Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #18 in Berlin, Germany

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Number of sights 17 sights
Distance 9.7 km
Ascend 136 m
Descend 133 m

Explore Berlin in Germany with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in BerlinIndividual Sights in Berlin

Sight 1: Gipsformerei

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Since 1819, the Gipsformerei in Berlin has been continuously producing plaster casts of important sculptures from Berlin museums and other collections.

Wikipedia: Gipsformerei (DE), Heritage Website

481 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 2: Klausenerplatz

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Klausenerplatz is a Berlin square near Charlottenburg Palace. It is flanked by Spandauer Damm as well as Gardes-du-Corps-, Danckelmann- and Neufertstraße. The village of the same name in the district of Charlottenburg is named after the square, which is sometimes also referred to as Danckelmannkiez and which extends south of the square.

Wikipedia: Klausenerplatz (DE)

299 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 3: Museum Berggruen

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The Berggruen Museum is a collection of modern art classics in Berlin, which the collector and dealer Heinz Berggruen, in a "gesture of reconciliation", gave to his native city. The most notable artists on display include Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Georges Braque, Paul Klee and Henri Matisse. The Berggruen Collection is part of the National Gallery of Berlin.

Wikipedia: Berggruen Museum (EN), Website

104 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 4: Prinz Albrecht von Preußen

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The Prince Albrecht of Prussia Monument is a statue in honour of Prince Albrecht of Prussia (1809–1872). It depicts the brother of the Prussian King Frederick William IV and Kaiser Wilhelm I in 1870 as a participant in the German French War. The figure by the sculptors Eugen Boermel and Conrad Freyberg from 1901 stands at the northern end of Schloßstraße in Berlin-Charlottenburg.

Wikipedia: Prinz-Albrecht-von-Preußen-Denkmal (Berlin) (DE)

116 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 5: Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection

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Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection The original uploader was Maik Hager at German Wikipedia. / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection is an art museum in Berlin. Its collection of paintings, graphics and sculptures, spanning the period from French Romanticism to Surrealism, is currently housed in former rooms of the Egyptian Museum in Charlottenburg on a ten-year loan. It was founded in 2008, and is part of the National Gallery of Berlin.

Wikipedia: Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection (EN)

750 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 6: Friedrich der Große

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The statue of Frederick the Great is installed outside Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin, Germany.

Wikipedia: Statue of Frederick the Great (Charlottenburg Palace) (EN)

165 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 7: Friedrich Wilhelm

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The equestrian statue of Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg is a bronze equestrian statue installed outside Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin, Germany.

Wikipedia: Equestrian statue of Friedrich Wilhelm I (EN)

1021 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 8: Luisenkirche

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The Luisenkirche is a Protestant municipal and parish church in Charlottenburg, now part of Berlin, Germany. The original building in Baroque style was begun in 1710, and around 100 years later named after Queen Luise of Prussia. Karl Friedrich Schinkel made suggestions for the addition of a steeple and interior changes in 1821, which were partly carried out from 1823. The Luisenkirche burned down in World War II and was rebuilt in the 1950s. A restoration in 1987/88 revived some of Schinkel's design.

Wikipedia: Luisenkirche, Charlottenburg (EN), Heritage Website

689 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 9: Herz-Jesu-Kirche

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The Sacred Heart Church stands on the green of the former village of Lietzow in Berlin's Charlottenburg district, behind the district's imposing town hall. It was built in the heyday of the Kulturkampf from 1875 to 1877 as the first new construction project of a Catholic church in Charlottenburg, Prussia. The church belongs to the parish "Martyrs of Berlin" in the Archdiocese of Berlin.

Wikipedia: Herz-Jesu-Kirche (Berlin-Charlottenburg) (DE), Website, Heritage Website

1150 meters / 14 minutes

Sight 10: Neuapostolische Kirche Berlin - Charlottenburg

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The New Apostolic Church Berlin-Charlottenburg is a sacred building of the New Apostolic Church (NAC) in the District Church of Berlin Brandenburg. It is located at Wernigeroder Strasse 10 at the corner of Nordhauser Strasse 3 in Berlin's Charlottenburg district. It was built between 1929 and 1930 according to a design by Albert Gericke. The architectural style has echoes of New Objectivity, but with reminiscences of Expressionism.

Wikipedia: Neuapostolische Kirche (Berlin-Charlottenburg) (DE), Url

186 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 11: Goslarer Platz

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Goslarer Platz is a small green space in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg on the border with the Moabit-West industrial area. It was created in connection with the development of the city of Charlottenburg at the beginning of the 20th century. It was named after the town of Goslar in the Harz Mountains.

Wikipedia: Goslarer Platz (DE)

1357 meters / 16 minutes

Sight 12: Erlöserkirche

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The Protestant Church of the Redeemer in Berlin's Moabit district was built between 1909 and 1912 according to plans by the architectural firm Dinklage, Paulus & Lilloe. Together with the parish hall, which was completed in 1913, it forms a complex of historical monuments. The Evangelical Church of the Redeemer belongs to the Evangelical Parish of Berlin-Tiergarten and thus to the Church District of Berlin City Center (KKBS) of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia (EKBO).

Wikipedia: Erlöserkirche (Berlin-Moabit) (DE), Website, Website

963 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 13: Heilandskirche

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The Heilandskirche in Berlin-Moabit is the parish church of the Evangelical parish of Tiergarten. The neo-Gothic church on Thusnelda-Allee with its 87-meter-high tower is the focus on the western edge of the small animal garden. The area is limited in the north from Turmstrasse and in the south by the Alt-Moabit street.

Wikipedia: Heilandskirche (Berlin) (DE), Website

320 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 14: Arminiusmarkthalle

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The Moabit Market Hall, opened in 1891 as Markthalle X, was built according to the plans of the architect Hermann Blankenstein within just one year. The main entrance to the market hall is located on Arminiusstraße in the Berlin district of Moabit. The building is surrounded by Bremer Straße (west), Bugenhagenstraße (north) and Jonasstraße (east).

Wikipedia: Moabiter Markthalle (DE), Website

568 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 15: Friedensstatue

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The Statue of Peace is a memorial to the "comfort women" on the Union Square in the Moabit district of the Mitte district of Berlin. It is also intended to be a symbol against sexualised violence against girls and women in general. The memorial was initiated by the Korea Association's Action Group of Comfort Women and inaugurated on September 28, 2020. A discourse on cultures of remembrance has developed around the statue between local, state and diplomatic levels.

Wikipedia: Friedensstatue (DE)

585 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 16: Heilige-Geist-Kirche

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Heilige-Geist-Kirche

Built between 1905 and 1906 according to plans by Georg Dinklage and Ernst Paulus, the Protestant Church of the Holy Spirit on the acute-angled corner plot at Perleberger Straße 36/Birkenstraße 60/61 forms the urban centre of the Stephankiez in Berlin's Moabit district. The church was consecrated on 19 December 1906 in the presence of Empress Auguste Victoria. During the Second World War, the Church of the Holy Spirit suffered only very minor damage. Only the stained glass windows had to be replaced. The church in historicizing Gothic style, reminiscent of Brandenburg traditions, is a listed building. The Evangelical parish of Heilige-Geist belongs to the church district of Berlin Stadtmitte (KKBS) of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia (EKBO).

Wikipedia: Heilige-Geist-Kirche (Berlin-Moabit) (DE)

925 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 17: Christ Embassy Church

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Christ Embassy Church

The building of the former Roman Catholic St. Lawrence Church, which is dedicated to St. Lawrence of Rome, is located on the property at Bandelstraße 39/40 in the Berlin district of Moabit in the Mitte district.

Wikipedia: St.-Laurentius-Kirche (Berlin-Moabit) (DE)

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