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Knolle Berlin (Berlin, Germany Leather Bar) Color:Silver Maud’s was one of SanKnolle Berlin, Germany Deep in Schnebergs leather district, Knolle opened in the mid 1970s and quickly became one of the citys most notorious men only fetish and leather barsrumoured to be among the first in West Berlin to host a true dark room. Long praised and controversial, it emerged during a period of radical queer visibility and friction.