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. 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.