Unter den Linden

Pastel by Paul Paeschke (1875–1943)

A romantic view of Unter den Linden, seen from the Staatsoper maybe. We see the green dome of the cathedral and the red tower of the Rotes Rathaus. The beautiful linden trees (or limes if you prefer) are still there so it should be sometime in the 1920s or early 1930s. The trees were uprooted by the Nazi government in 1936.

Unter den Linden is the main street of Mitte, central Berlin that is. During the separation years, it was on the East Side, West Berliners didn't have access to it. That changed when the Wall fell, in 1989.