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Palais am Festungsgraben

Palais am Festungsgraben
Photo: Jörg Zägel, CC BY-SA 3.0 (licence)

The Palais am Festungsgraben ("Palace on the Moat"), originally known as the Palais Donner, is a stately building in Berlin's Mitte subdistrict located behind, and facing, the ensemble of chestnut trees around the Neue Wache ("New Guardhause"), near the eastern terminus of the boulevard Unter den Linden. The name refers to its construction next to a redundant canal, gradually filled in by 1883, which had originally been a moat surrounding the 17th century city wall. Built as a private residence, it later housed a succession of Prussian government offices, and after World War II various cultural institutions in the Soviet sector of Berlin.

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  • Built 1753
  • Heritage listed
Address
Am Festungsgraben 1

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