Cremer & Wolffenstein

During the so-called Gründerzeit in Berlin, the years of rapid industrial expansion in Germany at the end of the 19th century, they were a prolific firm in the various aspects of architecture.

As one of the largest firms in Berlin at the turn of the century,[1] they designed residential, commercial, transportation, government, and religious buildings.

They built a number of synagogues, won second place in the 1882 competition to design the Reichstag,[2] and were also involved in planning the Hochbahn overhead railway installation between Kreuzberg and Nollendorfplatz.

After conclusion of his studies he worked as a private architect and as a teacher at the Unterrichtsanstalt des Kunstgewerbemuseums Berlin, who appointed him to professor in 1885.

In 1996, the Lindenstraße Synagogue was the subject of a memorial designed by Zvi Hecker, Eyal Weizmann, and sculptor Micha Ullman.

In the courtyard of the present office building, they designed an arrangement of concrete benches placed in the pattern of the seating in the original synagogue.

[8] The courtyard and memorial is accessed through a large ground floor opening, much like the central passageway that figured prominently in the Cremer & Wolffenstein synagogue.