Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #14 in Berlin, Germany

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.

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The Trabi Museum Berlin is a car museum in Germany.

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Since September 2012, the Asisi Panorama Berlin has been located at the former Checkpoint Charlie at Friedrichstraße 205, showing the panorama The Wall – the Asisi Panorama on divided Berlin. The monumental circular painting by Yadegar Asisi thematizes the Cold War and the division of German Germany in Berlin.

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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 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.

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The relief sculpture Friede sei mit Dir, also known as the cock of Berlin is an artwork by sculptor Peter Lenk. It is located in Berlin at the former building of the editorial staff of German newspaper taz.

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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.

Wikipedia: Jerusalem Church (Berlin) (EN)

The sculpture Balancing Act is the work of the German sculptor Stephan Balkenhol. It stands in front of the Axel Springer high-rise on the corner of Axel-Springer-Straße and Zimmerstraße in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg.

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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.

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The Spittelkolonnaden in Berlin is a late Baroque ornamental building by Carl Philipp von Gontard on Marion-Gräfin-Dönhoff-Platz in the Mitte district near the Spittelmarkt. Originally, they consisted of an ensemble of two semicircular open columned halls, which at the time of their construction in 1776 served as the border of a bridge over the southern moat, which was an unsightly sewage ditch at the time.

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The Werkbund Archive – Museum of Things in Berlin is a museum dedicated to the material culture of the 20th and 21st centuries, which was shaped by industrial mass and commodity production.

Wikipedia: Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge (DE)

The House of Paper is a museum for fine paper art at Spitteleck in Berlin-Mitte, which opened on May 22, 2021.

Wikipedia: Haus des Papiers (DE), Website

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

Wikipedia: Grünstraßenbrücke (DE), Heritage Website

Waldeckpark is located in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg in the street square Alexandrinenstraße, Alte Jakobstraße and Oranienstraße. On its western side, it touches the grounds of the Federal Printing Office.

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The Luisenstädtische Kirchpark is located in Berlin's Mitte district on Alte Jakobstraße/Sebastianstraße. It is named after the Luisenstadt Church, which stood here until 1964.

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The Theaterhaus Berlin is a central rehearsal and production location as well as a communication platform for independent performing artists of all genres in Berlin. The Theaterhaus Mitte became the Theaterhaus Berlin with the additional location in the Schöneweide district.

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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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The Wusterhausener Bär or Wusterhausenische Baer is a small tower in the Köllnischer Park at the Märkisches Museum in Berlin's Mitte district. It is the last surviving part of Berlin's defences, which the Great Elector had built after the Thirty Years' War between 1662 and 1683.

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The Luisenstadt Canal, or Luisenstädtischer Kanal, is a 2.3-kilometre-long (1.4 mi) former canal in Berlin, Germany. It is named after the Luisenstadt district and ran through today's districts of Kreuzberg and Mitte, linking the Landwehr Canal with the Spree River, and serving a central canal basin known as the Engelbecken or Angel's Pool. The canal is named after Queen Louise, the wife of King Friedrich Wilhelm III.

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The sculpture Craftsman with Son, also known as the "Father Group", is a work created in 1898 by the German stone and wood sculptor Wilhelm Haverkamp from Lasa marble. Together with its counterpart Mother with Child, the so-called "Mother Group", she was initially part of a group of monuments with an exedra on the no longer preserved Andreasplatz in the Berlin district of Friedrichshain. After the destruction of the complex, the sculpture was positioned separately on a high pedestal in 1960. It is now located in Andreasstraße opposite its former location and is a listed building.

Wikipedia: Handwerker mit Sohn (DE)

The Sankt-Antonius-Kirche is a Roman Catholic church in the Friedrichshain district of Berlin. It is located on Rüdersdorfer Straße and is a listed building.

Wikipedia: St. Antonius (Berlin-Friedrichshain) (DE)

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.

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The Computerspielemuseum is a German video game museum founded in 1997. From 1997 to 2000, it had a permanent exhibition in Berlin. Afterward, it became an online-only museum. In 2011, the museum reopened its permanent exhibition in Berlin's neighborhood of Friedrichshain, on Karl-Marx-Allee. During the first month of its permanent exhibition, it had 12,000 visitors.

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The Berlin Criminal Theatre was founded in 2000 by director Wolfgang Rumpf and dramaturg Wolfgang Seppelt.

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The Rose Garden is a park in the Friedrichshain district of Berlin, Germany. The park is located on the north side of Karl-Marx-Allee 103–105 near the Weberwiese underground station between the two entrances and extends over a length of about 100 meters. The park is characterized by a lawn in the middle. At the edge run paths that are entwined with beds of roses, other flowers and shrubs.

Wikipedia: Rosengarten (Berlin-Friedrichshain) (DE)

The Church of St. Nicholas is part of a building ensemble at Hildegard-Jadamowitz-Straße 25 in Friedrichshain, the location is opposite the junction of Kadiner Straße. The church has more of the character of a small chapel and is located in the basement of the side wing of the ensemble. The patron saint of the church is St. Nicholas of Myra.

Wikipedia: St. Nikolaus (Berlin-Friedrichshain) (DE), Website

The Pentecost Church at Petersburger Platz 5 is a Protestant church in Berlin-Friedrichshain near Bersarinplatz. The church was consecrated in 1908 and is the center of the Evangelical Pentecostal Church. It belongs to the church district of Berlin Stadtmitte in the district of Berlin of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia.

Wikipedia: Pfingstkirche (Berlin) (DE), Website

Forckenbeckplatz is a green space in the Berlin district of Friedrichshain. It is located in the northern part of the Samaritan Quarter and is bordered by Eldenaer Straße in the north, Bänschstraße in the south, Liebigstraße in the west and Proskauer Straße in the east.

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The Lichtenberg City Park is a 5.3-hectare green space in the Berlin district of Lichtenberg, which was laid out from 1907 and redesigned several times. It is an amusement park with a small open-air stage, many sports facilities and art objects, a quiet large pond and rare old trees.

Wikipedia: Stadtpark Lichtenberg (DE)