Leipziger Platz
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Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
. It is located along Leipziger Straße just east of and adjacent to the Potsdamer Platz
Potsdamer Platz
Potsdamer Platz is an important public square and traffic intersection in the centre of Berlin, Germany, lying about one kilometre south of the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag , and close to the southeast corner of the Tiergarten park...
. Leipziger Platz was reduced to ruins during the Second World War and once part of the no man's land
No man's land
No man's land is a term for land that is unoccupied or is under dispute between parties that leave it unoccupied due to fear or uncertainty. The term was originally used to define a contested territory or a dumping ground for refuse between fiefdoms...
surrounding the Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin...
, but has since been reconstructed in its original configuration, albeit with modern architecture.
Prior to the war, the square was home of the Reichsmarineamt (Reich Navy Office, originally on Lepiziger Platz 13, moved to No.17/Voßstraße No. 20 in the 1900s)), Wertheim
Wertheim (department store)
Wertheim was a large department store chain in pre-WWII Germany. It was founded by Georg Wertheim and operated four stores in Berlin, one in Rostock, one in Stralsund , and one in Breslau....
department store flagship (numbers 12-13), the Mosse-Palais (house of the German publisher Hans Lachmann-Mosse
Hans Lachmann-Mosse
Hans Lachmann-Mosse, till 1911 Hans Lachmann was a German publisher, and was the father of George Lachmann Mosse. He was a publisher of the Berliner Tageblatt....
, Leipziger Platz 15), Palast-Hotel (No. 18-19) and the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture (No. 6-9). Today, it is home to the Canadian Embassy and the American Jewish Committee
American Jewish Committee
The American Jewish Committee was "founded in 1906 with the aim of rallying all sections of American Jewry to defend the rights of Jews all over the world...
. There is also a little piece of the Berlin Wall, located in the southern half.