Nicolai-Haus
Nicolai-Haus stands in Berlin’s Mitte district as one of the city’s few surviving Baroque townhouses. Its late Baroque-Classical façade reflects rebuilding after a seventeenth-century fire and expansion by Heinrich Julius Brandes in 1674.
Friedrich Nicolai renovated the house in the late eighteenth century, living and working there as an Enlightenment publisher. Johann Gottfried Schadow and Karl Friedrich Schinkel joined other intellectuals and artists in its rooms, which later served as a museum, wartime accommodation and a monument-protection office. The restored interior preserves administrative offices, private apartments and artistic stone reliefs in the foyer.
A Baroque courtyard opens behind the house, with a wooden gallery and carved railings. The Weydinger staircase, moved here from the Ermelerhaus, adds a distinct Classical detail.
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