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Despite strong opposition from experts and the Architectural and Construction Chamber should be released under preservation station building at the instigation of the former senator Rolf Schwedler for demolition since the 1930s. The demolition was justified partly by the need to build a larger station in the same place, for there were architectural designs, and with the risk of collapse of the free-standing walls of the halls. The demolition proved to be due to the very stable and hard masonry association, however, such as a difficult task that several demolition companies to economically miscalculated and had to register as a result of bankruptcy. Form part of the Terracotta Emperor portal have been saved and later at the entrance of the railway department of the German Museum of Technology Berlin rebuilt.
After the demolition of the Hall 1959 only the portico was a part of the right of way are covered brick.