Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #15 in Berlin, Germany

The Evangelical St. Bartholomäus Church, a listed neo-Gothic indoor church from the middle of the 19th century, is located at Friedenstraße 1 corner of Otto-Braun-Straße, opposite the entrance to the Volkspark Friedrichshain in the Friedrichshain district of Berlin. Together with the Advent-Zacheus-Kirchgemeinde, the Bartholomäus community forms the Evangelical parish on Friedrichshain in the church district of Berlin Stadtmitte.

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The Leise-Park is a green area in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg of the Pankow district. He was handed over to the public on June 1, 2012. The park is located on 15,900 m² of former partial areas of the new St. Marien-St. Nikolai, who had acquired the Berlin Senate from the Evangelical Cemetery Association Berlin Stadtmitte. Some of the grave facilities and tombstones were preserved during the redesign, but the larger part occupy natural play facilities and possibilities of staying.

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The Museum Pankow is an institution of the Berlin district of Pankow. The focus of the museum's work is on the numerous special exhibitions, which complement the permanent exhibitions at the museum locations Prenzlauer Allee, Heynstraße and Dunckerstraße. It has its origins in three collections of the former city districts of Pankow, Prenzlauer Berg and Weißensee from the time before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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Rykestrasse Synagogue, Germany's largest synagogue, is located in the Prenzlauer Berg neighbourhood in the Pankow borough of Berlin. Johann Hoeniger built the synagogue in 1903/1904. It was inaugurated on 4 September 1904, in time for the holidays of and around Rosh Hashanah. The synagogue stands off the street alignment and is reached by a thoroughfare in the pertaining front building.

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The Sacred Heart Church is a Catholic church located in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, externally built in Neo-Romanesque style. Designed by Christoph Hehl, professor of medieval architecture, the building was completed after 16 months of constructions in 1898. The Neo-Byzantine-style murals inside the church were done by Friedrich Stummel.

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The Chamäleon Berlin is a creative and performance venue for contemporary circus in the Hackesche Höfe in Berlin's Mitte district of the same name. The theatre shows co-productions and guest performances of the contemporary circus scene and is also a production partner and residence venue. Since January 2022, Chamäleon Berlin has been operating as a recognized non-profit organization. The artistic director of the Chameleon is Anke Politz, the managing director is Hendrik Frobel.

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The Sophiene halls are a production and venue for Free Theater in Berlin. You are based in the former craftsman's club on the courtyard of Sophienstraße 18 in Berlin-Mitte. Franziska Werner's theater has been managed since 2011. At the 2023/24 season, Jens Hillje and Andrea Niederbuchner will take over the artistic direction of the house, together with the long -time managing director Kerstin Müller.

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Christian Koppe was a German city governor and councillor of Berlin around 1700.

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The KW Institute for Contemporary Art is a contemporary art institution located in Auguststraße 69 in Berlin-Mitte, Germany. Klaus Biesenbach was the founding director of KW; the current director is Krist Gruijthuijsen.

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The Museum of Silence at Linienstraße 154a in Berlin-Mitte was founded in 1994 by the Russian painter Nikolai Georgiyevich Makarov with the aim of enabling people to enjoy peace and contemplation in the middle of the big city. This intention was realized through a special interior design and the exhibition of two works by the artist and seven utopian architectural models by well-known architects for other buildings of silence.

Wikipedia: Museum der Stille (DE)

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'.

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Krausnickpark is located in Berlin's Mitte district between Krausnickstraße, Oranienburger Straße and Große Hamburger Straße. It is named after the local politician Heinrich Wilhelm Krausnick (1797–1882).

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The Jewish Gymnasium Moses Mendelssohn, formerly the boys' school of the Jewish community, later the 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.

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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.

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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.

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The Bunker in Berlin-Mitte, Germany, is a listed air-raid shelter that was constructed in 1943 and is nowadays used as an art gallery and private apartment.

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Spreebogenpark is a park in Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany.

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The Rolling Horse is a sculpture designed by Jürgen Goertz on the northern terrace of Berlin's main train station at Europaplatz. The sculpture is made of stainless steel, aluminum, plastic, glass and stone. It is 9.70 meters high, 8.70 meters wide and weighs 35 tons.

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The History Park Former Cell Prison Moabit is located on the site of the listed former cell prison Lehrter Straße in the Berlin district of Moabit in the Mitte district.

Wikipedia: Geschichtspark Ehemaliges Zellengefängnis Moabit (DE)