Plaza [Berlin]
type: Item
description: theatre building
alternative label: Plaza
Wikidata source: Q2099068
Field: architecture
Type of information: Performance venue
Architekturmuseum Berlin Id: 363000.php
Architekturmuseum Berlin Id: 363001.php
Architekturmuseum Berlin Id: 363002.php
Architekturmuseum Berlin Id: 363003.php
Architekturmuseum Berlin Id: 363004.php
Architekturmuseum Berlin Id: 363005.php
Architekturmuseum Berlin Id: 363006.php
Architekturmuseum Berlin Id: 363007.php
Architekturmuseum Berlin Id: 363008.php
Architekturmuseum Berlin Id: 363009.php
Architekturmuseum Berlin Id: 363010.php
Architekturmuseum Berlin Id: 363012.php
Architekturmuseum Berlin Id: 363013.php
Architekturmuseum Berlin Id: 363014.php
Architekturmuseum Berlin Id: 365311.php
represented in collection: Architecture museum Berlin
GPS: Point(13.4408 52.5125)
City: Berlin
city section: Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
Importance: Local importance
Preservation state: extinct building
Country: Germany
Wikidata instance: Q24354
opening date: 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z
closure date: 1944-01-01T00:00:00Z
Burnt down date: 1944-01-01T00:00:00Z
Burnt down date: 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
Carthalia ID: 1678
Note: Built 1867 by Adolf Lohse and Hermann Cuno as train station Küstriner Bahnhof, also known as Ostbhanhof. Closed 1882. Subsequently used as a warehouse, and partly converted into apartments. - 1928-1929 converted into a variety theatre. Re-opened 1 Feb 1929 as Plaza. Since 1938, operated by the Nazi organization Kraft durch Freude. 3000 seats. Closed in Sep 1944. Destroyed by acts of war in 1945. Remains demolished in 1952. [1969-1974 the headquarters of the newspaper Neues Deutschland and a printing factory were built on the site.]
demolished: 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z