Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Berlin, Germany

The Catholic church in the Katharinenstift in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg in the district of Pankow, a hall church located behind a group of houses in Greifswalder Straße, is a listed building.

Wikipedia: Kirche im Katharinenstift (DE), Heritage Website

The Round Fountain in Berlin is an ornamental fountain in the Berlin district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. It is part of the overall ensemble of the fairytale fountain in Volkspark Friedrichshain. The little brother was built at the same time as the latter at the beginning of the 20th century according to designs by Ludwig Hoffmann and Georg Wrba.

Wikipedia: Rundbrunnen im Volkspark Friedrichshain (DE)

The former Jonaß department store in Berlin was inaugurated in 1929 as the first credit department store. After the expropriation of the Jewish owners during the National Socialist era, the building served as the headquarters of the Hitler Youth (HJ) and later the SED. In May 2010, the private club Soho House Berlin opened in the listed building with a hotel.

Wikipedia: Kaufhaus Jonaß (DE), Website, Website, Heritage Website

The Robber's Wheel is a metal sculpture and the logo of the Volksbühne Berlin, which was designed in 1990 by the stage designer Bert Neumann and made in 1994 by the Swiss sculptor Rainer Haußmann. The metal wheel, with a height of around four metres, is intended to create references to a crook's prongs and was set up on a green area in front of the theatre on the occasion of a production of Friedrich Schiller's The Robbers under the responsibility of Volksbühne director Frank Castorf. The state of Berlin bought the sculpture in the mid-1990s for around 11,000 euros and left it permanently on public space. A stylized image of the robber's wheel was used as a central design element in the Volksbühne's publications until 2017.

Wikipedia: Räuberrad (DE)

The Sophienkirche is a Protestant church in the Spandauer Vorstadt part of the Berlin-Mitte region of Berlin, eastern Germany. One of its associated cemeteries is the Friedhof II der Sophiengemeinde Berlin.

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The Sophiensæle is a venue for independent performance, theater, and dance, in Berlin, Germany. It is located in the courtyard of Sophienstraße 18, in the Berlin district of Mitte.

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The Hackesche Höfe is a notable courtyard complex situated adjacent to the Hackescher Markt in the centre of Berlin. The complex consists of eight interconnected courtyards, accessed through a main arched entrance at number 40 Rosenthaler Straße.

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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, the Chameleon Berlin has been working as a recognized non-profit organization. The artistic director of the Chameleon is Anke Politz, the managing director is Hendrik Frobel.

Wikipedia: Chamäleon (Varieté) (DE), Website

The Great Granite Bowl in Berlin's Lustgarten (German: Granitschale im Lustgarten), which is located in front of the Altes Museum, has a diameter of 6.91 meters and weighs approximately 75 tons. With a circumference of 691⁄7 feet (approximately 21.7 meters), it is considered the Biedermeier Wonder of the World and is the largest bowl carved out of a single stone in existence.

Wikipedia: Granitschale im Lustgarten (EN), Heritage Website

The Lustgarten is a park in Museum Island in central Berlin at the foreground of the Altes Museum. It is next to the Berliner Dom and near the site of the former Berliner Stadtschloss of which it was originally a part. At various times in its history, the park has been used as a parade ground, a place for mass rallies and a public park.

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The Buttbrunnen is a small fountain on Museum Island in Berlin's Mitte district. It was created as a playful homage to King Friedrich Wilhelm IV, the builder of the Neues Museum. The Buttbrunnen is located immediately west of the Altes Museum on the wall between two staircases that lead from the level of the Lustgarten to the Iron Bridge over the Kupfergraben and today's Bodestraße. The difference in height had arisen when the bridge and road were renewed and raised between 1914 and 1916. In 1916, the southern retaining wall was decorated with a wall fountain made of Franconian shell limestone, designed by the Berlin sculptor Robert Schirmer (1850–1923). The Buttbrunnen is also known as the "floe on dry land".

Wikipedia: Buttbrunnen (DE)

Eiserne Bridge is a bridge in Mitte, Berlin, Germany.

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The Maxim Gorki Theater in Dorotheenstadt in the Mitte district of Berlin is the smallest of Berlin's state theaters with 440 seats. The theatre resides in the building built and owned by the choir association of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin near the promenade street Unter den Linden, behind the chestnut grove. It is named after the Russian-Soviet writer Maxim Gorky. Together with the adjoining Palais am Festungsgraben to the north, it forms a listed building ensemble.

Wikipedia: Maxim-Gorki-Theater (DE), Website

The Palais am Festungsgraben, originally known as the Palais Donner, is a stately building in Berlin’s Mitte subdistrict located behind, and facing, the ensemble of chestnut trees around the Neue Wache, near the eastern terminus of the boulevard Unter den Linden. The name refers to its construction next to a redundant canal, gradually filled in by 1883, which had originally been a moat surrounding the 17th century city wall. Built as a private residence, it later housed a succession of Prussian government offices, and after World War II various cultural institutions in the Soviet sector of Berlin. After administrative authority was transferred to the newly established German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1949 it hosted a succession of institutions established to further German-Russian contacts. Since German reunification it has accommodated a theater and from 2004 an art gallery.

Wikipedia: Palais am Festungsgraben (EN)

The James Simon Gallery is a centrally located visitor center and art gallery between the reconstructed Neues Museum and the Kupfergraben arm of the Spree river on Museum Island in Berlin, Germany. It opened in 2019.

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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 Sower is a sculpture by the Belgian artist Constantin Meunier of which multiple copies were made.

Wikipedia: The Sower (Meunier) (EN)

The Neues Museum is a listed building on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin, Germany. Built from 1843 to 1855 by order of King Frederick William IV of Prussia in Neoclassical and Renaissance Revival styles, it is considered as the major work of Friedrich August Stüler. After suffering damage in World War II and decay in East Germany, it was restored from 1999 to 2009 by David Chipperfield. Currently, the Neues Museum is home to the Ägyptisches Museum, the Papyrussammlung, the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte and parts of the Antikensammlung. As part of the Museum Island complex, the museum was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1999 because of its outstanding architecture and testimony to the evolution of museums as a cultural phenomenon.

Wikipedia: Neues Museum (EN), Website

Hunne zu Pferde is a sculpture by Erich Hösel, installed outside the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Germany.

Wikipedia: Hunne zu Pferde (EN)

Monbijou Park is a park in Mitte, a district of Berlin, Germany. The park is bounded to the south by the river Spree, to the west by Monbijoustraße, and to the north Oranienburger Straße and Monbijouplatz. It is close to the Friedrichstadt Palast, Neue Synagogue and the Sophienkirche.

Wikipedia: Monbijou Park (EN)

The New Synagogue on Oranienburger Straße in Berlin is a mid-19th century synagogue built as the main place of worship for the city's Jewish community, succeeding the Old Synagogue which the community outgrew. Because of its eastern Moorish style and resemblance to the Alhambra, the New Synagogue is an important architectural monument in Germany.

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The Friedrichstadt-Palast is a revue theatre in Berlin-Mitte. The theatre building was inaugurated in 1984 and has since been equipped with state-of-the-art stage technology. The Friedrichstadt-Palast is one of Europe's most visited variety stages and is famous for its series of girls, among other things.

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The Cabaret Theatre Distel is currently the largest ensemble cabaret in Germany and is well known throughout Germany. The Distel was founded in 1953 as an East Berlin antithesis to older West Berlin cabarets. Since then, the theatre has been located in the front building of the Admiralspalast directly at Friedrichstraße station in Berlin-Mitte.

Wikipedia: Die Distel (DE), Website

Spreebogenpark is a park in Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany.

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The artwork DER BEVÖLKERUNG by Hans Haacke was as commissioned and installed in 2000. It was erected in the north courtyard of the German Reichstag building in the year 2000 by resolution of the German Bundestag. The work consists of a trough measuring 21 x 7 meters, bounded by wooden beams, from the center of which the words "DER BEVÖLKERUNG" radiate toward the sky in white neon letters. The words can be seen from all levels of the building: from the assembly hall, the floor reserved for the political parties and the press, as well as by visitors on the roof. The public funds allocated to the project were the equivalent of approx. 200,000 euros. The artwork was realized within the framework of the Reichstag's art in architecture program.

Wikipedia: Der Bevölkerung (EN)

The Flag of Unity or Flag of Unity, also known as the Flag of Unity, is a national monument to reunification in the form of the German federal flag that has existed since 1990. It stands on the Platz der Republik in Berlin in front of the west entrance of the Reichstag building, a few meters from the southern end of the lower staircase.

Wikipedia: Fahne der Einheit (DE)

The Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism is a memorial in Berlin, Germany. The monument is dedicated to the memory of the 220,000 – 500,000 people murdered in the Porajmos – the Nazi genocide of the European Sinti and Roma peoples. It was designed by Dani Karavan and was officially opened on 24 October 2012 by German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the presence of President Joachim Gauck.

Wikipedia: Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism (EN)

The Brandenburg Gate is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin. One of the best-known landmarks of Germany, it was erected on the site of a former city gate that marked the start of the road from Berlin to Brandenburg an der Havel, the former capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg. The current structure was built from 1788 to 1791 by orders of King Frederick William II of Prussia, based on designs by the royal architect Carl Gotthard Langhans. The bronze sculpture of the quadriga crowning the gate is a work by the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow.

Wikipedia: Brandenburg Gate (EN), Heritage Website

The Russian Embassy in Germany is the headquarters of the diplomatic mission of the Russian Federation in Germany. It is located in the Mitte district of the capital Berlin and occupies a building complex consisting of the main building at 63-65 Unter den Linden and several administrative and residential buildings on the Behrenstraße and Glinkastraße.

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