Rathaus Schöneberg
Rathaus Schöneberg is built to run politics—first for a borough, then for a divided city. This sandstone city hall was constructed between 1911 and 1914, replacing Schöneberg’s old town hall before Greater Berlin was formed in 1920. In 1938, Nazi authorities added a series of war murals by Franz Eichhorst to the interior, and World War II brought severe damage from Allied bombing during the Battle of Berlin. After the war, the undestroyed Neues Stadthaus in Mitte served West Berlin only intermittently, because the city government became split in September 1948. As a “temporary” measure, Rathaus Schöneberg on Rudolph-Wilde-Platz became the seat of West Berlin’s governing institutions: from 1949 to 1990 it was the seat of the state senate, and from 1949 to 1991 the seat of the Governing Mayor. The square in front became a protest stage during the Berlin Blockade, the Uprising of 1953, and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. …
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