Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #7 in Berlin, Germany
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3.3 km
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Experience Berlin in Germany in a whole new way with our free 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 BerlinSight 1: Dankeskirche
The Protestant Church of Thanksgiving was built by Fritz Bornemann from 1970 to 1972 on Weddingplatz in the Berlin district of Wedding in the Mitte district. The building ensemble of hall church and community center is a listed building.
Sight 2: Baptistenkirche Wedding
The Baptist Church of Wedding is located at the back of the property at Müllerstraße 14a in Berlin-Wedding. It is a neo-Gothic chapel without a tower and was built at the end of the 19th century by Carl Moritz as a brick building.
Sight 3: Max-Josef-Metzger-Platz
Max-Josef-Metzger-Platz is a town square in the Berlin district of Wedding. The triangular square was built in 1862 according to plans by the city planning officer James Hobrecht and is today bordered in the west by Müllerstraße, in the north by Gerichtstraße and in the east by a paved path that connects Müllerstraße with Gerichtstraße. Since 21 April 1994, the square has borne his name in memory of Pastor Max Josef Metzger (1887–1944).
Sight 4: St. Joseph
St. Joseph is a Catholic church and former parish in Berlin-Wedding, Germany, built from 1907 to 1909 to a design by Wilhelm Rincklake, revised by Wilhelm Frydag in Romanesque revival style. It seats 3000 people. Since 2018 the church has served as an interim cathedral while St. Hedwig's Cathedral is restored.
Wikipedia: St. Joseph, Wedding (EN), Website, Heritage Website
Sight 5: Prime Time Theater
The Prime Time Theater is a modern Volkstheater in Berlin’s Wedding district. The name of the theater derives from the fact that the time the play starts marks the beginning of prime time.
Wikipedia: Prime Time Theater (EN), Website, Facebook, Instagram
Sight 6: Sparrplatz
Sparrplatz is located in the Berlin district of Wedding in the Sprengelkiez district, an area of around 51 hectares and 16,633 inhabitants.
Sight 7: Osterkirche
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.
Sight 8: Sprengelpark
Sprengelpark is a one-hectare park in the Berlin district of Wedding between Sprengelstraße and Kiautschoustraße on the site of the former aircraft company Rohrbach Metallflugzeugbau.
Sight 9: Pekinger Platz
Pekinger Platz in Berlin's Wedding district of the Mitte district is a small green space that was created during the development of the new residential district at the end of the 19th century. In 1890, a men's asylum was built on it, the type of which is known as "Café Achteck" and is now protected as an architectural monument.
Sight 10: Café Achteck
Café Achteck is a common local slang for certain public urinals in Berlin. These urinals consist of seven ornamentally decorated, green-painted cast iron wall segments, arranged onto an octagonal floor plan, provide standing room for seven men, and the eighth side is the entrance. The roof is crowned by an eight-sided ventilation hood. In front of the entrance, there is a privacy screen of at least three segments. The design for these urinals came from the city councillor Carl Theodor Rospatt in 1878. In 1920 there were about 142 of these urinals in Greater Berlin, and today about a dozen preserved specimens can be found.
Sight 11: Mahnmal zur Erinnerung an die Deportation jüdischer Bürger
The Putlitzbrücke deportation memorial is located on the east side of the Putlitzbrücke in the Berlin district of Moabit. At this point, the bridge spans the Moabit freight yard, from whose tracks 69, 81 and 82 more than 32,000 Jewish citizens were deported to the concentration camps from January 1942.
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