Berlin and its environs; handbook for travellers . Reichtfags-Gebande. BERLIN. Section 11. 171 Italian Renaissance style, which cost 22,000,000 marks (1,100,000l.\is 430 ft. in length, 290 ft. in breadth, and 88 ft. in height (to themain cornice). The external material is Silesian sandstone. Risingabove a square central structure is a huge glass dome, girt withhighly gilded copper bands and bearing a lantern encircled withcolumns, which is in turn surmounted by an imperial crown (225ft.).At the corners are four boldly designed towers, 195 ft. high. The chief (W.) Facade, turned towards the Kfi
Berlin and its environs; handbook for travellers . Reichtfags-Gebande. BERLIN. Section 11. 171 Italian Renaissance style, which cost 22,000,000 marks (1,100,000l.\is 430 ft. in length, 290 ft. in breadth, and 88 ft. in height (to themain cornice). The external material is Silesian sandstone. Risingabove a square central structure is a huge glass dome, girt withhighly gilded copper bands and bearing a lantern encircled withcolumns, which is in turn surmounted by an imperial crown (225ft.).At the corners are four boldly designed towers, 195 ft. high. The chief (W.) Facade, turned towards the Kfinigs- Platz, with aportico borne by six columns, is the richest in plastic the right and left of the door are reliefs, by , of theRhine and the Vistula, leaning respectively against an oak-tree anda pine-tree, in the branches of which hang the arms of the Germanstates; above the door is a figure of St. George (with the featuresof Bismarck), bearing the imperial banner, designed by Siemering;in the pediment is a relief by Sch
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