Eight Corners

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Behlertstraße (Anbau) 29, 14469, Potsdam, Deutschland, 14469 Potsdam, Germany

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N52° 23' 46" E13° 3' 31"   (52.396111111111, 13.058611111111) Start navigation »

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Acht Ecken (Eight Corners) is the name of a former architectural ensemble in Potsdam, Germany.
At the intersection of Schwertfegerstraße and Friedrich-Ebert-Straße, four identical baroque houses were built on the corner plots in 1771 by Bayreuth architect Carl von Gontard. Each building was designed with a concave facade towards the crossroads, resulting in eight corners in total.
Today, only one of the four buildings is left. Friedrich-Ebert-Straße was turned into a wide traffic artery after World War II destructions, occupying the two eastern building sites. The southwestern property was rebuilt with a modern prefab concrete building in the 1960s.

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