YOU ARE HERE: BERLIN'S SCHLOSS MONBIJOU

You (and the photographer, F.A. Schwartz) are standing in 1885 on Berlin’s Monbijouplatz. a small plaza south-west of Hackescher Markt, looking at a vanished palace, Schloß Monbijou - former summer seat of Prussian electors’ and king’s wives, and later seat of Berlin’s Hohenzollern Museum.

The camera is positioned in such a way that it captures the main entrance to the palace site and looks east along Oranienburger Straße and towards the Neue Synagoge (itself completed in 1866).

Your position on the 1891 Sineck-Situations-Plan, a highly detailed map of Berlin (image via Wikipedia).

Coincidentally, Schloß Monbijou is also the topic of the next episode of “Berlin Companion Podcast” arriving tomorrow straight into your podcast collection via your streaming service of choice.

Otherwise you can find it (as well as all other episodes of our tales from the treasure trove of your Berlin Companion) on the show’s website here.

And a little teaser: