Palast der Republik

In the location's words:

Toilet house, bookshop, cult meeting place. At the triangle of Friedrichstrasse, Bolzstrasse and Lautenschlagerstrasse stands a pavilion that has had several careers. On summer nights, the "Palace of the Republic" is bursting at the seams. People from all over Stuttgart flock here to drink, talk, laugh and hang out late into the night. The octagonal pavilion and its listed soapstone pillars have a rich history: it started its life as a quiet little place in 1926. "Books upstairs, toilet downstairs" was the motto when "Buchhaus Wittwer" opened a kiosk here in the 1930s. Untouched by the Second World War, the pavilion blossomed again in the post-war chaos as one of the first sales outlets for books. The "Stand A branch" survived until the 1970s. The trendy pub, which has now found its home in the pavilion as the "Palace of the Republic", has long since become a cult venue. No frills, but with great appeal: the whole republic really does meet here.