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The first “Bolle”-marcet

Count of Hertzberg, eponymous for the Hertzbergstrasse, did not really retire when he returned to his manor in Britz after serving as war minister under Frederick the Great; instead he established a model farm. With more than 100 cows the farm in Britz became the largest dairy farm in Prussia. In order to sell fresh milk from his Berlin town house in Oberwallstrasse he began to improve the muddy roads. People in Rixdorf, however, were afraid that paving the roads might cause an influx of scallywags and opposed it. Hertzberg, without further ado bought the sherriff’s manor at Rixdorf and began his building work in Bergstrasse, the modern Karl Marx Strasse.