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Index
Architectural
Centre
Babylon
Cinema
Anatomical
Theatre
The
Deserted Room
Luisenst.
Canal Gardens
Franciscan
Monastery
Künstlerheim
Luise
Lunch
Lecture Guggenh.
Ackerstr. Market Hall
Room
of Silence
Tajikistan
Tearoom
St.
Michael's Church
Nicolai
House
Mori-Ogai Memorial
Honigmond Hotels
Orphtheatre
Berlin
Teahouse
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The market hall in Ackerstrasse was built in 1888, the sixth of fifteen halls set up by the council to put an end to the “unhygienic ways” of the twenty open-air markets that took place every
week. The markets found it difficult to compete with the rapidly developing department stores and the street trade that was already
there. Four of them closed down again after 1910 and were used in other
ways. The Ackerstrasse market hall is the oldest and the only one which, after historical
reconstruction, can be experienced as it was originally. The main aisle is high, 12 metres wide and has side
windows. Like the two smaller and lower side aisles it rests on cast iron supports and steel
ties. The main entrance is decorated with richly ornamented terracotta
tiles. The division of the building is most unusual. Just a few retailers share the vast hall with a huge
supermarket. The customers are used to it. The Consumer Cooperative ran the first supermarket project in the German Democratic Republic here and
anyway, in this hall, even doing the supermarket shopping is something out of the
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