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The Protestant Easter Church on the corner of Samoastrasse and Sprengelstrasse in the Berlin district of Wedding was built according to plans by the Berlin architects Georg Dinklage, Ernst Paulus and Olaf Lilloe.
The Bethanien on Mariannenplatz in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg (SO 36) was a deaconess hospital and was founded in the middle of the 19th century as the Central Deaconess House Bethanien and as a legacy of King Frederick William IV. It was shut down in 1970, citizens' initiatives prevented its demolition. The state of Berlin placed the Bethanien under monument protection and bought it. Since then, it has served as a place for cultural, artistic and social institutions and self-organized initiatives and is run under the name Kunstquartier Bethanien. The premises of the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, an international cultural centre, studio house and workplace for professional artists, which resided in the Bethanien until 2010, are now located at Kottbusser Straße 10.
The Admiralbrücke is a road bridge in Berlin-Kreuzberg, Germany, which spans the Landwehr Canal at canal kilometre 7.70 between Fraenkelufer and Planufer. The building was built between 1880 and 1882, structurally strengthened in the 1930s, renovated in 1984 and is a listed building.
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.
The Old Jewish Cemetery in the Große Hamburger Straße in today's Berlin district of Mitte is the oldest reliably occupied burial ground of the Jewish community in Berlin after the Judenkiewer Spandau. In the area of today's entrance, there had been a retirement home for the Jewish community since 1844.
Wikipedia: Jüdischer Friedhof Berlin-Mitte (DE), Heritage Website
Berlin Cathedral, also known as the Evangelical Supreme Parish and Collegiate Church, is a monumental German Protestant church and dynastic tomb on the Museum Island in central Berlin. Having its origins as a castle chapel for the Berlin Palace, several structures have served to house the church since the 15th century. The present collegiate church was built from 1894 to 1905 by order of Emperor William II according to plans by Julius Raschdorff in Renaissance and Baroque Revival styles. The listed building is the largest Protestant church in Germany and one of the most important dynastic tombs in Europe. In addition to church services, the cathedral is used for state ceremonies, concerts and other events.
Wikipedia: Berlin Cathedral (EN), Website, Heritage Website, Youtube
The Oberbaum Bridge is a double-deck bridge crossing Berlin, Germany's River Spree, considered one of the city's landmarks. It links Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg, former boroughs that were divided by the Berlin Wall, and has become an important symbol of Berlin's unity.
8. Brandenburg Gate
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.
9. Museum Island
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.
10. Lustgarten
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.
11. Berlin
The Berlin Bear is a bronze monument in the median strip of the A 115 motorway in the Berlin district of Nikolassee near the former Dreilinden–Drewitz checkpoint. Similar monuments can be found on the A 113 in Treptow and on the A 114 in Pankow.
12. Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
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 1.9-hectare (4.7-acre) 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.
Wikipedia: Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (EN), Website
13. Topography of Terror
The Topography of Terror is an outdoor and indoor history museum in Berlin, Germany. It is located on Niederkirchnerstrasse, formerly Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse, on the site of buildings, which during the Nazi regime from 1933 to 1945 was the SS Reich Security Main Office, the headquarters of the Sicherheitspolizei, SD, Einsatzgruppen and Gestapo.
14. Humboldt Forum
The Humboldt Forum is a museum dedicated to human history, art and culture, located in the Berlin Palace on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin. It is named in honour of the Prussian scholars Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt. Considered the "German equivalent" of the British Museum, the Humboldt Forum houses the non-European collections of the Berlin State Museums, temporary exhibitions and public events. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it opened digitally on 16 December 2020 and became accessible to the general public on 20 July 2021.
Wikipedia: Humboldt Forum (EN), Url, Website, Wheelchair Website
15. Marx-Engels Forum
Marx-Engels-Forum is a public park in the central Mitte district of Berlin, the capital of Germany. It is named for Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, authors of The Communist Manifesto of 1848 and regarded as two of the most influential people in the socialist movement. The park was created by the authorities of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1986.
16. Kreuzberg
The Kreuzberg is a hill in the Kreuzberg locality of Berlin, Germany, in former West Berlin. It rises about 66 m (217 ft) above the sea level. It was named by King Frederick William III of Prussia after the Iron Cross which crowns the top of the Prussian National Monument for the Liberation Wars, designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, on its inauguration on 30 March 1821. On 27 September 1921 the borough assembly of the VIth borough of Berlin decided to name the borough after the hill. The borough was subsequently downgraded to a locality in 2001.
17. Hackesche Höfe
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.
18. Kirche des Nazareners
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.
19. Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel was a German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist and artist. He discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms and coined many terms in biology, including ecology, phylum, phylogeny, and Protista. Haeckel promoted and popularised Charles Darwin's work in Germany and developed the influential but no longer widely held recapitulation theory claiming that an individual organism's biological development, or ontogeny, parallels and summarises its species' evolutionary development, or phylogeny.
20. Ehemaliger Flughafen Berlin-Tempelhof
Berlin Tempelhof Airport was one of the first airports in Berlin, Germany. Situated in the south-central Berlin borough of Tempelhof-Schöneberg, the airport ceased operating in 2008 amid controversy, leaving Tegel and Schönefeld as the two main airports serving the city for another twelve years until both were replaced by Berlin Brandenburg Airport in 2020.
21. Federal Council
The German Bundesrat is a legislative body that represents the sixteen Länder of Germany at the federal level. The Bundesrat meets at the former Prussian House of Lords in Berlin. Its second seat is located in the former West German capital of Bonn.
22. Memorial to the Socialists
The Socialist Memorial is a burial and memorial site within the Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery in Berlin. The site, which was officially inaugurated in 1951, together with the adjacent Pergolenweg burial grounds, served as a cemetery of honour for people who had rendered outstanding services to the socialist idea during the GDR era. It follows the tradition of the Friedrichsfelde cemetery as a burial place of the workers' movement, which began in the late 19th century.
23. Berlin Zoological Garden
The Berlin Zoological Garden is the oldest surviving and best-known zoo in Germany. Opened in 1844, it covers 35 hectares and is located in Berlin's Tiergarten. With about 1,380 different species and over 20,200 animals, the zoo presents one of the most comprehensive collections of species in the world.
24. Victory Column
The Victory Column is a monument in Berlin, Germany. Designed by Heinrich Strack after 1864 to commemorate the Prussian victory in the Second Schleswig War, by the time it was inaugurated on 2 September 1873, Prussia had also defeated Austria and its German allies in the Austro-Prussian War (1866) and France in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71), giving the statue a new purpose. Different from the original plans, these later victories in the unification wars inspired the addition of the bronze sculpture of Victoria, the Roman goddess of victory, 8.3 metres (27 ft) high, designed by Friedrich Drake, giving the victory column its current height of 67m.
25. Soviet War Memorial
The Soviet War Memorial is a war memorial and military cemetery in Berlin's Treptower Park. It was built to the design of the Soviet architect Yakov Belopolsky to commemorate 7,000 of the 80,000 Red Army soldiers who fell in the Battle of Berlin in April–May 1945. It opened four years after the end of World War II in Europe, on 8 May 1949. The Memorial served as the central war memorial of East Germany.
26. Buddy Bear
Buddy Bears are painted, life-size fiberglass bear sculptures developed by German businesspeople Klaus and Eva Herlitz, in cooperation with sculptor Roman Strobl. They have become a landmark of Berlin and are considered unofficial ambassadors of Germany. The outstretched arms of the standing Buddy Bear symbolise friendliness and optimism. The first bears were displayed at an artistic event in Berlin in 2001.
27. New Museum
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.
28. Die Stachelschweine
The cabaret theatre Die Stachelschweine is the oldest cabaret in Berlin and the second oldest in all of Germany. It was founded in the fall of 1949 as an actors' collective in the artists' and students' pub Badewanne not far from Berlin's Memorial Church. The name Stachelschweine is based on a magazine of the 1920s, Das Stachelschwein, whose editor was the writer and cabaret artist Hans Reimann.
29. Jüdisches Museum Berlin
The Jewish Museum Berlin was opened in 2001 and is the largest Jewish museum in Europe. On 3,500 square metres of floor space, the museum presents the history of Jews in Germany from the Middle Ages to the present day, with new focuses and new scenography. It consists of three buildings, two of which are new additions specifically built for the museum by architect Daniel Libeskind. German-Jewish history is documented in the collections, the library and the archive, and is reflected in the museum's program of events.
30. New Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, mostly just known as the Memorial Church is a Protestant church affiliated with the Evangelical Church in Berlin, Brandenburg and Silesian Upper Lusatia, a regional body of the Protestant Church in Germany. It is located in Berlin on the Kurfürstendamm in the centre of the Breitscheidplatz.
31. Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung
The Foundation for Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation is a foundation under public law based in Berlin that is dedicated to the remembrance and commemoration of flight and expulsion in the 20th century in Europe and beyond. It was launched by the German government in 2008.
Wikipedia: Stiftung Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung (DE), Website
32. Wandervogel Gedenkstein
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.
33. Hamburger Bahnhof
Berlin Hamburger Bahnhof is a former Berlin railway station, which was the starting point of the Berlin-Hamburg Railway at the time. The building is located on Invalidenstraße in the Moabit district of the Mitte district.
34. Teufelsberg
Teufelsberg is a non-natural hill in Berlin, Germany, in the Grunewald locality of former West Berlin. It rises about 80 metres (260 ft) above the surrounding Teltow plateau and 120.1 metres (394 ft) above the sea level, in the north of Berlin's Grunewald Forest. It was named after the Teufelssee in its southerly vicinity. The hill is made of debris and rubble, and covers an unfinished Nazi military-technical college. During the Cold War, there was a U.S. listening station on the hill, Field Station Berlin. The site of the former field station is now fenced off and is currently being managed by an organisation which charges 10 euros for public access.
35. AVUS-Tribüne
The Automobil-Verkehrs- und Übungsstraße, known as AVUS, is a public road in Berlin, Germany. Opened in 1921, it was the first automobile-only road, which served as an inspiration for Piero Puricelli's 1924 autostrada. It also was used as a motor racing circuit until 1998. Today, the AVUS forms the northern part of the Bundesautobahn 115.
36. Spionagetunnel Operation „Gold“/„Stopwatch“
Operation Gold was a joint operation conducted by the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the British MI6 Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1950s to tap into landline communication of the Soviet Army headquarters in Berlin using a tunnel into the Soviet-occupied zone. This was a much more complex variation of the earlier Operation Silver project in Vienna.
37. Glienicker Brücke
The Glienicke Bridge is a bridge across the Havel River in Germany, connecting the Wannsee district of Berlin with the Brandenburg capital Potsdam. It is named after nearby Glienicke Palace. The current bridge, the fourth on the site, was completed in 1907, although major reconstruction was necessary after it was damaged during World War II.
38. Quatsch Comedy Club
The Quatsch Comedy Club is a comedy show that takes place in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Stuttgart. The heart is the live show with four stand-up comedians and a moderator each. The event takes place weekly in a new line -up. There are also other formats such as the newcomers show Quatsch Comedy-Hot Shot, the Quatsch Comedy Late Night Show and Quatsch Comedy Club-The English Night. As a television program, the nonsense comedy Club on Sky is broadcast on Sky Germany and has been on Sky Comedy since April 2021. On December 22nd and 29th, the two special anniversary specials "Legends of Quatsch" and "Bye Thomas" found their charisma for the 30th anniversary of the Quatsch Comedy Club. Both specials were also moderated by Thomas Hermanns, who celebrated his last appearance as a moderator with special guests such as Olaf Schubert, Michael Mittermeier, Ole Lehmann, Atze Schröder and many others. The television programs were moderated by Thomas Hermanns, the founder and director.
Wikipedia: Quatsch Comedy Club (DE), Website, Facebook, Instagram
39. Natural History Museum
The Natural History Museum is a natural history museum located in Berlin, Germany. It exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history and in such domain it is one of three major museums in Germany alongside Naturmuseum Senckenberg in Frankfurt and Museum Koenig in Bonn.
40. Maria, Hilfe der Christen
Maria, Hilfe der Christen is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Berlin district of Spandau. It is located at Flankenschanze 43 on the corner of Galenstraße, was built in the years 1908–1910 and is the parish church of the Holy Family Parish – Spandau-Havelland in the Archdiocese of Berlin. With the patronage of Mary, Help of Christians, a medieval attribute of Mary was taken up, which is also one of the invocations of the Litany of Laureta. The building has been a listed building since the 1980s.
Wikipedia: Maria, Hilfe der Christen (Spandau) (DE), Website, Heritage Website
41. Askanisches Gymnasium
The Askanisches Gymnasium is a school in the Berlin district of Tempelhof-Schöneberg. In 1875, the school was founded in Berlin's Friedrichsvorstadt under the name Ascanisches Gymnasium, in the building at Hallesche Straße 24–26. It was moved to Tempelhof from 1929 onwards, merged and renamed several times with other grammar schools and reform grammar schools. After 1945 it was called Askanische Oberschule, but was renamed Askanisches Gymnasium in 2012.
42. St. Georg
The Roman Catholic Church of St. George in the Berlin district of Pankow was consecrated in 1909 and consecrated in 1910 to the patron saint of St. George. The church belongs to the Archdiocese of Berlin. Today, the church belongs to the parish of Saint Theresa of Avila Berlin Nordost in the Archdiocese of Berlin, which was established on January 1, 2021, and to which the parishes of St. Josef (Berlin-Weißensee), Heilig Kreuz (Berlin-Hohenschönhausen) and Corpus Christi merged with the parish of St. George.
43. Theater an der Parkaue
The Theater an der Parkaue – Junges Staatstheater Berlin in Berlin-Lichtenberg is one of the largest state theatres for young audiences in Germany. The repertoire is aimed at children from the age of four, school classes of all ages, adolescents and young adults, families and individual visitors of all ages.
Wikipedia: Theater an der Parkaue (DE), Tiktok, Facebook, Instagram, Website, Youtube
44. St. Joseph
St. Josef in the Berlin district of Köpenick is a Catholic parish church in the deanery of Berlin Treptow-Köpenick, which stands in the Dammvorstadt. The church was dedicated to St. Joseph when it opened in 1899. It has been a listed building since the 1980s.
45. Ensemble Karl-Marx-Allee
Karl-Marx-Allee is a boulevard built by the GDR between 1952 and 1960 in Berlin Friedrichshain and Mitte. Today the boulevard is named after Karl Marx. It should not be confused with the Karl-Marx-Straße in the Neukölln district of Berlin.
46. Soho House Berlin
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
47. Knabe mit Essnapf
Fritz Cremer was a German sculptor. Cremer was considered a key figure in the art and cultural politics of East Germany. He is most notable for being the creator of the "Revolt of the Prisoners" memorial sculpture at the former concentration camp of Buchenwald.
48. Park am Gleisdreieck - Westpark
The Park am Gleisdreieck is a public green and recreational area in Berlin. The park, which covers around 31.5 hectares, is located on the wasteland of the former Anhalter and Potsdam freight station at Gleisdreieck and stretches from the Landwehr Canal via Yorckstraße to the Monumentenbrücke. The complex consists of three parts of the park, which were opened between 2011 and 2014:Ostpark in Kreuzberg, 17 hectares, opened on 2 September 2011, Westpark in Kreuzberg, 9 hectares, opened on 31 May 2013, Dora Duncker Park in Schöneberg, 5.5 hectares, opened on 21 March 2014.
49. Ullsteinhaus
The Ullsteinhaus in the south of Berlin in the Tempelhof district of the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district is a monument of brick expressionism and was built in the mid-1920s according to plans by Eugen Schmohl. With a height of 77 meters, it is a landmark visible from afar and an architectural landmark of this district. Until the completion of the Friedrich Engelhorn high-rise in 1957, it was the tallest high-rise in Germany for 30 years.
50. Das Center am Potsdamer Platz
The Center Potsdamer Platz, known as Sony Center until March 2023, is a complex of eight buildings located at the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany, designed by Helmut Jahn. It opened in 2000 and houses Sony's German headquarters. The cinemas in the center were closed at the end of 2019.
51. Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche
The Holy Cross Church in the Berlin district of Wilmersdorf is a Roman Catholic church that was built between 1911 and 1912 according to plans by the architect Max Hasak and incorporated into the northern row of houses on Hildegardstraße according to the general order of Empress Auguste Victoria. It is a single-nave church, faced with red bricks and designed with Gothic elements. The building is a listed building.
Wikipedia: Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche (Berlin-Wilmersdorf) (DE), Website
52. Bellevue Palace
Bellevue Palace, located in Berlin's Tiergarten district, has been the official residence of the president of Germany since 1994. The schloss is situated on the banks of the Spree river, near the Berlin Victory Column, along the northern edge of the Großer Tiergarten park. Its name – the French for "beautiful view" – derives from its scenic prospect over the Spree's course.
53. Heilig Kreuz-Kirche
The Holy Cross Church is a Protestant church in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg in the district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. It is located on Zossener Straße just before the Landwehr Canal, diagonally opposite the cemeteries in front of the Hallesches Tor. It was built between 1885 and 1888 according to plans by the master builder Johannes Otzen under the construction supervision of Julius Kleinau. Since 1 February 2000, the former Holy Cross parish has been united with the Passion parish in the Evangelical parish of the Holy Cross Passion of the Berlin city centre church district.
Wikipedia: Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche (Berlin-Kreuzberg) (DE), Heritage Website
54. 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.
55. Mahnmal (Hinrichtungsstätte der NS-Militärjustiz)
The Murellenberge, the Murellenschlucht and the Schanzenwald are a hilly landscape formed in the Weichselian Ice Age in the Berlin village of Ruhleben in the Westend district of the district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. The area is located west of the Olympic site. The largest part of the compression and terminal moraine landscape is designated as the Murellenschlucht and Schanzenwald nature reserve, which is part of the Ruhleben flowing meadow, Tiefwerder Wiesen and Grunewald biotope network. About 1⁄2 kilometers northeast of the area lies the Murellenteich natural monument.
Wikipedia: Murellenberge, Murellenschlucht und Schanzenwald (DE)
56. Fennpfuhlpark
Fennpfuhlpark is a local recreation area in the Berlin district of Fennpfuhl in the district of Lichtenberg. It has its origin in still waters that have remained in the flat terrain since the Ice Age.
57. Marion-Gräfin-Dönhoff-Platz
The Dönhoffplatz in Berlin on Leipziger Straße in the Mitte district was a square and green space named after the Prussian Lieutenant General Alexander von Dönhoff between the 1740s and 1975. In connection with the new development of Leipziger Straße, the square as such was abandoned in 1975. In 1979, a reconstruction of the Spittel colonnades was erected on the remaining nameless green area. In 2010, the area was given the name Marion-Gräfin-Dönhoff-Platz. The namesake Marion Gräfin Dönhoff comes - like Alexander von Dönhoff - from the noble family of the Dönhoffs.
58. French Friedrichsstadt Church
The French Friedrichstadt Church is a church on the Gendarmenmarkt in Friedrichstadt in the Berlin district of Mitte. It was built at the beginning of the 18th century by the Berlin Huguenot community. It is structurally connected to the French Cathedral, a tower built almost a hundred years later. Today, the church serves as a place of worship for the French Church of Berlin and the Communauté protestante francophone de Berlin.
59. Ressurection Church
The Church of the Resurrection of the Kirchenkreis Berlin Stadtmitte is a Protestant church in the Berlin district of Friedrichshain. It was built between 1892 and 1895 on the site of the former cemetery for the poor on Friedenstraße. Despite considerable structural changes after reconstruction in the 1950s, the church has been an architectural and cultural monument since the 1980s.
Wikipedia: Auferstehungskirche (Berlin-Friedrichshain) (DE), Website
60. Deutsches Technikmuseum
Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin in Berlin, Germany is a museum of science and technology, and exhibits a large collection of historical technical artifacts. The museum's main emphasis originally was on rail transport, but today it also features exhibits of various sorts of industrial technology. In 2003, it opened both maritime and aviation exhibition halls in a newly built extension. The museum also contains a science center called Spectrum.
Wikipedia: German Museum of Technology (EN), Website, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube
61. Auenkirche
The Evangelical Auenkirche is a church building in the Berlin district of Wilmersdorf in the district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. It is located in the western city center of Berlin, on the former village meadow of Wilmersdorf and near the Volkspark Wilmersdorf. The Auenkirche was built between 1895 and 1897 according to designs by Max Spitta in the neo-Gothic style of Berlin historicism and is a listed building.
Wikipedia: Auenkirche (Wilmersdorf) (DE), Website, Heritage Website
62. Martin-Luther-Gedächtniskirche
The Protestant Martin Luther Memorial Church in the Berlin district of Mariendorf is an architectural monument and contemporary testimony of a special kind. It was built from 1933 to 1935 on the basis of long-standing plans. In the design of the interior, state and church symbolism were mixed, as can still be seen today. For this reason, since about 2004, when it hit the headlines due to its poor state of construction, the church has occasionally been referred to in the press as the "Nazi Church". The community itself sees the remains of this design in the zeitgeist of 1933 as a memorial and memorial.
63. FU Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics was founded in 1927 in Berlin, Germany. The Rockefeller Foundation partially funded the actual building of the Institute and helped keep the Institute afloat during the Great Depression.
Wikipedia: Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics (EN)
64. Villa Grisebach
The Villa Grisebach is a city villa built in 1891/1892 by the architect Hans Grisebach for himself as a studio and house in Fasanenstrasse in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg. It is part of the so -called conservatory ensemble, which has been listed since 1981, which also includes the neighboring Literaturhaus Berlin, and today houses the Villa Grisebach auction house.
65. Haus am Waldsee
Since 1946, the Haus am Waldsee in the Berlin district of Zehlendorf in the district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf has been an exhibition venue for international contemporary art with a focus on all media of the visual arts, design, architecture and sound in Berlin. A sculpture park has been set up on the extensive grounds since 2005. From 2005 to 2021, art historian Katja Blomberg was in charge. In June 2022, art historian Anna Gritz, formerly curator of the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, took over as director.
66. Antonplatz
Antonplatz is a town square in the Weißensee district of Pankow in Berlin, which was laid out in the second half of the 19th century. It is located directly on Berliner Allee and covers around 1500 m².
67. St. Jacobi-Kirche
The St. Jacobi Church of the Kirchenkreis Berlin Stadtmitte is a Protestant church built in 1844/1845 in the style of an early Christian basilica in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg at Oranienstraße 132–134.
68. Immanuelkirche
The Immanuel Church is a Protestant church in the Winsviertel of the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg in the district of Pankow. It was inaugurated on 21 October 1893. Like many other churches in Berlin from the end of the 19th century, it is built in the neo-Romanesque style; it is a listed building. The Protestant parish of Immanuel, together with the Bartholomäus-Kirchgemeinde and the Advent-Zacchaeus-Kirchgemeinde, forms the parish of Am Prenzlauer Berg in the church district of Berlin Stadtmitte.
Wikipedia: Immanuelkirche (Berlin) (DE), Website, Heritage Website
69. Dreifaltigkeitskirche
The Protestant Trinity Church in the Berlin district of Lankwitz is the listed church building of the local Trinity Church parish. Colloquially, it is also called Lankwitz Church and thus gives this name to the local bus stops, among other things.
Wikipedia: Dreifaltigkeitskirche (Berlin-Lankwitz) (DE), Website
70. Dorfkirche Bohnsdorf
The Protestant village church of Bohnsdorf, a church building in the Baroque architectural style completed in 1757 according to a design by Johann Friedrich Lehmann, is the successor to a medieval church in the former rural community of Bohnsdorf on the Teltow. It is located on the village square in today's Berlin district of Bohnsdorf in the district of Treptow-Köpenick as part of a historic village green and is a listed building.
71. Waldbühne
The Waldbühne is a theatre at Olympiapark Berlin in Berlin, Germany. It was designed by German architect Werner March in emulation of a Greek theatre and built between 1934 and 1936 as the Dietrich-Eckart-Freilichtbühne, a Nazi Thingplatz, and opened in association with the 1936 Summer Olympics. Since World War II it has been used for a variety of events, including boxing matches, film showings and classical and rock concerts. It seats more than 22,000 people. The venue is located off Friedrich-Friesen-Allee just northeast of Glockenturmstraße.
72. Sankt Ludwig
The Catholic St. Ludwig Church in the Berlin district of Wilmersdorf on Ludwigkirchplatz was built between 1895 and 1897 by the architect August Menken. The church building in the style of North German brick Gothic is also called the "Ludwig Windthorst Memorial Church". It is dedicated to Saint Louis IX of France and was cared for by Franciscans from 1986 to 2020. Frank-Michael Scheele has been parish administrator of the parish since 2021.
Wikipedia: St. Ludwig (Berlin-Wilmersdorf) (DE), Website, Website, Heritage Website
73. Dorfkirche Marienfelde
The village church of Marienfelde in the Berlin district of Marienfelde is the centre of the central village green. Traditionally, Kurt Pomplun claims that the fieldstone church was built "around 1220" and thus "undoubtedly the oldest of all village churches in Berlin and one of the oldest in the Mittelmark". A roof beam found in 1995 was dendrochronologically dated to 1230; however, since it was in secondary use, the church can hardly have been built before 1240. Nevertheless, it is undoubtedly one of the oldest village churches in Berlin and the Mittelmark, where a village church that is certainly older is not known.
74. Wall Museum
The Checkpoint Charlie Museum is a private museum in Berlin. It is named after the famous crossing point through 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.
75. Rüdesheimer Platz
Rüdesheimer Platz is located in the Berlin district of Wilmersdorf and is the center of the Rheingauviertel. The square is flanked in the west by Rüdesheimer Straße and in the east by Ahrweilerstraße. The streets are named after towns and villages from the Rheingau-Taunus district in the state of Hesse. Since 1972, there has been a sponsorship between the former district of Wilmersdorf and the Rheingau-Taunus district, and a partnership since 1991. Since 1984, the partnership has also included the vineyard in the Wilmersdorf stadium with vines from the Rheingau-Taunus, from which the winegrowers press the Wilmersdorfer Rheingauperle. The first harvest was in autumn 1986.
76. Schwerbelastungskörper
The Schwerbelastungskörper is a large concrete cylinder located at the intersection of Dudenstraße, General-Pape-Straße, and Loewenhardtdamm in the northwestern part of the borough of Tempelhof in Berlin, Germany. It was built by Adolf Hitler's chief architect Albert Speer to determine the feasibility of constructing large buildings on the area's marshy, sandy ground. Erected between 1941 and 1942 it was meant to test the ground for a massive triumphal arch on a nearby plot. The arch, in the style of the Nazi architectural movement, was to be about three times as large as the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France. It was one component of a plan to redesign the center of Berlin as an imposing, monumental capital reflecting the spirit of Nazi Germany as envisioned by Hitler.
77. Communication Museum Berlin
The Museum of Communication Berlin is one of several locations of the Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation, a foundation under public law that is directly established by the federal government. It is located in Berlin's Mitte district in the building of the former Reichspostmuseum on the corner of Leipziger Straße and Mauerstraße. The building has been a listed building since 1977.
78. Volkspark Prenzlauer Berg
The Volkspark Prenzlauer Berg – created from the former Oderbruch dump – is a 29-hectare park on the eastern edge of the Pankow district, district of Prenzlauer Berg. The essential part of the park is a Trümmerberg double peak, which is 90.9 m above sea level at its highest point. The other peak, located more towards Hohenschönhauser Straße, is called "Hohes Plateau" and a stone marker says that it is "the highest elevation in Prenzlauer Berg", but this is inaccurate. According to measurements in the 1990s, it is only 89 m high. The summit twins are among the higher elevations in Berlin.
79. St. Franziskus
The parish church of St. Francis is a listed church building of the Roman Catholic Church in the Berlin district of Treptow-Köpenick, district of Friedrichshagen, strictly speaking a chapel. Inaugurated in 1906, it was destroyed by around 50 percent in the Second World War. The chapel was rebuilt and reconsecrated between 1950 and 1952.
Wikipedia: St. Franziskus (Berlin-Friedrichshagen) (DE), Heritage Website
80. Nöldnerplatz
Nöldnerplatz is a place in the Berlin district of Lichtenberg in the Rummelsburg district. He was named after the anti -fascist Erwin Nöldner, who was executed in 1944. The place is known for the S-Bahn station of the same name and the listed school complex built by Max Taut. Nöldnerplatz largely consists of green areas that have been redesigned since the late 1990s.
81. Bikini Berlin
The Bikini House is a listed building on Budapester Straße in City West in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg. The Bikini House is part of a building ensemble that today bears the name Bikini Berlin, historically the complex was called Zentrum am Zoo. These also included the high-rise building on Hardenbergplatz, the Zoo Palast, the Small High-Rise and the parking garage at the Zoo.
82. Corbusierhaus
Unité d'Habitation of Berlin is a 1958 apartment building located in Berlin-Westend, Germany, designed by Le Corbusier following his concept of Unité d'Habitation. Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation concept was materialised in four other buildings in France with a similar design. The building is constructed in béton brut and is part of the initial architecture style we know today as brutalism. The structure was built with on site prefab cast concrete panels and poured ceiling slabs. The Modulor system is the base measure of the Unité and Corbusier used not more than 15 Modulor measures to construct the entire structure form. Ultimately the work has been eliminated from Le Corbusier's oeuvre, which he confirmed himself until his death in 1965 and which has also been confirmed posthumous in 1967 in his last authorized publication of his work.
83. Alboinplatz
Alboinplatz is an inner-city garden monument in the southeast of the Berlin district of Schöneberg in the district of Tempelhof-Schöneberg. The oval square is located in the course of Alboinstraße directly on the border with the Tempelhof district, with only the eastern buildings belonging to Tempelhof. The streetscape of the square and the western buildings belong to Schöneberg.
84. Jerusalemskirche
Jerusalem Church is one of the churches of the Evangelical Congregation in the Friedrichstadt, a member of the Protestant umbrella organisation Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia. The present church building is located in Berlin, borough Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, in the quarter of Friedrichstadt. Jerusalem Church is fourth in rank of the oldest oratories in the town proper.
85. Lutherkirche
The Luther Church is a Protestant church in the Berlin district of Spandau. It was built in 1895–1896 and was fundamentally rebuilt inside in 1994–1997 and divided into a church room and a residential building.
Wikipedia: Lutherkirche (Berlin-Spandau) (DE), Website, Heritage Website
86. Flaschenkellergebäude
The bottle tower of the former Engelhardt brewery in the Berlin district of Friedrichshain, together with the nearby remains of the glassworks and the palm kernel oil reservoir, is one of the last industrial monuments on the Stralau peninsula.
87. St. Antonius & St. Shenouda Kirche
The church of faith in the Berlin district of Lichtenberg at today's Roedeliusplatz is a former Protestant church that was built between 1903 and 1905. As early as the 1980s, the East Berlin magistrate placed it under monument protection. Since 1998, the building has been owned by the Coptic Church, which is carrying out a gradual renovation, expanding the church into a Coptic bishop's seat and transforming it into an ecumenical centre. The church was renamed St. Anthony's and St. Shenouda's Church.
Wikipedia: Glaubenskirche (Berlin-Lichtenberg) (DE), Website, Heritage Website
88. Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Berlin, Annenstraße 52/53, is a place of worship of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church (SELK) and is located in the Luisenstadt in the Berlin district of Mitte in the district of the same name. It is the first church of the Evangelical Lutheran (Old Lutheran) Church of the city. The parish belongs to the church district of Berlin-Brandenburg. The church is also popularly known as St. Anne's Church because of its location on Annenstraße and is a registered architectural monument.
Wikipedia: Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche Berlin (DE), Website
89. Universum Landes-Ausstellungs-Park
ULAP refers to the former Universum Landes-Ausstellungs-Park in the Berlin district of Moabit in the district of Mitte. The park was located in a triangle formed by Invalidenstraße, Alt-Moabit Street and today's Berlin Central Station. It was cut through by the Berlin Stadtbahn in the first years of its existence. The original name Landesausstellungspark was given the addition Universum when it started as an amusement park in 1921.
90. Friedhof Grunewald
The Grunewald cemetery was created in 1891/92 for the Grunewald villa colony in Berlin. It is located at Bornstedter Straße 11/12 in the Halensee district of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district. Because of its isolated location between railway tracks, the cemetery is also called the Isle of the Dead.
91. BKA-Theater
The Berliner Kabarett Anstalt is a private cabaret theatre in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg. Since 1988, it has presented 34 artists from the fields of music, musical, cabaret, comedy, chanson and travesty on Mehringdamm.
92. Rathaus Schmargendorf
Schmargendorf Town Hall is the former town hall of the once independent municipality of Schmargendorf, which was incorporated into Berlin in 1920 and has been a district of the Berlin district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf since 2001. The historicizing building was built between 1900 and 1902 according to plans by Otto Kerwien in the style of the Brandenburg brick Gothic. With his design of the town hall, Kerwien referred to the mostly medieval secular buildings of Tangermünde and Stendal. Today, the registry office of the district, the music school and the branch of the city library called the Adolf Reichwein Library are located here.
93. Sankt Canisius
The church of St. Canisius at Witzlebenstraße 30 in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf is the parish church of the Roman Catholic parish of the same name in the Archdiocese of Berlin. It was built between 2000 and 2002 to replace a church that burned down in 1995. It is named after St. Peter Canisius, one of the first Jesuits in Germany.
94. French Cathedral
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.
95. Mauritiuskirche
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Mauritius is located in the Frankfurter Allee Süd development area in Berlin's Lichtenberg district, built between 1969 and 1976, and was consecrated in 1892. It is the parish church of the parish of St. Mauritius Berlin – Lichtenberg-Friedrichshain in the Archdiocese of Berlin.
96. Zoo Palast
The Zoo Palast is a cinema in the western center of Berlin in the district of Charlottenburg. The cinema in Hardenbergstraße currently belongs to Premium Entertainment GmbH. The business was rebuilt and reopened on 27 November 2013.
97. Schönhausen Palace
Schönhausen Palace is a Baroque palace at Niederschönhausen, in the borough of Pankow, Berlin, Germany. It is surrounded by gardens through which the Panke river runs. The palace is maintained by the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg and reopened to the public in 2009 after extensive restoration.
98. Invaliden-Friedhof
The Invalids' Cemetery is one of the oldest cemeteries in Berlin. It was the traditional resting place of the Prussian Army, and is regarded as particularly important as a memorial to the German Wars of Liberation of 1813–15.
99. Botschaft der Republik Polen
The Polish Embassy in Berlin is the diplomatic representation of the Republic of Poland in the Federal Republic of Germany. It is located at Lassenstraße 19–21 in the Grunewald district of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district. Until 1994, the Berlin headquarters of the embassy were located at Unter den Linden 70–72 and are to be rebuilt on this site.
100. New Church
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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