Berlin/Scheunenviertel

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Scheunenviertel is a part of the Mitte district of central Berlin, situated north of the Spree River and the core districts of Unter den Linden and the Museuminsel.

Understand

Scheunenviertel is conventionally bounded on the south by the River Spree and the Hakescher Markt, on the north by the east-west course of the Torstrasse, on the east by Rosa Luxemburg Platz (adjoining the Alexanderplatz district) and by the northern extension of Friedrichstrasse to the west.

The area takes its name (the "Barn Quarter") from the move in 1672 by the Great Elector of all the hay barns out of the fire-prone city centre. After this time the area became a refuge for Jews fleeing persecution and pogrom in Russia and Poland - by the 19th century, Scheunenviertel had emerged as the centre of the Berlin Jewish community.

See

• the Neue Synagoge (New Synagogue) and the Centrum Judaicum (Jewish Centre) [1], Oranienburger Strasse 30
• the Alter Jüdischer Friedhof (Old Jewish Cemetery), Grosse Hamburger Strasse

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