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The Oberbaum Bridge is a double-deck bridge crossing Berlin, Germany's River Spree, considered one of the city's landmarks. It links Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg, former boroughs that were divided by the Berlin Wall, and has become an important symbol of Berlin's unity.
2. Brandenburg Gate
The Brandenburg Gate is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin, built on the orders of the King of Prussia Frederick William II after restoring the Orangist power by suppressing the Dutch popular unrest. One of the best-known landmarks of Germany, it was built on the site of a former city gate that marked the start of the road from Berlin to the town of Brandenburg an der Havel, which used to be the capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg.
3. Museum Island
The Museum Island is a museum complex on the northern part of the Spree Island in the historic heart of Berlin, Germany. It is one of the capital's most visited sights and one of the most important museum sites in Europe. Originally, built from 1830 to 1930, by order of the Prussian Kings, according to plans by five architects, the Museum Island was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999 because of its testimony to the architectural and cultural development of museums in the 19th and 20th centuries. It consists of the Altes Museum, the Neues Museum, the Alte Nationalgalerie, the Bode-Museum and the Pergamonmuseum. As the Museum Island designation includes all of Spree Island north of the Karl Leibniz avenue, the historic Berlin Cathedral is also located there, next to the open Lustgarten park. To the south of Leibniz avenue, the reconstructed Berlin Palace houses the Humboldt Forum museum and opened in 2020. Also adjacent, across the west branch of the Spree is the German Historical Museum. Since German reunification, the Museum Island has been rebuilt and extended according to a master plan. In 2019, a new visitor center and art gallery, the James Simon Gallery, was opened within the Museum Island heritage site.
4. Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as the Holocaust Memorial, is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and Buro Happold. It consists of a 19,000-square-metre (200,000 sq ft) site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or "stelae", arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. The original plan was to place nearly 4,000 slabs, but after the recalculation, the number of slabs that could legally fit into the designated areas was 2,711. The stelae are 2.38 m long, 0.95 m wide and vary in height from 0.2 to 4.7 metres. They are organized in rows, 54 of them going north–south, and 87 heading east–west at right angles but set slightly askew. An attached underground "Place of Information" holds the names of approximately 3 million Jewish Holocaust victims, obtained from the Israeli museum Yad Vashem.
Wikipedia: Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (EN), Website
5. Topography of Terror
The Topography of Terror is an outdoor and indoor history museum in Berlin, Germany. It is located on Niederkirchnerstrasse, formerly Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse, on the site of buildings, which during the Nazi regime from 1933 to 1945 was the SS Reich Security Main Office, the headquarters of the Sicherheitspolizei, SD, Einsatzgruppen and Gestapo.
6. Humboldt Forum
The Humboldt Forum is a museum dedicated to human history, art and culture, located in the Berlin Palace on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin. It is named in honour of the Prussian scholars Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt. Considered the "German equivalent" of the British Museum, the Humboldt Forum houses the non-European collections of the Berlin State Museums, temporary exhibitions and public events. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it opened digitally on 16 December 2020 and became accessible to the general public on 20 July 2021.
Wikipedia: Humboldt Forum (EN), Url, Website, Wheelchair Website
7. Gendarmenmarkt
The Gendarmenmarkt is a square in Berlin and the site of an architectural ensemble that includes the Berlin concert hall, along with the French and German Churches. In the centre of the square stands a monumental statue of poet Friedrich Schiller. The square was created by Johann Arnold Nering at the end of the seventeenth century as the Linden-Markt and reconstructed by Georg Christian Unger in 1773. The Gendarmenmarkt is named after a Prussian cuirassier regiment called the Gendarmen, which had stables at the square until 1773.
8. Hackesche Höfe
The Hackesche Höfe is a notable courtyard complex situated adjacent to the Hackescher Markt in the centre of Berlin. The complex consists of eight interconnected courtyards, accessed through a main arched entrance at number 40 Rosenthaler Straße.
9. Landschaftspark Herzberge
The entire former area around the Evangelical Hospital Queen Elisabeth Herzberge (Keh) has been known as a Herzberge landscape park since 2010. It is located in the Berlin district of Lichtenberg. By 2007, the area consisted of a mixture of fallow, economic, living and green areas without having a common development with a variety of problems. The agricultural exchange Germany Ost e. From 2004, V., together with the Lichtenberg district office, initiated a number of funded projects for careful, natural development of the area for a model project of urban agriculture in Berlin. In different stages, the different areas were brought together over the years and converted into agricultural areas, networked biotopes, path systems and recreation areas. The main construction work was essentially complete in 2013. Agricultural use by the extensive grazing of the areas with rough -wool Pomeranian landscapes goes hand in hand with the preservation and development of a species -rich and valuable landscape protection area in the district. The designation of the Herzberge landscape park as a landscape protection area was requested from the Senate of Berlin. This application was met in spring 2019.
10. House of the Cultures of the World
The Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), in English House of World Cultures, in Berlin is Germany's national center for the presentation and discussion of international contemporary arts, with a special focus on non-European cultures and societies. It presents art exhibitions, theater and dance performances, concerts, author readings, films and academic conferences on Visual Art and culture. It is one of the institutions which, due to their national and international standing and the quality of their work, receive funding from the federal government as so-called "lighthouses of culture", from the Federal Minister of State for Culture and the Media as well as from the Federal Foreign Office. As a venue and collaboration partner, HKW has hosted festivals such as the transmediale, curatorial platforms, biennials such as the Berlin Documentary Forum, and mentorship programs such as Forecast. Since 2013, its interdisciplinary elaboration on the Anthropocene discourse has included conferences, exhibitions, and other artistic formats performed together with philosophers, scientists, and arstists, such as Bruno Latour and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber.
11. German Spy Museum
The Berlin Spy Museum is a private museum in Berlin which was created by former journalist Franz-Michael Günther. The museum opened to the public on the 19th of September 2015. Günther's aspirations were to create a museum devoted to the history of spies and espionage in the former spy capital of Germany. The museum is located in the central area of Potsdamer Platz, formerly known as the "death strip", as it lies on the perimeters of the wall which once divided East and West Berlin. The museum acts as an educational institution, with its permanent exhibitions bridging together centuries of espionage stories and tactics, immersing visitors in a multi-media experience. The museum particularly focuses on the World Wars and the Cold War through a range of a 1000 different exhibits and artefacts. Since its opening in 2015, 1,000,000 people have visited the museum and recently in 2020 it was nominated for the European Museum of the Year Award. The Berlin Spy Museum is partnered with the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., and many of the artefacts and installations within the museum have captured media attention around the world.
12. Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who is widely held to be one of the greatest and most influential scientists of all time. Best known for developing the theory of relativity, Einstein also made important contributions to quantum mechanics, and was thus a central figure in the revolutionary reshaping of the scientific understanding of nature that modern physics accomplished in the first decades of the twentieth century. His mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2, which arises from relativity theory, has been called "the world's most famous equation". He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect", a pivotal step in the development of quantum theory. His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. In a 1999 poll of 130 leading physicists worldwide by the British journal Physics World, Einstein was ranked the greatest physicist of all time. His intellectual achievements and originality have made the word Einstein broadly synonymous with genius.
13. Shakespeare Company Berlin
The Shakespeare Company Berlin (SCB) offers its audience Volkstheater in its original meaning and only stages players from William Shakespeare. The basis is specially made translations of his comedies, tragedies and history. The productions of the Company are based on the performance practice, as they were currently cared for in Shakespeares in the Elisabethan Theater of the late 16th and early 17th centuries and therefore probably also on the Shakespeartbühne in the Globe Theater: a game on a simple stage without an elaborate background The actor's text and the art of representation and thus stimulates the audience to complement the temporal and local localizations of the stage events in his imagination ("word scenery"). In addition, there are music, special costumes and proximity to the audience up to communication with the spectators as further style principles of the Shakespeare Volkstheater. The ensemble appears in Berlin and at guest performances in German-speaking countries, repeating the Shakespeare Festival Neuss.
14. Heinrich-Heine-Denkmal
The Heinrich Heine monument in Berlin is a bronze figure by the poet Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), which the sculptor Waldemar Grzimek created. One special feature is that exactly the same monument can be seen as a result of cultural -political clashes at two different locations in the cityscape, only a few kilometers apart. Data 1954 Height: 2.1 m material Plastic: bronze, cast Sockel: limestone, hewn and smoothed Inscriptions Plate, left side Waldemar Grzimek / Monument Heinrich Heine / / The in 1955 for the chestnut groves / plastic displaced the client, she was set up / 1958 in the Volkspark am Weinberg. / There she still delights people. / Thanks to the curve donated by Peter Dussmann / now also at the originally planned location. / December 13, 2002 on the base relief, front We do not take an idea, but take the / idea and tire us and whip us into the arena that / we are fighting for you as forced. / Heinrich Heine / born 13.12.1797 in Düsseldorf / died 17. 2.1856 in Paris
15. Quatsch Comedy Club
The Quatsch Comedy Club is a comedy show that takes place in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Stuttgart. The heart is the live show with four stand-up comedians and a moderator each. The event takes place weekly in a new line -up. There are also other formats such as the newcomers show Quatsch Comedy-Hot Shot, the Quatsch Comedy Late Night Show and Quatsch Comedy Club-The English Night. As a television program, the nonsense comedy Club on Sky is broadcast on Sky Germany and has been on Sky Comedy since April 2021. On December 22nd and 29th, the two special anniversary specials "Legends of Quatsch" and "Bye Thomas" found their charisma for the 30th anniversary of the Quatsch Comedy Club. Both specials were also moderated by Thomas Hermanns, who celebrated his last appearance as a moderator with special guests such as Olaf Schubert, Michael Mittermeier, Ole Lehmann, Atze Schröder and many others. The television programs were moderated by Thomas Hermanns, the founder and director.
Wikipedia: Quatsch Comedy Club (DE), Website, Facebook, Instagram
16. German Museum of Technology
The German Technology Museum was opened in 1983 under the name Museum of Transport and Technology, which it wore until 1996. The museum sees itself as a succession institution of various technical museums that existed in Berlin until the Second World War, such as the Transport and Baumuseum, and is located in the Kreuzberg district of the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district. The DTM has 26,500 m² of exhibition space on the site of the former railway depot and freight station of the Anhalter Bahnhof. The museum was visited in 2019 by 635,382 people. The thematic focus is on the three major transport areas, but the museum would like to represent all areas of technology as possible and therefore also has exhibitions. B. for printing, news, production and film technology. The museum sees itself as a cultural -historical technology museum that represents technical developments in its interactions on social, economic and political history.
Wikipedia: Stiftung Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin (DE), Website, Website
17. Rathaus Pankow
The Pankow town hall is the administration building of the former municipality of Pankow and the Berlin district (1920–1990), now the service building of the district administration and seat of the district mayor of the Pankow district. The original structure was built in 1901–1903 according to Wilhelm Johow designs in a mixture of various construction styles typical of the beginning of the 20th century such as neo -gar, neo -baroque and Art Nouveau elements. His appearance was strikingly designed by the use of red clinkers to blame the brick building. On the corner of Neue Schönholzer Straße it received an extension according to plans by Alexander Poeschke and Rudolf Klante in 1927-1929. This was adapted to the first building, especially on the floor height. The town hall is located on Breiten Straße 24a-26 not far from the Wollankstraße S-Bahn station. The entire complex has been listed since the 1970s.
18. Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO)
Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) is a German research institute located in Berlin, Germany. The researchers focus on a comparative and interdisciplinary study of the Middle East, Africa, Eurasia, South and Southeast Asia. Central to its current research topics is the study of predominantly Muslim societies and their relations with non-Muslim neighbours. ZMO was founded in 1996 as an independent centre for the humanities, cultural and social sciences and is situated in the “Mittelhof”, which was designed by Hermann Muthesius, in Berlin-Nikolassee. Under the directorate of de:Ulrike Freitag, the centre is part of the association “Geisteswissenschaftliche Zentren Berlin e.V.”. The research programme has been funded by the Berlin Senate, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the German Ministry for Education and Research. Since January 1, 2017 ZMO is part of the Leibniz Association.
19. Corbusierhaus
Unité d'Habitation of Berlin is a 1958 apartment building located in Berlin-Westend, Germany, designed by Le Corbusier following his concept of Unité d'Habitation. Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation concept was materialised in four other buildings in France with a similar design. The building is constructed in béton brut and is part of the initial architecture style we know today as brutalism. The structure was built with on site prefab cast concrete panels and poured ceiling slabs. The Modulor system is the base measure of the Unité and Corbusier used not more than 15 Modulor measures to construct the entire structure form. Ultimately the work has been eliminated from Le Corbusier's oeuvre, which he confirmed himself until his death in 1965 and which has also been confirmed posthumous in 1967 in his last authorized publication of his work.
20. Nicaraguanisches Dorf – Monimbó 1978
The picture Nicaraguan village - Monimbó 1978 was a presentation completed in 1985 on the gable facade of a residential building in the Berlin district of Lichtenberg. The mural with scenes from the everyday life of a small village in Nicaragua was an order work by the East Berlin magistrate to the Nicaraguan artist Manuel García Moia. The GDR government supported, among other things, the liberation struggle of the Nicaraguan people against the Somoza regime. After the fall of the wall, the building was privatized, the gable image emerged as a replica on the renovated wall area. However, due to poor materials and poor work, large parts dropped off from 2011 and finally, for safety reasons, the painted insulation layer had to be cut off again. A citizens' initiative successfully tried a second renewal that could be completed in autumn 2019.
21. Schillerpark-Siedlung
The Schillerpark housing estate is a housing estate in the English Quarter of the Berlin district of Wedding. It was built in the 1920s according to plans by the architect Bruno Taut and is considered to be the first metropolitan residential project outside the realm of private entrepreneurs in Berlin during the Weimar Republic. It was also one of the early cooperative housing estates of the Berliner Spar- und Bauverein, which had the estate built since 1924. In the union-cooperative model, GEHAG took over the construction supervision, while Bauhütte Berlin took over the construction work. The aim of the estate was to redefine housing in terms of aesthetics, construction technology and content. Since 7 July 2008, the Schillerpark housing estate has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site, along with five other Berlin Modernist housing estates.
Wikipedia: Siedlung Schillerpark (DE), Website, Heritage Website
22. Zum Guten Hirten
The Protestant Church of the Good Shepherd in Berlin's Friedenau district was built as a nave church with narrow, aisle-like side aisles and a slender, 70-metre-high tower in neo-Gothic style according to a design by Karl Doflein. The slate-roofed masonry building, faced with dark red bricks, was built in an exposed urban location on Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz. On Empress Auguste Viktoria's birthday, the foundation stone was laid in her presence, and she was also present at the inauguration. During the Second World War, the church suffered damage during Allied air raids, including to the windows, the roof was largely destroyed, and all the wall paintings were destroyed by weather damage. After the war, the interior was simply restored, but later renovations brought it closer to the original. The church is a listed building.
Wikipedia: Kirche Zum Guten Hirten (Berlin-Friedenau) (DE), Website, Heritage Website
23. St. Lukas-Kirche
St. Luke's Church is a church in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin, Germany. Together with the vestibule and campanile, it is built into the closed street front of Bernburger Straße. The church was built between 1859 and 1861 as a nave with cross arms under building inspector Gustav Möller. The design, in the style of the royal basilica concept, came from the head of the Prussian court and state building system, Friedrich August Stüler. The church was consecrated on March 17, 1861. It was destroyed on 29 April 1945. The church has been a listed building since 1953 and was rebuilt under the direction of the architect Georg Thofehrn. It was re-inaugurated on 19 December 1954. The church belongs to the church district of Berlin Stadtmitte. In 1960, the architect Henry Ziemendorf built the new administrative offices.
Wikipedia: St.-Lukas-Kirche (Berlin) (DE), Website, Heritage Website
24. Himmelfahrtskirche
The Evangelical Church of the Ascension is the second sacred building of this name in the Volkspark Humboldthain. The church, built in 1956 according to plans by Otto Bartning, is located at Gustav-Meyer-Allee 2 in the Berlin district of Gesundbrunnen in the Mitte district. The building complex consisting of the hall church on a rectangular ground plan, bell tower and extensions for other facilities of the municipality is a listed building. In the spring of 2001, the Ascension parish merged with the neighbouring Friedenskirchen parish to form the parish at Humboldthain. Since the Church of Peace has served as the Serbian Orthodox Church of Peace of Saint Sava since 2001, "was and is [...] the new Ascension Church, newly built in 1956, was also the worship space of the merged congregation.
25. Samariterkirche
The Samaritan Church in the Berlin district of Friedrichshain was built between 7 May 1892 and 20 October 1894 by the Evangelical Church Building Association according to a design by the architect Gotthilf Ludwig Möckel. It is located on Samariterplatz on Samariterstraße, which was named after her in 1895, at the intersection with Bänschstraße and is one of the two churches of the Protestant parish of Galilee-Samaritan, along with the Galilee Church in Rigaer Strasse, which was consecrated on 20 June 1910. Between 1991 and 1994, the church was last extensively restored, and together with the surrounding residential buildings, it is a listed building. The Evangelical parish of Galilee-Samaritan, to which the church belongs, is part of the church district of Berlin Stadtmitte.
Wikipedia: Samariterkirche (Berlin) (DE), Website, Heritage Website
26. Heilige-Geist-Kirche
Built between 1905 and 1906 according to plans by Georg Dinklage and Ernst Paulus, the Protestant Church of the Holy Spirit on the acute-angled corner plot at Perleberger Straße 36/Birkenstraße 60/61 forms the urban centre of the Stephankiez in Berlin's Moabit district. The church was consecrated on 19 December 1906 in the presence of Empress Auguste Victoria. During the Second World War, the Church of the Holy Spirit suffered only very minor damage. Only the stained glass windows had to be replaced. The church in historicizing Gothic style, reminiscent of Brandenburg traditions, is a listed building. The Evangelical parish of Heilige-Geist belongs to the church district of Berlin Stadtmitte (KKBS) of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia (EKBO).
27. New Museum
The Neues Museum is a listed building on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin, Germany. Built from 1843 to 1855 by order of King Frederick William IV of Prussia in Neoclassical and Renaissance Revival styles, it is considered as the major work of Friedrich August Stüler. After suffering damage in World War II and decay in East Germany, it was restored from 1999 to 2009 by David Chipperfield. Currently, the Neues Museum is home to the Ägyptisches Museum, the Papyrussammlung, the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte and parts of the Antikensammlung. As part of the Museum Island complex, the museum was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1999 because of its outstanding architecture and testimony to the evolution of museums as a cultural phenomenon.
28. Sankt Marien
St. Mary's Church of the Evangelical Lutheran St. Mary's Parish in the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church is located at Riemeisterstraße 10–12 in the Berlin district of Zehlendorf in the district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf. The church building, designed according to plans by the architect Hans Schmidt from Hamburg-Harburg, was completed by the architectural firm Kraul and Jäckel from Hamburg. The architects Manfred F. Manleitner and Erwin Srp, both from Berlin, were commissioned with the local construction management. The church building was consecrated on 18 February 1973 by the later Bishop Gerhard Rost with the assistance of church councillor Matthias Schulz and the then parish priest Jobst Schöne. The parish belongs to the church district of Berlin-Brandenburg.
Wikipedia: St.-Marien-Kirche (Berlin-Zehlendorf) (DE), Website
29. Kollwitzplatz
Kollwitzplatz is a city square in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg, district of Pankow. The square forms the center of the so-called "Kollwitzkiez". It was named, on 7 October 1947, after the German graphic artist and sculptor Käthe Kollwitz, who spent a large part of her life here in the house at Weissenburger Straße No. 25. Until then, it was called Wörther Platz; a name that was given to it when the area was planned for construction in 1875. Indirectly, this name is also a reminder of her husband Karl Kollwitz, who worked here as a physician until 1940 and thus shaped the area around the square independently of his wife. The triangular complex is bordered by Kollwitzstraße, Knaackstraße and Wörther Straße. In total, the square is about 6000 m2 in size.
30. Harnack House
The Harnack House in the Dahlem district of Berlin, Germany was opened in 1929 as a centre for German scientific and intellectual life. Located in the intellectual colony of Dahlem, seat of the Free University Berlin, it was founded by the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft (KWG) on the initiative of its first president, the theologian Adolf von Harnack, and of its then chairman, Friedrich Glum. The project was supported politically by the Weimar Republic Chancellor Wilhelm Marx and Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann, and an influential Centre Party deputy Georg Schreiber. The land for its construction was donated by the state of Prussia, and the costs of building and furnishing the house were defrayed partly by the government, and partly by public subscription.
31. Hochbunker
The Pallasstraße bunker, also known as the Sportpalast bunker, is a four-storey bunker in Pallasstraße in the Berlin district of Schöneberg, the shell of which was completed during World War II. After completion and modernisation in the 1980s, it was used as a civil defence facility until 2010 and was used as a warehouse for emergency goods. Since May 2002, the bunker has been used as a "place of remembrance" by the advanced history course of the neighbouring Sophie Scholl School, by the Tempelhof-Schöneberg Art Office and by the Berlin Underworlds Association; the association takes care of the maintenance of the building on behalf of the Berlin Senate. It was deconsecrated as a civil defence facility in 2010 and has been a listed building since 2011.
32. Gertraudenbrücke
The Gertraudenbrücke and the Neue Gertraudenbrücke in Berlin lead the Gertraudenstraße over the Spree Canal to the Spittelmarkt in the Mitte district and connect the historic districts of Alt-Kölln and Neukölln am Wasser. The stone Gertrauden Bridge, built between 1894 and 1895, is a listed building and was extended with the New Gertrauden Bridge, which was built in 1977 as a steel girder bridge and runs parallel to the south, so that today there is an ensemble of two bridges. The Neue Gertraudenbrücke is part of the Bundesstraße 1 and is part of the heavily frequented traffic arterial road in the area of the historic centre of Berlin, which leads from Potsdamer/Leipziger Platz via Leipziger Straße, Spittelmarkt and Molkenmarkt to Alexanderplatz.
33. Helmholtzplatz
The Helmholtzplatz, ugs. Helmi, is a rectangular square in the Prenzlauer Berg district of the Pankow district of Berlin, Germany. It forms the central square of the Helmholtzkiez. It is named after the physicist Hermann von Helmholtz. The heavily landscaped square with two children's playgrounds, a football pitch, several table tennis tables, a streetball court and a neighbourhood meeting place is about three metres above the level of the surrounding residential streets Raumerstraße, Lychener Straße, Lettestraße, Schliemannstraße and Dunckerstraße. It conveys the character of a small park in the middle of the densely populated old building area and fulfils the function of an important recreational area and a social meeting point for the residents.
34. Hahn-Meitner Building
Nuclear fission was discovered in December 1938 by chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann and physicists Lise Meitner and Otto Robert Frisch. Fission is a nuclear reaction or radioactive decay process in which the nucleus of an atom splits into two or more smaller, lighter nuclei and often other particles. The fission process often produces gamma rays and releases a very large amount of energy, even by the energetic standards of radioactive decay. Scientists already knew about alpha decay and beta decay, but fission assumed great importance because the discovery that a nuclear chain reaction was possible led to the development of nuclear power and nuclear weapons. Hahn was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of nuclear fission.
35. Martin-Luther-Kirche
The Martin Luther Church in today's Berlin district of Neukölln was built in the style of Fritz Gottlob's neo-Gothic. The foundation stone was laid on July 2, 1908. At the inauguration of the church on November 15, 1909, the Prince of August Wilhelm's imperial house took part. The church was destroyed in the Second World War; The reconstruction began in 1952 under the architect W. Rossa. The tower hood was restored. In 1953 the topping -out ceremony for the nave took place. On January 20, 1957, Bishop Otto Dibelius inaugurated the rebuilt church, which is now a listed building. In 1970, according to the plans of the architect Günter Kohlhaus, a renovation was started, which had a preliminary conclusion with the inauguration on October 1, 1972.
Wikipedia: Martin-Luther-Kirche (Berlin-Neukölln) (DE), Website
36. Der Bevölkerung
The artwork DER BEVÖLKERUNG by Hans Haacke was as commissioned and installed in 2000. It was erected in the north courtyard of the German Reichstag building in the year 2000 by resolution of the German Bundestag. The work consists of a trough measuring 21 x 7 meters, bounded by wooden beams, from the center of which the words "DER BEVÖLKERUNG" radiate toward the sky in white neon letters. The words can be seen from all levels of the building: from the assembly hall, the floor reserved for the political parties and the press, as well as by visitors on the roof. The public funds allocated to the project were the equivalent of approx. 200,000 euros. The artwork was realized within the framework of the Reichstag's art in architecture program.
37. Galerie Futura
Alpha Nova & Gallery Futura has been a exhibition and event location in Berlin that has existed since 1986, which combines cultural-producing and cultural-mediating practice through an emancipatory, feminist, anti-racist approach. The focus is on working with artists or Flinta people. Alpha Nova & Gallery Futura creates a space for linking political intervention and artistic practice in order to develop critical points of view for art, science and society. There are thematic exhibitions with visual arts of all genres that are accompanied and expanded by events such as performances, lectures, readings, film presentations, discussions, music and workshops. The focus is on promoting artists or Flinta people and increasing their visibility.
38. Knoblauchhaus
The Knoblauchhaus was the former main residence of the Berlin merchant family Knoblauch. The building is located at Poststraße 23, which belongs to the Nikolaiviertel. It was built between 1759 and 1761 and remained in the possession of the Knoblauch family for 170 years. In 1929, the family sold the house to the city of Berlin. It survived the Second World War as one of the few Berlin town houses of the 18th century largely unscathed. Since 1989, the building has housed a branch of the Märkisches Museum and since 1995 of the Berliner Stadtmuseum Foundation. On the first and second floors, a permanent exhibition shows the history of the Knoblauch family in addition to the bourgeois living culture of the Biedermeier period.
39. Soviet War Memorial
The Soviet War Memorial is a war memorial and military cemetery in Berlin's Treptower Park. It was built to the design of the Soviet architect Yakov Belopolsky to commemorate 7,000 of the 80,000 Red Army soldiers who fell in the Battle of Berlin in April–May 1945. It opened four years after the end of World War II in Europe, on 8 May 1949. The Memorial served as the central war memorial of East Germany. Locally it is also nicknamed the Memorial to Rapists or the Tomb of the Unknown Rapist, with references to mass rapes committed by Soviet occupation troops. There have been discussions over demolition of the monument, like other Soviet propaganda monuments, with renewed discussion following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
40. Sankt-Johannis-Kirche
The Johanniskirche is a church designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel and was inaugurated in 1835, extended several times and renewed after war damage. It stands in the district of Berlin-Moabit of the Mitte district and is one of the four Schinkel suburban churches, which originally all had a similar blueprint. It bears her name according to John to the Baptist. The Evangelical Johanniskirche belongs to the Evangelical parish of Berlin-Tiergarten and thus to the Church Circle of Berlin Stadtmitte (KKBS) of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz (EKBO). The church, rebuilt and expanded several times after its inauguration, is a listed building, including the associated church buildings.
41. Wohnanlage ehem. Gertraudenhospital
The former Gertraudenhospital at the corner of Wartenburgstraße 1 and Großbeerenstraße in Berlin's Kreuzberg district is a listed brick building with several wings and a park-like front garden from the 1870s. It is the second domicile of the St. Gertraudt Foundation, which was founded in 1411 as a "noble lady" in Berlin-Mitte and still exists today. The building, which was moved to Kreuzberg in 1872, came under the administration of the Am Urban Hospital in 1945. After its sale at the beginning of the 21st century, it was converted into a residential park with 103 condominiums and two commercial units by the Berlin architectural firm Stephan Höhne, while respecting the preservation of historical monuments.
42. New Church
The New Church, is located in Berlin on the Gendarmenmarkt across from French Church of Friedrichstadt. Its parish comprised the northern part of the then new quarter of Friedrichstadt, which until then belonged to the parish of the congregations of Jerusalem's Church. The Lutheran and Calvinist congregants used German as their native language, as opposed to the French-speaking Calvinist congregation of the adjacent French Church of Friedrichstadt. The congregants' native language combined with the domed tower earned the church its colloquial name Deutscher Dom. While the church physically resembles a cathedral, it is not a cathedral in the formal sense of the word, as it was never the seat of a bishop.
43. Hanf Museum Berlin
The Hemp Museum was opened in Berlin on 6 December 1994. It is the only museum in Germany focused on the cannabis plant. The museum also actively promotes the protection of children and young people and offers individually tailored tours of the exhibition with care staff. It serves as a meeting place for the organisers of the Hanfparade. The Hanf Museum regularly takes part in the "Long Night of Museums", the Berlin Fairytale Days and the Historale which takes place in the Nikolai Quarter. In 2017, the Hanf Museum took part in the Kirchentag in Berlin as a self-organised event on the topic of the war on drugs with speakers from South American victims, including the Reverend Martin Diaz from El Salvador.
44. GRIPS Theater
The Grips-Theatre in Berlin is a well-known and well-respected emancipatory children's and youth theatre, located at Altonaer Straße at Hansaplatz in the Hansaviertel in Berlin's Mitte district. It is "the first theatre worldwide to deal sociocritically with the lives and living conditions of children and young people and to incorporate this in original humorous and musical plays". It has gained a national and international reputation, not least due to its former artistic director Volker Ludwig's musicals for adults, such as its evergreen Linie 1, Café Mitte or the adaptation of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. GRIPS' plays have been re-staged over 1,500 times in some 40 languages around the world.
45. Kirche am Hohenzollernplatz
Kirche am Hohenzollernplatz is the church of the Evangelical Congregation at Hohenzollernplatz, a member of today's Protestant umbrella Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia. The church is located on the eastern side of Hohenzollernplatz in the locality of Wilmersdorf, in the Berlin borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. The building is considered a leading example of Brick Expressionism and a testimonial to the unique quality of expressionist church architecture in Berlin. The naming of the church after the city square it faces was originally considered a temporary solution until a more suitable one was chosen. The name stuck however, though the debate continues.
Wikipedia: Kirche am Hohenzollernplatz (EN), Website, Heritage Website
46. Villa Borsig
The Borsig-Villa Reiherwerder is a former country house of the Berlin entrepreneurial family Borsig. It is located on the 12.37-hectare Reiherwerder peninsula on the northwest side of Lake Tegel, which belongs to the Berlin district of Reinickendorf. Together with the neighbouring buildings, it is now part of the grounds of the Foreign Service Academy of the Federal Foreign Office, where all members of the middle, senior and senior Foreign Service have been trained since the beginning of 2006. The villa itself serves as the guest house of the Foreign Office. Immediately north of the villa there is a garden in neo-baroque style on the water side. The entire site is not open to the public.
47. Rüdesheimer Platz
Rüdesheimer Platz is located in the Berlin district of Wilmersdorf and represents the center of the Rheingau district. The square is flanked in the west by Rüdesheimer Straße and in the east by Ahrweilerstraße. The streets are named after towns and villages in the Rheingau-Taunus district in the state of Hesse. Since 1972 there has been a sponsorship between the former district of Wilmersdorf and the district of Rheingau-Taunus, a partnership since 1991. Since 1984, the partnership has also included the vineyard in the Wilmersdorf stadium with vines from the Rheingau-Taunus, from which the winegrowers press the Wilmersdorf Rheingau pearl. The first harvest was in the autumn of 1986.
48. Christophoruskirche
St. Christopher's Church is a Protestant church in the Friedrichshagen district of Berlin, Germany. It was built between 1901 and 1903 by Ernst Schrammer according to a design by Jürgen Kröger as a replacement building for the former village church. The most important treasure of the church is the altar Bible with a dedication from Empress Auguste Viktoria, which was given to the congregation at the inauguration of the building. The building in Bölschestraße is a listed building. It serves the Evangelical Parish of Friedrichshagen, which belongs to the Lichtenberg-Oberspree church district in the Berlin district of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia.
Wikipedia: Christophoruskirche (Berlin-Friedrichshagen) (DE), Website, Heritage Website
49. Direktorenhaus Berlin
The Direktorenhaus Berlin is a gallery as well as an art and cultural center in Berlin's Mitte district. It was founded in 2010 by Pascal Johanssen and Katja Kleiss in Berlin as an exhibition venue for applied arts. The centre is located on the site and building complex of the Alte Münze, the former state mint in the historic centre of Berlin. After 20 years of vacancy, the dilapidated building was renovated by the operators of the director's house and thus saved from decay. The director's house is also the headquarters of Musicboard Berlin, and well-known artists and musicians such as the Berlin rock band Bonaparte use the rooms of the house as studios and rehearsal rooms.
50. Rathaus Schmargendorf
The Schmargendorf Town Hall is the former town hall of the once independent municipality of Schmargendorf, which was incorporated into Berlin in 1920 and has been a district of the Berlin district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf since 2001. The historicizing building was built between 1900 and 1902 according to plans by Otto Kerwien in the style of Brandenburg brick Gothic. With his design of the town hall, Kerwien referred to the mostly medieval secular buildings of Tangermünde and Stendal. Today, it houses the county's registry office, the music school and the Adolf Reichwein Library, a branch of the city library called the Adolf Reichwein Library.
51. Quartierspark Rosenfelder Ring
The Rosenfelder Ring Neighbourhood Park is a new park in the Friedrichsfelde district of the Lichtenberg district of Berlin, Germany, which was created between 2009 and 2011. The district square for the district around Rosenfelder Ring was created in two stages after the demolition of a school complex in connection with neighboring sports and green spaces after a citizen survey on behalf of the district office. It extends over three terrain terraces. With the completion of the upper area, the new park was inaugurated on 5 June 2010 as part of a neighbourhood festival. The official handover of the middle and lower levels took place on 28 May 2011.
52. Memorial to the Murdered Members of the Reichstag
The Memorial to the Murdered Members of the Reichstag is a memorial in Berlin, Germany. The memorial is located in front of the Reichstag building and commemorates the 96 members of the parliament who died unnaturally between 1933 and 1945 (1948). The idea of creating the monument started in the 1980s, and the memorial was erected in September 1992. It was designed by Dieter Appelt, Klaus W. Eisenlohr, Justus Müller, and Christian Zwirner. The memorial is made of 96 cast iron plates, with the names, birth and death dates and places engraved on the edges. It has been designed so that it can be extended if new names are discovered in the future.
Wikipedia: Memorial to the Murdered Members of the Reichstag (EN)
53. Schleuse Mühlendamm
The Mühlendammschleuse in Berlin is located in the Mitte district east of the Mühlendamm on Fischerinsel. It lies in the course of the Spree, which here is part of the Spree-Oder waterway. The lock was put into operation in 1942 and overcomes a drop height of 1.51 metres. It is the responsibility of the Spree-Havel Waterways and Shipping Authority. In 2006, the lock handled 3,500 cargo ships, 15,933 passenger ships and 6,560 pleasure craft. Muscle-powered boats are not smuggled, as the traffic of small ships without engine propulsion is not permitted between Kanzleramtssteg and Oberbaumbrücke. The Mühlendamm lock is a listed building.
54. Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel was a German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist and artist. He discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms and coined many terms in biology, including ecology, phylum, phylogeny, and Protista. Haeckel promoted and popularised Charles Darwin's work in Germany and developed the influential but no longer widely held recapitulation theory claiming that an individual organism's biological development, or ontogeny, parallels and summarises its species' evolutionary development, or phylogeny.
55. C/O Berlin
C/O Berlin is a private exhibition space for photography and visual media in Berlin. It is located in Amerika Haus Berlin by Zoologischer Garten station, Charlottenburg, where it has more than 2,500 square metres of space. C/O Berlin presents works by national and international artists, supports emerging talents, and organizes educational events on visual media and art. It was founded in 2000 by Stephan Erfurt, Marc Naroska and Ingo Pott and originally located in the old Royal Post Office (Postfuhramt). C/O Berlin is supported by a non-profit foundation under the direction of Stephan Erfurt. The deputy chairman is Dr. Andreas Behr.
56. Hererostein
The Hererostein is a memorial stone at the Columbiadamm cemetery in Berlin-Neukölln, Germany. It is dedicated to seven volunteers of the German Schutztruppe who died between 1904 and 1907 in the former colony of German-South West Africa. In 2009, following protests by civil society associations against this commemoration of the perpetrators of genocide, a commemorative plaque was laid in the ground in front of the stone, commemorating the victims among the Herero and Nama peoples. The ensemble of Hererostein and Namibia memorial plaque is the only monument in Berlin that commemorates the former German occupation of Namibia.
57. Dorfkirche Marienfelde
The village church Marienfelde in the Berlin district of Marienfelde is the focal point of the central village green. Traditionally, Kurt Pomplun claims that the fieldstone church was built "around 1220" and is thus "undoubtedly the oldest of all village churches in Berlin and one of the oldest in the Mittelmark". A roof beam found in 1995 was dendrochronologically dated to 1230; however, since it was in secondary use, the church can hardly have been built before 1240. Nevertheless, it is undoubtedly one of the oldest village churches in Berlin and the Mittelmark, where a village church that is certainly older is not known.
58. Engine Test Rig
Built between 1933 and 1935, the silenced engine test bench is located in the middle of the Aerodynamic Park in Berlin's Adlershof district. Here, aircraft engines were tested with propellers for their effectiveness, resilience and service life. In spin tests, these screws were sometimes loaded far beyond their nominal speed. By repeatedly diverting the air flow and lining the building with various wooden constructions, it was possible to achieve particularly effective sound insulation. The two side exhaust towers with the upper end brims and the flowing contours of the base components in-situ concrete are striking.
59. Tegeler Hafenbrücke
The Tegel Harbour Bridge in the Berlin district of Tegel, popularly known as the "Sechserbrücke", is a pedestrian bridge that spans the entrance to Tegel Harbour and the mouth of the Tegel River. It was built in 1908 as a steel truss arch bridge including a concrete section over the Tegeler Fliess with a total length of 91 metres, together with the harbour and the Tegel-Friedrichsfeld industrial railway; It was not until 1921 that the southern gate building with two ticket booths followed. The architect was city architect Ernst Hornig. Today it is a listed building and is often used as a backdrop for filming.
60. Dorfkirche Alt-Marzahn
The Protestant village church of Marzahn in the district of the same name in Berlin is a neo -Gothic brick church built in 1869–1871 according to a draft by Friedrich August Stüler. The village church is located on the village long of the former Angerdorf and is largely preserved in its external form. As a single monument, it is a listed building like the surrounding ensemble of the village center of Alt-Marzahn. Also in the 21st century, the church serves in its original determination of the Evangelical parish of Berlin-Marzahn for its services. In addition, concerts take place regularly in the church.
61. Martin-Luther-Gedächtniskirche
The Protestant Martin Luther Memorial Church in Berlin's Mariendorf district is an architectural monument and testimony of a special kind. It was built between 1933 and 1935 on the basis of long-standing plans. In the design of the interior, state and ecclesiastical symbolism were mixed, as can still be seen today. For this reason, since around 2004, when the church hit the headlines due to its poor state of construction, the church has occasionally been referred to as a "Nazi church" in the press. The community itself sees the remnants of this design in the Zeitgeist of 1933 as a memorial and memorial.
62. Köllnischer Park
Köllnischer Park is a public park located near the River Spree in Mitte, Berlin. It is named after Cölln, one of the two cities which came together to form Berlin; the park location was originally just outside it. Approximately 1 hectare in area, the park came into existence in the 18th and 19th centuries on the site of fortifications. It was redesigned as a public park in 1869–1873 and was further modified in the 20th century with the addition of first a bear enclosure, the Bärenzwinger, and later a permanent exhibition of sculpture, the Lapidary. The park is a registered Berlin landmark.
63. Alte Dorfkirche
The village church of Tempelhof is the oldest of three churches in the Protestant parish of Alt-Tempelhof and Michael. It is located in the Berlin district of Tempelhof in the district of Tempelhof-Schöneberg on Reinhardtplatz south of the street Alt-Tempelhof, i.e. on the outskirts of the medieval village of Tempelhof. The current building, renovated after war destruction with a changed tower shape, was built in the second third of the 13th century. Its archaeologically secured predecessor building was built around 1200 and is thus one of the oldest tangible stone buildings in the Mittelmark.
64. Saint Mary's Church
St. Mary's Church, known in German as the Marienkirche or St.-Marien-Kirche, is a church in Berlin, Germany. It is located on Karl-Liebknecht-Straße in central Berlin, near Alexanderplatz. The exact age of the original church site and structure is not precisely known, but it was mentioned as the site of the alleged theft by Jews of the wafers in an act of Host Desecration in 1243. As a result of these charges, a number of Jews were burnt at the stake at a place later called Judenberg. It is also mentioned in German chronicles in 1292. It is presumed to date from earlier in the 13th century.
Wikipedia: St. Mary's Church, Berlin (EN), Website, Heritage Website
65. Friedhof der Evangelischen Kirchengemeinde Alt-Stralau
The Evangelical Cemetery Stralau is one of the eight surviving village cemeteries in Berlin, which, in contrast to larger municipal and denominational cemeteries, were all laid out before the 17th century and usually formed the center of a village together with a village church. The Stralau village cemetery, which is still used as a burial ground today, is located in the Stralau district of the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district and is located directly on the banks of the Spree along the Tunnelstraße. Directly on the cemetery are the village church of Stralau and a cemetery chapel.
Wikipedia: Evangelischer Friedhof Stralau (DE), Heritage Website
66. Offenbarungskirche
The Church of the Revelation is a Protestant church in the Friedrichshain district of Berlin, Germany. It is one of a total of 43 emergency churches that were built in Germany after the Second World War according to a design by Bauhaus architect Otto Bartning. It belongs to the Protestant parish of Boxhagen-Stralau in the church district of Berlin Stadtmitte. It is one of three places of worship in the congregation and the central place of the congregation's work. The church is not stand-alone, but part of a multifunctional community center, which also includes other group rooms.
Wikipedia: Offenbarungskirche (Berlin) (DE), Website, Heritage Website
67. Mahnmal für die im Nationalsozialismus verfolgten Juden in Spandau
Spandau Synagogue was a synagogue at 12 Lindenufer in the Old Town area of Spandau, Berlin, Germany. It was also known as Spandauer Vereinssynagoge. The synagogue was built in 1894–95 and was destroyed on 9 November 1938 (Kristallnacht) when it was set on fire. The ruins were removed, probably in 1942. The site is now marked by a memorial tablet, installed in 1988. The congregation maintained a Jewish cemetery, on Spandau's Neue Bergstrasse, which was closed by the Nazi government and was evacuated in 1939 to the Cemetery of the Orthodox congregation Adass Jisroel in Berlin.
68. Max-Liebermann-Haus
The Liebermann House, also known as the Max Liebermann House, is located in Berlin-Mitte at Pariser Platz 7, north of the Brandenburg Gate. This was previously the residence and work house of the painter Max Liebermann. After destruction in the Second World War, the ruins were demolished. The property, which had been located on the border between East and West Berlin for decades, initially remained undeveloped. At the end of the 1990s, the new building was built as a critical reconstruction based on the architectural model. The Brandenburg Gate Foundation uses the building.
69. Murellenberg
The Murellenberge, the Murellenschlucht and the Schanzenwald are a hilly landscape formed during the Vistula Ice Age in the Berlin village of Ruhleben in the Westend district of the district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. The area is located west of the Olympic site. The largest part of the upset and terminal moraine landscape is designated as the Murellenschlucht and Schanzenwald nature reserve, which is part of the biotope network Fließwiese Ruhleben, Tiefwerder Wiesen and Grunewald. About 1⁄2 kilometers northeast of the area lies the natural monument Murellenteich.
Wikipedia: Murellenberge, Murellenschlucht und Schanzenwald (DE)
70. Glaubenskirche
The Faith Church is a Protestant church in Friedrich-Franz-Straße in the Berlin district of Tempelhof. The building was designed by the Charlottenburg architects Ferdinand Köhler and Paul Kranz, who had already taken over the construction of the Realgymnasium opposite. The three-nave hall church, built during the First World War, can be attributed to contemporary reform architecture, while the plastered masonry building does not have any historicizing décor in its external appearance. The church, together with the rectories and the parish hall, is a listed building.
71. Wall Museum
The Checkpoint Charlie Museum is a private museum in Berlin. It is named after the famous crossing point on the Berlin Wall, and was created to document the so-called "best border security system in the world". On display are the photos and related documents of successful escape attempts from East Germany, together with the escape apparatus: hot-air balloons, getaway cars, chairlifts, and a mini-U-boat. The museum researches and maintains a list of deaths at the Berlin Wall. It is operated by the Mauermuseum-Betriebs gGmbH, and the director is Alexandra Hildebrandt.
72. Kulturforum
The Kulturforum is a collection of cultural buildings in Berlin. It was built up in the 1950s and 1960s at the edge of West Berlin, south of the Tiergarten, after most of the once unified city's cultural assets had been lost behind the Berlin Wall. The Kulturforum is characterized by its innovative modernist architecture; several buildings are distinguished by the organic designs of Hans Scharoun, and the Neue Nationalgalerie was designed by Mies van der Rohe. Today, the Kulturforum lies immediately to the west of the redeveloped commercial node of Potsdamer Platz.
73. Berliner U-Bahn-Museum
The Berlin U-Bahn Museum was opened on September 13, 1997 and belongs to the "Verein Arbeitsgemeinschaft Berliner U-Bahn e. V." It is the third metro museum in Europe, along with Moscow and Budapest. The Museum of the Berlin U-Bahn is housed in the electromechanical signal box Olympia-Stadion, which was in operation from 1931 to 1983. The adjoining rooms of the signal box are exhibition rooms with numerous exhibits. In addition to occasional photo exhibitions, four to six special trips are organized annually with the train types that are no longer in operation.
74. Reststück der Berliner Mauer
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic. Construction of the Berlin Wall was commenced by the government of the GDR on 13 August 1961. It included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, accompanied by a wide area that contained anti-vehicle trenches, beds of nails and other defenses. The primary intention for the Wall's construction was to prevent East German citizens from fleeing to the West.
75. Dorfkirche Schmargendorf
The village church of Schmargendorf is the church of the Protestant parish of Alt-Schmargendorf. It is located in the Berlin district of Schmargendorf in the district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf on the corner of Breite Straße and Kirchstraße. The church dates back to the end of the 13th century and was the only church in Schmargendorf until 1929. With a floor area of 66 square meters and space for about 80 people, it is the smallest of the surviving Berlin village churches. In the immediate vicinity of the church is the Alt-Schmargendorf cemetery.
76. Blutmauer
The Marzahn Park Cemetery is a state-owned cemetery in the Berlin district of Marzahn, whose origins date back to the beginning of the 20th century. Initially put into operation as a regular burial ground, memorials and cemeteries of honour have been added in recent decades. For example, there is a cemetery for the fallen warriors in the First World War, honorary graves of two Red Sailors, burial grounds for the fallen of the Second World War, for deceased forced laborers, for murdered anti-fascists and a grove of honor for fighters of the Red Army.
77. Waldbühne
The Waldbühne is a theatre at Olympiapark Berlin in Berlin, Germany. It was designed by German architect Werner March in emulation of a Greek theatre and built between 1934 and 1936 as the Dietrich-Eckart-Freilichtbühne, a Nazi Thingplatz, and opened in association with the 1936 Summer Olympics. Since World War II it has been used for a variety of events, including boxing matches, film showings and classical and rock concerts. It seats more than 22,000 people. The venue is located off Friedrich-Friesen-Allee just northeast of Glockenturmstraße.
78. Fichtebunker
The Gasometer Fichtestraße originally belonged to an ensemble of four gas tanks, the gas tank station Fichtestraße. The building, built between 1883 and 1884, is the oldest surviving gasometer in Berlin and the only one built of bricks. During the Second World War, it was converted into an air-raid shelter. In September 2006, the property fund of the state of Berlin sold the building to private investors, who had apartments built on the roof of the gasometer until spring 2010. The building and the outbuildings are listed as historical monuments.
79. St. Petrus
St. Peter's Church at Bellermannstraße 91 in Berlin's Gesundbrunnen district, Mitte district, was built for the Catholic residents of the district. It was designed in the neo-Gothic architectural style by the church architect Wilhelm Rincklake from Maria Laach Abbey. The construction was supervised by Hermann Bunning. The parish church is dedicated to the Apostle Peter. The foundation stone was laid on 16 December 1906; on January 6, 1908, he was liturgically blessed. The church was consecrated on 29 April 1934. St. Peter's is a listed building.
Wikipedia: St. Petrus (Berlin-Gesundbrunnen) (DE), Website, Heritage Website
80. Kornversuchsspeicher
The Kornversuchsspeicher is a listed former warehouse in the Berlin district of Moabit. Monument protection applies to both the façade and parts of the interior. The warehouse is located directly on the Berlin-Spandau shipping canal at the northern end of the former Hamburg and Lehrt freight yard and has the postal address Hedwig-Porschütz-Straße 20 . It is part of the Europacity district, which was built between 2017 and 2019 and consists of more than 500 rental apartments that are located on the waterfront or facing large green courtyards.
81. Paulus-Kirche
St. Paul's Church in Berlin's Lichterfelde district was planned and built in the brick Gothic style by Fritz Gottlob. The construction costs amounted to 250,000 marks. The church was consecrated on June 2, 1900. After extensive damage in the Second World War, the church building was rebuilt between 1951 and 1957 under the direction of Erich Ruhtz and Karl Streckebach and reconsecrated on 24 March 1957 by Bishop Otto Dibelius. In 1987, the church was completely renovated according to plans by Peter Lehrecke. The church is now a listed building.
Wikipedia: Pauluskirche (Berlin-Lichterfelde) (DE), Website, Heritage Website
82. Dorfkirche Lichterfelde
The Protestant village church Lichterfelde in today's Berlin district of Lichterfelde is one of the more than 50 village churches in Berlin. The first simple hall church, built in the first half of the 14th century from less carefully worked fieldstone ashlars, was severely damaged during the Thirty Years' War. In 1701 the church was restored as a plaster building. It was given a half-timbered roof tower, which was altered in 1735. In the time that followed, the church was renovated and enlarged several times. The church is a listed building.
83. Absturz eines sowjetischen Kampfflugzeugs 1966
The Stoßnsee is a lake formed by a bulge of the Havel in the Berlin districts of Spandau and Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. It is located between the Pichelswerder and the Grunewald forest and is about 350 metres wide and 1100 metres long. On the Rupenhorn, the wooded high bank rises up to 35 metres to the Grunewald. The lake is surrounded by numerous yacht and rowing clubs, sailing clubs, excursion bars and hotels. In the 19th century, the lake and its surroundings were among the most popular excursion destinations for Spandau and Berliners.
84. FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum
The FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum is a local history museum focusing on the borough of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg in Berlin, Germany. It contains a historical archive related to both parts of the district, permanent exhibits on urban development and social and immigration history, temporary exhibits on the district's past and present, and a historic printing press. The museum is part of the Culture and History Department within the district administration of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, and is located at Adalbertstrasse 95a in Kreuzberg.
85. Körnerpark
The Körnerpark is situated in Berlin Neukölln between Jonasstraße, Schierker Straße, Selkestraße and Wittmannsdorfer Straße. The approximately 2.4 hectare park resembles a palace garden. The feature in the eastern part of the park is a cascade with fountains. Opposite, to the west, an orangery houses a café and a gallery for temporary exhibitions, and forms the boundary of the park. During summer weekends the forecourt of the orangery is used for free concerts and performances. The northern part is dominated by a flower garden.
86. Albert-Schweitzer-Kirche
The Protestant Albert Schweitzer Church, designed by Peter Poelzig, is located at Auguste-Viktoria-Allee 51 in the Reinickendorf district of the Berlin district of the same name. It was completed in the 1960s and named after the theologian, Bach researcher and "jungle doctor" Albert Schweitzer. Along with the Segenskirche, it is one of the two church buildings of the Segenskirchengemeinde in the church district of Reinickendorf, which belongs to the Berlin district of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia.
Wikipedia: Albert-Schweitzer-Kirche (Berlin-Reinickendorf) (DE)
87. Wasserturmplatz
The water tower site is a place with a historic water tower in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg near Kollwitzplatz and the Synagogue Rykestrasse. The water tower place is a listed monument protection as a garden monument. There is also the listed building ensemble water tower, consisting of a water tower, deep tank, riser pipe tower, machine house and swimmer houses. The water tower is the oldest still preserved tower in Berlin. In travel guides, the water tower is often referred to with the alternative name Dicker Hermann.
88. DeJa Vu
The GDR Museum: Motorbine was a museum for two -wheelers from the GDR in the center of the district of the same name. It is located below the light rail arches between Alexanderplatz and Hackeschen Markt. It was opened on September 27, 2008 and has since presented over 130 motorcycles, scooters and mopeds from the manufacturer MZ, Simson, IWL and EMW/BMW. The exhibition "GDR Museum: Motorbine" taken over on September 1, 2021 was closed on January 15, 2023. The motorcycles went into the collection of the GDR Museum Berlin.
89. Haus am Waldsee
The house at the Waldsee in the Berlin district of Zehlendorf in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district has been an exhibition location of international contemporary art with a focus on all media of visual arts, design, architecture and sound in Berlin since 1946. A sculpture park has been set up on the extensive area since 2005. From 2005 to 2021 the art historian Katja Blomberg held the management. In June 2022, art historian Anna Gritz, formerly curator of the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, took over the management.
90. Bröhan-Museum
The Bröhan Museum is a Berlin state museum for Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and Functionalism, located in Berlin's Charlottenburg district. The Museum is named after its founder, entrepreneur and art collector Karl. H. Bröhan (1921–2000), who donated his collection to the state of Berlin on the occasion of his 60th birthday. In 1983, the Bröhan Museum opened in its current space, which belongs to the Charlottenburg Palace ensemble and was originally built for the guard regiment. Since 1994, it has been a state museum.
91. Dorfkirche Zehlendorf
Today's Protestant village church Zehlendorf stands in the historic core of the Berlin district of Zehlendorf and is one of the more than 50 village churches in Berlin. It was built in 1768 on the site of a medieval fieldstone church first mentioned in 1264. Its octagonal central building represents a very rare type of church among the village churches of the Mark Brandenburg. After the consecration of St. Paul's Church in 1905, no services were held in the village church until 1953. The church is a listed building.
92. Jewish Museum
The Jewish Museum Berlin was opened in 2001 and is the largest Jewish museum in Europe. On 3,500 square metres of floor space, the museum presents the history of Jews in Germany from the Middle Ages to the present day, with new focuses and new scenography. It consists of three buildings, two of which are new additions specifically built for the museum by architect Daniel Libeskind. German-Jewish history is documented in the collections, the library and the archive, and is reflected in the museum's program of events.
93. Alte Pfarrkirche Lichtenberg
The Old Parish Church of Lichtenberg, the old Lichtenberg village church, is an early Gothic rectangular fieldstone building in the Berlin district of Lichtenberg. It dates back to the 13th century and has been rebuilt, destroyed and rebuilt several times. The church is one of two church buildings of the Evangelical Parish of Lichtenberg, which belongs to the Lichtenberg-Oberspree church district in the Berlin district of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia. It is a listed building.
Wikipedia: Alte Pfarrkirche Lichtenberg (DE), Website, Heritage Website
94. Gemeindezentrum Am Fennpfuhl
The Protestant community center Am Fennpfuhl is a small church complex in the Berlin district of Fennpfuhl in the district of Lichtenberg. It is a single-storey building with an octagonal tented roof, which contains parish rooms and apartments in addition to the worship room and was inaugurated in September 1984. The community center is a building of the Evangelical parish of Lichtenberg, which belongs to the church district of Berlin South-East of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia.
95. St. Anthony's
St. Anthony of Padua is a Roman Catholic church in the Oberschöneweide district of Berlin. The church, dedicated to St. Anthony of Padua, was built according to plans by the Berlin architect Wilhelm Fahlbusch and consecrated in 1907. The ensemble of buildings, which is completely under monument protection, also includes the neighbouring rectory, which was also designed by Fahlbusch and completed in 1908. The parish of St. Anthony of Padua belongs to the deanery of Treptow-Köpenick of the Archdiocese of Berlin.
Wikipedia: St. Antonius von Padua (Berlin-Oberschöneweide) (DE), Website, Heritage Website
96. Volkspark am Weinberg
The Volkspark am Weinberg is the only Volkspark in Berlin's Mitte locality in the district of the same name and covers an area of 4.3 hectares. It is bordered by Weinbergsweg to the southeast, Brunnenstraße to the southwest, Veteranenstraße to the northwest and Fehrbelliner Straße to the northeast. The name Weinberg (vineyard) goes back to the vineyards that formerly occupied the hill on which the park is now situated. Since the late 1970s, the park has been designated as a garden monument (Gartendenkmal).
97. St. Georg
The Roman Catholic Church of St. George in the Berlin district of Pankow was consecrated in 1909 and consecrated to the patron saint of St. George in 1910. The church belongs to the Archdiocese of Berlin. Today, the church belongs to the parish of Saint Theresa of Avila Berlin Nordost in the Archdiocese of Berlin, which was established on January 1, 2021, and to which the parishes of St. Josef (Berlin-Weißensee), Heilig Kreuz (Berlin-Hohenschönhausen) and Corpus Christi merged with the parish of St. Georg.
98. Tierpark Berlin
The Tierpark Berlin is one of two zoos located in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in 1955 and is located in Friedrichsfelde on the former grounds of Friedrichsfelde Palace, which is situated within the zoo. As of 31 December 2013, the zoo houses 7,250 animals from 846 species, in an area of 160 hectares. Tierpark Berlin also features two public exhibits free of charge, one being the Bärenschaufenster for American black bears. The park is also home to the Treskow family's historic family burial ground.
99. Dorfkirche Lietzow
The Evangelical Church of Alt-Lietzow is a Protestant church in the former town of Lietzow, now part of Berlin-Charlottenburg. It is the fifth church on this site, whose predecessor buildings were demolished after partial damage. The current church complex, built according to the designs of the architect Ludolf von Walthausen, was consecrated in 1961. It belongs to the Luisen parish in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf church district of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia.
100. Luisenkirche
The Luisenkirche is a Protestant municipal and parish church in Charlottenburg, now part of Berlin, Germany. The original building in Baroque style was begun in 1710, and around 100 years later named after Queen Luise of Prussia. Karl Friedrich Schinkel made suggestions for the addition of a steeple and interior changes in 1821, which were partly carried out from 1823. The Luisenkirche burned down in World War II and was rebuilt in the 1950s. A restoration in 1987/88 revived some of Schinkel's design.
Wikipedia: Luisenkirche, Charlottenburg (EN), Heritage Website
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