Rotes Rathaus Clock - Berlin, Germany
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N 52° 31.114 E 013° 24.490
33U E 391990 N 5819908
The Rotes Rathaus (English: Red City Hall), the town hall of Berlin, Germany, was built between 1861 and 1869 and has a town clock.
Waymark Code: WMM7WJ
Location: Berlin, Germany
Date Posted: 08/06/2014
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member silverquill
Views: 43

ABOUT THE CLOCK:

There are actually four clocks, one on each side of the tower. Each clock background is a grayish white color with a pattern with some pale varied colors in the center. The gold Roman numerals sit on dark gray circles. The clock hands are gold.

ABOUT THE BUILDING:

"The Rotes Rathaus (Red City Hall) is the town hall of Berlin, located in the Mitte district on Rathausstraße near Alexanderplatz. It is the home to the governing mayor and the government (the Senate of Berlin) of the Federal state of Berlin. The name of the landmark building dates from the facade design with red clinker bricks.

History

The Rathaus was built between 1861 and 1869 in the style of the north Italian High Renaissance by Hermann Friedrich Waesemann. It was modelled on the Old Town Hall of Torun, today Poland, while the architecture of the tower is reminiscent of the cathedral tower of Notre-Dame de Laon in France. It replaced several individual buildings dating from the Middle Ages and now occupies an entire city block.

The building was heavily damaged by Allied bombing in World War II and rebuilt to the original plans between 1951 and 1956. The Neues Stadthaus, which survived the bombing and had formerly been the head office of Berlin's municipal fire insurance Feuersozietät in Parochialstraße served as the temporary city hall for the post-war city government for all the sectors of Berlin until September 1948. Following that time, it housed only those of the Soviet sector. The reconstructed Rotes Rathaus, then located in the Soviet sector, served as the town hall of East Berlin, while the Rathaus Schöneberg was seat of the West Berlin Senate. After German reunification, the administration of reunified Berlin officially moved into the Rotes Rathaus on 1 October 1991."

--Wikipedia (visit link)
Status: Working

Display: Mounted

Year built: 10/03/1869

Web link to additional info: Not listed

Visit Instructions:
Photo of clock.
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