Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #20 in Berlin, Germany

The Museum of European Cultures – National Museums in Berlin – Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation came from the unification of the Europe-Department in the Berlin Museum of Ethnography and the Berlin Museum for Folklore in 1999. The museum focuses on the lived-in world of Europe and European culture contact, predominantly in Germany from the 18th Century until today.

Wikipedia: Museum Europäischer Kulturen (EN), Website

The Berlin Botanical Garden in Berlin-Lichterfelde is one of the largest botanical gardens in Germany with an area of over 43 hectares and about 22,000 different plant species. It is part of the Freie Universität Berlin and has the status of a faculty-independent central institution. The garden and the adjoining Botanical Museum Berlin have half a million visitors every year.

Wikipedia: Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem (DE), Website

The Gutshaus Steglitz, also known as the Wrangelschlösschen, is a country house built between 1795 and 1808 in the classicist style in the Berlin district of Steglitz in the district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf. The building, which was built as a manor house, bears the address Schloßstraße 48 and houses the Schlosspark Theater and a cinema hall in an adjoining building. It is one of the last surviving architectural testimonies of Prussian early classicism and has been a listed building since 1923.

Wikipedia: Gutshaus Steglitz (DE)

The Church of the Nazarene is a Christian denomination that emerged in North America from the 19th-century Wesleyan-Holiness movement within Methodism. It is headquartered in Lenexa, Kansas. With its members commonly referred to as Nazarenes, it is the largest denomination in the world aligned with the Wesleyan-Holiness movement and is a member of the World Methodist Council.

Wikipedia: Church of the Nazarene (EN)

The Schlosspark Theater is a theatre in the Steglitz district of Berlin, Germany. Since 2008, the traditional theatre has been run as a private theatre by Dieter Hallervorden.

Wikipedia: Schlosspark Theater (DE), Website

The parish hall of the Evangelical Matthew Church in Berlin-Steglitz is located at Schloßstraße 44 directly in front of the Matthäuskirche. It was built from 1928 to 1930 in the style of new objectivity. The architects were Otto Rudolf Salvisberg and Rudolf W. Reichel. It is the only free -standing parish hall worldwide that O. R. Salvisberg has built. The parish hall is listed.

Wikipedia: Gemeindehaus Matthäusgemeinde (DE), Heritage Website

Matthew Church is a Protestant church in Steglitz, Berlin. It was built from 1876 to 1880 to replace the undersized and dilapidated Steglitzer village church. In 1880 three inaugurated naves were designed by architect Emil Gette. The church, parish hall, rectory and cemetery are now listed.

Wikipedia: Matthew Church (Berlin-Steglitz) (EN), Website, Heritage Website

Wandervogel is the name adopted by a popular movement of German youth groups from 1896 to 1933, who protested against industrialization by going to hike in the country and commune with nature in the woods. Drawing influence from medieval wandering scholars, their ethos was to revive old Teutonic values, with a strong emphasis on German nationalism. According to historians, a major contribution of the Wandervögel was the revival of folk songs in wider German society.

Wikipedia: Wandervogel (EN)

The Rosary Basilica is a Catholic church in Berlin-Steglitz. Designed by Christoph Hehl, professor of medieval architecture, the Neo-Romanesque-style building was completed in 1900. After surviving World War II without any damages, the church was appointed Minor Basilica by Pope Pius XII. The ornate murals inside the church were begun by Friedrich Stummel and, after his death, completed by his former students.

Wikipedia: Rosary Basilica (Berlin) (EN), Website, Heritage Website

The Trinity Church of the Evangelical Lutheran St. Mary's Parish in the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church is located at Südendstraße 19–21 in what is now the Berlin district of Steglitz in the district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf. The church building, which was inaugurated on 26 February 1928, was built according to plans by the architect Otto Rudolf Salvisberg in the architectural style of the New Objectivity.

Wikipedia: Dreieinigkeitskirche (Berlin-Steglitz) (DE), Website

The Protestant St. Luke's Church in the Berlin district of Steglitz was built between 1914 and 1919 according to plans by building councillor Walter Kern. It is located on the green area of Friedrichsruher Platz, between Bergstrasse and Friedrichsruher Straße on the edge of the so-called Bismarckviertel.

Wikipedia: Lukaskirche (Berlin) (DE), Website, Heritage Website

The memorial to the fallen of the anti-aircraft artillery is located in Berlin and has stood since 1957 at the Steglitz cemetery in Bergstraße, Department D IV. It was created by the Dahlem sculptor Felix Kupsch. It depicts a naked kneeling archer aiming at the sky.

Wikipedia: Ehrenmal für die Gefallenen der Flakartillerie (DE)

The Shakespeare Company Berlin (SCB) offers its audience Volkstheater in its original meaning and only stages players from William Shakespeare. The basis is specially made translations of his comedies, tragedies and history. The productions of the Company are based on the performance practice, as they were currently cared for in Shakespeares in the Elisabethan Theater of the late 16th and early 17th centuries and therefore probably also on the Shakespeartbühne in the Globe Theater: a game on a simple stage without an elaborate background The actor's text and the art of representation and thus stimulates the audience to complement the temporal and local localizations of the stage events in his imagination ("word scenery"). In addition, there are music, special costumes and proximity to the audience up to communication with the spectators as further style principles of the Shakespeare Volkstheater. The ensemble appears in Berlin and at guest performances in German-speaking countries, repeating the Shakespeare Festival Neuss.

Wikipedia: Shakespeare Company Berlin (DE), Website

Natur-Park Südgelände is a public park located in the Schöneberg district in the Berlin borough of Tempelhof-Schöneberg. The 18 hectare park is located on the former Tempelhof railway yard. The park is known for its mix of wild nature, decaying railway facilities and art.

Wikipedia: Natur-Park Südgelände (EN), Website