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The Nikolai quarter (S- and U-train station Alexanderplatz S3, S5, S7, S75, S9, U8) is built on Berlin's oldest part, the Gothic Nikolai church dates back to a Romanesque basilika. The GDR restorated and renovated the quarter for the 750 centennial celebrated in both parts of the separated city.
At Nikolaikirchplatz No 10 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing wrote his play "Minna von Barnhelm". The restaurant "Zum Nussbaum" on the corner to Probststrasse is a reconstructed historical Berlin pub.
In its 19th century interior the reconstructed residential house of the Knoblauch family on the corner to Poststrasse exhibits the history of its Jewish residents. The house originally was built from 1759 to 1761. Lessing, Mendelssohn, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Scharnhorst and Freiherr von Stein were among the guests. Eduard Knoblauch, architect of the New Synagogue in Oranienburger Strasse, was a family member...
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