Palasthotel

Palasthotel (English: Palace Hotel) was a hotel that belonged to the Interhotel chain and was located at Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 5 in the Mitte district of Berlin, behind the Berliner Dom and along the river Spree.

[2] The hotel had 600 rooms with 1,000 beds and a conference hall with about 2,000 seats.

It was closed to all East German guests, as one had to pay in hard currency instead of the local East German mark.

It closed on 1 December 2000 due to Asbestos that was used in its construction, and was eventually demolished in 2001[3][4] to make room for the new DomAquarée, which houses a hotel of the Radisson Blu group and was opened in 2003.

[1] The hotel should not be confused with the original Palasthotel built between 1892 and 1893 by Ludwig Heim at Leipziger Platz, which was destroyed during the second World War.