Ways & Places

Here you will find interesting streets, boulevards, bridges and squares in all districts. For specific buildings, see Buildings & Rooms or other pages.
Mitte

Bebelplatz
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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Gendarmenmarkt
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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Pariser Platz
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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Bertolt-Brecht-Platz
Bertolt-Brecht-Platz | 10117 Berlin
Bertolt-Brecht-Platz

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Friedrichstraße
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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Oranienburger Straße
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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Checkpoint Charlie
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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Unter den Linden
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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Alexanderplatz
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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Hackescher Markt
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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Sophienstraße
Sophienstraße | 10178 Berlin
Sophienstraße

Small quiet side street behind the Hackesche Höfe with restored facades and lively and accessible backyards.
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Nikolaiviertel
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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Tiergarten

Potsdamer Platz
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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Großer Stern
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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Kulturforum
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
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
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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Friedrichshain

Oberbaumbrücke
Oberbaumbrücke | 10243 Berlin
Oberbaumbrücke
[Oberbaum Bridge]
The Oberbaumbrücke in Berlin connects the districts of Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain over the river Spree and is located between the Else Bridge and the Schilling Bridge. It crosses it to its widest point and is 154 meters in length, the longest bridge in Berlin. It is the symbol of today's district Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg.
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Frankfurter Allee
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
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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Mehringplatz
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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Berliner Hochbahn
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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Mariannenplatz
Mariannenplatz | 10997 Berlin
Mariannenplatz

The Mariannenplatz is a relatively large area and could be mistaken for a park. At its northern end is the St.-Thomas-Church. It was named after the Prussian Princess Amalie Anna Maria von Hesse - Homburg. On Mariannenplatz is what used to be the Bethany Hospital, which today is called the Bethany art house and houses the Department of Culture of the district.
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Charlottenburg

Savignyplatz
Savignyplatz | 10623 Berlin
Savignyplatz

The square was named in 1887 after the former Prussian Minister Karl von Savigny.
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Kurfürstendamm
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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Breitscheidplatz
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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Dernburgplatz
Dernburgstr. 1 | 14057 Berlin
Dernburgplatz
[Dernburgplatz]
at Lietzensee
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Wilmersdorf

Rathenauplatz
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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Ludwig-Kirch-Platz
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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Rüdesheimer Platz
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

Lichterfelde West
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

Mexikoplatz
Mexikoplatz | 14163 Berlin
Mexikoplatz

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Prenzlauer Berg

Helmholtzplatz
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
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

Altstadt Spandau
Kinkelstr. | 13597 Berlin
Altstadt Spandau
[Old Spandau]
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Imchenallee
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
Sakrower Kirchweg | 14089 Berlin
Sakrower Kirchweg

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Schöneberg

Viktoria-Luise-Platz
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
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
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
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
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
Alt-Köpenick | 12555 Berlin
Alt-Köpenick

The picturesque streets and lanes around the town hall should be visited on feet.
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Kietz
Kietz | 12557 Berlin
Kietz

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