The city hall beautiful mountain was established to 1911-1914 by the architects Peter and brook man for the then independent city beautiful mountain with Berlin.

Planning took place under the first mayor Rudolph savage and the Grundsteinlegung to 26. May 1911 under its successor Alexander Dominicus, after which "„the Dominicusstrasse is designated "“. The road was called at that time "„mill dam "“and led to "„the mill mountain "“, on which the city hall was established. Directly south beside the mill mountain began a morastiges Fenn, which extended as ice-age Glaziale gutter (Grunewaldseenkette). The dewatering took place parallel to the building of city halls, on the surface developed "„the city park at that time "“, the today's Rudolph savage park. Width stairs representatively put on lead from the city hall down into the East part of the park to "„the deer well "“with the coat of arms animal of beautiful mountain.

1920 were eingemeindet beautiful mountain to Berlin. After the Second World War and the political division of Berlin the city hall beautiful mountain up to the reunification 1990 was the political center of West Berlin: The parliament (Lower House) and the government (senate) of West Berlin had here their seat carrier.

In the city hall tower is the liberty bell, which was donated to each noon by collected donations of the US-American civilian population for the citizens of Berlin and at twelve o'clock rings.

The city hall, the surrounding place and the roads approaching on it were the place of many demonstrations and the state visit of the US president John F. Kennedy. There it gave its speech with the famous confession on 26 June 1963 "„I is a citizen of Berlin "“. Its honours the Rudolph savage place before the city hall became after its murder in John f. - Kennedy place renamed.

On 24 September 1991 here the last senate meeting before the removal found citizens of Berlin into the city hall instead of and to 25. March 1993 met to citizens of Berlin here for the last time the Lower House before the removal into the Prussian federal state parliament.

The city hall beautiful mountain is also seat of the federaldirect Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt donation, which maintains an exhibition there to the honouring memory of the citizen of Berlin mayor and Federal Chancellor.

Literature

• Wilfried Welz, Cornelius C. Goeters: City hall beautiful mountain - stations of a political career. Publishing house Arno pointed, Berlin 1995

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