{"id":6279,"date":"2023-10-19T15:11:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T15:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stage.schwrzmnn.com\/am\/sehenswurdigkeit\/bebelplatz\/"},"modified":"2024-02-06T12:12:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T12:12:34","slug":"bebelplatz","status":"publish","type":"sehenswurdigkeit","link":"https:\/\/www.apartments-mitte.de\/en\/sehenswurdigkeit\/bebelplatz\/","title":{"rendered":"Bebelplatz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you walk along \u2018Unter den Linden\u2019, you likely won\u2019t spot\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.apartments-mitte.de\/en\/sehenswurdigkeit\/bebelplatz\/\" data-type=\"sehenswurdigkeit\" data-id=\"6279\"><strong>Bebelplatz<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0right away, what with the impressive fa\u00e7ades of the Alte Bibliothek buildings and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apartments-mitte.de\/en\/sehenswurdigkeit\/kronprinzenpalais-and-prinzessinenpalais\/\" data-type=\"sehenswurdigkeit\" data-id=\"6296\"><strong>Prinzessinnenpalais<\/strong><\/a> on either side of it vying for your attention. If that weren\u2019t enough, the striking dome of St. Hedwig\u2019s Cathedral can be glimpsed between two buildings as you look further back. It is often only on second glance that you notice the flagstones of Bebelplatz and your gaze is drawn to the ground. It represents the central axis of the Forum Fridericianum, comprising the \u2018Palais des Prinzen Heinrich\u2019 (now the main building of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apartments-mitte.de\/en\/sehenswurdigkeit\/humboldt-university-and-the-kommode\/\" data-type=\"sehenswurdigkeit\" data-id=\"6289\"><strong>Humboldt<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apartments-mitte.de\/sehenswurdigkeit\/humboldt-universitaet-und-kommode\/\"> <strong>University<\/strong><\/a>), the library (now the Alte Bibliothek) and the Opera House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You\u2019ll also soon notice that passers-by tend to stop and look downwards at a particular spot on the square. Here, Israeli artist Micha Ullman has created an <strong>underground installation<\/strong> as a reminder of the Nazi book burnings. A clear slab in the ground reveals a subterranean room consisting solely of empty white bookcases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1933, students, professors and SA &amp; SS members burned books they deemed to be \u2018un-German\u2019. These included works by authors such as Erich K\u00e4stner, Heinrich Mann, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx and Kurt Tucholsky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6280,"template":"","class_list":["post-6279","sehenswurdigkeit","type-sehenswurdigkeit","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apartments-mitte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sehenswurdigkeit\/6279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apartments-mitte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sehenswurdigkeit"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apartments-mitte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/sehenswurdigkeit"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apartments-mitte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apartments-mitte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}