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Old 05-12-2017, 11:08 PM   #1
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Under the Linden Tree
In the ebook by Elizabeth von Arnim I'm working on there is the passage:

Charlotte, not content with lecturing, wrote pamphlets, -- lofty documents of a deadly earnestness, in German and English, and they might be seen any day in the bookshop windows Unter den Linden. Charlotte's family nearly fainted when it had to walk Unter den Linden.

Even I know the literal meaning, but is there a colloquial meaning for Unter den Linden? Or was there in 1904? Downtown? Amongst the lower classes?
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