The Strausberger Platz is a large urban square in the

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 U ...

district of

Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg () is the second borough of Berlin, formed in 2001 by merging the former East Berlin borough of Friedrichshain and the former West Berlin borough of Kreuzberg. The historic Oberbaum Bridge, formerly a Berlin border cr ...

and marks the border to the district of

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-Kreu ...

. It is connected via

Karl-Marx-Allee Karl-Marx-Allee ( en, Karl Marx Alley) is a monumental Socialist realism, socialist boulevard built by the East Germany, GDR between 1952 and 1960 in Berlin Friedrichshain and Mitte. Today the boulevard is named after Karl Marx. It should not ...

with

Alexanderplatz () ( en, Alexander Square) is a large public square and transport hub in the central Mitte district of Berlin. The square is named after the Russian Tsar Alexander I, which also denotes the larger neighbourhood stretching from in the nort ...

and via ''Lichtenberger Straße'' with the ''Platz der Vereinten Nationen''. These two streets intersect in an oval roundabout at Strausberger Platz.

History

The square was the starting point for the

East German uprising of 1953 The East German uprising of 1953 (german: Volksaufstand vom 17. Juni 1953 ) was an uprising that occurred in East Germany from 16 to 17 June 1953. It began with a strike action by construction workers in East Berlin on 16 June against w ...

, when DDR wanted to increase the 'working norm' making workers work longer for the same pay.

Gallery

Strausberger Platz Berlin April 2006 109.jpg, La Strausberger Platz (Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin) (6074767056).jpg, 20181003 Berlin-35.tif, Strausberger Platz.JPG,

References

External links

* {{coord, 52.51854, 13.42831, format=dms, type:landmark_region:DE, display=title Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Squares in Berlin