Ephraim-Palais
The Ephraim-Palais links Berlin’s retail past to its later, complicated memory politics. This Rococo building was commissioned for Veitel Heine Ephraim, who hired architect Friedrich Wilhelm Dietrichs to design a palace on the property connected to the city’s oldest pharmacy. Work began in 1762 and the palace dates to the 1766 completion period. In 1936, Nazi Germany destroyed the original palace—an act that erased much of the ensemble that had defined the street scene. What you see here is therefore not the 18th-century structure itself, but a carefully driven recovery: East German state sponsorship supported a reconstruction between 1985 and 1987, restoring elements of the facade that had survived in documentation. …
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