Beisheim Center - Potsdamer Platz

The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church is under construction

The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church is being renovated since the end of 2010.
Completion fall 2012
Cost 4.2 million €

Beautiful architecture in the city

I found the 2 buildings around Kufürstendamm.

Staircase in an old Berliner Building

Man on the wall

Schöneberg - Kurfürstenstraße

Sunday afternoon in the House of Literature

The House of Literature Berlin is a public institution to promote culture of Berlin and offers the public information and exchange opportunities through readings, book presentations, symposia, debates, lectures, conferences, performances and exhibitions. The House of Literature is a villa with conservatory, restaurant service and several rooms,

Charlottenburg - Fasanenstraße 23

Library of the Humboldt University

The Library of the Humboldt University in Berlin is with 6.5 million volumes, one of the largest university libraries in Germany.

Mitte - Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 1

Neue Wache - New Guard House

The new guard house was built in 1816 to 1818 after the designs of Karl Friedrich Schinkel and since 1993, the Central Memorial of the Federal Republic of Germany for victims of war and tyranny.

Mitte - Unter den Linden

Bebelplatz - Bebel Square

The Bebelplatz is a public square in the central Mitte district of Berlin.

Berlin Cathedral

The Cathedral of Berlin is the largest church in the city, and it serves as a vital center for the Protestant church of Germany. A must see for every Berlin Visitor!

Admission fee: 5 Euro

Opening Hours:
Monday - Saturday 9am - 8pm
Sundays 12am – 8pm

Mitte - Am Lustgarten

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TV Tower

The TV Tower is the fourth tallest freestanding structure in Europe.

Height: 368 metres (1,207 ft)

Tickets: 11 Euro

Opening Hours:
March - October 9 am - to midnight
November - February 10 am - to midnight

Mitte - Alexanderplatz

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Eine Anmerkung meinerseits: Den Eintrittspreis von 11 Euro halte ich für viel zu teuer und völlig überzogen. Zum Vergleich auf dem Funkturm bezahlt man 4 Euro das ist ok und normal für Berlin. Und man hat auch eine schöne Aussicht auf Berlin.

Bilder vom Funkturm here

A note from me: The admission price of 11 € is too expensive and totally exaggerated.
For comparison, on the radio tower you pay the 4 euro thats ok and normal for Berlin.
And it also has a beautiful view of Berlin.

Photos from the Radio Tower here

Zeughaus - German Historical Museum

The Zeughaus (arsenal) is the oldest building on Unter den Linden in Berlin, dating from the baroque era. It was built as an arsenal. Today it houses the German Historical Museum.

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Mitte - Unter den Linden 2

Theme Day: Your favourite part of town

Today I want show you my favorite part in Berlin. Come with me on a tour through the most beautiful garden in Berlin 'Charlottenburg Garden'.

Charlottenburg Palace

The Charlottenburg Palace was built between 1695-1699, designed by the architect J. Arnold Nering. It was initially intended as a small garden and summer palace for the wife of Elector Friedrich III., Sophie Charlotte.

After the coronation of the elector in 1701 the first king in Prussia, the castle was built by the architect von Goethe Eosander to a more representative seat modeled on Versailles. The main central building with its eleven axes window has now been supplemented by wing and there was a cour d'honneur, a Court of Honor. Also in this phase was added in the most characteristic component of the Castle, a little too overblown dome.

The death of Sophie Charlotte in 1705, received the castle and the nearby village its name. With the death of King Frederick I in 1713, the construction work stopped and continued only under Frederick the Great 1740 Designed by Knobelsdorff was built between 1740-1746 of the new wing to the east, which should make the equivalent of the old west with the orangery wing.

As a final component 1791, the Palace Theatre added, designed by Carl Gotthard Langhans. This extension of the orangery would mark the final of the nearly 100-year construction period.

After the Charlottenburg Palace was damaged during the Second World War, the restoration required more than two decades to rebuild.

New Pavilion

Karl Friedrich Schinkel constructed this Italianesque building in 1825. An outstanding collection from Schinkel’s era with paintings by Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen can be viewed here today. The new Pavillion is closed due to restoration. Reopening 2011

Belvedere

The architect Carl Gotthard Langhans constructed this charming building in 1788 to provide a lookout point in Charlottenburg Park. An important collection from the Berlin Porcelain Manufactory (KPM) is shown here today.



Orangerie

In the time it established itself in the Charlottenburg Palace as a summer residence, was built between 1709-12 in the west of the old castle subsequent Orangerie. Which served from Goethe Eosander Orangerie originally designed as wintering rare plants. During the summer months, when more than 500 orange, lemon and sour orange trees adorned the Baroque garden, the Orangerie was regularly magnificent scene of courtly festivities.

Destroyed in the War, the wing after the baroque style and rebuilt in a new light shines today. The well-lit banquet hall provides a lovely setting for cultural events, concerts and banquets. Not only in the past, the Orangerie of Charlottenburg Palace illustrious personalities can accommodate: So here were in the past years, about Queen Elizabeth II or the Chinese Premier visited.

Mausoleum

The mausoleum was built as a tomb for King Frederick William III and Queen Luise.
Later, Emperor William I and Empress Augusta were also laid to rest here.

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Russian Orthodox Church

The Russian Orthodox Church was built in 1936-38 as a three-aisled basilica in the Russo-Byzantine style with a domed roof, round lantern and onion dome and four small onion domes in the roof and gussets on 5/13/1938 inaugurated. The iconostasis is from the previous building, originally an old church in Warsaw.

Wilmersdorf - Hohenzollerndamm 166

Beautiful stucco house

Kurfürstendamm/Leibnizstraße

A rainy Sunday afternoon at the Sony Center

Inside Sony Center

A steel-and glass-dominated ensemble of seven individual buildings. Here are offices, apartments, cinemas and restaurants, a "movie house" and Sony's European headquarters. The center of the triangular area formed the oval "Forum", which sees itself as part of the urban public space and therefore not separated from the surrounding streets. A spectacular feat of engineering is the roof: The fanned out tent roof made of fabric with tie rods attached to the steel ring, which rests on the surrounding buildings.

The Roof



Sony Center - Potsdamer Straße 4

Radio Tower Berlin

The radio tower has a height of 150 m, which is 55m in height in the restaurant and the observation deck 125m. This provides for good weather, a magnificent view over the city.

Ticket Price 4 Euro

Charlottenburg - Hammarskjöldplatz 1

Beautiful old houses

Kurfürstendamm - January 2011