Vintage Berlin Alexanderplatz Postcard

From our poster with the same name. Super High resolution scan (22.7 MB PEG) of a vintage c. 1895 hand coloured postcard, restored and retouched, of Berlin, Germany, Aexanderplatz, with streetcars of the Grosse Berliner Strassenbahn, an omnibus, people, to the left the Academy and in the back centre the Grand Hotel. Alexanderplatz is a large public square and transport hub in the central Mitte district of Berlin, near the Fernsehturm. Berliners often call it simply Alex, referring to a larger neighbourhood stretching from Mollstraße in the northeast to Spandauer Straße and the City Hall in the southwest. Originally a cattle market outside the city fortifications, it was named in honour of a visit of the Russian Emperor Alexander I to Berlin on 25 October 1805 by order of King Frederick William III of Prussia. The square gained a prominent role in the late 19th century with the construction of the Stadtbahn station of the same name and a nearby market hall, followed by the opening of a department store of Hermann Tietz in 1904, becoming a major commercial centre. The U-Bahn station of the present-day U2 line opened on 1 July 1913.