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Buy your beer in style at the “Mushroom”

Until today beer can be bought from the “Pilz” (mushroom) at Richardplatz. The small art nouveau building – the so-called “Trinkhalle”, a refreshment stand – together with the public restrooms at Maybachufer and in Elbestrasse are the smallest buildings designed by the architect and government building officer for Neukölln, Reinhold Kiehl; they all were constructed around 1910. Far more important buildings by Kiehl are the municipal bath, the Neukölln city hall and the Exhibition Gallery in Körnerpark. The small kiosk, however, looked much more like a mushroom when its roof was still painted red with white dots.