Neustadt
Wilhelmine district of imperial squares, grand facades and a university built under German rule.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Neustadt in Strasbourg follows one cafe on Place de l'Universite through more than a century of identity changes, opening in 1898 as a showcase of German imperial ambition after the 1871 annexation. You'll hear how it became a car garage in the 1920s, then a tea salon called Mon Plaisir under Madeleine Canet, then turned German again during the war before settling into an ordinary cafeteria. Its Belle Epoque chandeliers and Neo-Renaissance windows survived every change, protected as a historic monument since 2014.
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