Mitte
 Alexanderplatz 10178 Berlin |
Alexanderplatz Alexanderplatz is a large open square and public transport hub in Berlin city centre, near the river Spree and the Berliner Dom.Originally a cattle market, it was named in honour of a visit of the Russian Emperor Alexander I to Berlin on 25 October 1805. It gained a prominent role in the late 19th century with the construction of the station of the same name and a nearby public market, becoming a major commercial centre. >> Wikipedia |
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 Unter den Linden 15 10117 Berlin |
Bebelplatz The Nazis used this square to hold their rallies: Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels was here on 10th Mai 1933 to linstigate the burning of about 20,000 books by students from the nearby university including writings of Sigmund Freud, Erich Kästner, Heinrich Mann, Karl Marx and Kurt Tucholsky. A monument of the Israeli artist Micha Ullman is reminiscent of the book burning. Through a glass-bottom plate in the middle of the square you can look into an underground room with blank white bookshelves made of concrete. |
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 Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 10117 Berlin |
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 Friedrichstr. 51 10117 Berlin |
Checkpoint Charlie Checkpoint Charlie was the name given by the Western Allies to a crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War.Checkpoint Charlie was designated as the single crossing point (by foot or by car) for foreigners and members of the Allied forces. (Members of the Allied forces were not allowed to use the other sector crossing point designated for use by foreigners, the Friedrichstraße railway station). >> Wikipedia |
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 Friedrichstraße 10117 Berlin |
Friedrichstraße The Friedrichstraße (IPA: [?f?i?d??ç??t?a?s?]) (lit. Frederick Street) is a major shopping street in central Berlin, forming the core of the Friedrichstadt neighborhood. It runs from the northern part of the old Mitte district (north of which it is called Chausseestraße) to the Hallesches Tor in the district of Kreuzberg. Due to its north-southerly direction, it forms important junctions with the east-western axes, most notably with Leipziger Straße and Unter den Linden. The U6 U-Bahn line runs underneath. During the Cold War it was bisected by the Berlin Wall and was the location of Checkpoint Charlie. >> Wikipedia |
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 Gendarmenmarkt 10117 Berlin |
Gendarmenmarkt Der Gendarmenmarkt is a square in Berlin, and the site of the Konzerthaus and the French and German Cathedrals. The centre of the Gendarmenmarkt is crowned by a statue of Germany's poet Friedrich Schiller. The square was created by [Christian Unger] at the end of the seventeenth century as the Linden-Markt. The Gendarmenmarkt is named after the cuirassier regiment Gens d'Armes, which was deployed at this square until 1773. >> Wikipedia |
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 Hackescher Markt 10178 Berlin |
Hackescher Markt The site is located at the southern end of the Rosenthaler Strasse, where once the Festungsgraben [fortified trench] extended. The original site, on which the square is today, was originally swampland. Only with the demolition of the Festungsgraben [fortified trench] the Berlin City Commander Hans Christoph Friedrich built the square upon advice of Friedrich 2nd. It became quickly known as Hackescher Markt. |
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 Propststr. 1 10178 Berlin |
Nikolaiviertel Nikolai Quarter The Nikolaiviertel is located in Berlin-Mitte, on the eastern bank of the Spree River between the Rathausstraße, the Spandauer Straße and the Mühlendamm. It is the oldest residential area in Berlin. In it’s center is the Nikolai Church. |
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 Oranienburger Str. 10117 Berlin |
Oranienburger Straße The Oranienburger Strasse is one of the more well-known streets in central Berlin. The street is popular for its numerous attractions and facilities, such as bars or cafes. |
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 Pariser Platz 10117 Berlin |
Pariser Platz Pariser Platz is a square in the center of Berlin, Germany, situated by the Brandenburg Gate at the end of the Unter den Linden. The square is named after the French capital Paris in honour of the Allied occupation of Paris in 1814, and is one of the main focal points of the city. >> Wikipedia |
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 Sophienstraße 10178 Berlin |
Sophienstraße Small quiet side street behind the Hackesche Höfe with restored facades and lively and accessible backyards. |
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 Unter den Linden 1 10117 Berlin |
Unter den Linden Unter den Linden is Berlin's central boulevard. It runs from the Pariser Platz on the east side of the Brandenburg Gate, where the same named S-Bahn station is, the new Academy of Arts and the well-known Hotel Adlon, to over 1.5 km in the east direction to the Schlossbrücke, the connection to the Museum Island and the eastern center with the Television Tower. It is a key transport route in the center of Berlin and connects many major facilities and attractions with each other. |
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Tiergarten
 Großer Stern 10785 Berlin |
Großer Stern Big Star The Großer Stern is the central place in Berlin's Tiergarten. It was built about 1698 under Elector Friedrich 3rd. by the hunter of the court Hemmerich. Since 1742, the "Star" was moved in the course of transformation of the Tiergarten by Knobelsdorff and from 1833 to 1840 by Lenné to a representative place. In the middle of the square stands the victory column with the " Goldelse " (golden sculpture of Victoria with a laurel wreath) on top. It was moved to where it stands now in 1938, when the Victory Column was moved from Königsplatz, the current place of the Republic in front of the Reichstag, to here and also from proportional reasons a pillar drum was added. |
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 Matthäikirchplatz 10785 Berlin |
Kulturforum Cultural Forum The competition "capital Berlin" from 1958 led to the idea to build a new cultural center in West Berlin on the edge of the Tiergarten. It should become the middle of a future total-Berlin and form a part of an east-west running "cultural band" in conjunction with the historical center in the eastern part of the city. 1959 the Berlin House of Representatives decided to relocate the New Philharmonic at the southern edge of the Tiergarten. The winning design by Hans Scharoun, which was first designed on a location at the Bundesallee in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, was not fundamentally revised. Scharoun understood the Philharmonic as part of a city landscape t with loosely grouped buildings, that should be expression of a democratic community feeling. Based on a delineation by Scharoun of 1971 his longtime employee Edgar Wisniewski designed the Chamber Music Hall of the Philharmonic, which was built between 1984 and 1988. Already between 1977 and 1984 Wisniewski had built the Institute for Music Research with the Museum of Musical Instruments to the northeast of the Philharmonic. Between 1965 and 1968 the New National Gallery of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. arose independent of Scharoun's plans south to the Philharmonic In the context of his winning design for the State Library of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz [Foundation for Prussian Cultural Heritage] (1963/1964) designed Hans Scharoun a scenic city vision for the Kulturforum. The State Library was built as from 1967. After Scharoun's death in 1972 Wisniewski completed the construction in 1976. |
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 Lützowplatz 10785 Berlin |
Lützowplatz It bears the name of Adolph von Lützow since November 23, 1869, who lived nearby. The Lützowplatz was from the beginning of the 20th Century to the early 30s a cultural center and a fashionable residential area. Only a few buildings at Lützowplatz survived the bombing of the Second World War. On the square there is the sculpture of Hercules and the erymantic boar. |
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 Marlene-Dietrich-Platz 10785 Berlin |
Marlene-Dietrich-Platz Newly constructed square at the southern end of the Potsdamer Platz area with artificial pond. When the weather is fine it’s ideal to sit outside. |
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 Potsdamer Platz 10785 Berlin |
Potsdamer Platz Potsdamer Platz is an important square and traffic intersection in the centre of Berlin, Germany, lying about 1 kilometre south of the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag (German Parliament Building), and close to the south east corner of the Tiergarten park. It is named after the city of Potsdam, some 25 km to the south west, and marks the point where the old road from Potsdam passed through the city wall of Berlin at the Potsdam Gate. After developing within the space of little over a century from an intersection of rural thoroughfares into the most bustling traffic intersection in Europe, it was totally laid waste during World War II and then left desolate during the Cold War era when the Berlin Wall bisected its former location, but since the fall of the Wall it has risen again as a glittering new heart for the city and the most visible symbol of the new Berlin. >> Wikipedia |
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Friedrichshain
 Frankfurter Allee 1 10247 Berlin |
Frankfurter Allee During the Second World War there was intense fighting in the Frankfurter Allee which was almost entirely destroyed . It was rebuilt after the war in a kind of “gingerbread” Stalinisitic style. After the war the road was called Stalin Allee, before it was renamed, after the fall of Stalin, Karl-Marx-Allee and Frankfurter Allee. This si where, on June 17, 1953 the uprising of construction workers started. Near the Frankfurter Tor in 1962, the cinema "Kosmos" was opened, then the largest and most modern cinema of the GDR. |
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Kreuzberg
 Bergmannstraße 10961 Berlin |
Bergmannstraße The Bergmannstraße in the Berlin-Kreuzberg is named since 1837 after Marie Louise Bergmann (1774-1854), a major property owner, who the land in the area belonged to. It is a popular boulevard, with a number of cafes, restaurants and small shops, in particular flea markets and antiques shops. About half way along it is one of the last remaining original market halls, the Marheinekehalle. |
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 Gitschiner Str. 21 10969 Berlin |
Berliner Hochbahn Berlin elevated rail The Berliner Hochbahn, was opened in 1902, was built above ground because of the marshy subsoil in the area. Today, the roads under the elevated rail are often scenes of car chases in TV thrillers. |
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 Mehringplatz 10969 Berlin |
Mehringplatz Mehringplatz is located in the northwestern part of Berlin's Kreuzberg district, and is one of three major squares which were constructed when the city expanded in around 1730. It is the southern endpoint of the Friedrichstraße. Its landmark is a fountain with the peace column, established in 1843. During the Second World War the place was completely destroyed, and then restored with modified roads and new buildings. |
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Charlottenburg
 Breitscheidplatz 10789 Berlin |
Breitscheidplatz Today the Breitscheidplatz lies within Charlottenburg (a region of inner-city Berlin) at the tip of the Tiergarten between the Kurfürstendamm (a large, popular alley in Berlin West), the Tauentzien and the Budapester-Strasse. >> Wikipedia |
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 Dernburgstr. 1 14057 Berlin |
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 Kurfürstendamm 10623 Berlin |
Kurfürstendamm The Kurfürstendamm (colloquially also Ku'damm) is a 3 ½-kilometer-long boulevard in the district of Berlin Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, running from the Breitscheidplatz, which is where you will find the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Charlottenburg, all the way to the Rathenauplatz in Wilmersdorf. |
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 Savignyplatz 10623 Berlin |
Savignyplatz The square was named in 1887 after the former Prussian Minister Karl von Savigny. |
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Wilmersdorf
 Ludwig-Kirch-Platz 10719 Berlin |
Ludwig-Kirch-Platz An elegant square with stylish plants and a fountain in front of the St.Ludwig Church. The square and the side streets are lined with bars and restaurants, many with outdoor terraces. |
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 Rathenauplatz 10711 Berlin |
Rathenauplatz Said to be the busiest road junction in Europe, Rathenauplatz is between the urban motorway, Grunewald and the western part of Berlin. In the middle of the square there is a sculpture by Wolf Vostell from the year 1987 "Cadillacs in the form of naked Maja." |
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 Rüdesheimer Platz 14197 Berlin |
Rüdesheimer Platz A small oasis in the midst of the big city. To Rüdesheimer Straße itself you will find the Siegfried fountain. It was designed in 1911 by Emil Cauer d.J. andsis dominated in the middle by a statue of Siegfried the horsedriver. It is flanked by two sculptures: to the right, a wine queen, to the left by a male sculpture - also known as Father Rhine. From the end of May to the end of September here can be found daily wine tastings from the Rheingau-Taunus- area. |
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Steglitz
 Curtiusstr. 12 12205 Berlin |
Lichterfelde West Lichterfelde West, established in 1860, is known as the oldest residential district of Berlin with grandiose villas, and is still dominated by 19th century stately mansions, large gardens, small alleys and cobbled streets. The villas in Lichterfelde-West are characterized by a large diversity of styles, as well as art nouveau buildings, which were built in 1900. After 1900 Lichterfelde-West was joined with Berlin-Grunewald to the north through the development of Dahlem as one more residential quarter. |
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Zehlendorf
Prenzlauer Berg
 Helmholtzplatz 10437 Berlin |
Helmholtzplatz Renovated facades, renovated buildings, new cafes, restaurants and many bars where the eye can see. Obviously this attracts primarily young families: This area has the highest birth rate in Europe. |
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Reinickendorf
 Alt Lübars 13469 Berlin |
Alt Lübars Lübars is the oldest village in the district of Reinickendorf. Here you feel as though you are in the middle of the countryside with the village church and the preserved village structure. The first written mention of Lübars is from the year 1247. It was incorporated into Berlin in 1920. Before the fall of the Wall in 1989, in West Berlin Lübars wasa curiosity and attraction, because it was the only settlement with a village character within the then walled and densely populated city of millions. The urban population and tourists came to watch the few Berlin farmers working their fields. |
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Spandau
 Kinkelstr. 13597 Berlin |
Altstadt Spandau Old Spandau |
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 Imchenallee 14089 Berlin |
Imchenallee Traveling from the centre of the city takes time, but it’s worth it to experience rural Berlin. There is also Wannsee bay which has a modern marina and a modern designed harbour promenade. Some beer gardens invite you to linger with a view of the Wannsee beach. |
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 Sakrower Kirchweg 14089 Berlin |
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Schöneberg
 Viktoria-Luise-Platz 10777 Berlin |
Viktoria-Luise-Platz The square was named after Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia (born 1892, died 1980), only daughter of Emperor Wilhelm 2nd. The area around the square, which is connected in the north to the Bavarian Quarter, is still composed of burgeois rental houses, partially with the character of town villas of the early20th century. The houses survived the Second World War and the subsequent redevelopment of the 1950s without major damage. Many houses have been renovated based on old standards, so that people get a good impression of the dignified lifestyle in this former Berlin suburb. |
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 Winterfeldtplatz 10781 Berlin |
Winterfeldtplatz Winterfeldtplatz is a weekly market place in the district of Berlin-Schöneberg. The long square arranged in a north-south direction has a size of approximately 280 × 80 meters between Maaßenstraße and Nollendorfplatz underground station, with the lines U1, U2, U3 and U4. Since 1990 every Wednesday from 8 pm to 13 pm and every Saturday until 15 pm there’s one of the largest markets in Berlin there. On Saturdays, the market with its approximately 250 stalls is a popular magnet for visitors from near and far. On the other days it is used for skating and playingl hockey. |
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 Wittenbergplatz 10789 Berlin |
Wittenbergplatz Wittenberg Platz, at the end of Tauentzienstraße, is the home of the largest department store in Europe, the KaDe We, and the underground station Wittenbergplatz built by Alfred Grenander 1910 -13 in the neo-classical style. |
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Tempelhof
 Platz der Luftbrücke 12101 Berlin |
Platz der Luftbrücke On the square in front of the Tempelhof Airport since 1951, the Airlift Memorial, which is also called “Hungerkralle” [hunger claw] or “Hungerharke” [hunger rake]. The identical counterpart to this is in the southeast corner of the Frankfurt airport, adjacent to the A5 highway. This double monument was designed by Eduard Ludwig. |
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Neukölln
 Backbergstr./Fulhamer Allee 12359 Berlin |
Backbergstr./Fulhamer Allee Access to the Britz village church, the Britz castle and the Britz church pond. |
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Köpenick
 Alt-Köpenick 12555 Berlin |
Alt-Köpenick The picturesque streets and lanes around the town hall should be visited on feet. |
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