Knoblauch House 
Between 1754-60 the Jewish master tailor Johann Christian Knoblauch constructed a Roccoco building at the corner of Nikolaiplatz and Poststrasse in Berlin's Nikolaiviertel. The house was rebuilt on its original site (No. 23) in 1989. The house of this well-to-do family (whose descendants include Eduard Knoblauch, the architect of the New Synagogue (in Oranienburger Strasse), received such famous visitors as Lessing, Mendelssohn, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Scharnhorst and Baron von Stein.
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An exhibition forming part of the Märkisches Museum concentrates on the history of the Knoblauch family in rooms furnished in original 19th C. style.
A few steps farther north, on a small courtyard on Poststrasse, stands the court arcade of the medieval town hall. It was originally sited 200 m/220yd to the southeast, but was pulled down and re-erected in the Babelsberg Palace park, where it still stands today.
A few steps farther north, on a small courtyard on Poststrasse, stands the court arcade of the medieval town hall. It was originally sited 200 m/220yd to the southeast, but was pulled down and re-erected in the Babelsberg Palace park, where it still stands today.
