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Beautiful grays

Until today the carriages of the company Schöne roll along the roads of Neukölln. The horses drawing the carriages, however, do not spend the winter in Berlin but are brought to Lunenburg Heath. In 1910 the Berlin carter Gustav Schöne owned eight horses; twenty years later 100 of them were used to transport waste, letters, deceased and newly-married couples. Thanks to the reliable services of his horses Schöne was able to buy his first motor car in 1927 – yet the horses stayed.
The weather vane on top of the building on Richardplatz was installed in the early years of the company.