List of sights in Berlin
Berlin emerged from the historic city center of Berlin , the Nikolaiviertel , the sister city of Kölln and the electoral city foundations, such as Dorotheenstadt or Friedrichstadt . The formation of Greater Berlin took place in 1920 with the incorporation of previously independent cities such as Spandau , Charlottenburg or Cöpenick .
The decentralized development history means that there are currently an abundance of sights in Berlin in all districts . For various reasons, the city's outstanding landmarks include the Brandenburg Gate and the landmarks that cannot be overlooked in the cityscape, such as the Berlin TV tower in Mitte and the radio tower in Westend .
Central districts
Center west
- Moabit
- Zoo
- Around the Kurfürstendamm
- Europe Center
- Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (memorial and new building)
- Department Store of the West (KaDeWe)
- Kranzler-Eck
- Theater of the West
- Globe fountain
- Zoological Garden
- Others
Center east
World clock at Alexanderplatz
- Museum Island
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Unter den Linden : boulevard with numerous historical buildings
- New guard
- Sing-Akademie / Maxim-Gorki-Theater
- Commandant's house , headquarters of Bertelsmann
- Zeughaus ( German Historical Museum )
- State Opera Unter den Linden
- Equestrian statue of Frederick the Great
- Saint Hedwig's Cathedral
- Old Library (popularly: "Commode")
- Humboldt University
- Berlin State Library (until the end of 1991: German State Library )
- Berlin Palace - Humboldt Forum (expected from 2019)
- Castle Bridge
- Schlossplatz
- Russian Embassy
- Madame Tussauds Berlin
- Brandenburg Gate and Pariser Platz
- Alexanderplatz and Nikolaiviertel
- Karl-Marx-Allee
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Friedrichstrasse , next to Kurfürstendamm, Berlin's largest shopping mile
- Galeries Lafayette and many other shopping opportunities
- checkpoint Charlie
- Friedrichstadt Palace
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Gendarmenmarkt
- Konzerthaus (formerly: Schauspielhaus )
- German cathedral
- French cathedral
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Spandau suburb
- Oranienburger Strasse
- Kunsthaus Tacheles
- Postfuhramt
- New synagogue
- Große Hamburger Straße , with the old Jewish cemetery
- Sophienstraße with the Sophienkirche
- Hackesche Höfe
- Hackescher Markt
- The Kennedys Museum
- Natural History Museum
- Volksbühne
Potsdamer Platz
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Potsdamer Platz
- Sony Center with the Film Museum and the Kaiser Hall
- Atrium Tower (former Daimler Quarter ) with Potsdamer Platz arcades , Theater am Potsdamer Platz and the Spielbank Berlin
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Cultural forum
- Philharmonic and Chamber Music Hall
- Musical instrument museum
- New National Gallery
- Picture gallery
- Berlin State Library (House 2)
- St. Matthew Church
- Leipziger Platz
- Museum for Communication Berlin (former postal museum), Leipziger Strasse / corner of Mauerstrasse
- German Museum of Technology , Trebbiner Strasse
- Tempodrom (with the Liquidrom )
government District
- government District
Outer districts
north
- Wedding District Court
- Bürgerpark Pankow
- Humboldt Castle
- Jewish cemetery Berlin-Weißensee
- Schönhausen Palace
- Schönholzer Heide
- Town hall Pankow
- Weißer See in Weißensee
- Bread factory
- Zeiss large planetarium
east
- Molecule Man
- Oberbaum Bridge
- East Side Gallery
- Biesdorf Castle
- Wilhelminian style museum in the Mahlsdorf manor house
- Marzahn village with post mill
- Kienberg with the gardens of the world
- Zoo and Friedrichsfelde Palace
- Herzberge Landscape Park
- Lichtenberg City Park
- Treptower Park with the Archenhold Observatory and the Soviet Memorial
- Old town Köpenick with town hall (see also: Captain von Köpenick )
- Köpenick Castle with the Museum of Applied Arts , Castle Church and Castle Island
- Volkspark Köpenick
- Friedrichshagen waterworks (in the machine hall museum in the waterworks ) on the Great Müggelsee
- Müggelberge with Müggel Tower and Teufelssee
- German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst
- Wuhlheide , Volkspark and Leisure and Recreation Center (FEZ) with park railway
- Normannenstrasse research and memorial site , former Ministry of State Security
- Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial (former Stasi prison)
southeast
south
- Tempelhof Airport with the Airlift Memorial
- Horseshoe Settlement
- Gropiusstadt
- Britz garden
- Islanders with the planetarium and the Wilhelm Foerster observatory
- Ceciliengärten settlement
- Imperial oak
- Lindenhof settlement
- Natur-Park Schöneberger Südgelände
southwest
Large tropical house in the botanical garden
- Botanical Garden
- Wannsee
- Lilienthal monument in Lichterfelde
- Lichterfelde-West villa colony
- Grunewald hunting lodge
- Grunewald Tower on the Havelchaussee
- Monument on the Schildhorn for Jaxa von Köpenick
- Flensburg lion
- Glienicke hunting lodge
- Glienicke Castle with park and Glienicke Bridge
- Peacock Island
- Museum village Düppel
- Philological library of the Free University of Berlin
- Liebermann Villa
- Beer brush
- House of the Wannsee Conference
west
- Olympiagelände Berlin (formerly Reichssportfeld ), with the Olympic stadium , bell tower , Maifeld , Waldbühne and the sports forum
- Flow meadow Ruhleben , Murellenberge, Murellenschlucht and Schanzenwald
- Tiefwerder , Tiefwerder Wiesen , Stößensee
- Citadel Spandau , with monuments on Siegesallee since 2009
- Spandau old town with church and town hall
Churches
Museums
Memorials
- Old garrison cemetery
- Berlin memorial plaques of the KPM
- Beethoven-Haydn-Mozart monument
- Bismarck National Monument
- Cenotaph for the fallen of the anti-aircraft cartillery
- Normannenstrasse research and memorial site
-
Holocaust Memorial , inaugurated in May 2005;
The memorial field, equipped with 2,711 concrete steles, also includes underground exhibition rooms. - Memorial in memory of those murdered by the Nazi military justice on Murellenberg in Ruhleben
- Berlin Wall Memorial in Bernauer Strasse
- Berlin-Hohenschönhausen memorial for the victims of communist tyranny in Germany in the former central remand prison of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR
- Memorial for the victims of euthanasia in Berlin, Tiergarten-Straße: two large curved steel plates; Designed by Richard Serra; A memorial plaque on the side will inform about the process (see action T4 ).
- Plötzensee Memorial , a place of execution where almost 3,000 people were murdered between 1933 and 1945. Those who resisted the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 were also killed here.
- Memorial June 17, 1953
- Graf von Moltke monument on the Victory Column
- Airlift Monument
- Neue Wache Unter den Linden - victims of war (Napoleonic Wars, WW1, WW2)
- Equestrian statue of Frederick the Great
- Soviet memorial in the Tiergarten , Mitte district , Strasse des 17. Juni
- Soviet memorial in Treptower Park , Treptow-Köpenick district , Park of the Fallen Soldiers
- Soviet memorial in the Schönholzer Heide , Pankow district
- Villa Am Großen Wannsee 56–58 , where on January 20, 1942 the Wannsee Conference “on the final solution of the Jewish question” took place
- Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery
Movies
-
Building in divided Berlin - competition in stone and concrete. Documentary film, Germany, 2015, 43:30 min., Script and direction: Reinhard Schneider , production: rbb , first broadcast: October 20, 2015 at rbb, summary by rbb, ( memento from May 29, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ).
- War of the Buildings. The competition of architects in divided Berlin. Documentary, Germany, 2014, 28:34 min., Script and director: Andreas Sawall, production: ZDF , first broadcast: November 2, 2014 on ZDF, synopsis with online video from ZDF available until November 2, 2019 from ZDF.
- The 30 most beautiful Berlin buildings. Conversations with video recordings, Germany, 2010, 43:38 min., Script and direction: Stephan Düfel, production: rbb , series: 30 favorites , first broadcast: September 1, 2010 on rbb, synopsis by ARD .
See also
- Historic cemeteries in Berlin
- Windmills in Berlin
- List of memorials for the victims of National Socialism
- Berlin memorial plaques
Web links
- Sights in Berlin. In: berlin.de
- Sightseeing Berlin. In: sauernungenberlin.de