of what the city center was like when the palace existed in all its splendor.
	www.germany-info.org /relaunch/culture/new/cul_berlin_stadtschloss.htm (892 words)

	H-Net Multimedia Reviews: Katja Zelljadt on Living in Berlin circa 1800
		Berliner Klassik reconstructs Berlin in the period from 1786 to 1815, a time of particular cultural and scientific richness and diversity in the city.
		Berlin's importance in Prussian and German cultural history during this period has previously been obscured by scholarly fascination with Weimar and Jena as the centers of classicism, and the Academy of Science's project endeavors to address this misconception.
		Conference organizer Claudia Sedlarz explained the context for the conference: "Living in Berlin circa 1800" is an attempt to understand the emergence and impact of a new form of style and taste in Berlin.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/exhibit/showrev.cgi?path=232 (1521 words)

	BBFC > Architecture in Berlin and Brandenburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Compared to the rest of Germany, the history of architecture began relatively late in Berlin and Brandenburg and is strongly related to the rise of Prussia since the 17th century, whose capital was Berlin.
		In Berlin the Ribbeck-Haus, the Grunewald Hunting Palace and the Spandau citadel are well-preserved from this epoch.
		Berlin's important architects of early classicism were Gotthard Langhans (Gate of Brandenburg), Friedrich Wilhelm von Erdmannsdorff, and David Gilly, later the founder of the architectural academy.
	www.bbfc.de /en/drehen/region/land_leute/architektur.htm (1913 words)

	Berlin City Palace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Berlin City Palace (German: Berliner Stadtschloss) was a palace in central Berlin, on Schlossplatz, next to Alexanderplatz.
		The historic well Neptunbrunnen was originally located on the Schlossplatz in front of the Palace.
		Förderverein Berliner Schloss e.V. (Association for the Promotion of the Berlin City Palace)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Berlin_City_Palace (311 words)

	Accorhotels - Travel Guides
		Berlin is a veritable motherlode for lovers of art, architecture and artefacts.
		Berlin's Judisches Museum, the largest Jewish Museum in Europe, celebrates the achievements of German Jews and their contribution to culture, art, science and other fields.
		It is located in Tiergarten, Berlin's green lung, which began life as a hunting ground for the Great Elector, Friedrich Wilhelm (who ruled from 1640-88) and was turned into a park in the 18th century.
	www.lonelyplanet.fr /accor/city/gb/berlin/index.php?category=see (1990 words)

	BERLIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Berlin, built on sand, is located on the rivers Spree and Havel in the north-east of Germany.
		Even though Berlin does have a number of impressive buildings from earlier centuries, the city's appearance today is mainly shaped by the key role it played in Germany's history in the 20th century.
		Berlin was devastated by bombing raids during World War II, and many of the old buildings that escaped the bombs were eradicated in the 1950s and 1960s in both West and East.
	www.info-venezia.com /Berlin (3678 words)

	BerlinOnline: Berliner Zeitung Archiv - After the Honeymoon / Berlin s future is uncertain; we gaze into our crystal... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Berlin s city government, a coalition of Social Democrats and former communists, is pragmatic rather than visionary.
		Berlin is not going to pull out of its economic slump alone.
		BERLINER ZEITUNG/MARKUS WÄCHTER Grüntuch and Ernst: Transparent facades at Hackescher Markt.
	www.berlinonline.de /berliner-zeitung/archiv/.bin/dump.fcgi/2002/0722/sonderbeilagen/0015 (1053 words)

	:: Major Cities of the World! :: Travel Guides of the Major Cities of the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Berlins oldest church building from the 13th century, ideally situated in Nikolai Quarter, which was rebuilt in 1987 with concrete slab pre-fab housing.
		The Olympic Stadium (German: Olympiastadion) in Berlin, designed by German architect Werner March, was constructed between 1934 and 1936 for the 1936 Summer Olympics.
		The RLM was formed in April 1933 in the center of Berlin, from the Reichskommissariat für die Luftfahrt, which had been established two months earlier with Hermann Göring at its head.
	major-cities.traveltoworld.com /index.php?paged=2 (1884 words)

	Tourist Information - VLDB 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Berlin Cathedral is the former court cathedral of Prussia's royal family, the Hohenzollern and was conceived as a protestant answer to St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
		Berlin Town Hall, now the official seat of the mayor of Berlin, was constructed in the style of the north Italian High Renaissance from 1861—69, according to plans by H.F. Waesemann.
		The place of the former Berlin Palace was taken by the Palast der Republik (Palace of the Republic) which had to be closed in the nineties due to its intoxication with asbestos.
	www.vldb.org /conf/2003/homepage/near_campus.html (2052 words)

	Berlin Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Berlin's Cultural Senator Christoph Stoelzl (independent) appealed to the politicians to "put the state support for Berlin on a sound legal basis." He claimed: "Berlin's culture concerns all Germans.
		Berlin is a magnet that attracts international attention and stimulates people, especially young people, to come to Germany.
		Berlin has always been a battlefield of dreams." With reference to the city's history, he added: "Berlin is thankful for the support the state has been giving it since 1949.
	www.ngz-online.de /news/german/2000-0512/berlin.html (651 words)

	Kaiser Bill's palace to rise again in Berlin
		Germany is to rebuild the vast Prussian royal palace in Berlin which was home to Kaiser Bill and his predecessors as it tries to revive the crisis-ridden city after its rebirth as the capital.
		Dour and philosophical, Berliners are used to adversity and disappointment, and put a brave face on both.
		But there are deeper reasons for Berlin's struggle, to do with excessive optimism following reunification in 1990, disastrous financial decisions by government, and a federal system which has landed the national capital with 15 rivals in the regions.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/713841/posts (820 words)

	Berlin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Berlin has always been Melting Pot City: Friedrich Wilhelm brought in hard-working Dutch settlers; he also welcomed 50 Jewish families after they had been expelled from Vienna in 1671 and 6000 Huguenot refugees (into a city of 20,000) from France.
		Like the Gedächtniskirche and the Berliner Dom, the Palast and the Stadtschloß have been candidates for "Ugliest Building in Berlin" (Berliners love to kvetch); yet when the Gedächtniskirche and the Dom and the Stadtschloß were wounded by Allied bombs, Berliners took them into their hearts.
		Berlin's architectural set pieces are gauche, brash beasties whose motto is that there are no bad buildings, only boring ones; they may be short on style and class, but they have personality.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/features/99/05/13/BERLIN.html (4346 words)

	StadtKunstProjekte (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Liebknechtbruecke in the centre of Berlin carries Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse over the Spree between the Berliner Dom and the Palast der Republik and links the Friedrichstadt, the former Stadtschloss area, and the Lustgarten, with the Spandauer Vorstadt.
		To the South, behind the gateway formed by the Dom and the Palast der Republik one sees the vacant space of the Schloss area and of the Lustgarten: in the centre, Schinkel's sculpture-strewn Schlossbruecke leads across the Spreekanal to the Unter den Linden with the Kronprinzenpalais and the Zeughaus flanking the entrance.
		Because of its important position right by the Stadtschloss a closed competition was held for the first time for a particularly impressive design, which the Kaiser personally judged, awarding the first place to Eduard Luerssen.
	www.stadtkunstprojekte.de /bruecken/liebknechtbruecke/inhalt_en.php (398 words)

	Unter Den Linden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Berlin was heavily destroyed during the Second World War and its architecture is somewhat of a hodgepodge of different styles.
		Of course, as Unter Den Linden was part of East Berlin when the city was divided, it was not assessible to West Berliners.
		It was built to plans by Julius Carl Raschdorff from 1894 -1905, during the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II, as the royal and memorial church of the Hohenzollern.
	www.punahou.edu /js/gradek/f/unterdenlinden.html (608 words)

	On Architecture
		The Stadtschloss of Berlin organized substantially the urban cohesion of the city's historic "Mitte" and offered an elegant and historically dense building ensemble of great architectural and sculptural refinement.
		By means of exhibitions, lectures, discussions, seminars, guided tours as well as publications, the society educates on history, history of architecture and the urbanistic development of Berlin, with a particular focus on popular education.
		The Gesellschaft Historisches Berlin interacts with the political authorities of the city and aims at empowering citizens' input in the context of its objectives"
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/arts/Architec/Generalities/OnArchitecture/OnArchitecture.htm (774 words)

	TrekEarth \| Reflections from the past Photo
		Built in 1976, ex DDR parliament, the palace seems to be near to its end: the unified parliament decided after 15 years to demolish it.
		The original plan of reconstructing the Berliner Stadtschloss has now become a more moderate project of realizing a public park.
		Berlin has been completely renovated in the last fifteen years, something is beautiful and something is terrific.
	www.trekearth.com /gallery/Europe/Germany/photo214768.htm (284 words)

	Maiken Umbach \| A Tale of Second Cities: Autonomy, Culture, and the Law in Hamburg and Barcelona in the Late Nineteenth ...
		To limit the right to draw private bills of exchange to certain privileged groups, as Berlin suggested, was socially unjust, according to the Hanseatic High Court, because it would cement a hierarchy of estates that was already in a process of dissolution.
		It functioned not as a counterbalance to Berlin but as an integral part of the fabric of national government, albeit one that represented the interests of individual states within it.
		The senate and lower chamber of the Hamburg government managed the architectural competition, in direct contravention of the usual procedure, whereby such decisions were made by the Hochbauamt, the city's building office.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/ahr/110.3/umbach.html (13882 words)

	Berliner Festspiele: History
		The architects Martin Gropius and Heino Schmieden originally built the house in the Renaissance style as an arts and crafts museum.
		The Museum of Prehistory and Early History and the East Asian Art Collection moved into the building after the First World War, while the arts and crafts collection was transferred to the City Palace (Stadtschloss).
		The building was severely damaged in 1945 during the last weeks of World War II.
	www.musikfest-berlin.de /en/aktuell/festivals/11_gropiusbau/mgb_04_infos/geschichte_des_mgb/Geschichte_des_MGB.php (206 words)

	Germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The monuments of Friedrich in the park have been very well kept thanks to its isolated the position, outside the city.
		The Brandenburger Tor became the symbol of Berlin.
		Here stood from 1451 the enormous Berliner Stadtschloss, the residence of Prussian frosts, kings and emperors from the house Hohenzollern.
	home.tiscali.be /guido.deprez/Germany.htm (1800 words)

	Akkusativ News November
		One of the last is the gig of Einstürzende Neubauten on November 4th.
		Stadtschloss, the former residence of the Hohenzollern dynasty and demolished in 1950, will be reconstructed.
		A lot of people do not want the old castle of the Kaiser.
	www.akkusativ.de /englisch/Akkusativ_News_November.php (475 words)

	Berlin - Sightseeing - Main sights Germany - Berliner Dom - In Your Pocket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Berlin - Sightseeing - Main sights Germany - Berliner Dom - In Your Pocket
		This Protestant church dating from 1905 might not look as massive were the Stadtschloss still standing across Unter den Linden (the GDR regime demolished the city castle in 1951).
		The royal Hohenzollern dynasty worshipped here within the four incarnations of the church.
	www.inyourpocket.com /germany/berlin/en/venue?id=GEBNENX0673 (107 words)

	Sculptures - Palace Bridge - Schlossbrucke - Berlin - Main
		he students of Berlin organized a torch course in honor of the bride of the successor to the throne.
		he Palace Bridge (Schlossbrucke) is located in the historic center (Mitte) of Berlin, Germany, between the Palace Square (Schlossplatz) and the famous avenue "under the lime trees" (Unter den Linden).
		Das Berliner Stadtschloss: with German, Dutch and Spanish pages.
	www.goddess-athena.org /Museum/Sculptures/Group/Schlossbrucke/Schlossbrucke_m.htm (1054 words)

	TrekEarth \| Palast der Republik Photo
		The building was built on the site of the Berliner Stadtschloß (Berlin City Palace), but this building was heavily damaged in the War and demolished in 1950.
		The church on the left is the Berliner Dom (Berlin Cathedral).
		I went to Berlin last week and I now read your pictures on this city quite differently.
	www.trekearth.com /gallery/Europe/photo153035.htm (884 words)

	CGES \| Brandeis University
		Wilhelm von Boddien, Chairman of the Förderverein Berliner Stadtschloß
		The Förderverein tries to argue the case to rebuild the former Berlin Castle, the "Stadtschloß", on its original site in Berlin.
		The CGES in cooperation with the Department of Sociology, the Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences and the Martin Weiner Lecture Fund presented:
	www.brandeis.edu /departments/cges/pastevents2002.html (1253 words)

	IO_DENCIES
		While European urban culture has been based on an architecture of memory (actually being rebuilt in the case of Berlin after the collapse of the Wall) - a Read Only Memory in fact -, Tokyo is about to replace the cityscape by datascapes, a kind of Random Access Memory.
		Chris Markers film Sans Soleil identified, between the walls of Tokyo architecture, the network of graffiti, vectors of a multiple memorial landscape.
		Hans Kollhoff, Das Schloss In: Förderverein Berliner Stadtschloß (ed.), Das Schloss Eine Ausstellung üeb die Mitte Berlins, Berlin (Ernst and Sohn) 1993, 120 (transl.
	www.khm.de /people/krcf/IO_tok/documents/ernst.html (1488 words)

	Berlin Tourist Information - Sightseeing
		At the moment the Federal Government examines in another task group together with the Federal state Berlin the practicability of the proposals made by the expert commission.
		Independent from the results of this exam different organisations are already planning the rebuilding of the Royal Castle.
		The Berlin Tourist Information is looking forward to your visit!
	www.btm.de /english/sightseeing/e_si_stadtschloss.php (160 words)

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