Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #9 in Berlin, Germany

The Checkpoint Charlie Museum is a private museum in Berlin. It is named after the famous crossing point on the Berlin Wall, and was created to document the so-called "best border security system in the world". On display are the photos and related documents of successful escape attempts from East Germany, together with the escape apparatus: hot-air balloons, getaway cars, chairlifts, and a mini-U-boat. The museum researches and maintains a list of deaths at the Berlin Wall. It is operated by the Mauermuseum-Betriebs gGmbH, and the director is Alexandra Hildebrandt.

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Checkpoint Charlie was the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War (1947–1991), as named by the Western Allies.

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The Hardenberg monument to the right of the Prussian Landtag, the seat of the Berlin House of Representatives, commemorates the Prussian statesman and reformer Karl August von Hardenberg (1750–1822).

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The Berlin Spy Museum is a private museum in Berlin which was created by former journalist Franz-Michael Günther. The museum opened to the public on the 19th of September 2015. Günther's aspirations were to create a museum devoted to the history of spies and espionage in the former spy capital of Germany. The museum is located in the central area of Potsdamer Platz, formerly known as the "death strip", as it lies on the perimeters of the wall which once divided East and West Berlin. The museum acts as an educational institution, with its permanent exhibitions bridging together centuries of espionage stories and tactics, immersing visitors in a multi-media experience. The museum particularly focuses on the World Wars and the Cold War through a range of a 1000 different exhibits and artefacts. Since its opening in 2015, 1,000,000 people have visited the museum and recently in 2020 it was nominated for the European Museum of the Year Award. The Berlin Spy Museum is partnered with the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., and many of the artefacts and installations within the museum have captured media attention around the world.

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Die Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen is a major German film archive located in Berlin.

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The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as the Holocaust Memorial, is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and Buro Happold. It consists of a 19,000-square-metre (200,000 sq ft) site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or "stelae", arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. The original plan was to place nearly 4,000 slabs, but after the recalculation, the number of slabs that could legally fit into the designated areas was 2,711. The stelae are 2.38 m long, 0.95 m wide and vary in height from 0.2 to 4.7 metres. They are organized in rows, 54 of them going north–south, and 87 heading east–west at right angles but set slightly askew. An attached underground "Place of Information" holds the names of approximately 3 million Jewish Holocaust victims, obtained from the Israeli museum Yad Vashem.

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The statue of Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau is a bronze sculpture installed at Wilhelmplatz in Berlin, Germany.

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The New Church, is located in Berlin on the Gendarmenmarkt across from French Church of Friedrichstadt. Its parish comprised the northern part of the then new quarter of Friedrichstadt, which until then belonged to the parish of the congregations of Jerusalem's Church. The Lutheran and Calvinist congregants used German as their native language, as opposed to the French-speaking Calvinist congregation of the adjacent French Church of Friedrichstadt. The congregants' native language combined with the domed tower earned the church its colloquial name Deutscher Dom. While the church physically resembles a cathedral, it is not a cathedral in the formal sense of the word, as it was never the seat of a bishop.

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The French (Reformed) Church of Friedrichstadt is in Berlin at the Gendarmenmarkt, across the Konzerthaus and the German Cathedral. The earliest parts of the church date back to 1701, although it was subsequently expanded. After being heavily damaged during World War II, the church was rebuilt and continues to offer church services and concerts.

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Hausvogteiplatz is located in Berlin's Mitte district at the interface between Friedrichswerder and Friedrichstadt. It is a relatively small diagonally triangular square, which was built on former fortifications. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, it gained national significance as a centre of Berlin ready-to-wear. Part of the development is a listed building. On the square is the memorial fashion center Hausvogteiplatz.

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The Jungfern Bridge is a bridge in Berlin. It is the oldest bridge in Berlin. There have been nine predecessors on its site in Berlin-Mitte, spanning the Spree arm Kupfergraben and linking Friedrichsgracht to Oberwasserstraße.

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The Gertraudenbrücke and the Neue Gertraudenbrücke in Berlin lead the Gertraudenstraße over the Spree Canal to the Spittelmarkt in the Mitte district and connect the historic districts of Alt-Kölln and Neukölln am Wasser. The stone Gertrauden Bridge, built between 1894 and 1895, is a listed building and was extended with the New Gertrauden Bridge, which was built in 1977 as a steel girder bridge and runs parallel to the south, so that today there is an ensemble of two bridges. The Neue Gertraudenbrücke is part of the Bundesstraße 1 and is part of the heavily frequented traffic arterial road in the area of the historic centre of Berlin, which leads from Potsdamer/Leipziger Platz via Leipziger Straße, Spittelmarkt and Molkenmarkt to Alexanderplatz.

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The Grünstraße Bridge in Berlin's Mitte district is one of the early Spree crossings in the old city centre of Cologne. Instead of a wooden yoke bridge with flaps for the ship passages, the stone green road bridge was built between 1903 and 1905. After a partial destruction at the end of the Second World War and subsequent repairs, it has been on the Berlin list of architectural monuments since the 1970s.

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The Knoblauchhaus was the former main residence of the Berlin merchant family Knoblauch. The building is located at Poststraße 23, which belongs to the Nikolaiviertel. It was built between 1759 and 1761 and remained in the possession of the Knoblauch family for 170 years. In 1929, the family sold the house to the city of Berlin. It survived the Second World War as one of the few Berlin town houses of the 18th century largely unscathed. Since 1989, the building has housed a branch of the Märkisches Museum and since 1995 of the Berliner Stadtmuseum Foundation. On the first and second floors, a permanent exhibition shows the history of the Knoblauch family in addition to the bourgeois living culture of the Biedermeier period.

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The Inselbrücke is a road bridge over the western arm of the Spree, which has existed since the 17th century. It is the first bridge on the Spree Island in the direction of the river and is located in the catchment area of the historic port of Berlin. Today's stone arched bridge dates from 1912–1913, built according to plans by Ludwig Hoffmann and city building councillor Krause and is a listed building.

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Köllnischer Park is a public park located near the River Spree in Mitte, Berlin. It is named after Cölln, one of the two cities which came together to form Berlin; the park location was originally just outside it. Approximately 1 hectare in area, the park came into existence in the 18th and 19th centuries on the site of fortifications. It was redesigned as a public park in 1869–1873 and was further modified in the 20th century with the addition of first a bear enclosure, the Bärenzwinger, and later a permanent exhibition of sculpture, the Lapidary. The park is a registered Berlin landmark.

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