Berlin - Nicolai House

(Local Name: Nicolai-Körner-Haus) Berlin's Nicolai House was built in 1709. It was altered by C. F. Zelter and became the residence of the writer, critic and publisher Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, who also had his bookshop here. Subsequently it became the meeting place of the intellectual elite of the day. Among those who frequented the house were the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, the sculptor Gottfried Schadow, the writer Anna Luise Karsch and the celebrated draftsman and etcher Daniel Chodowiecki. After Nicolai's death in 1811 the bookshop passed into the hands of his son-in-law Gustav Parthey. In the early months of 1811 the dramatist Theodor Körner lived in the house. In 1814 it became the home of the writer