Hotel Bellevue, on Potsdamer Platz

 

Hotel Bellevue, on the right

Hotel Bellevue was the first luxury hotel in Potsdamer Platz at the end of the 19th century. The five-storey building stood on the corner of Bellevuestraße and Königgrätzer Strasse (today named Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse). It opened around 1884. At first its name was Hotel du Parc, later it was also known as Thiergarten Hotel.

 

With its architecture inspired by international models, designed by Ludwig Heim, it was the first of the grand buildings at Potsdamer Platz. Together with Palast Hotel across Königgrätzer Strasse, also a work of Ludwig Heim, and the luxurious Hotel Fürstenhof, it belonged to the restaurant concern , Aschinger. In 1928, the Bellevue was demolished to make way for the construction of the very modernistic Columbus House.