TODAY IN BERLIN: THE CONNECTION IS MADE

On This Day in Berlin - The first telephone exchange opens

Berlin’s Haupttelegrafenamt Französische Straße/Oberwallstraße/Jäger Straße (here seen from the latter) in 1890. Photo by H. Dorn, from the collection of Stadtmuseum Berlin.

On January 12, 1881 Berlin's first telephone exchange opened in the city’s main Haupttelegrafenamt (Main Telegraph Office) in Französische Straße in Berlin-Mitte. Prussian Imperial …