Bebelplatz
In Bebelplatz once stood a public square shaped by Prussian urban planning and later by the political turn after World War II. The area—then called Platz am Opernhaus and known in daily speech as Opernplatz—was laid out between 1741 and 1743 under King Frederick II of Prussia. His larger scheme for a Forum Fridericianum was scaled down after Frederick William, Margrave of Brandenburg‑Schwedt, refused to sell his palace, now part of the Old Palace complex. Long before the square existed, parts of Berlin’s baroque fortress had been integrated into Unter den Linden once fortifications became obsolete; the fortification line is still marked by the fact that there are no linden trees on this stretch up to the palace on the Spree island. The square itself was organized around the State Opera, with a green area to the east and open space to the west, and it was bounded by the Prinzessinnenpalais, the Alte Bibliothek and Old Palace, and St. …
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