Around the year 1870, more than 800,000 people were living in Berlin. A few years later, Berlin had grown to a city of one million people, and by the turn of the century, the city already had nearly two million inhabitants. The old town hall had to make room for the "red town hall", and the adjacent "Gerichtslaube" (courthouse pub) only found its place 100 years later in Berlin's Nikolai quarter.

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