Europahaus

The Europahaus at Stresemannstrasse 92-94 in Kreuzberg is a twelve-storey office ensemble in the New Objectivity style and ranks among the earliest Berlin high-rises of the Weimar era. Built between 1926 and 1931 to designs by Otto Firle and Bielenberg & Moser, it was conceived together with the neighbouring Deutschlandhaus as part of a planned Europaplatz facing the former Anhalter Bahnhof. The roof once carried a 25-metre Allianz neon sign, one of the first skyline brands of Berlin. Heavily damaged in the war, the building was rebuilt in simplified form in the 1950s and is now listed. The Anhalter Bahnhof ruin stands right next door, and the Topography of Terror documentation centre is two minutes away.