Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #11 in Berlin, Germany

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.

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Waldeckpark is located in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg in the street square Alexandrinenstraße, Alte Jakobstraße and Oranienstraße. On its western side, it touches the grounds of the Federal Printing Office.

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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.

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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.

Wikipedia: Jewish Museum Berlin (EN)

The sculpture Water Carrier is the work of the German sculptor Rolf Szymanski. It stands on the median strip of Lindenstraße in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg. It is part of an eleven-part exhibition entitled Art – City – Space at the Berlinische Galerie, which was shown in the city's public space in 2005.

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The Black Sun Press sculpture is the work of sculptor Rolf Szymanski. It stands on the median strip of Lindenstraße in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg. It is part of an eleven-part exhibition entitled Art – City – Space at the Berlinische Galerie, which can be seen in public space.

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The Game Science Center was a museum and event space as well as a center for computer game technology with a focus on innovative input interfaces in Berlin. It was open from September 2014 to February 2020. The museum was independent of state funding and was located in the Berlin district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg.

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The Kreuzberg Tower or Kreuzberg Tower is a residential building at Charlottenstraße 97a at the corner of Besselstraße in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg. The building was erected in the course of the International Building Exhibition in 1987 and is considered one of the main works.

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Theodor Wolff Park is a public park in Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany.

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The Roman Catholic Church of St. Clemens at Stresemannstraße 66 in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg in the district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg was designed by the architect Albert Weber and executed by the construction company Hermann Bunning.

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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.

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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.

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The Elise-Tilse-Park is a green space on the site of the former Anhalter Bahnhof in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg in the district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. It was named on 24 April 2012 after Elise Tilse (1910–2005), the former head of the art department in Kreuzberg.

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The Tempodrom is a multi-purpose event venue in Berlin.

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The Radialsystem III is a part of the sewer system of Berlin, which went into operation in 1878. The pumping station of Radialsystem III on today's property at Hallesches Ufer 78 was the city's first wastewater pumping station, making the surviving pump house the oldest architectural testimony to Berlin's wastewater disposal and has been a listed building since 1977.

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Mendelssohn-Bartholdy-Park is a green space at the U2 underground station of the same name in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin, Germany. It was built between 1960 and 1967 according to plans by O. Longhardt, H. Preuß, K. Schaller and E. Schmäls on the site of the former Schöneberg harbour. The park is named after the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.

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The Köthener Brücke is a road bridge in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg, completed in 1910, which carries the Köthener Straße from the Reichpietschufer/ Halleschen Ufer to the Schöneberger Ufer over the Landwehr Canal.

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The Kühlhaus am Gleisdreieck is an industrial monument near Berlin's Gleisdreieck underground station, which was built from 1900 to 1901 with eight floors and 6000 m² as the largest cold store in Europe on Luckenwalder Straße. It was divided into Kühlhaus I and Kühlhaus II, although only the latter still exists today. It was operated by the Gesellschaft für Markt- und Kühlhallen, which opened another factory at Scharnhorststraße 28–29 from 1912. Today, the building is the centre of various events such as readings, concerts, theatre performances and fashion fairs such as Berlin Fashion Week; the administration building in Trebbiner Straße houses the German Museum of Technology.

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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.

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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.

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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 to social, economic and political history.

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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.

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The Nelly-Sachs-Park is located in the Berlin district of Schöneberg on Dennewitzstraße. Access to the park is also possible from Blumenthalstraße via a pedestrian path. In the mid-1980s, the district administration decided to name the park after the Jewish-German writer and poet Nelly Sachs (1891–1970).

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The Twelve Apostles Church is the church of the Protestant Twelve Apostles congregation in the Berlin district of Schöneberg. The church and congregation belong to the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian-Upper Lusatia (EKBO).

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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 the Second World War. After completion and modernization in the 1980s, it was usable as a civil defense 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 neighboring Sophie Scholl School, by the Tempelhof-Schöneberg Art Office and the Berlin Underworlds Association; the association takes care of the maintenance of the building on behalf of the Berlin Senate. The dededication as a civil defence facility was carried out in 2010, and it has been a listed building since 2011.

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Heinrich-von-Kleist-Park, usually just called Kleistpark for short, is a green space in the north of the Berlin district of Schöneberg between Potsdamer Straße and Elßholzstraße.

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St. Matthias is a Roman Catholic church in Berlin, serving a parish just in front of the Potsdam Gate.

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Viktoria-Luise-Platz is a hexagonal place on Motzstraße in Schöneberg, Berlin. It was laid out in 1900. It is named after Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia 1892 - 1980, the daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, and Great-Grand daughter of Queen Victoria.

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