Kurfürstenhaus
Kurfürstenhaus stands in Berlin’s Nikolaiviertel as a five-storey business and office building. Its red-sandstone façade presents rich Neo-Renaissance decoration, large windows, and narrow wall sections.
Construction under architect Carl Gause took place between 1895 and 1897. A central risalit with a gabled top and an asymmetrical staircase bay draws the façade upwards. The building gained an extension in 1927. Inside, a cast-iron staircase leads towards a courtyard with white brickwork and decorative window lintels.
The site reaches back to the early seventeenth century, when a two-storey house with a courtyard stair tower stood at Poststraße 4. Baroque remodelling followed in the eighteenth century, while the electoral mint occupied the grounds until 1585. Friedrich Rudolph Ludwig Freiherr von Canitz, a poet and diplomat, also lived here, and the protected monument still brings these layers together.
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