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Arkonaplatz
Arkonaplatz is a 1.5-hectare square in Berlin's Mitte district of the same name and is part of the historic Rosenthaler Vorstadt district. It was created in the middle of the 19th century. Location Arkonaplatz is bordered by Granseer Strasse to the south, Wolliner Strasse to the east and Ruppiner Strasse to the west. In the north, Arkonaplatz extends to the houses, with house numbers 1-10. Naming The town square was named after the steep coast of Cape Arkona on the island of Rügen by cabinet decision on 22 November 1875. History Arkona Square was designed and laid out according to the Hobrecht plan as Square C of Department XI and according to the building regulations of 1853. In 1875, it received its name and the expansion together with the neighbouring streets into a residential area began. Instead of the 1887 design by Hermann Mächtig as an ornamental square, Albert Brodersen added a children's playground to the square in 1918. Later, the magistrate ordered the square t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zionskirchplatz
Zionskirchplatz is a pentagonal square in the Rosenthaler Vorstadt, a district of Berlin's Mitte district. It is located on the approximately 53 meter high Veteranenberg, an elevation on the southwestern edge of the Barnim plateau and is registered as a garden monument with the number 09010210 in the Berlin State Monument List. History Zionskirchplatz was created during the development of the new Berlin quarter based on the Hobrecht-Plan of 1862 in Department XI as Platz D. In accordance with the ideas of the Berlin City Council, the garden architect Joseph Pertl was commissioned to design the striking intersection of five streets in an appealing manner, at the same time as the neighbouring Arkonaplatz. It received its name in December 1866 with the construction of the Church of Zion (1866-1873) in the centre of the square. The square was designed as a decorative square with small paving and decorative strips of dark basalt stones, in which marble star ornaments mark the entran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin
Berlin is Capital of Germany, the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and List of cities in Germany by population, by population. Its more than 3.85 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, most populous city, as measured by population within city limits having gained this status after the United Kingdom's, and thus London's, Brexit, departure from the European Union. Simultaneously, the city is one of the states of Germany, and is the List of German states by area, third smallest state in the country in terms of area. Berlin is surrounded by the state of Brandenburg, and Brandenburg's capital Potsdam is nearby. The urban area of Berlin has a population of over 4.5 million and is therefore the most populous urban area in Germany. The Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, Berlin-Brandenburg capital region has around 6.2 million inhabitants and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hertha BSC
Hertha, Berliner Sport-Club e. V., commonly known as Hertha BSC (), and sometimes referred to as Hertha Berlin, Hertha BSC Berlin, or simply Hertha, is a German professional football club based in the locality of Westend of the borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf of Berlin. Hertha BSC plays in the Bundesliga, the top tier of German football. Hertha BSC was founded in 1892, and was a founding member of the German Football Association in Leipzig in 1900. The team won the German championship in 1930 and 1931. Since 1963, Hertha's stadium has been the Olympiastadion. The club is known as ''Die Alte Dame'' in German, which translates to "The Old Lady". In 2002, the sports activities of the professional, amateur, and under-19 teams were separated into ''Hertha BSC GmbH & Co. KGaA''. History Early years The club was formed in 1892 as ''BFC Hertha 92'', taking its name from a steamship with a blue and white smokestack; one of the four young men who founded the club had taken a da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Honecker
Erich Ernst Paul Honecker (; 25 August 1912 – 29 May 1994) was a German communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from 1971 until shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. He held the posts of General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and Chairman of the National Defence Council; in 1976, he replaced Willi Stoph as Chairman of the State Council, the official head of state. As the leader of East Germany, Honecker had close ties to the Soviet Union, which maintained a large army in the country. Honecker's political career began in the 1930s when he became an official of the Communist Party of Germany, a position for which he was imprisoned by the Nazis. Following World War II, he was freed by the Soviet army and relaunched his political activities, founding the SED's youth organisation, the Free German Youth, in 1946 and serving as the group's chairman until 1955. As the Security Secretary of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mauerpark
Mauerpark is a public linear park in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district. The name translates to "Wall Park", referring to its status as a former part of the Berlin Wall and its Death Strip. The park is located at the border of Prenzlauer Berg and Gesundbrunnen district of former West Berlin. Old Nordbahnhof In the 19th and 20th centuries, the Mauerpark area served as the location of the Old Nordbahnhof ("Northern Railway Station"), the southern terminus of the Prussian Northern Railway opened in 1877-78, which connected Berlin with the city of Stralsund and the Baltic Sea. Soon after it lost its role as a passenger station to the nearby '' Stettiner Bahnhof'' and remained in use as a freight yard. In 1950 the ''Stettiner Bahnhof'' took the name Nordbahnhof because of its role in Berlin's public transportation system, and the Old Nordbahnhof became known as ''Güterbahnhof Eberswalder Straße''. It was finally closed after the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961. When viewed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall (german: Berliner Mauer, ) was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and East Germany (GDR). Construction of the Berlin Wall was commenced by the government of the GDR on 13 August 1961. It included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, accompanied by a wide area (later known as the "death strip") that contained anti-vehicle trenches, beds of nails and other defenses. The Eastern Bloc portrayed the Wall as protecting its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" from building a socialist state in the GDR. The authorities officially referred to the Berlin Wall as the ''Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart'' (german: Antifaschistischer Schutzwall, ). The West Berlin city government sometimes referred to it as the " Wall of Shame", a term coined by mayor Willy Brandt in reference to the Wall's restriction on freedom of movement. Along with the sepa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernauer Straße
Bernauer Straße is a street of Berlin situated between the localities of Gesundbrunnen and Mitte, today both belonging to the Mitte borough. It runs from the Mauerpark at the corner of Prenzlauer Berg to the Nordbahnhof. The street's name refers to the town of Bernau bei Berlin, situated in Brandenburg. When Berlin was a divided city, the Berlin Wall erected in 1961 ran along this street. Bernauer Straße became famous for escapes from windows of apartment blocks in the eastern part of the city, down to the street, which was in the West. Several people died here when the border was first enforced. History Before the Berlin Wall The Bernauer Straße existed early on as a commercial and military connection road between Berlin and locations in the Margraviate of Brandenburg. It received its present name on 29 May 1862. Prior to this date, it was known as Straße 50, and later Straße 80, prior to being named Bernauer Straße. It led to the northeast from Bergstraße to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spandauer Vorstadt
Spandauer Vorstadt ("Spandauer suburb", formerly also called Spandauer Quarter or Spandauer Viertel) is a historic district in what is now the Mitte (locality), Mitte district of Berlin. Geography The Spandauer neighborhood is bordered in the south by the Spree (river), Spree and the Stadtbahn viaduct, in the east by Karl-Liebknecht-Straße, Karl Liebknecht St. and the adjacent neighborhoods of Königsstadt to the north, Torstrasse and Rosenthaler and Oranienburger to the east and Friedrichstrasse and Friedrich Wilhelm City to the south. Spandauer is connected to Dorotheenstadt via the Weidendammer Bridge, the Ebert Bridge and the Monbijou Bridge. History Namesake The neighborhood takes its name from the adjacent Spandauer Gate (Spandauer Tor) a relic from Berlin's history as a historic walled city. The eastern part of Spandauer along Rosenthaler St. is also known as the Scheunenviertel; a name that is often erroneously extended to streets to the west of it because of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitte
Mitte () is the first and most central borough of Berlin. The borough consists of six sub-entities: Mitte proper, Gesundbrunnen, Hansaviertel, Moabit, Tiergarten and Wedding. It is one of the two boroughs (the other being Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg) which were formerly divided between East Berlin and West Berlin. Mitte encompasses Berlin's historic core and includes some of the most important tourist sites of Berlin like the Reichstag and Berlin Hauptbahnhof, Checkpoint Charlie, Museum Island, the TV tower, Brandenburg Gate, Unter den Linden, Potsdamer Platz, Alexanderplatz, the latter six of which were in former East Berlin. Geography Mitte (German for "middle", "centre") is located in the central part of Berlin along the Spree River. It borders on Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf in the west, Reinickendorf in the north, Pankow in the east, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg in the southeast, and Tempelhof-Schöneberg in the southwest. In the middle of the Spree lies Museum Island ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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