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The Checkpoint Charlie Museum is a private museum in Berlin. It is named after the famous crossing point through 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.
The New Synagogue on Oranienburger Straße in Berlin is a mid-19th century synagogue built as the main place of worship for the city's Jewish community, succeeding the Old Synagogue which the community outgrew. Because of its Moorish style and resemblance to the Alhambra, the New Synagogue is an important architectural monument in Germany.
The Victory Column is a monument in Berlin, Germany. Designed by Heinrich Strack after 1864 to commemorate the Prussian victory in the Second Schleswig War, by the time it was inaugurated on 2 September 1873, Prussia had also defeated Austria and its German allies in the Austro-Prussian War (1866) and France in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71), giving the statue a new purpose. Different from the original plans, these later victories in the unification wars inspired the addition of the bronze sculpture of Victoria, the Roman goddess of victory, 8.3 metres (27 ft) high, designed by Friedrich Drake, giving the victory column its current height of 67m.
The Old Jewish Cemetery in the Große Hamburger Straße in today's Berlin district of Mitte is the oldest reliably occupied burial ground of the Jewish community in Berlin after the Judenkiewer Spandau. In the area of today's entrance, there had been a retirement home for the Jewish community since 1844.
Wikipedia: Jüdischer Friedhof Berlin-Mitte (DE), Heritage Website
Berlin Hamburger Bahnhof is a former Berlin railway station, which was the starting point of the Berlin-Hamburg Railway at the time. The building is located on Invalidenstraße in the Moabit district of the Mitte district.
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.
7. Oberbaumbrücke
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.
8. Görlitzer Park
Görlitzer Park is a major park and recreation area in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin. The 14-hectare park area contains, among other things, a petting zoo, several sports and football fields, and a small lake. At its north-west end is the Görlitzer Bahnhof U-Bahn station.
Berlin Cathedral, also known as the Evangelical Supreme Parish and Collegiate Church, is a monumental German Protestant church and dynastic tomb on the Museum Island in central Berlin. Having its origins as a castle chapel for the Berlin Palace, several structures have served to house the church since the 15th century. The present collegiate church was built from 1894 to 1905 by order of Emperor William II according to plans by Julius Raschdorff in Renaissance and Baroque Revival styles. The listed building is the largest Protestant church in Germany and one of the most important dynastic tombs in Europe. In addition to church services, the cathedral is used for state ceremonies, concerts and other events.
Wikipedia: Berlin Cathedral (EN), Website, Heritage Website, Youtube
10. Museum Island
The Museum Island is a museum complex on the northern part of 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, initially 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 Liebknecht Boulevard, the historic Berlin Cathedral is also located there, next to the open Lustgarten park. To the south of Liebknecht Boulevard, 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.
11. Lustgarten
The Lustgarten is a park in Museum Island in central Berlin at the foreground of the Altes Museum. It is next to the Berliner Dom and near the reconstructed Berliner Stadtschloss of which it was originally a part. At various times in its history, the park has been used as a parade ground, a place for mass rallies and a public park.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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
15. Marx-Engels Forum
Marx-Engels-Forum is a public park in the central Mitte district of Berlin, the capital of Germany. It is named for Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, authors of The Communist Manifesto of 1848 and regarded as two of the most influential people in the socialist movement. The park was created by the authorities of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1986.
16. Kreuzberg
The Kreuzberg is a hill in the Kreuzberg locality of Berlin, Germany, in former West Berlin. It rises about 66 m (217 ft) above the sea level. It was named by King Frederick William III of Prussia after the Iron Cross which crowns the top of the Prussian National Monument for the Liberation Wars, designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, on its inauguration on 30 March 1821. On 27 September 1921 the borough assembly of the VIth borough of Berlin decided to name the borough after the hill. The borough was subsequently downgraded to a locality in 2001.
17. 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.
18. Federal Council
The German Bundesrat is a legislative body that represents the sixteen Länder of Germany at the federal level. The Bundesrat meets at the former Prussian House of Lords in Berlin. Its second seat is located in the former West German capital of Bonn.
19. Fam. Adler
A Stolperstein is a ten-centimetre (3.9 in) concrete cube bearing a brass plate inscribed with the name and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination or persecution. Literally, it means 'stumbling stone' and metaphorically 'stumbling block'.
20. Memorial to the Socialists
The Socialist Memorial is a burial and memorial site within the Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery in Berlin. The site, which was officially inaugurated in 1951, together with the adjacent Pergolenweg burial grounds, served as a cemetery of honour for people who had rendered outstanding services to the socialist idea during the GDR era. It follows the tradition of the Friedrichsfelde cemetery as a burial place of the workers' movement, which began in the late 19th century.
21. Berlin Zoological Garden
The Berlin Zoological Garden is the oldest surviving and best-known zoo in Germany. Opened in 1844, it covers 35 hectares and is located in Berlin's Tiergarten. With about 1,380 different species and over 20,200 animals, the zoo presents one of the most comprehensive collections of species in the world.
22. Buddy Bear
Buddy Bears are painted, life-size fiberglass bear sculptures developed by German businesspeople Klaus and Eva Herlitz, in cooperation with sculptor Roman Strobl. They have become a landmark of Berlin and are considered unofficial ambassadors of Germany. The outstretched arms of the standing Buddy Bear symbolise friendliness and optimism. The first bears were displayed at an artistic event in Berlin in 2001.
23. Portico of the destroyed Anhalter Station
The Anhalter Bahnhof is a former railway terminus in Berlin, Germany, approximately 600 m (2,000 ft) southeast of Potsdamer Platz. Once one of Berlin's most important railway stations, it was severely damaged in World War II, and finally closed for traffic in 1952, when the GDR-owned Deutsche Reichsbahn rerouted all railway traffic between Berlin and places in the GDR avoiding the West Berlin area. The station's name lives on in the Berlin S-Bahn station of the same name, opened in October 1939 as part of the North-South S-Bahn link.
24. Die Stachelschweine
The cabaret theatre Die Stachelschweine is the oldest cabaret in Berlin and the second oldest in all of Germany. It was founded in the fall of 1949 as an actors' collective in the artists' and students' pub Badewanne not far from Berlin's Memorial Church. The name Stachelschweine is based on a magazine of the 1920s, Das Stachelschwein, whose editor was the writer and cabaret artist Hans Reimann.
25. Jüdisches Museum Berlin
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 the 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.
26. New Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, mostly just known as the Memorial Church is a Protestant church affiliated with the Evangelical Church in Berlin, Brandenburg and Silesian Upper Lusatia, a regional body of the Protestant Church in Germany. It is located in Berlin on the Kurfürstendamm in the centre of the Breitscheidplatz.
27. Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung
The Foundation for Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation is a foundation under public law based in Berlin that is dedicated to the remembrance and commemoration of flight and expulsion in the 20th century in Europe and beyond. It was launched by the German government in 2008.
Wikipedia: Stiftung Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung (DE), Website
28. Spionagetunnel Operation „Gold“/„Stopwatch“
Operation Gold was a joint operation conducted by the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the British MI6 Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1950s to tap into landline communication of the Soviet Army headquarters in Berlin using a tunnel into the Soviet-occupied zone. This was a much more complex variation of the earlier Operation Silver project in Vienna.
29. Glienicker Brücke
The Glienicke Bridge is a bridge across the Havel River in Germany, connecting the Wannsee district of Berlin with the Brandenburg capital Potsdam. It is named after nearby Glienicke Palace. The current bridge, the fourth on the site, was completed in 1907, although major reconstruction was necessary after it was damaged during World War II.
30. Natural History Museum
The Natural History Museum is a natural history museum located in Berlin, Germany. It exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history and in such domain it is one of three major museums in Germany alongside Naturmuseum Senckenberg in Frankfurt and Museum Koenig in Bonn.
31. Berlin State Opera
The Staatsoper Unter den Linden, also known as the Berlin State Opera, is a listed building on Unter den Linden boulevard in the historic center of Berlin, Germany. The opera house was built by order of Prussian king Frederick the Great from 1741 to 1743 according to plans by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff in the Palladian style. Damaged during the Allied bombing in World War II, the former Royal Prussian Opera House was rebuilt from 1951 to 1955 as part of the Forum Fridericianum square. Nicknamed Lindenoper in Berlin, it is "the world´s oldest state opera" and "the first theater anywhere to be, by itself, a prominent, freestanding monumental building in a city."
Wikipedia: Berlin State Opera (EN), Website, Heritage Website
32. Askanisches Gymnasium
The Askanisches Gymnasium is a school in the Berlin district of Tempelhof-Schöneberg. In 1875, the school was founded in Berlin's Friedrichsvorstadt under the name Ascanisches Gymnasium, in the building at Hallesche Straße 24–26. It was moved to Tempelhof from 1929 onwards, merged and renamed several times with other grammar schools and reform grammar schools. After 1945 it was called Askanische Oberschule, but was renamed Askanisches Gymnasium in 2012.
33. Maria, Hilfe der Christen
Maria, Hilfe der Christen is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Berlin district of Spandau. It is located at Flankenschanze 43 on the corner of Galenstraße, was built in the years 1908–1910 and is the parish church of the Holy Family Parish – Spandau-Havelland in the Archdiocese of Berlin. With the patronage of Mary, Help of Christians, a medieval attribute of Mary was taken up, which is also one of the invocations of the Litany of Laureta. The building has been a listed building since the 1980s.
Wikipedia: Maria, Hilfe der Christen (Spandau) (DE), Website, Heritage Website
34. St. Georg
The Roman Catholic Church of St. George in the Berlin district of Pankow was consecrated in 1909 and consecrated in 1910 to the patron saint of St. George. 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. George.
35. Ensemble Karl-Marx-Allee
Karl-Marx-Allee is a boulevard built by the GDR between 1952 and 1960 in Berlin Friedrichshain and Mitte. Today the boulevard is named after Karl Marx. It should not be confused with the Karl-Marx-Straße in the Neukölln district of Berlin.
36. Theater an der Parkaue
The Theater an der Parkaue – Junges Staatstheater Berlin in Berlin-Lichtenberg is one of the largest state theatres for young audiences in Germany. The repertoire is aimed at children from the age of four, school classes of all ages, adolescents and young adults, families and individual visitors of all ages.
Wikipedia: Theater an der Parkaue (DE), Tiktok, Facebook, Instagram, Website, Youtube
37. St. Joseph
St. Josef in the Berlin district of Köpenick is a Catholic parish church in the deanery of Berlin Treptow-Köpenick, which stands in the Dammvorstadt. The church was dedicated to St. Joseph when it opened in 1899. It has been a listed building since the 1980s.
38. Park am Gleisdreieck - Westpark
The Park am Gleisdreieck is a public green and recreational area in Berlin. The park, which covers around 31.5 hectares, is located on the wasteland of the former Anhalter and Potsdam freight station at Gleisdreieck and stretches from the Landwehr Canal via Yorckstraße to the Monumentenbrücke. The complex consists of three parts of the park, which were opened between 2011 and 2014:Ostpark in Kreuzberg, 17 hectares, opened on 2 September 2011, Westpark in Kreuzberg, 9 hectares, opened on 31 May 2013, Dora Duncker Park in Schöneberg, 5.5 hectares, opened on 21 March 2014.
39. Ullsteinhaus
The Ullsteinhaus in the south of Berlin in the Tempelhof district of the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district is a monument of brick expressionism and was built in the mid-1920s according to plans by Eugen Schmohl. With a height of 77 meters, it is a landmark visible from afar and an architectural landmark of this district. Until the completion of the Friedrich Engelhorn high-rise in 1957, it was the tallest high-rise in Germany for 30 years.
40. Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche
The Holy Cross Church in the Berlin district of Wilmersdorf is a Roman Catholic church that was built between 1911 and 1912 according to plans by the architect Max Hasak and incorporated into the northern row of houses on Hildegardstraße according to the general arrangement of Empress Auguste Victoria. It is a single-nave hall church, faced with red bricks and designed with Gothic elements. The building is a listed building.
Wikipedia: Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche (Berlin-Wilmersdorf) (DE), Website
41. Bellevue Palace
Bellevue Palace, located in Berlin's Tiergarten district, has been the official residence of the president of Germany since 1994. The schloss is situated on the banks of the Spree river, near the Berlin Victory Column, along the northern edge of the Großer Tiergarten park. Its name – the French for "beautiful view" – derives from its scenic prospect over the Spree's course.
42. Das Center am Potsdamer Platz
The Center Potsdamer Platz, known as Sony Center until March 2023, is a complex of eight buildings located at the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany, designed by Helmut Jahn. It opened in 2000 and houses Sony's German headquarters. The cinemas in the center were closed at the end of 2019.
43. Heilig Kreuz-Kirche
The Holy Cross Church is a Protestant church in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg in the district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. It is located on Zossener Straße just before the Landwehr Canal, diagonally opposite the cemeteries in front of the Hallesches Tor. It was built between 1885 and 1888 according to plans by the master builder Johannes Otzen under the construction supervision of Julius Kleinau. On 1 February 2000, the former Holy Cross parish was united with the Passion parish in the Evangelical parish of the Holy Cross Passion of the Berlin Stadtmitte church district. On January 1, 2023, the merger of the Holy Cross Passion parish with the neighboring Jesus Christ parish followed to form the Protestant parish in front of the Hallesches Tor.
Wikipedia: Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche (Berlin-Kreuzberg) (DE), Heritage Website
44. Alte Dorfkirche
The Tempelhof village church 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 Tempelhof-Schöneberg district on Reinhardtplatz south of the Alt-Tempelhof street, 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.
45. Neue Nationalgalerie
The Neue Nationalgalerie at the Kulturforum is a museum for modern art in Berlin, with its main focus on the 20th century. It is part of the National Gallery of the Berlin State Museums. The museum building and its sculpture gardens were designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and opened on September 15th, 1968.
46. New Guard House
The Neue Wache is a listed building on Unter den Linden boulevard in the historic centre of Berlin, Germany. Erected from 1816 to 1818 according to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel as a guardhouse for the Royal Palace and a memorial to the Liberation Wars, it is considered a major work of Prussian Neoclassical architecture. A Victoria pedimental sculpture by Johann Gottfried Schadow and five General statues by Christian Daniel Rauch, referring to the Warrior statues on Schlossbrücke, also belong to the ensemble. Since 1993, the Neue Wache has been home to the Central Memorial of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Victims of War and Tyranny.
47. French Friedrichsstadt Church
The French Friedrichstadt Church is a church on the Gendarmenmarkt in Friedrichstadt in the Berlin district of Mitte. It was built at the beginning of the 18th century by the Berlin Huguenot community. It is structurally connected to the French Cathedral, a tower built almost a hundred years later. Today, the church serves as a place of worship for the French Church of Berlin and the Communauté protestante francophone de Berlin.
48. Marion-Gräfin-Dönhoff-Platz
The Dönhoffplatz in Berlin on Leipziger Straße in the Mitte district was a square and green space named after the Prussian Lieutenant General Alexander von Dönhoff between the 1740s and 1975. In connection with the new development of Leipziger Straße, the square as such was abandoned in 1975. In 1979, a reconstruction of the Spittel colonnades was erected on the remaining nameless green area. In 2010, the area was given the name Marion-Gräfin-Dönhoff-Platz. The namesake Marion Gräfin Dönhoff comes - like Alexander von Dönhoff - from the noble family of the Dönhoffs.
49. Deutsches Technikmuseum
Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin in Berlin, Germany is a museum of science and technology, and exhibits a large collection of historical technical artifacts. The museum's main emphasis originally was on rail transport, but today it also features exhibits of various sorts of industrial technology. In 2003, it opened both maritime and aviation exhibition halls in a newly built extension. The museum also contains a science center called Spectrum.
Wikipedia: German Museum of Technology (EN), Website, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube
50. Ressurection Church
The Church of the Resurrection of the Kirchenkreis Berlin Stadtmitte is a Protestant church in the Berlin district of Friedrichshain. It was built between 1892 and 1895 on the site of the former cemetery for the poor on Friedenstraße. Despite considerable structural changes after reconstruction in the 1950s, the church has been an architectural and cultural monument since the 1980s.
Wikipedia: Auferstehungskirche (Berlin-Friedrichshain) (DE), Website
51. FU Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics was founded in 1927 in Berlin, Germany. The Rockefeller Foundation partially funded the actual building of the Institute and helped keep the Institute afloat during the Great Depression.
Wikipedia: Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics (EN)
52. Auenkirche
The Evangelical Auenkirche is a church building in the Berlin district of Wilmersdorf in the district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. It is located in the western city center of Berlin, on the former village meadow of Wilmersdorf and near the Volkspark Wilmersdorf. The Auenkirche was built between 1895 and 1897 according to designs by Max Spitta in the neo-Gothic style of Berlin historicism and is a listed building.
Wikipedia: Auenkirche (Wilmersdorf) (DE), Website, Heritage Website
53. Bahnhof Alexanderplatz
Berlin Alexanderplatz is a German railway station in the Mitte district of Berlin's city centre. It is one of the busiest transport hubs in the Berlin area. The station takes its name from its location on Alexanderplatz, near the Fernsehturm and the World Clock.
54. 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.
55. Martin-Luther-Gedächtniskirche
The Protestant Martin Luther Memorial Church in the Berlin district of Mariendorf is an architectural monument and contemporary testimony of a special kind. It was built from 1933 to 1935 on the basis of long-standing plans. In the design of the interior, state and church symbolism were mixed, as can still be seen today. For this reason, since about 2004, when it hit the headlines due to its poor state of construction, the church has occasionally been referred to in the press as the "Nazi Church". The community itself sees the remains of this design in the zeitgeist of 1933 as a memorial and memorial.
56. Villa Grisebach
The Villa Grisebach is a city villa built in 1891/1892 by the architect Hans Grisebach for himself as a studio and residence in Fasanenstraße in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg. It is part of the so-called conservatory ensemble, which has been a listed building since 1981 and which also includes the neighbouring Literaturhaus Berlin, and today houses the Villa Grisebach auction house.
57. Immanuelkirche
The Immanuel Church is a Protestant church in the Winsviertel of the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg in the district of Pankow. It was inaugurated on 21 October 1893. Like many other churches in Berlin from the end of the 19th century, it is built in the neo-Romanesque style; it is a listed building. The Protestant parish of Immanuel, together with the Bartholomäus-Kirchgemeinde and the Advent-Zacchaeus-Kirchgemeinde, forms the parish of Am Prenzlauer Berg in the church district of Berlin Stadtmitte.
Wikipedia: Immanuelkirche (Berlin) (DE), Website, Heritage Website
58. Dorfkirche Bohnsdorf
The Protestant village church of Bohnsdorf, a church building in the Baroque architectural style completed in 1757 according to a design by Johann Friedrich Lehmann, is the successor to a medieval church in the former rural community of Bohnsdorf on the Teltow. It is located on the village square in today's Berlin district of Bohnsdorf in the district of Treptow-Köpenick as part of a historic village green and is a listed building.
59. St. Jacobi-Kirche
The St. Jacobi Church of the Kirchenkreis Berlin Stadtmitte is a Protestant church built in 1844/1845 in the style of an early Christian basilica in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg at Oranienstraße 132–134.
60. Sankt Ludwig
The Catholic St. Ludwig Church in the Berlin district of Wilmersdorf on Ludwigkirchplatz was built between 1895 and 1897 by the architect August Menken. The church building in the style of North German brick Gothic is also called the "Ludwig Windthorst Memorial Church". It is dedicated to Saint Louis IX of France and was cared for by Franciscans from 1986 to 2020. Frank-Michael Scheele has been parish administrator of the parish since 2021.
Wikipedia: St. Ludwig (Berlin-Wilmersdorf) (DE), Website, Website, Heritage Website
61. 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.
62. Dreifaltigkeitskirche
The Protestant Trinity Church in the Berlin district of Lankwitz is the listed church building of the local Trinity Church parish. Colloquially, it is also called Lankwitz Church and thus gives this name to the local bus stops, among other things.
Wikipedia: Dreifaltigkeitskirche (Berlin-Lankwitz) (DE), Website
63. Rüdesheimer Platz
Rüdesheimer Platz is located in the Berlin district of Wilmersdorf and is the center of the Rheingauviertel. The square is flanked in the west by Rüdesheimer Straße and in the east by Ahrweilerstraße. The streets are named after towns and villages from the Rheingau-Taunus district in the state of Hesse. Since 1972, there has been a sponsorship between the former district of Wilmersdorf and the Rheingau-Taunus district, and 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 Wilmersdorfer Rheingauperle. The first harvest was in autumn 1986.
64. Schwerbelastungskörper
The Schwerbelastungskörper is a large concrete cylinder located at the intersection of Dudenstraße, General-Pape-Straße, and Loewenhardtdamm in the northwestern part of the borough of Tempelhof in Berlin, Germany. It was built by Adolf Hitler's chief architect Albert Speer to determine the feasibility of constructing large buildings on the area's marshy, sandy ground. Erected between 1941 and 1942 it was meant to test the ground for a massive triumphal arch on a nearby plot. The arch, in the style of the Nazi architectural movement, was to be about three times as large as the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France. It was one component of a plan to redesign the center of Berlin as an imposing, monumental capital reflecting the spirit of Nazi Germany as envisioned by Hitler.
65. Dorfkirche Marienfelde
The village church of Marienfelde in the Berlin district of Marienfelde is the centre of the central village green. Traditionally, Kurt Pomplun claims that the fieldstone church was built "around 1220" and 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.
66. Hirschhof
The term Hirschhof refers to some of the merged farms on the corner of Oderberger Straße and Kastanienallee in the Prenzlauer Berg district of Berlin's Pankow district. The entire Hirschhof complex is also known as the Paradise Garden due to Daniela Dahn's reportage Prenzlauer Berg-Tour (1987) and is listed in tourist guides.
67. 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 elaborate 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 on guest performances in German-speaking countries, repeated at the Shakespeare Festival Neuss.
68. Communication Museum Berlin
The Museum of Communication Berlin is one of several locations of the Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation, a foundation under public law that is directly established by the federal government. It is located in Berlin's Mitte district in the building of the former Reichspostmuseum on the corner of Leipziger Straße and Mauerstraße. The building has been a listed building since 1977.
69. St. Franziskus
The parish church of St. Francis is a listed church building of the Roman Catholic Church in the Berlin district of Treptow-Köpenick, district of Friedrichshagen, strictly speaking a chapel. Inaugurated in 1906, it was destroyed by around 50 percent in the Second World War. The chapel was rebuilt and reconsecrated between 1950 and 1952.
Wikipedia: St. Franziskus (Berlin-Friedrichshagen) (DE), Heritage Website
70. Bikini Berlin
The Bikini House is a listed building on Budapester Straße in City West in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg. The Bikini House is part of a building ensemble that today bears the name Bikini Berlin, historically the complex was called Zentrum am Zoo. These also included the high-rise building on Hardenbergplatz, the Zoo Palast, the Small High-Rise and the parking garage at the Zoo.
71. Alboinplatz
Alboinplatz is an inner-city garden monument in the southeast of the Berlin district of Schöneberg in the district of Tempelhof-Schöneberg. The oval square is located in the course of Alboinstraße directly on the border with the Tempelhof district, with only the eastern buildings belonging to Tempelhof. The streetscape of the square and the western buildings belong to Schöneberg.
72. Lutherkirche
The Luther Church is a Protestant church in the Berlin district of Spandau. It was built in 1895–1896 and was fundamentally rebuilt inside in 1994–1997 and divided into a church room and a residential building.
Wikipedia: Lutherkirche (Berlin-Spandau) (DE), Website, Heritage Website
73. Jerusalemskirche
Jerusalem Church is one of the churches of the Evangelical Congregation in the Friedrichstadt, a member of the Protestant umbrella organisation Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia. The present church building is located in Berlin, borough Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, in the quarter of Friedrichstadt. Jerusalem Church is fourth in rank of the oldest oratories in the town proper.
74. Jüdisches Gymnasium Moses Mendelssohn
The Jewish Gymnasium Moses Mendelssohn, formerly a boys' school of the Jewish community, later a middle school of the Jewish community, is today a state-recognized private school of the Jewish Community of Berlin. As a denominational school, it admits both Jewish and non-Jewish students. The school building is located in Große Hamburger Straße in Berlin-Mitte. Until the summer of 2012, the school was called the Jewish High School.
Wikipedia: Jüdisches Gymnasium Moses Mendelssohn (DE), Website
75. Geschwister
Koppenplatz is a green space in the historic Spandauer Vorstadt in Berlin's Mitte district. It is bordered by Große Hamburger Straße, Linienstraße and Auguststraße. The square became known above all because of the municipal cemetery for the poor, which was located here between 1704 and 1853 and of which only a grave monument of the namesake Koppe still exists today.
76. St. Nicholas Church
The St. Nikolai-Kirche, is the oldest church in Berlin, the capital of Germany. The church is located in the eastern part of central Berlin, the borough of Mitte. The area around the church, bounded by Spandauer Straße, Rathausstraße, the River Spree and Mühlendamm, is known as the Nikolaiviertel 'Nicholas quarter', and is an area of restored medieval buildings. The church was built between 1220 and 1230, and is thus, along with the Church of Our Lady at Alexanderplatz not far away, the oldest church in Berlin.
Wikipedia: St. Nicholas Church, Berlin (EN), Heritage Website
77. St. Antonius & St. Shenouda Kirche
The church of faith in the Berlin district of Lichtenberg at today's Roedeliusplatz is a former Protestant church that was built between 1903 and 1905. As early as the 1980s, the East Berlin magistrate placed it under monument protection. Since 1998, the building has been owned by the Coptic Church, which is carrying out a gradual renovation, expanding the church into a Coptic bishop's seat and transforming it into an ecumenical centre. The church was renamed St. Anthony's and St. Shenouda's Church.
Wikipedia: Glaubenskirche (Berlin-Lichtenberg) (DE), Website, Heritage Website
78. Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Berlin, Annenstraße 52/53, is a place of worship of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church (SELK) and is located in the Luisenstadt in the Berlin district of Mitte in the district of the same name. It is the first church of the Evangelical Lutheran (Old Lutheran) Church of the city. The parish belongs to the church district of Berlin-Brandenburg. The church is also popularly known as St. Anne's Church because of its location on Annenstraße and is a registered architectural monument.
Wikipedia: Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche Berlin (DE), Website
79. Universum Landes-Ausstellungs-Park
ULAP refers to the former Universum Landes-Ausstellungs-Park in the Berlin district of Moabit in the district of Mitte. The park was located in a triangle formed by Invalidenstraße, Alt-Moabit Street and today's Berlin Central Station. It was cut through by the Berlin Stadtbahn in the first years of its existence. The original name Landesausstellungspark was given the addition Universum when it started as an amusement park in 1921.
80. Schönhausen Palace
Schönhausen Palace is a Baroque palace at Niederschönhausen, in the borough of Pankow, Berlin, Germany. It is surrounded by gardens through which the Panke river runs. The palace is maintained by the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg and reopened to the public in 2009 after extensive restoration.
81. Mauritiuskirche
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Mauritius is located in the Frankfurter Allee Süd development area in Berlin's Lichtenberg district, built between 1969 and 1976, and was consecrated in 1892. It is the parish church of the parish of St. Mauritius Berlin – Lichtenberg-Friedrichshain in the Archdiocese of Berlin. The building has been a listed building since the 1970s.
82. French Cathedral
The French (Reformed) Church of Friedrichstadt is in Berlin at the Gendarmenmarkt, across the Konzerthaus and the German Cathedral. The earliest parts of the church date back to 1701, although it was subsequently expanded. After being heavily damaged during World War II, the church was rebuilt and continues to offer church services and concerts.
83. Rathaus Schmargendorf
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 the Brandenburg brick Gothic. With his design of the town hall, Kerwien referred to the mostly medieval secular buildings of Tangermünde and Stendal. Today, the registry office of the district, the music school and the branch of the city library called the Adolf Reichwein Library are located here.
84. Zoo Palast
The Zoo Palast is a cinema in the western center of Berlin in the district of Charlottenburg. The cinema in Hardenbergstraße currently belongs to Premium Entertainment GmbH. The business was rebuilt and reopened on 27 November 2013.
85. 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.
86. Emmaus-Kirche
The Emmaus Church of the Evangelical Emmaus-Ölberg-Parish in the Berlin City Center of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia was built according to plans and under the direction of August Orth from 1890 to 1893 on Lausitzer Platz in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg. It formed a building ensemble with the Görlitz railway station opposite, also designed by August Orth.
87. Berlin Museum of Medical History at the Charité
The Berlin Museum of Medical History (BMM) of the Charité is known for its pathological and anatomical collection. This is a culturally and medically significant collection of wet and dry preparations. Since March 2024, the director of the museum has been Monika Ankele, who also holds the professorship for the history of medicine and medical museology at the Charité Faculty of Medicine at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. It is located on the Charité Mitte campus at Charitéplatz 1 in Berlin's Mitte district.
Wikipedia: Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum (DE), Website
88. Advent-Kirche
The Advent Church is a Protestant church in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg in the district of Pankow. It is a brick building that was built in the years 1910–1911 according to designs by the architects Georg Dinklage and Ernst Paulus. The architectural style is attributed to the beginning of modernism, but the neo-Gothic style continues to have an effect in the ogival portals and the tracery windows in the gable façade. From 1 January 2022, the Evangelical Advent Zacchaeus parish will merge with the Bartholomäus parish to form the Evangelical Parish Am Friedrichshain in the Berlin Stadtmitte church district, and the Advent Church is a listed building.
Wikipedia: Adventkirche (Berlin) (DE), Website, Heritage Website
89. Theater Rambazamba
The RambaZamba Theater is a private, inclusive theater with a fixed venue in the Kulturbrauerei in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district. It was founded in 1990 and has 29 artists with disabilities in the ensemble.
90. Ev. Kirche Zur frohen Botschaft
The Protestant parish church "Zur frohen Botschaft" in the Berlin district of Karlshorst in the district of Lichtenberg was consecrated in 1910. It is one of three church buildings of the Evangelical Paul Gerhardt Parish of Lichtenberg, which was formed on 1 September 2001. It stands on a separate square on Weseler Straße.
91. Falkenberg Garden City
The Gartenstadt Falkenberg, also known as the Tuschkastensiedlung, is a housing estate in the Berlin district of Bohnsdorf in the district of Treptow-Köpenick. In July 2008, it was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List as one of six Berlin Modernist housing estates.
92. Sankt-Johannis-Kirche
The St. John's Church is a church designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel and consecrated in 1835, expanded several times and renovated after war damage. It is located in the Berlin-Moabit district of the Mitte district and is one of Schinkel's four suburban churches, all of which originally had a similar building plan. It bears its name after John the Baptist. The Evangelical St. John's Church belongs to the Evangelical Parish of Berlin-Tiergarten and thus to the Church District of Berlin City Center (KKBS) of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia (EKBO). The church, which was rebuilt and expanded several times after its consecration, is a listed building together with the associated church buildings.
93. Passionskirche
The Passionskirche is a Protestant church from the early 20th century in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg in the district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg and is located on Marheinekeplatz not far from Bergmannstraße. In addition to church services, it is also used for concerts and other cultural events. Since 2000, it has belonged to the Evangelical parish of the Holy Cross Passion, along with the Holy Cross Church. On January 1, 2023, the parish merged again with the neighboring Jesus Christ parish to form the Ev. Parish in front of the Hallesches Tor in the church district of Berlin Stadtmitte (KKBS) of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia (EKBO).
94. Mariannenplatz
Mariannenplatz is located in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg in the district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, near the former Wall. It runs in continuation of Mariannenstraße between Waldemarstraße and Wrangelstraße and is a relatively large square with a park-like character and extensive sunbathing lawn. At its northern end is the St. Thomas Church. The square is named after Princess Marianne of Prussia.
95. Blockhaus Nikolskoe
The Blockhaus Nikolskoe is a listed building in the Berlin district of Wannsee and is used as a restaurant. It was built in 1819 by King Frederick William III on the occasion of the visit of his daughter Charlotte and her husband Nicholas in the style of a Russian farmhouse. Damaged in a fire in 1984, it was then rebuilt true to the original.
96. St. Marien
St. Mary's Church is a Roman Catholic church in the Berlin district of Wilmersdorf. The church with the patronage of the Immaculate Conception of Mary is located on Bergheimer Platz directly on the district border with Friedenau and is a listed building.
Wikipedia: St. Marien (Berlin-Wilmersdorf) (DE), Website, Heritage Website
97. Stadtbad Oderberger Straße
The Stadtbad Oderberger Straße is a swimming pool first opened in 1902 in the Oderberger Straße in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg. At the end of 1986, a closure for safety reasons caused a vacancy for several years, and until 2010 the institution served primarily as an event venue. After a change of ownership and extensive renovation work, it has been used again as a bathing facility since autumn 2016. The complex is a listed building.
Wikipedia: Stadtbad Oderberger Straße (DE), Website, Heritage Website
98. Neue Nazarethkirche
When it was inaugurated in 1893, the New Nazareth Church was the second parish church of the Protestant Nazareth parish on Leopoldplatz in the then Berlin suburb of Wedding and has been a protected architectural monument since the 1980s.
99. Dicke Marie
The Dicke Marie is a natural monument in the Tegel Forest, in the Tegel district of Berlin's Reinickendorf district. It is probably the oldest tree in the city. On 9 July 2021, it became the eighth tree and the first forest tree to be declared a National Heritage tree.
100. Kapernaum Kirche
Capernaum Church is one of the two places of worship of the Lutheran Capernaum Congregation, a member of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia, an umbrella comprising Lutheran, Calvinist (Reformed) and united Protestant congregations. The church is located on Seestraße No. 34 in the locality of Wedding, in Berlin's borough of Mitte. The church was named after Capernaum, today Kfar Nachum כפר נחום in today's Israel.
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