The present Doodle, delineated by Hamburg-based visitor specialists Rocket and Wink, commends the Litfaßsäule. These famous publicizing columns were named after the man who initially recommended them, Ernst Litfaß (articulated Lit-fass). On this date in 1855, to the pomp of a live symphony, Berlin’s absolute first Litfaßsäule was committed at the convergence of Münzstraße and what is today Almstadtstraße.
Before the formation of Litfaßsäule, Berlin had an issue with notices—they were dissipated everywhere throughout the city, from dividers to wall and wherever in the middle. The boundless mess incensed Litfaß, thus the sharp printer and distributer proposed these devoted promoting columns to be set on Berlin’s busiest corners and courts as an increasingly composed other option.
The city consented to commission 150 columns as an official framework for paid notices, and after a short time the sections were fixed neatly with eye-getting sees for social foundations like theaters and ballrooms. The abnormal, three-meter-tall apparatuses were met with tremendous prevalence among Berlin’s inhabitants. Throughout the decades, the Litfaßsäule came to fill in as an image of Berlin, and booklovers may even remember one from the celebrated front of Erich Kästner’s 1929 youngsters’ book “Emil and the Detectives.”
Today, there are more than 50,000 Litfaßsäule—many like those portrayed in the Doodle work of art—being used all through Germany, they despite everything fill in as a mainstream and functional publicizing channel for neighborhood occasions and little associations. While huge numbers of Berlin’s unique columns have since been expelled or supplanted by more current models, unmistakably the Litfaßsäule keep on holding an uncommon spot in the hearts of the city’s inhabitants.
Danke to all the Litfaßsäulen that have helped make Berlin such an exceptional spot!
