What is Rotes Rathaus?
{{redlinks|date=April 2020}} [[Image:Rotes Rathaus.jpg|thumb|240px|The Rotes Rathaus]] The '''Red City Hall''' ({{lang-de|'''Rotes Rathaus'''}}) is the town hall of [[Berlin]], in the [[Mitte]] borough on Rathausstraße near [[Alexanderplatz]]. It is the home to the [[Regierender Bürgermeister|governing mayor]] and the government (the [[Senate of Berlin]]) of the [[States of Germany|Federal state of Berlin]]. The landmark building got its name from the red clinker bricks with which it is covered. ==History== [[Image:Berlin rotesrathaus kl.jpg|thumb|left|View from the [[Fernsehturm Berlin|Fernsehturm]]]] The [[Rathaus]] was built between 1861 and 1869 in the style of the north Italian High [[Renaissance]] by [[Hermann Friedrich Waesemann]]. It was modelled on the Old Town Hall of [[Toruń]], now in [[Poland]], while the architecture of the tower is reminiscent of the cathedral tower of [[Notre-Dame of Laon]] in [[France]]. It replaced several individual buildings dating from the [[Middle Ages]] and now fills an entire city block. The building was heavily damaged by [[Allied bombing of Berlin in World War II|Allied bombing in World War II]] and rebuilt to the original plans between 1951 and 1956. The ''Neues Stadthaus'', which survived the bombing and had been the head office of the Berlin city fire insurance company {{lang-de|Feuersozietät}} in Parochialstraße was the temporary city hall for the post-war city government for all four sectors of Berlin until September 1948. Following that time, it housed only those of the Soviet sector. The reconstructed Rotes Rathaus, then in the Soviet sector, served as the town hall of [[East Berlin]], while the [[Rathaus Schöneberg]] in [[Schöneberg|Schöneberg borough]] was seat of the [[West Berlin]] Senate. After [[German reunification]], the administration of reunified Berlin officially moved into the Rotes Rathaus on 1 October 1991. ==Related pages== *[[Senate of Berlin]] *[[Regierender Bürgermeister|Mayor of Berlin]] *[[List of mayors of Berlin]] *[[Alexanderplatz]] *[[