Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #16 in Berlin, Germany

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Number of sights 17 sights
Distance 6 km
Ascend 103 m
Descend 96 m

Experience Berlin in Germany in a whole new way with our free self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in BerlinIndividual Sights in Berlin

Sight 1: Geschichtspark Ehemaliges Zellengefängnis Moabit

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

Wikipedia: Geschichtspark Ehemaliges Zellengefängnis Moabit (DE)

434 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 2: Rolling Horse

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The Rolling Horse is a sculpture designed by Jürgen Goertz on the northern terrace of Berlin's main train station on 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.

Wikipedia: Rolling Horse (DE)

495 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 3: Hamburger Bahnhof

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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.

Wikipedia: Berlin Hamburger Bahnhof (DE)

267 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 4: Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum for Contemporary Art

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The Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, also known as Hamburger Bahnhof, is a museum for contemporary art in the former station building of the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin and part of the Berlin National Gallery. In 2019, the museum recorded around 308,000 visits.

Wikipedia: Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart (DE), Website

415 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 5: Berlin Museum of Medical History at the Charité

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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

505 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 6: Invalidenpark

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Invalidenpark own work / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Invalidenpark is a historically created green space. It is located in Berlin's Mitte district, not far from Berlin's main train station, in the street block Habersaathstraße / Schwarzer Weg / Invalidenstraße / Scharnhorststraße and covers about 2.5 hectares.

Wikipedia: Invalidenpark (DE)

471 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 7: Natural History Museum

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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.

Wikipedia: Natural History Museum, Berlin (EN), Website

305 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 8: Berlin Customs Wall

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The Berlin Customs Wall was a ring wall around the historic city of Berlin, between 1737 and 1860; the wall itself had no defence function but was used to facilitate the levying of taxes on the import and export of goods (tariffs), which was the primary income of many cities at the time.

Wikipedia: Berlin Customs Wall (EN)

456 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 9: St. Thomas von Aquin

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St. Thomas von Aquin

The Roman Catholic Academy Church of St. Thomas Aquinas is located in the Berlin district of Mitte in the district of the same name at Hannoversche Straße 5. It was consecrated on 4 December 1999 by the Archbishop of Berlin, Georg Sterzinsky.

Wikipedia: St. Thomas von Aquin (Akademiekirche) (DE)

140 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Brecht-Haus

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The Brecht House at Chausseestraße 125 in Berlin-Mitte was the home of Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel from 1953 until his death. On February 9, 1978, the Brecht House was opened by Erich Honecker, Barbara Brecht-Schall and Werner Hecht. It is to be distinguished from the house of the two after their return from exile, which is located at Berliner Allee 185 in Weißensee. The Brecht-Haus Mitte is located next to the Dorotheenstadt Cemetery, where both graves are located, and houses the Brecht-Weigel Museum, archives on Weigel and Brecht as well as the Literature Forum in the Brechthaus. The building was built in 1843 and is now a listed building.

Wikipedia: Brecht-Haus (Berlin) (DE)

689 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 11: Erlöserkirche

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Erlöserkirche

The Evangelical Methodist Church of the Redeemer, built in 1905, is located as a rear building in the courtyard at Schröderstraße 5 in Berlin's Mitte district of the same name. Together with the residential building, which was also designed by Carl Breuer and integrated into the closed perimeter block development of the street, it is a listed building.

Wikipedia: Erlöserkirche (Berlin-Mitte) (DE)

729 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 12: David Hasselhoff Museum

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The David Hasselhoff Museum is a museum dedicated to the American actor, singer, producer and businessman David Hasselhoff. It is located in the basement of the Circus Hostel in Mitte district of Berlin, Germany. It pays homage to 'arguably Germany's most famous non-German'.

Wikipedia: David Hasselhoff Museum (EN), Website

337 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 13: Volkspark am Weinberg

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The Volkspark am Weinbergsweg in Berlin-Mitte is a city park in front of the Rosenthaler Tor that is protected as a garden monument. Laid out in 1956 on a business and entertainment district destroyed in the Second World War, the park extends on a slope on a southwestern foothills of the Barnim. The four-hectare park, usually called Weinbergspark, is the smallest public park in Berlin. To the east was a vineyard that was cultivated until the 18th century.

Wikipedia: Volkspark am Weinberg (DE)

153 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Heinrich-Heine-Denkmal

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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 17.21856 in Paris

Wikipedia: Heinrich-Heine-Denkmal (Berlin) (DE)

215 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 15: Ackerhalle

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The Ackerhalle, historically known as Markthalle VI, in Berlin's Mitte district is one of 14 market halls that the Berlin magistrate had built for retail between 1886 and 1892, of which only six remain today. It is located at Ackerstraße 23–26 at the corner of Invalidenstraße 158 in the Oranienburger Vorstadt.

Wikipedia: Ackerhalle (DE), Heritage Website

203 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 16: St. Elisabeth-Kirche

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St. Elisabeth-Kirche Photo: Andreas Praefcke / CC BY 3.0

The Elisabeth Church is the largest of the four Berlin suburban churches designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in the 1830s. It is named after the biblical Elisabeth, is located in the Berlin district of Mitte at Invalidenstraße 4a and belongs to the Evangelical Church Community at Weinberg in the church district of Berlin Stadtmitte. After suffering severe damage during the Second World War, it was restored from 1990 to 2001. Since then, it has mainly served cultural purposes.

Wikipedia: St. Elisabeth (Berlin-Mitte) (DE), Instagram, Website, Heritage Website

201 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 17: Pappelplatz

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Pappelplatz is a triangular square in Berlin's Mitte district. It got the name because there are some poplars there.

Wikipedia: Pappelplatz (DE), Website, Heritage Website

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