Ackerhalle

Ackerhalle stands in Berlin as a market hall with a rhomboid plan and neo-Renaissance character. Wheelchair access makes the building easier to experience. The brick facade carries terracotta ornaments that echo Italian Renaissance forms across this surviving urban market building. It remains one of Berlin’s six surviving market halls.

Construction took place between 1886 and 1888, when Hermann Blankenstein shaped the hall for Berlin’s Magistrate. Fourteen market halls formed part of that effort to improve retail conditions and reduce street-market disorder. World War Two left the structure unscathed, while modernization in 1969 changed its original market atmosphere. Restoration efforts in 1991 returned its basilica-like design.

A REWE supermarket now occupies the interior, following a redesign in 2016. High ceilings frame a twelve-metre central nave, while glass clerestories bring light into the space. Cast-iron columns flank the nave, and steel trusses create the open structure once suited to market activity.

City: Berlin
Content updated: 2026-06-22

Image: Photo: Andreas Praefcke CC BY 3.0
Image: Jörg Zägel CC BY-SA 3.0
Image: Photo: Andreas Praefcke CC BY 3.0
Image: Hermann Blankenstein(† 1910)Public domain
Image: Friedrich HitzigPublic domain

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