Eight Corners

Eight Corners

Acht Ecken ("Eight Corners") is the name of a former architectural ensemble in Potsdam, Germany.

At the intersection of Schwertfegerstraße and Friedrich-Ebert-Straße, four identical baroque houses were built on the corner plots in 1771 by Bayreuth architect Carl von Gontard. Each building was designed with a facade towards the crossroads, resulting in eight corners in total.

Today, only one of the four buildings is left. Friedrich-Ebert-Straße was turned into a wide traffic artery after WWII destructions, occupying the two eastern building sites. The southwestern property was rebuilt with a modern prefab concrete building in the 1960s.

ee also

* Quattro Canti ("four corners"), a similar composition in Palermo, Italy.

External links

* [http://kulturportal.maerkischeallgemeine.de/cms/beitrag/10301351/72279/?crosscontext=71789 "Acht Ecken"] newspaper article (German)


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