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Posted: 22 May 2015

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Berlin Anhalter Bahnhof (#2837)

Berlin Anhalter Bahnhof (#2837)
The remaining facade of the Anhalter Bahnhof, from what would have been the train platforms. The area that was the tracks is now park and public land that stretches south past the Deutsches Technikmuseum. The Wikipedia page on the station includes excellent photos of the station intact, as well as the damage after the war. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Anhalter_Bahnhof I could not find a name for the building in the background or for the stripes depicting the sky. If you look close you can see that the top of the building has the outline of "Saskatchewan" as a building name.
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 Clint
Clint
This would have been a stunning structure to have seen intact. If only it were possible to travel through time and take a walk through Berlin in, say, 1936 or so, right before things took that turn.

And "Saskatchewan" seems like such a random thing to put on a German building. I managed to find that the building itself is called Excelsiorhaus, and it's a 500-unit apartment building built between 1967 and 1972. The name is a reference to a hotel that stood on the site before the war, and all the internet information I can find in English seems more interested in the hotel than the building that's there now. ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Excelsior ). I did come across a site in German that gives some information, though I have to run the text through the Google translator, and that tends to mangle things a bit. It doesn't say anything about the clouds or, for that matter, the tie to Saskatchewan ... www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/berliner-haeuser-17-der-sonne-so-nah/5822854.html
9 years ago.
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to Clint
Thank you for searching the detail on the building in the background. Re the station, the Wikipedia link has some photos from the 30's.
9 years ago.

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