Some places in Berlin you have to visit
Are you planning to visit Berlin?
I have been living in Berlin since 1981, when the wall was still standing. I lived in Berlin, when the wall came down, and people from East Berlin were getting into the western parts of the city and people left the western parts for the first time in their life and explored the eastern parts of Berlin.
I know this wonderful city pretty well. I show you the places worthwhile visiting - some of them may be described in your tourist guide, but some may not.
Did you know that Berlin is a really green City? If you want to know more about that aspect of the town, you can find a lot of interesting information here.
By the way, all the photos you can see on this lens are photos I have taken on my walks through this wonderful city.
I have been living in Berlin since 1981, when the wall was still standing. I lived in Berlin, when the wall came down, and people from East Berlin were getting into the western parts of the city and people left the western parts for the first time in their life and explored the eastern parts of Berlin.
I know this wonderful city pretty well. I show you the places worthwhile visiting - some of them may be described in your tourist guide, but some may not.
Enjoy your virtual trip through Berlin!
Did you know that Berlin is a really green City? If you want to know more about that aspect of the town, you can find a lot of interesting information here.
By the way, all the photos you can see on this lens are photos I have taken on my walks through this wonderful city.
Berlin Mitte
Berlin Mitte is one of the Berlin districts where you can walk from one interesting place to the other by foot. There is for example the famous street "Unter den Linden" which ends in front of the Pariser Platz and the Brandenburg Gate. There is the Friedrichstraße with a lot of expensive shops and the Galeries Lafayette, where you can buy exquisite French food.
Public Transport in Berlin
Too tired to walk - take a bus or the subway!
Berlin has one of the best local public transport systems of Europe. There are the subway, the busses, the streetcars and the suburban trains. Almost every destination in Berlin can be reached by local public transport.
In the early morning hours, when people go to work, the subway comes every 5 minutes. Stations are crowded then, of course...
There are two famous Bus lines: The bus 100 and the bus 200 connect the old train station Zoologischer Garten (West of Berlin) with Alexanderplatz in the eastern part of Berlin. Often the drivers of those busses play tourist guides.
The Holocaust Memorial
A Memorial to get used to
The Holocaust memorial had been designed by the famous architect Peter Eisenman and was openend in May 2005 to the public as a contribute to the death of all the Jews who were killed under the Nazi regime. There has been much discussion about the design of the memorial and people using the steel blocks as places to sit upon.
In any case it is a place worth visiting.
Want to go to the Memorial? Here's the map.
Checkpoint Charlie
Once the End of Western Berlin
If you visit Checkpoint Charlie today, it is hard to imagine that once, before the wall came down in 1989, it was the end of Western Berlin. Only the Allied forces were allowed here to pass to Eastern Berlin - people from Western Germany and from Western Berlin had to take other passages.
The Adlon hotel and the Academy of the Arts
Old Style and new Style
The Adlon hotel and the Academy of the Arts are situated at the Pariser Platz near the Brandenburg Gate.The Adlon hotel has a long history, and the actual building is a rebuilt of the hotel burnt down shortly after the war. You might not have the money for an overnight stay there, but maybe you'd like to visit the café there and watch all the important people coming in and going out!
The Academy of the Arts is an institution which organizes all kinds of cultural events - exhibitions, lectures, public readings. All those events take place in a new modern building with wide glass windows. There is also a café inside and a bookshop.
Weinhaus Huth at Potsdamer Platz
Old and New Side by Side
The "Weinhaus Huth" is the only old building inmidst all the modern buildings at the Potsdamer Platz.It once was a restaurant in the middle of Berlin. At the end of WW II, bombs destroyed every house in the neighbourhood, but spared Weinhaus Huth. Then the Berlin Wall was built, and the Potsdamer Platz became a no-go-area. Now, it is a restaurant once again. Berlin, Alexanderplatz
Where silence meets busyness
Alexanderplatz is one of the busiest places in Berlin. People change from one means of public transport to another one in order to get home or to get to work.
But there are "breathing spaces" - sitting and watching the fountains rising and falling, in front of a very old church built in the 13th century.
Berlin, Gendarmenmarkt
No, you are not in Italy!
The Gendarmenmarkt is in the district of Mitte, and it's one of my favourite places. In the summer, when the cafés around the place are offering chairs and tables outside you could think that you are in some southern town of Italy, and not in the north east of Germany.
Chamissoplatz, Kreuzberg
A Look into the 19th Century
Kreuzberg / Friedrichshain is one district in Berlin where you can still see a lot of buildings put up in the 19th century. The buildings around the Chamissoplatz were reconstructed in the 80ies of the 20th century. Today many students and academics live there. Once a week there's a market at the Chamissoplatz, with fruits and vegetables from farmers living in Berlin-Brandenburg.
Martin-Gropius-Bau
A Place to go to when it is Raining
The Martin-Gropius-Bau is one of the famous exhibition halls of Berlin. It was built between 1877 and 1881. The building of the wall in 1961 made it stand close to the East district. Everyone who went to the exhibition hall was confronted with the wall and the division of Berlin.
From July till the beginning of October there is an exhibition about Le Corbusier - Art and Architecture and also one about Pakistan's buddhist legacy.
The Martin-Gropius-Bau can be reached very easily by U-Bahn (U 6; depart at Kochstraße).
Berlin, the Green City
Visit the lakes and parks of Berlin!
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Berlin, the Green City
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Berlin offers more than the usual places for tourists. On a hot summer day you can have a swim either in the Tegel Lake, Or in the Lake Wannsee. You can spend hours in one of the numerous parks of Berlin, reading a book or watching other people. I sh...
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Detailed information about Berlin
In case you want to read more...
I put together a list of Wikipedia articles with much detailed information.
- Article on Wikipedia about the Gendarmenmarkt
- The Wikipedia article gives some detailed information about the history of the Gendarmenmarkt.
- Article about the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
- Detailed informations about the Memorial.on Wikipeda
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- Jewelsofawe Jewelsofawe Oct 31, 2009 @ 11:48 am
- I have never been to Germany. Thanks for sharing it with me.
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- Pukeko Pukeko Oct 29, 2009 @ 8:01 am
- Interesting. I would love to go to Berlin again someday. I was here twice, both time before the wall came down. I can only imagine how different it is today. Great travel lens and blessed by an angel.
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- WordCustard WordCustard Oct 20, 2009 @ 9:23 am
- This is a really nice Berlin guide, and some interesting book recommendations too to learn more about the city before a visit.
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- Expressions Expressions Sep 15, 2009 @ 9:06 pm
- My mom is from Germany, yet she never talked about it much. Thank you for this lovely walk through Germany!
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- rzukic rzukic Sep 15, 2009 @ 11:40 am
- This is so great lens. I lived in Germany for 7 years (Heidelberg) but never made it to Berlin. I had some friends from Berlin and who knows what the future brings. Maybe I though make it. Thank You for the great lens.
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