Europa-Center
thumb|270px|Breitscheidplatz with Europa-Center The Europa-Center is a building complex on Breitscheidplatz in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin, with a shopping mall and a high-rise tower tall. Built between 1963 and 1965, by 2003 it had been designated as a historically preserved building.
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thumb|270px|Breitscheidplatz with Europa-Center The Europa-Center is a building complex on Breitscheidplatz in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin, with a shopping mall and a high-rise tower tall. Built between 1963 and 1965, by 2003 it had been designated as a historically preserved building.
== History of the site == thumb|left|Romanisches Haus about 1900 From 1897 a residential building was erected at the site of the present-day Europa-Center, vis-à-vis the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church and likewise designed in a Neo-Romanesque style according to plans by Franz Schwechten. Then part of Berlin's fashionable "New West" (today also known as "City West"), it was, from 1916, home to the Romanisches Café, a popular meeting place for writers, artists and people in the theatre business, as well as those who aspired to join them.