Paris Square

Paris Square was laid out in 1732–1734 and was built up with several palaces under Frederick William I during the second baroque building in Berlin. The square was given its current name in 1814 in honor of the capture of Paris by Prussian troops during the Napoleonic Wars. Since 1850, the building of the square has been reduced to a single architectural style – classicism.nIn World War II the square was destroyed. In the postwar years, all the ruins on the square with the exception of the remnants of the Academy of Fine Arts were completely dismantled. Only in 1993 after the fall of the Berlin Wall began the restoration of the single ensemble of the square. The Senate of Berlin established the criteria for the restoration of the architectural ensemble of the square, which, in particular, established that the maximum height of buildings in the square was limited to 22 m, and the facing of the facades should be made with natural stone. The combination of historical sites and modern construction methods was intended to recall the golden age of the square.