Ballhaus Pankow, Dance hall in Pankow district, Berlin, Germany.
Ballhaus Pankow is a dance hall in Berlin's Pankow district featuring a high-ceilinged ballroom decorated with elaborate stucco work and ceiling paintings. The interior includes parquet flooring and can accommodate several hundred visitors at once.
The venue was founded in 1880 as a restaurant and received its grand ballroom with additional spaces in 1892. It survived both world wars and remains one of the preserved dance halls from that era in Berlin.
The name Restaurant Schloss Schönhausen referred to the nearby Prussian royal residence. After 1945 the ballroom served as a production site, where steel helmets were reforged into cooking pots. Since 6 December 2014 the gastronomer Ronald Kucharski has staged concerts of classical, jazz, pop and rock; Udo Lindenberg played the ballroom on 25 March 2015, closing his ride on the "Sonderzug nach Pankow".
The hall stands at Grabbeallee 53, corner of Tschaikowskistraße in Niederschönhausen. Public access has long been limited to occasional events, guided neighbourhood walks and the Tag des offenen Denkmals; since December 2014 the operator Ronald Kucharski has staged concerts and galas there. Check the programme before travelling, as the building is otherwise closed.
The building features an notably tall ballroom that is unusual among Berlin's dance halls in its form and proportion. This architecture allowed for expansive dance floors while keeping the ornate decoration clearly visible.
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