Berlin Trip Overview
Sights of the capital can be reached quickly and easily and you can get to know Berlin better in a relaxed atmosphere.
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Potsdamer Platz – Anhalter Bahnhof – Mehringdamm – “Curry 36” – Riehmers Hofgarten – Bergmann-Kiez with Bergmannstraße, Chamisso-Platz and surroundings, Marheineke Markthalle – Südstern – Graefe-Kiez with Graefestraße, Landwehrkanal, “Turkish Market”, – Admiralbrücke – Kottbusser Tor – Oranien-Kiez with Adalbertstraße, Oranienstraße, Mariannenplatz, Künstlerhaus Bethanien – Wrangel Kiez with Wrangel Straße,
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Duration: 3 to 6 hours
Starts: Berlin, Germany
Trip Category: Tours & Sightseeing >> Segway Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Sights of the capital can be reached quickly and easily and you can get to know Berlin better in a relaxed atmosphere.
Where should it go? To the opera, to the Olympic Stadium or tomcat blue? Do you want the club night “from dusk till dawn”, a Spree trip through the countryside, from Tiergarten to Maybachufer, or do you prefer the quickest way from the concert to your cozy bed? Leo Rickshaw offers hassle-free rides that are fun, comfortable and guaranteed to have the best carbon footprint.
Personalize your experience with a flexible itinerary.
Potsdamer Platz – Anhalter Bahnhof – Mehringdamm – “Curry 36” – Riehmers Hofgarten – Bergmann-Kiez with Bergmannstraße, Chamisso-Platz and surroundings, Marheineke Markthalle – Südstern – Graefe-Kiez with Graefestraße, Landwehrkanal, “Turkish Market”, – Admiralbrücke – Kottbusser Tor – Oranien-Kiez with Adalbertstraße, Oranienstraße, Mariannenplatz, Künstlerhaus Bethanien – Wrangel Kiez with Wrangel Straße,
Itinerary
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Stop At: Brandenburg Gate, Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin Germany
The Brandenburg Gate made of sandstone is one of the largest and most beautiful creations of German classicism. It was built in the years 1788 to 1791 based on designs by Carl Gotthard Langhans the Elder, who was strongly oriented towards the propylaea of the Athens Acropolis. King Friedrich Wilhelm II had previously ordered the construction of the Brandenburg Gate because he was looking for a worthy architectural conclusion for the boulevard Unter den Linden.
Stop At: Reichstag/Bundestag (Berlin), 10557 Berlin, Germany
Significant turning points and events in German history are associated with the Reichstag building. On November 9, 1918, SPD politician Philipp Scheidemann called the Republic from the balcony on the west portal. The “Reichstag fire” occurred on the evening of February 27, 1933. The plenary hall and the dome were completely destroyed. A red flag of the Soviet Union, raised on April 30, 1945 by two Red Army soldiers, symbolized the victory over the “Third Reich”.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: German Chancellery, Willy-Brandt-Straße 1, 10557 Berlin, Germany
The 36-meter high “administration building” rises between and above the two five-story administrative wings, which houses the offices of the Chancellor and his Ministers of State, the cabinet room and conference rooms. A large arch is cut into the bare wall to the north and south, to the east (to the main entrance) and to the west the outer walls are broken up into large glass surfaces that span between high concrete pillars. This gives the large building an astonishing transparency and lightness. The two side wings, whose floor plans resemble a comb, appear completely different. The offices are grouped around atriums that are completely glazed. The long side walls with their alternation of windowless concrete walls and large glass surfaces appear compact and defiant.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Soviet War Memorial Tiergarten, Str. des 17. Juni 4, 10557 Berlin, Germany
Flanked by two “T 34” tanks, there is a bronze statue of a Red Army soldier carrying his rifle on his shoulder in the middle of the square. Texts with the names of fallen Soviet soldiers are attached to the pillars behind them. In the rear part of the memorial are the graves of around 2500 soldiers.
Duration: 3 minutes
Stop At: Tiergarten, Strasse des 17. Juni 100, 10557 Berlin Germany
History of the zoo
At the end of the 17th century, Elector Friedrich III. create a “pleasure park for the population” from the former hunting ground. Over time, the park was redesigned according to several models, including Between 1833 and 1838 the famous landscape designer Peter Joseph Lenné transformed the zoo into an English public park.
Sights in the Tiergarten
But it is not just trees, shrubs and green spaces that determine the face of the approximately 200-hectare zoo. Many sights such as monuments and memorials, bridges, the Victory Column, the Federal President’s Office, the House of World Cultures or the English Garden invite you to take a day stroll through the park. The English garden created around a pond gives an insight into the English landscape architecture and is today one of the most beautiful corners of the zoo.
Stop At: Potsdamer Platz Tiegarten, 10785 Berlin Germany
Potsdamer Platz was planned as an entire district by architects. With success – the cafes, cinemas and shops between the futuristic high-rise buildings are used by Berliners and tourists alike. The city planners’ calculation worked: The Berliners have accepted the cafes, cinemas and the large shopping arcade of the new Daimler City very well. A whole new district was created on 6.8 hectares between Potsdamer Platz and Reichpietschufer.
Duration: 2 minutes
Stop At: Topography of Terror, Niederkirchnerstrasse 8, 10963 Berlin Germany
The area, which became known as the “Topography of Terror” in 1987, was the central location for the planning and control of most Nazi crimes. Between 1933 and 1945, the most important institutions of the National Socialist terror apparatus of the SS and police were housed here with the Secret State Police Office, the Reichsführung SS and the Reich Security Main Office.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Gropius Bau, Niederkirchnerstr. 7, 10963 Berlin Germany
The Martin-Gropius-Bau is dedicated to cultural history, contemporary art and photography.
Duration: 2 minutes
Stop At: Memorial of the Berlin Wall, Bernauer Strasse 111, 13355 Berlin Germany
Wall
Duration: 1 minute
Stop At: Checkpoint Charlie, Friedrichstraße 43-45, 10117 Berlin, Germany
The former military checkpoint Checkpoint Charlie was the most famous border crossing of the three border points controlled by the Americans next to the Glienicke Bridge during the division of Berlin. The others were the border control points Helmstedt-Marienborn (Checkpoint Alpha) and Dreilinden-Drewitz (Checkpoint Bravo). The transition could only be used by foreigners and employees of the Permanent Representation of the FRG in the GDR and by GDR officials.
Duration: 2 minutes
Stop At: Friedrichstrasse, Berlin Germany
Friedrichstrasse runs through Berlin as a north-south axis. A popular shopping mile developed between Checkpoint Charlie and Friedrichstrasse station after the fall of the wall.
Stop At: Gendarmenmarkt, 10117 Berlin Germany
The square was created at the end of the 17th century according to plans by Johann Arnold Nering. At that time, French immigrants, mainly French Protestants (Huguenots), settled in this area. The market place was first called Esplanade, then in chronological order Lindenmarkt, Friedrichstädtischer Markt and Neuer Markt. Finally it was renamed Gendarmenmarkt in 1799, since from 1736 to 1782 the guard and the stables of the “Gens d’armes” ward regiment were located there.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Deutscher Dom, Gendarmenmarkt 1, 10117 Berlin Germany
The permanent exhibition “Ways – wrong trails – detours” in the German Cathedral shows the historical development of liberal parliamentary democracy in Germany on five floors.
Duration: 2 minutes
Stop At: Konzerthaus, Gendarmenmarkt, 10117 Berlin Germany
The Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt is a masterpiece of classicist architecture and is one of Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s main works.
As early as 1776, at the instigation of Frederick the Great, a small comedy house was opened here, which was designed according to the plans of the Prussian director of construction, Johann Bouman the Elder. was built. The renaming to the Royal National Theater in 1787 illustrated the rise to one of the leading theaters in the country
Duration: 2 minutes
Stop At: Bebelplatz, Bebelpl., 10117 Berlin, Germany
In the middle of the museum center of Berlin, Bebelplatz gives an idea of what a beautiful city was like almost 300 years ago. The Nazis desecrated the place by burning books, which is now a memorial.
On May 10, 1933, the National Socialists burned over 20,000 books at Bebelplatz. They believed that the volumes they selected were “non-German spirit”. These included books by Erich Kästner, the Mann family, Magnus Hirschfeld, Lion Feuchtwanger, Karl Marx, Else Lasker-Schüler and almost 400 other authors. Heinrich Heine’s books were also burned. If you had read them instead, you would have come across Heine’s remark that wherever you burn books, you also have people
Duration: 2 minutes
Stop At: Museum Island, Berlin, Germany
On the north side of the Spreeinsel in the center of Berlin is one of the most outstanding museum complexes in Europe, the Museum Island. Over the course of 100 years, an ensemble was created in 1930 in which five architects were involved. The museum district, which was included in the UNESCO list of world cultural heritage in 1999, has been gradually restored since the late 1990s and expanded with a new reception building.
Tickets for the Museum Island
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Berliner Dom, Am Lustgarten, 10178 Berlin Germany
With its striking dome, the mighty Berlin Cathedral in the center of Berlin is hard to miss. As the former court and cathedral church of the Hohenzollerns, the cathedral was rebuilt between 1894 and 1905 under Emperor Wilhelm II.
Duration: 3 minutes
Stop At: Alexanderplatz, 10178 Berlin, Germany
Alexanderplatz, popularly known as Alex, is a central square and transportation hub in central Berlin. It is one of the most visited places and at the same time one of the most famous sights in the city.
Duration: 3 minutes
Stop At: Nicholas Quarter, Rathausstrasse 21, 10178 Berlin Germany
The Nikolaiviertel on the Spreeinsel is a kind of open-air museum of the destroyed old Berlin. In its current form, it was created for the 750th anniversary of Berlin in 1987.
The Nikolaikirche in the Nikolaiviertel
Duration: 3 minutes
Stop At: Neptunbrunnen, Rathausstrasse 1, 10178 Berlin Germany
The Neptune Fountain in front of the Red City Hall is known to Berliners as “Forckenbecken”. This term was right in two ways: on the one hand, the then mayor of Berlin was called Forckenbeck, and on the other hand, the terminology fits perfectly with the fountain itself, because Neptune is standing in a basin with his trident. The four female figures at his feet symbolize the rivers Elbe, Rhine, Oder and Vistula.
Duration: 1 minute
Pass By: East Side Gallery, Muehlenstrasse 3-100 Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, 14167 Berlin Germany
The East Side Gallery is a painted 1.3 kilometer section of the former Berlin Wall along the Spree. With over a hundred original wall paintings, it is the longest open-air gallery in the world.
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