Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #3 in Berlin, Germany

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Number of sights 12 sights
Distance 4.1 km
Ascend 49 m
Descend 54 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: German Opera Berlin

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German Opera Berlin

The Deutsche Oper Berlin is a German opera company located in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin. The resident building is the country's second largest opera house and also home to the Berlin State Ballet.

Wikipedia: Deutsche Oper Berlin (EN), Website

894 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 2: Dorfkirche Lietzow

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The Evangelical Church of Alt-Lietzow is a Protestant church in the former town of Lietzow, now part of Berlin-Charlottenburg. It is the fifth church on this site, whose predecessor buildings were demolished after partial damage. The current church complex, built according to the designs of the architect Ludolf von Walthausen, was consecrated in 1961. It belongs to the Luisen parish in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf church district of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia.

Wikipedia: Evangelische Kirche Alt-Lietzow (DE), Website

229 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 3: 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

689 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 4: 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

357 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 5: Schustehruspark

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The Schustehruspark is a listed green space in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin. The park, which opened in 1914, was designed by Charlottenburg city garden architect Erwin Barth and named after Charlottenburg's Lord Mayor Kurt Schustehrus, who had died the year before.

Wikipedia: Schustehruspark (DE)

102 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 6: Museum Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf in der Villa Oppenheim

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The Villa Oppenheim, also known as Villa Sorgenfrei, is a neo-Renaissance villa built in the 19th century and served as a residential building until 1911. After that, there were changes of ownership and use, and from 1995 to 2009 there was a museum of contemporary art. Since 2012, the villa has served as a museum of local history for today's Berlin districts of Charlottenburg and Wilmersdorf.

Wikipedia: Villa Oppenheim (Berlin) (DE), Website

424 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 7: 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)

116 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: 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)

162 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: Bröhan-Museum

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The Bröhan Museum is a Berlin state museum for Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and Functionalism, located in Berlin's Charlottenburg district. The Museum is named after its founder, entrepreneur and art collector Karl. H. Bröhan (1921–2000), who donated his collection to the state of Berlin on the occasion of his 60th birthday. In 1983, the Bröhan Museum opened in its current space, which belongs to the Charlottenburg Palace ensemble and was originally built for the guard regiment. Since 1994, it has been a state museum.

Wikipedia: Bröhan Museum (EN), Website

143 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: 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

513 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 11: Charlottenburg Palace

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Schloss Charlottenburg is a Baroque palace in Berlin, located in Charlottenburg, a district of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf borough.

Wikipedia: Schloss Charlottenburg (EN)

464 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 12: 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)

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