Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #12 in Berlin, Germany

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Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 8.8 km
Ascend 109 m
Descend 105 m

Experience Berlin in Germany in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in BerlinIndividual Sights in Berlin

Sight 1: Gipsformerei

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The Gipsformerei in Berlin has been producing plaster casts of important sculptures from Berlin museums and other collections without interruption since 1819.

Wikipedia: Gipsformerei (DE), Heritage Website

380 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 2: Freie Theateranstalten Berlin

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The Freie Theateranstalten is an independent theatre in Berlin, founded in 1974.

Wikipedia: Freie Theateranstalten (DE), Website

234 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 3: 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 location of the same name in the district of Charlottenburg, which is sometimes also referred to as Danckelmannkiez and which extends south of the square, is named after the square.

Wikipedia: Klausenerplatz (DE)

299 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 4: 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

104 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 5: 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 Emperor Wilhelm I in 1870 as participants in the Franco-German War. The figure by the sculptors Eugen Boermel and Conrad Freyberg from 1901 stands at the north end of Schloßstraße in Berlin-Charlottenburg.

Wikipedia: Prinz-Albrecht-von-Preußen-Denkmal (Berlin) (DE)

116 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 6: 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), Website

205 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 7: 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

656 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 8: Charlottenburg Palace

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

Wikipedia: Schloss Charlottenburg (EN)

189 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin

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Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum BerlinDe-okin 19:57, 21 August 2008 (UTC) / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Käthe Kollwitz Museum is a museum in Berlin that owns one of the largest collections of works by the German artist Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), who lived and worked in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg for over 50 years.

Wikipedia: Käthe Kollwitz Museum (Berlin) (EN), Website

837 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 10: Friedrich Wilhelm

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The equestrian statue of Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg is a bronze equestrian statue installed outside Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin, Germany.

Wikipedia: Equestrian statue of Friedrich Wilhelm I (EN)

165 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 11: Friedrich der Große

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The statue of Frederick the Great is installed outside Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin, Germany.

Wikipedia: Statue of Frederick the Great (Charlottenburg Palace) (EN)

406 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 12: Schlossbrücke

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The Schloßbrücke in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg is a steel arch bridge over the Spree. The current construction is a building from the years 1926 to 1928, after the first traffic route across the river had already been built at the time of the construction of Charlottenburg Palace at the beginning of the 18th century. The bridge is a listed building.

Wikipedia: Schloßbrücke (Berlin-Charlottenburg) (DE)

985 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 13: Neuapostolische Kirche Berlin - Charlottenburg

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The New Apostolic Church Berlin-Charlottenburg is a sacred building of the New Apostolic Church (NAC) in the District Church of Berlin Brandenburg. It is located at Wernigeroder Straße 10 at the corner of Nordhäuser Straße 3 in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg. It was built between 1929 and 1930 according to a design by Albert Gericke. The architectural style has echoes of New Objectivity, but with reminiscences of Expressionism.

Wikipedia: Neuapostolische Kirche (Berlin-Charlottenburg) (DE), Url

186 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Goslarer Platz

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Goslarer Platz is a small green space in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg on the border of the Moabit-West industrial area. It was created in connection with the development of the city of Charlottenburg at the beginning of the 20th century. It was named after the town of Goslar in the Harz Mountains.

Wikipedia: Goslarer Platz (DE)

1086 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 15: Peter-Behrens-Halle

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The AEG turbine factory was built in 1909, at Huttenstraße 12–16 in the Moabit district of Berlin. It is the best-known work of architect Peter Behrens. The 100 m long steel-framed building with 15 m tall glass windows on either side is considered the first attempt to introduce restrained modern design to industrial architecture. It was a bold move, and world first that would have a durable impact on architecture as a whole.

Wikipedia: AEG turbine factory (EN)

1013 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 16: Sankt Paulus

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Sankt Paulus

The Church of St. Paul is the parish church of the Catholic parish of the same name in the Berlin district of Moabit in the district of Mitte at the corner of Waldenserstraße (main entrance) and Oldenburger Straße. It is also a monastery church of the Dominicans. The church building and the parish and parish hall are registered in the list of monuments of the state of Berlin.

Wikipedia: St. Paulus (Berlin) (DE), Website, Heritage Website

306 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 17: Arminiusmarkthalle

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The Moabit Market Hall, opened as Markthalle X in 1891, was built within just one year according to the plans of the architect Hermann Blankenstein. The main entrance to the market hall is located on Arminiusstraße in the Berlin district of Moabit. The building is surrounded by Bremer Straße (west), Bugenhagenstraße (north) and Jonasstraße (east).

Wikipedia: Moabiter Markthalle (DE), Website

320 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 18: Heilandskirche

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The Church of the Redeemer in Berlin-Moabit is the parish church of the Protestant parish of Tiergarten. The neo-Gothic church on Thusnelda-Allee with its 87-metre-high tower is the focal point on the western edge of the Kleiner Tiergarten. The area is bordered in the north by Turmstraße and in the south by Alt-Moabit Street.

Wikipedia: Heilandskirche (Berlin) (DE), Website

769 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 19: Friedensstatue

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The Statue of Peace is a memorial on Unionsplatz in the Moabit district of Berlin's Mitte district for the "comfort women". It is also intended to be a symbol against sexualised violence against girls and women in general. The memorial was initiated by the Korea Association's comfort women action group and inaugurated on September 28, 2020. Around the statue, a discourse on cultures of remembrance has developed between local, state and diplomatic levels.

Wikipedia: Friedensstatue (DE)

585 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 20: Heilige-Geist-Kirche

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Heilige-Geist-Kirche

The Protestant Church of the Holy Spirit, built between 1905 and 1906 according to plans by Georg Dinklage and Ernst Paulus on the acute-angled corner plot at Perleberger Straße 36/Birkenstraße 60/61, forms the urban centre of the Stephankiez in the Berlin district of Moabit. On December 19, 1906, the church was consecrated in the presence of Empress Auguste Victoria. In the Second World War, the Church of the Holy Spirit suffered only very minor damage. Only the coloured glass windows had to be replaced. The church in historicizing Gothic style, reminiscent of Brandenburg traditions, is a listed building. The Evangelical parish of Heilige-Geist belongs to the church district of Berlin Stadtmitte (KKBS) of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia (EKBO).

Wikipedia: Heilige-Geist-Kirche (Berlin-Moabit) (DE)

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