<strong>LOCATION:</strong>The Streets of Friedrichstadt (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=179364.0)<br/><br/>Golden Twenties Friedrichstadt was among the busiest locales in all of Europe. A neighborhood shaped like a knight’s shield, its western edge houses the city’s two busiest train stations, Potsdamer Bahnhof and Anhalter Bahnhof, handling approximately 125,000 passengers per day combined (by comparison Berlin’s first airport opened in 1923 and handled 45,000 passengers that<em>year</em>). The northwest and northern edge borders Berlin’s Tiergarten Park and the Reichstag. The Chancellery, Foreign Ministry, and other Government buildings as well as the embassies and consulates of a number of countries are within the neighborhood itself, on Wilhelmstrasse. The southern point of the neighborhood holds a circular park around the Belle-Allianz tower, a monument to the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815. The southeastern edge borders a working-class area filled with industrial workers. The neighborhood hosts several large hotels including the Hotel Excelsior, the largest hotel in Europe, across the street from Anhalter Bahnhof, and other famous luxury hotels such as Hotel Furstenhof, Hotel Kaiserhof, and Hotel Esplanade. These large hotels centered around the train stations, but there were also smaller hotels and pensions scattered throughout the neighborhood as well. Potsdamer Platz housed the busier of the two train stations, and was Europe’s busiest square during the 1920s bustling with foot, car, and trolley traffic. The neighborhood is bisected by two major streets, Friedrichstrasse running north-south, and Leipzigerstrasse running east-west. Both of these were major commercial streets with stores, restaurants, cafes, and other businesses.