Date | 8 February 1947 |
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Time | 10:45 pm |
Location | Berlin, Allied-occupied Germany |
Coordinates | 52°34′1.6″N 13°11′50.42″E / 52.567111°N 13.1973389°E |
Also known as | Loebel's Restaurant fire |
Deaths | 81 |
Non-fatal injuries | 150 |
The Karlslust dance hall fire (also known as Loebel's Restaurant fire) occurred on 8 February 1947 in Hakenfelde, a locality of Spandau in what was then the British sector of Berlin. With its death toll of 80[1] to 88,[2] it marks possibly the worst fire disaster in Germany since the Second World War.[3] The death toll is today considered to be 81: 80 guests and the owner of the restaurant, Julius Loebel, who died while attempting to save a cashbox.