Here’s a big cheer to one of Berlin’s least attractive yet, for many, one of best-loved and best-known plazas - Hermannplatz!
On September 9, 1885 the old Platz am Rollkrug - where Rixdorf (since 1912 called Neukölln) bordered with Berlin - was named after Rixdorf’s legendary mayor, Hermann Boddin (also commemorated in the names of Hermannstraße and Boddinstraße).
The "Rollkrug" was a historic 1737 inn that stood on the corner of Hermannstraße and Berliner Straße (now Karl-Marx-Straße), later facing the local Steuerhaus (Customs and Excise House) erected on the other side of Hermannstraße, opposite the public house.
The old inn was eventually demolished in 1907 and replaced by a then very modern commercial building which occupies the site until today (as a listed heritage site). To commemorate the historic inn, an inscription was placed above its Hermannstraße portal: the name... "Rollkrug".
Sweet sweet memories, the gateway to Neukölln when leaving the more upmarket Kreutzberg
Had special aura when populated by schwarze Block