Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #15 in Berlin, Germany

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 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 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 on social, economic and political history.

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

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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 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.

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The Berlin Customs and Excise Wall was the city wall of Berlin from the 18th to the middle of the 19th century. It replaced the medieval Berlin city wall and the later Berlin Fortress. The customs and excise wall covered about seven times the area of the old residential city, which was enclosed by fortifications.

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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 Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) is a German theater company and international performance center in Berlin. It has three physical locations, and a digital theatre (HAU4).

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

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Tilted Donut Wedge with Two Balls is an outdoor sculpture by Fletcher Benton, installed at Besselpark in Berlin, Germany.

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Besselpark is a park in Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany, named after astronomer and mathematician Friedrich Bessel. The sculpture Tilted Donut Wedge with Two Balls is installed in the park.

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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 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.

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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 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.

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The sculpture Dreiheit is the work of the German sculptor couple Matschinsky-Denninghoff. The sculpture is located on the grounds of the Berlinische Galerie in Berlin's Kreuzberg district. The work 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 work Markierung Glaslager is a design of the forecourt of the Berlinische Galerie by the Berlin architectural firm Kuehn Malvezzi. It is located in front of the entrance to the gallery in Alte Jakobstraße in Berlin's Kreuzberg district. The forecourt design is part of an eleven-part exhibition entitled Art – City – Space of the gallery, which can be seen in public space.

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The Berlinische Galerie is a museum of modern art, photography and architecture in Berlin. It is located in Kreuzberg, on Alte Jakobstraße, not far from the Jewish Museum. The Berlinische Galerie collects art created in Berlin since 1870 with a regional and international focus. Since September 2010, the museum's director has been the art historian Thomas Köhler, until then deputy director, succeeding Jörn Merkert.

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Tiyatrom, Turkish for Mein Theater, is a predominantly Turkish-language theatre in Berlin-Kreuzberg, which has existed since 1984.

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The Peace Column is a column located in Mehringplatz in Berlin, Germany. Designed by Christian Gottlieb Cantian and erected in 1843, the 19-meter column is topped with a brass statue of Victoria, goddess of victory, designed by Christian Daniel Rauch. In 1876, allegories of the four victorious allies of Waterloo were added, and in 1879 two more sculptures followed: The Peace by Albert Wolff and Clio, writing the history of the Wars of Liberation (Befreiungskriege) by Ferdinand Hartzer.

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The St. Agnes Church is a former Catholic church building in Berlin's Kreuzberg district, which – as a typical example of architectural brutalism – was built according to plans by Werner Düttmann and completed in 1967. Since 2004, no Catholic services have been held here, but the building was initially rented to the Protestant Free Church in the geographical center of Berlin. At the end of 2011, the St.-Agnes-Immobilien- und Verwaltungsgesellschaft bought the building ensemble and then leased it to the Berlin gallery owner Johann König. By May 2015, the building had been rebuilt according to plans by the Berlin architects Brandlhuber + Emde, Burlon and Riegler Riewe Architekten. The former church now serves König as a gallery building, while the old community center has been used by other tenants since 2013.

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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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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.

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The sculpture Balancing Act is the work of the German sculptor Stephan Balkenhol. It stands in front of the Axel Springer high-rise on the corner of Axel-Springer-Straße and Zimmerstraße in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg.

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The Luisenstädtische Kirchpark is located in Berlin's Mitte district on Alte Jakobstraße/Sebastianstraße. It is named after the Luisenstadt Church, which stood here until 1964.

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The Prinzessinnengärten is a mobile garden on Moritzplatz in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg. It is a former wasteland between Prinzenstraße and Oranienstraße, which has been converted into a kitchen garden for urban agriculture by residents since 2009. The area is rented annually by the city. The buildings are made of containers; the plants are in recycled bakery boxes, Tetra Paks and rice sacks, so the garden is always mobile.

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The Roman Catholic Church of St. Michael at Waldemarstraße 8–10 in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg in the district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg was designed by Rudolf Schwarz, with Hans Schaefers supervising the construction. The foundation stone was laid on 11 February 1964, the topping-out ceremony on 15 October of the same year. The benediction took place on April 25, 1965.

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Indischer Brunnen is a fountain at Luisenstädtischer Kanal in Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany.

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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.

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The Luisenstadt Canal, or Luisenstädtischer Kanal, was a 2.3-kilometre-long (1.4 mi) canal in Berlin, Germany. It is named after the Luisenstadt district and ran through today's districts of Kreuzberg and Mitte, linking the Landwehr Canal with the River Spree, and serving a central canal basin known as the Engelbecken or Angel's Pool. The canal is named after Queen Louise, the wife of King Friedrich Wilhelm III.

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The Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien is the municipal gallery of the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Cultural Office in the Kreuzberg district.

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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.

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The church St. Thomas is a Protestant church in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin. Friedrich Adler designed and built the church between 1865 and 1869. The church was constructed in the shape of a Latin cross with two towers and a 56 metre high dome.

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