Time to head over to Kochstraße! At least that is what the card says. Here we have another massive building brutally hidden behind the wall. Some graffiti tries to cheer the misery up a bit. The back side text claims the building to be the old Gestapo head quarters, and the street to be Kochstraße.
Let's take a look at the back side already, so that you can see what it says. Unfortunately it is unwritten.
When researching this deeper I found that the text is double wrong. The card is from Niederkirchnerstraße (formerly called Prinz-Albrecht-Straße). The house is not the old Gestapo head quarters. The head quarters was located at Prinz-Albrecht-Straße 8. That house was destroyed by the allied bombings 1945 and the ruins were torn down after the war. After World War II, in 1951, the authorities of East Berlin renamed Prinz-Albrecht-Straße to Niederkirchnerstraße in honour of Käthe Niederkirchner (1909–1944), a member of the communist resistance to the Nazis.
The house on the post card is instead the state parliament of Berlin (Abgeordnetenhaus). The house was built between 1892 and 1898 by the architect Friedrich Schulze, as the parliament of Preußen. Below you can see the house today. As always you can click the picture to see it in a larger version.
Visa Berlin Wall on a larger map
On the map below you can see the location of the house and the stretch of the Berlin wall.
Visa Berlin Wall på en större karta
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