Touring Berlin
Berlin in Land Berlin with it's 3,426,354 residents is a town located in Germany. It's the capital of this country.
Time in Berlin is now 09:07 AM (Tuesday). The local timezone is named Europe / Berlin with an UTC offset of one hour. We know of 8 airports nearby Berlin, of which 4 are larger airports. The closest airport in Germany is Berlin-Tegel International Airport in a distance of 6 mi (or 9 km), North-West. Besides the airports, there are other travel options available (check left side).
There are several Unesco world heritage sites nearby. The closest heritage site in Germany is Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin in a distance of 1 mi (or 1 km), South-West. We collected 5 points of interest near this location. Need some hints on where to stay? We compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
Being here already, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Schoenefeld, Ahrensfelde, Grossbeeren, Birkenwerder and Kleinmachnow. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info. Let's start with some photos from the area.
Hotels and Places to Stay
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Hotel Indigo BERLIN - CENTRE ALEXANDERPLATZ
The Weinmeister
Adina Apartment Hotel Hackescher Markt
Alexander Plaza
casa camper
Holiday Inn BERLIN - CENTRE ALEXANDERPLATZ
H4 Hotel Berlin Alexanderplatz
Park Inn by Radisson Berlin Alexanderplatz
Mädchenkammer Pension
Videos from this area
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Visite de Berlin : ville historique, culturelle et décalée
http://bit.ly/1axbS0Q Alex, le reporter voyageur de Voyages-sncf.com découvre toutes les facette de Berlin! Berlin l'historique car il commence sa visite depuis l'Alexanderplatz au pied de...
Berlin, Germany - July 2012 (1080 HD)
Montage of video footage taken from around Berlin, Germany's capital city on warm Summer days in July 2012. Berlin is a world city of culture, politics, media, and science. Its economy is primarily...
TOWERDEFENSE MIT WIRTSCHAFT #01 || Let's Play Bloons Monkey City | Deutsch
Let's Play von Bloons Monkey City, einem ziemlich guten Towerdefense Spiel, mit mehr als nur normalen Tower Defense Elementen =▻ Abo: http://goo.gl/bVGIKs =▻ Playlist: https://www.youtube...
EPT 8 Berlin 2012 - Main Event, Episode 1 | PokerStars.com
http://pokerstars.com Once again Berlin plays host to the EPT. The local pros are out in force but will need to best a field of big names to book a win on home turf. Featuring Barry Greenstein,...
Hinter den Kulissen des Staatsballett Berlin (Stoliza)
Das Berliner Kulturpublikum darf sich diese Weihnachtszeit besonders freuen, denn im Berliner Staatsballett wird eine Neuinszenierung des Nussknacker aufgeführt. Für die Aufführung des berühmte...
Berlin City - Tourist Board Video 2012 - a long walking in the intimacy of the city ...
From June 28 th to July 4 th 2012 . A long walk from west to east in Berlin , by following this route : - The Berlin's suburbs and its mysterious formers americans listenings stations...
DRAGON CITY || Angespielt | Deutsch | German
Ein neues Let's Test von Dragon City :) =▻ Abo: http://goo.gl/bVGIKs =▻ für IOS: https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/dragon-city-mobile/id561941526?mt=8 =▻ für Android: https://play.google.co...
Elektrisch ins Jrüne - Ausflugsbahnen rund um Berlin
Zu den sehenswerten Eisenbahn-Schätzen rund um Berlin gehören die Buckower Kleinbahn, die Strausberger Eisenbahn mit ihrer europaweit einmaligen Elektrofähre und die Woltersdorfer ...
U2 Potsdamer Platz (U-Bahn Berlin)
Baureihe GI/1E (Gisela) fährt zur Endstation Pankow, Type GI/1E (Gisela) goes to final station Pankow.
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Alexanderplatz
Alexanderplatz is a large public square and transport hub in the central Mitte district of Berlin, near the Fernsehturm. Berliners often call it simply Alex, referring to a larger neighbourhood stretching from Mollstraße in the northeast to Spandauer Straße and the City Hall in the southwest.
Rotes Rathaus
The Rotes Rathaus (Red City Hall) is the town hall of Berlin, located in the Mitte district on Rathausstraße near Alexanderplatz. It is the home to the governing mayor and the government of the Federal state of Berlin. The name of the landmark building dates from the facade design with red clinker bricks.
Fernsehturm Berlin
The Fernsehturm (English: television tower) is a television tower in the city centre of Berlin, Germany. Close to Alexanderplatz, the tower was constructed between 1965 and 1969 by the administration of the German Democratic Republic. It was intended as a symbol of Berlin, which it remains today, as it is easily visible throughout the central and some suburban districts of Berlin. With its height of 368 meters, it is the tallest structure in Germany.
Volksbühne
The Volksbühne ("People's Theatre") is a theater in Berlin, Germany. Located in Berlin's city center Mitte on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (Rosa Luxemburg Square) in what was the GDR's capital. The Volksbühne was built during the years 1913 to 1914 and was designed by Oskar Kaufmann, with integrated sculpture by Franz Metzner. It has its origin in an organization known as the "Freie Volksbühne" ("Free People's Theater") which sketched out the vision for a theater "of the people" in 1892.
Scheunenviertel
Scheunenviertel (means "Barn Quarter") refers to a neighborhood of Mitte in the centre of Berlin. It is situated to the north of the medieval Altberlin area, east of the Rosenthaler Straße and Hackescher Markt. Until the Second World War it was regarded as a slum district and had a substantial Jewish population with a high proportion of migrants from Eastern Europe.
Neptunbrunnen
The Neptune Fountain in Berlin was built in 1891 and was designed by Reinhold Begas. The Roman god Neptune is in the center. The four women around him represent the four main rivers of Prussia: Elbe, Rhine, Vistula, and Oder. The fountain was removed from its original location at the Schlossplatz in 1951, when the former Berliner Stadtschloss (Berlin City Palace) there was demolished.
Rosenstrasse protest
The Rosenstrasse protest was a nonviolent protest in Rosenstraße ("Rose street") in Berlin in February and March 1943, carried out by the non-Jewish wives and relatives of Jewish men who had been arrested for deportation. The protests escalated until the men were released. It was a significant instance of opposition to the events of the Holocaust.
Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (Berlin U-Bahn)
Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz is a Berlin U-Bahn station located on the U2. It was formerly called Schönhauser Tor and is located at the foot of Schönhauser Allee, at the corner of Torstraße. Build in 1913 by Grenander its first name was "Schönhauser Tor". In 1934 the name was changed to "Horst-Wessel-Platz". After the war in 1945 it got its first name again. However in 1950 it was named Luxemburgplatz, then in 1978 precise in Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz to avoid confusion with the country.
Karl-Liebknecht-Straße
Karl-Liebknecht-Straße is a major street in the German capital Berlin, Mitte district. It is named after one of the founders of the Communist Party of Germany, Karl Liebknecht. It connects the boulevard Unter den Linden with the arterial road Prenzlauer Allee, leading to the northern border of the city.
Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße
Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße is a street in central Berlin, the capital of Germany. The street runs north from Dircksenstraße in the inner eastern part of the city, to Torstraße where it becomes Schönhauser Allee. The best-known building on Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße is the Volksbühne ("people's theatre") at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (which was called Bülowplatz before World War II and Horst-Wessel-Platz during the Nazi period).
St. Mary's Church, Berlin
St. Mary's Church, known in German as the Marienkirche, is a church in Berlin, Germany. It is located on Karl-Liebknecht-Straße (formerly Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße) in central Berlin, near Alexanderplatz. The exact age of the original church site and structure is not precisely known, but it was first mentioned in German chronicles in 1292. It is presumed to date from earlier in the 13th century.
Weinmeisterstraße (Berlin U-Bahn)
Weinmeisterstraße is a Berlin U-Bahn station located on the U8. It was built in 1930 by A. Grenander and shortly closed during World War II. During the Berlin Wall (from 1961) the station was closed by the East German government, later on top of the entrances apartments were built. In 1990 when it was reopened there were some difficulties to open them again.
Jüdenstraße (Berlin-Mitte)
The Jüdenstraße, is a street in central Berlin, the capital of Germany. It is in the borough of Mitte and runs between Rathausstraße and Stralauer Straße, next to the Rotes Rathaus, Berlin's town hall. It is one of the oldest streets in Berlin, dating from the late 13th century. Its name preserves the old East Central German expression for Jews, which was Jüden, instead of New High German Juden.
Greater Berlin Act
The Greater Berlin Act, in full the Law Regarding the Reconstruction of the New Local Authority of Berlin (German: Gesetz über die Bildung einer neuen Stadtgemeinde Berlin), was a law passed by the Prussian government in 1920 that greatly expanded the size of the German capital of Berlin.
Berlin Alexanderplatz station
Berlin Alexanderplatz is a railway station in the Mitte district of Berlin's city centre. It is one of the busiest transportation hubs in the Berlin area. The station is named for the Alexanderplatz square on which it is located, immediately beneath the Fernsehturm and the World clock.
Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
The Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz is a square in Berlin-Mitte, Germany. The square is dominated by the Volksbühne and by the Karl-Liebknecht-Haus, the headquarters of the German Left Party. The party's predecessor, the Communist Party of Germany, opened its headquarters on the square in 1926. The square was previously named Babelsberger Platz (1907-1910) and Bülowplatz (1910-1933).
Karl-Liebknecht-Haus
The Karl-Liebknecht-Haus or Karl Liebknecht House is the headquarters of the Party The Left in Germany. It is located between the Alexanderplatz and Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin-Mitte. Constructed in 1912 as a factory, the building was purchased by the Communist Party of Germany (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands, KPD) in 1926 and became the seat of its Central Committee.
Hackescher Markt
The Hackescher Markt ("Hacke's Market", named after Townmajor Hans Christoph Friedrich Graf von Hacke) is a square in the central Mitte locality of Berlin, Germany, situated at the eastern end of Oranienburger Strasse.
Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Archives
The Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Archives is an upper-level federal agency of Germany that preserves and protects the archives and investigates the past crimes of the former Stasi, the secret police and intelligence organization of the communist German Democratic Republic (East Germany). Since March 2011, Roland Jahn has been head of the agency. The agency is subordinate to the Representative of the Federal Government for Culture. As of 2010, it has 1 687 employees.
Evangelisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster
The Evangelisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster, located in suburban Schmargendorf, Berlin, is an independent school with a humanistic profile, known as one of the most prestigious schools in Germany.
Techno Viking
Techno Viking is an internet phenomenon or meme based on a video from the 2000 Fuckparade in Berlin. The 4-minute video shot by experimental video artist Matthias Fritsch at the Fuckparade on 8 July 2000 begins with the title "Kneecam No.
1757 Berlin raid
The 1757 Berlin raid took place during the Seven Years' War. Cavalrymen of the Holy Roman Empire attacked and briefly occupied Berlin, the capital of Prussia.
1976 Conference of Communist and Workers Parties of Europe
The Conference of Communist and Workers Parties of Europe was an international meeting of communist parties, held in the city of East Berlin, capital of the communist-governed East Germany, on 29–30 June 1976. In all, 29 parties from across Europe participated in the conference, including those which were in power in the Eastern Bloc and those with marginal electoral support in the west. The conference highlighted several important changes in the European communist movement.
Haus des Lehrers
Haus des Lehrers (German for House of the teacher) is a building in Berlin, located near Alexanderplatz, built between 1962 and 1964 under the German Democratic Republic. Its most notable feature is a mural wrapping around the entire building and extending between the second and fifth above-ground floors. Designed in the style of Mexican mural art by artist Walter Womacka, it is titled Unser Leben ("Our Life") and depicts various occupational groups of and aspects of life in the GDR.
Molkenmarkt
Molkenmarkt is the oldest square in Berlin. It is approximately 9,200 square metres in size. It is located in the old centre of the city and was the city marketplace until the development of a new market at St. Mary's church in the late 13th century, after which it was known as the Olde Markt or Alter Markt (Old Market) until 1685, when it was renamed to Mulkenmarkt, later to change to Molkenmarkt. The area around the square was originally densely populated.