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Alte Bibliothek

The Alte Bibliothek, nicknamed Kommode, is a listed building on in the of . It was erected by order of Frederick the Great from 1774 to 1780 according to plans by Georg Christian Unger and Georg Friedrich Boumann in Baroque style.
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  • Type: Public building
  • Description: library building in Berlin, Germany
  • Also known as: “HU Berlin - Juristische Fakultät” and “Königliche Bibliothek”
  • Address: Bebelplatz 2, Berlin, 10117

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Bebelplatz and National Opera.

Square
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The is a public square in the central district of , the capital of . Following World War II, the square was renamed after August Bebel, a founder of the Social Democratic Party of Germany in the 19th century.

Theater building
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The Staatsoper Unter den Linden, also known as the Berlin State Opera, is a listed building on boulevard in the of , Germany. is situated 110 metres east of Alte Bibliothek.

Church
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St. Hedwig's Cathedral is the Catholic cathedral of the Archdiocese of Berlin on in the of Berlin. Dedicated in honor of Hedwig of Silesia, it was erected from 1747 to 1773 by order of Frederick the Great according to plans by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff in Baroque style. is situated 140 metres southeast of Alte Bibliothek.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Friedrichswerder and Dorotheenstadt.

Neighborhood
is a neighborhood, situated in the locality of , part of the . It is identical to the town of , founded in 1662, which was an independent town until 1710.

Quarter
is a historic zone or neighbourhood of central , , which forms part of the locality of within the borough also called .

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, literally meaning "the middle" and being a contraction of Stadtmitte, contains the historical heart of Berlin and represents in many ways the real centre of the city.

Alte Bibliothek

Latitude
52.51644° or 52° 30′ 59″ north
Longitude
13.39316° or 13° 23′ 35″ east
Inception
1780
Levels
6
Open location code
9F4MG98V+H7
Open­Street­Map ID
way 24247456
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­public
Wiki­data ID
Q435399
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In Other Languages

From Belarusian to Ukrainian—“Alte Bibliothek” goes by many names.
  • Belarusian: “Старая бібліятэка”
  • Dutch: “Alte Bibliothek”
  • Dutch: “Königliche Bibliothek zu Berlin”
  • Finnish: “Alte Bibliothek”
  • French: “Alte Bibliothek (Berlin”
  • French: “Alte Bibliothek”
  • German: “Alte Bibliothek”
  • German: “Churfürstliche Bibliothek zu Cölln an der Spree”
  • German: “Kommode”
  • German: “Königliche Bibliothek zu Berlin”
  • Indonesian: “Perpustakaan Lama”
  • Italian: “Alte Bibliothek”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Alte Bibliothek (Berlin)”
  • Norwegian: “Alte Bibliothek”
  • Polish: “Alte Bibliothek”
  • Russian: “Старая библиотека в Берлине”
  • Russian: “Старая библиотека”
  • Spanish: “Alte Bibliothek”
  • Swedish: “Alte Bibliothek, Berlin”
  • Swedish: “Alte Bibliothek”
  • Ukrainian: “Стара бібліотека”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Alte Bibliothek”. Photo: A.Savin, CC BY-SA 3.0.