Berlin is an edgy city, from its fashion to its architecture to its charged political history. The Berlin Wall is a sobering reminder of the hyper-charged postwar atmosphere, and yet the graffiti art that now covers its remnants has become symbolic of social progress. Check out the Weltzeituhr (world time) Clock, topped by a model of the solar system, then turn back time by dining at the historic Zur Letzten Instanz, a 16th century restaurant that was frequented by Napoleon and Beethoven.
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This East Berlin neighborhood has been significantly reconstructed since reunification.
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A quiet 98-acre Jewish cemetery in East Berlin.
Cemetery for remembering of the Holocaust, for Jewish Religion, for Jewish craft architecture and for Jewish live in Berlin. Remembering for Very much people wirh historical, political, cultural and scientific backround. Park Cemetery and visiting without abillity Equipment. You need 3 - 4 hours for full visiting.
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Situated in what was once the militarized “death strip” of the Berlin Wall (or Mauer) that divided East and West, Mauerpark is now a social, cultural, and artistic center of the city. Today’s Mauerpark is on land that ran between the two parallel walls separating East and West Berlin. With its observation towers, attack dogs, trip wires and armed guards primed to shoot anyone trying to escape to the West, it was known as the “death strip.” The park dates back to the early 1990s when local residents, noticing the rapid spread of self-seeded vegetation on the sandy strip of land, began planting trees and calling for the creation of a park. As a result, the city’s politicians included Mauerpark in the city’s bid to host the 2000 Olympics. Although Berlin’s bid for the Olympics was not successful, the plea to build Mauerpark was. In Mauerpark you can take a stroll, lie around, read, play on the swings, play boules and basketball, picnic in the birch grove, get involved in community gardening, go to the Rainbow Playground with the kids, watch musicians and performers in the amphitheatre, have a drink and a bite to eat in the outdoor cafes or hunt for bargains at the Sunday flea market.
love going there, especially with great weather on a Sunday. Lots of people, music, markets, graffiti, artists, film crews and other crazy stuff. You'll meet people from all over the world, so certainly worth a visit
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My wife and I visited Schonholzer Heidi during a visit to Berlin last summer. We visited whilst walking the Mauerweg as this is a part of Berlin that is unfamiliar to us. Like most Soviet Memorials is it big and bold but also extremely impressive. As you walk round you get the feel for the number of Russian soldier who lost their lives in the Battle for Berlin. What you begin to realise is that in war there are no actual winners or losers but just thousands of families who mourn for loved ones, often lost on distant lands.
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