Bavarian Legation

The Bavarian Legation was one of the first buildings to be erected on Voßstraße and was designed by the well-known architectural firm of Kyllmann and Heyden. On 30 January 1934, the building lost its purpose when the autonomous status of the states was abolished via the “Reich Act for the Reconstruction of the Reich”. The site was purchased by the German Reich in 1935 in order to be able to erect the New Reich Chancellery, a development which had already been planned. Although the Legation was demolished in the spring of 1936, its façade was temporarily retained to avoid an unattractive construction site during the Summer Olympic Games of 1936. The building was then totally demolished in the autumn of 1936.