For several centuries, this is considered to be the hallmark of Berlin boulevard called Unter den Linden. It is a place where concentrated monuments, impressive for its size and magnificent views. One of them is the Old Library, which houses more than seven million books.

The building is made in the Baroque style, it was built in the period from 1775 to 1780. His project was designed by architect Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach from Austria and Georg Christian Unger of Prussia. The old library is the order of Frederick the Great, who sought to make available to bourgeois literature, was long considered a privilege of nobility, government officials and ministers. The portal of the building to this day you can see the Latin inscription meaning "food for the soul."

In 1784, the Old Library was kept around 150 thousand volumes and manuscripts of many prominent figures of the Enlightenment, including Kant, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau and Leibniz.

The appearance of the building of the library is very similar to St. Michael's body Hofburg, the winter residence housed the monarchs of the Austrian Hapsburg dynasty. This is due to the fact that Frederick had ordered all her copy when creating the project Old Library. But given the fact that the construction of the residence was delayed, its copy was presented to the public nearly 110 years earlier than the original.

In 1914 there was published the Law Faculty of the famous German Humboldt University. During the war, the building suffered much, but it could fully recover, so now everyone can enjoy the magnificent view of the library as well as exhibitions held inside it, which tells of King Friedrich and his life, as well as provides various documents of the past.