Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #9 in Berlin, Germany
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10.9 km
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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 BerlinSight 1: Rosengarten
The Rose Garden is a garden in the Großer Tiergarten in Berlin, Germany.
Sight 2: 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.
Sight 3: Büffeljagd
Altgermanische Wisentjagd, or Altgermanische Büffeljagd, is an outdoor sculpture by Fritz Schaper, installed along Fasanerieallee in the Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany.
Sight 4: Eberjagd
Eberjagd um 1500 is an outdoor sculpture by Karl Begas, installed at Fasanerieallee in Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany.
Sight 5: Hasenhetze
Hasenhatz zur Rokokozeit, or Hasenhatz der Rokokozeit, is an outdoor sculpture by Max Baumbach, installed at Fasanerieallee in the Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany.
Sight 6: Fuchsjagd
Churfürstliche Fuchsjagd, also known as Die Fuchsjagd zur Kaiserzeit or Zeitgenössische Fuchsjagd, is an outdoor 1904 sculpture by Wilhelm Haverkamp, installed at Fasanerieallee in the Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany.
Sight 7: ehem. Dänisches Gesandthaus
The Danish Legation in Berlin in the embassy district of the Berlin district of Tiergarten was built from 1938 to 1940 as the headquarters of the Danish diplomatic mission in Germany. The building was designed by Johann Emil Schaudt in the neoclassical style and is now a listed building. The embassy building is no longer used as a diplomatic mission.
Sight 8: Theodor Fontane
A statue of Theodor Fontane by German sculptors Max Klein and Frtz Schaper is installed at Großer Tiergarten in Berlin, Germany.
Sight 9: Embassy of the Syrian Arab Republic
The Embassy of Syria in Berlin is the diplomatic mission of the Syrian Arab Republic in Germany. It is located at Rauchstraße 25 in Berlin.
Sight 10: 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.
Sight 11: The Flow-of-Time Clock
The Clock of Flowing Time is a 13 metres (43 ft) high water clock extending over three floors in the Berlin Europa-Center. The clock was designed by the French artist Bernard Gitton and set up in 1982.
Sight 12: Europa-Center
The Europa-Center is a building complex on Breitscheidplatz in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin, with a shopping mall and a high-rise tower 86 metres (282 ft) tall. Built between 1963 and 1965, by 2003 it had been designated as a historically preserved building.
Sight 13: Weltkugelbrunnen
The Weltkugelbrunnen is a water feature in front of the Europa-Center in Breitscheidplatz, Berlin.
Sight 14: 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.
Sight 15: 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.
Sight 16: 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.
Sight 17: Museum of Photography
The Museum of Photography in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin, Germany, is one of the Berlin State Museums administered by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation.
Sight 18: C/O Berlin
C/O Berlin is a private exhibition space for photography and visual media in Berlin. It is located in Amerika Haus Berlin by Zoologischer Garten station, Charlottenburg, where it has more than 2,500 square metres of space. C/O Berlin presents works by national and international artists, supports emerging talents, and organizes educational events on visual media and art. It was founded in 2000 by Stephan Erfurt, Marc Naroska and Ingo Pott and originally located in the old Royal Post Office (Postfuhramt). C/O Berlin is supported by a non-profit foundation under the direction of Stephan Erfurt. The deputy chairman is Dr. Andreas Behr.
Sight 19: Amerika-Haus
The Amerika Haus Berlin is an institution that was developed following the end of the World War II, to provide an opportunity for German citizens to learn more about American culture and politics, and engage in discussion and debate on the transatlantic relationship. Run by the American government until 2006, Berlin's Amerika Haus is one of many Amerika Häuser located across Germany.
Sight 20: Stage Theater des Westens
The Theater des Westens is one of the most famous theatres for musicals and operettas in Berlin, Germany, located at Kantstraße 10–12 in Charlottenburg. It was founded in 1895 for plays. The present house was opened in 1896 and dedicated to opera and operetta. Enrico Caruso made his debut in Berlin here, and the Ballets Russes appeared with Anna Pavlova. In the 1930s it was run as the Volkstheater Berlin. After World War II it served as the temporary opera house of Berlin, the Städtische Oper. In 1961 it became the first theatre in Germany to show musicals. Since then it has become the "German equivalent of Broadway extravaganzas", putting on plays and musical comedies.
Sight 21: Vaganten Bühne
The Vagantenbühne is a private theatre located near the Zoologischer Garten station and the Kurfürstendamm in the City West in Kantstraße in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin. The theatre has 100 seats and is now a functional building with studio character. It shares the building with the Quasimodo jazz club, the Qmodo Restaurant, and the Delphi Film Palace. In the immediate vicinity are the Theater des Westens, the C/O Berlin gallery and the Savoy Hotel opposite. Since 1980, the Vagantenbühne has been run as a gGmbH.
Sight 22: Steinplatz
Steinplatz is a square in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin, Germany. It is located approximately in the middle of Hardenbergstraße opposite the University of the Arts (UdK) and was named after the statesman and reformer Freiherr Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, a contemporary of Hardenberg.
Sight 23: Kantgaragen
Kant-Garage, also known in German as Kant-Garagen-Palast, is a multi-storey car park on Kantstrasse in the Charlottenburg area of Berlin that opened in 1930.
Sight 24: Holtzendorff-Garage
The Holtzendorff Garage in the Berlin district of Halensee was a large garage with a public petrol station built by the well-known Berlin architects Walter and Johannes Krüger between 1928 and 1929 on the corner of Heilbronner Straße and Holtzendorffstraße. Only the petrol station was preserved, and the dismantling of the listed rows of garages took place in 2012 with the approval of the district administration and the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf monument authority.
Sight 25: Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz
The Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz is a famous theatre in the Wilmersdorf district of Berlin, located on the Kurfürstendamm boulevard. It is a conversion of the Universum cinema, built according to plans designed by Erich Mendelsohn in 1928.
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Sight 26: 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.
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