Private Taxi Tour of City East History and Architecture 2-3h

The special thing is that you will be driven around in your own comfort SUV by a local guide who has lived in Berlin for over 20 years. The personal touch, lots of information and anecdotes are guaranteed!
You can also determine what interests you more individually, where you would like to drop out or what you would simply like to leave out! This is the big difference to the bus tour; Quite apart from the fact that it cannot stop everywhere and each stop takes a lot of time. In addition, you have the opportunity to see the whole of City East here, and not just a very small section of it, as is the case on tours. Berlin is very spread out, has many other centers in addition to these two, and depending on interest we can take a short walk at the Brandenburg Gate or at Checkpoint Charlie.
And enjoy the luxury of being picked up personally from your accommodation in the S-Bahn ring. And all in a real Berlin luxury taxi SUV!

Until modern times it was just a city gate – expanded in the familiar way shortly after the French. Revolution. Here the Elector rode west from the castle to his private hunting area, the zoo. The original gate of peace, however, took on a completely different meaning after the Napoleonic occupation around 1805: Napoleon had the Quadriga, the four-horse carriage, transported to Paris with the goddess of peace. After the victory of the Allies over France, she came back in a great triumphal procession – as a return carriage. Since then crowned with an eagle with a cross in its claws as a sign of victory. – During the division of the city, the war-torn environment was cleared away and remains (Hotel Adlon) were blown up – and suddenly the gate stood alone, inaccessible from the west through the wall, separated from the east by fences and barriers. It was not until the turning point, the fall of the wall, that the gate became a symbol again – for the German. reunion

Wilhelmine splendid building, although it was rebuked as a booth or monkey house. Therefore built outside and away from the city. Historically valuable, after all, the Red Army soldiers placed their flag on the building as a sign of victory. Even if the famous photo of it is only reproduced. Then for decades rather unnoticed in the so-called free West Berlin – only 5 m from the wall, it was not allowed to be used for official Bundestag meetings. If it did, for example to elect the Federal President, there was an immediate reprimand from East Berlin. Completely gutted in the nineties and completely redesigned for the reunited Bundestag with now over 700 deputies. Not to forget the iconographic wrapping action by the artist Christo. The Reichstag dome, put on a new glass after the architect had only planned a kind of gas station roof instead, now represents the new Berlin

Eco-colossal building, not exactly small, with a height of 36 m and ten floors and a total of 500 office rooms for over 300 employees. The white house would fit eight times. Larger are actually only palaces for state presidents … The chancellor has her office in the top left corner. In the rotunda above is an official apartment for her, which she does not use, however. Is also rather impractical with bathroom and bedroom across the street with about 200 m² of usable space

This building is the so-called motor of the parliament, i.e. All of Parliament’s work takes place here. Only the final speeches are held in Parliament, the actual discussion and vote takes place in the committees. There is plenty of opportunity for this in every bulge in the over 200 m long building on three floors. And as a glass parliament you can even see it from the outside. Only the EU and the secret committee sit in the largest rotunda facing the Spree above the two restaurants – and cannot be seen from the outside

This station was the only one during the Berlin Wall from which there was a further journey from East to West Berlin, such as for the Paris Moscow Express that existed at the time. Or also for pulling out of East Berliners, but then without a return ticket. Which is why this station was also used to try adventurous escape, which, however, was not always happy. Otherwise, the entire train station was crossed by barriers and customs checkpoints, in the middle of it were Stasi observation walks – if that and more interested, you will find this in the original next to the so-called Palace of Tears. This was so because the East Berliners had to say goodbye to their relatives there, and often for apparently always

This grand boulevard was the first of its kind in Berlin. Actually designed as a tranquil bridle path, it led from Berlin Palace westwards, through the Brandenburg Gate to the hunting grounds, today’s Tiergarten. These were also reserved for the elector personally and exclusively. When the city expanded to the west – the nucleus was the island in The Spree and the eastern side, where the Nikolaiviertel is today – the hunting trail was expanded to a remarkable boulevard. When asked how to plant it there, there was no agreement between walnut and linden trees. As you can see today, the linden trees prevail, otherwise Seether the street today under the nuts… Originally lined with nobility, today there are important and prominent buildings from the State Library to the Humboldt University to the State Opera. The remaining cafés are also cozy

Explanation of the surrounding buildings, embassies, academy of the arts
If the city of Berlin were an apartment, this place would be the so-called good room. So the room where guests like to go to show the most beautiful sides of the city. But why a lot, the surrounding buildings were destroyed by war and demolition in the later decades, the only thing left was the Brandenburg Gate. It was about as isolated as the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Except that wasn’t what was planned here. You can’t get to the gate from any side, there was a very thick wall from the west, the east Berliners were bordered by a fence from the east. The remaining piece of the Hotel Adlon was finally blown up. After the fall of the wall, it was decided to rebuild everything here but modernized in the steal, only in the cubature as before. Now the Liebermann Haus, the Akademie der Künste, the French and American embassy are gathered here again

After the war, the Soviet Union had the largest foreign representation in Europe built here. Its size should already document who said that here in the center of Berlin, at that time the American, British and French embassies on Pariser Platz were all in debt and ashes. Contrary to the statutes of the linden trees, according to which all buildings should be aligned flush with the street, this type of palace allowed an inner courtyard. Stalin should please her in everything – unfortunately it is not known whether he ever set foot in it, let alone stayed there. At least nothing would have been missing, even for the connected school there is still a swimming pool and ballrooms and so on anyway. But Stalin was also a paranoid throughout his life. Still used for the successor states of the USSR called CIS

German and French cathedral drama theater, concert hall
This place is called by many as the most beautiful place in Berlin. Nicely framed today’s concert hall, formerly built as a playhouse, by the two so-called cathedral. Namely the German and the French cathedral. However, there are no bishops’ seats nor cathedrals, but simple parish houses, which Friedrich II had embellished with a cathedral-like essay, supposedly according to his own design. The left church, the German Cathedral, is no longer used as such, but instead contains a museum for the parliamentary history of Germany. The right, the French cathedral, is still used by a reformed congregation that holds services in French on Sundays. Behind it is a small Huguenot museum, because it was these refugees who were allowed to build their church here. they only had to live further outside in Moabit. And in GDR times it was empty and empty …

The so-called chest of drawers, royal court library, St. Hedwig Cathedral, State Opera, Humboldt University together form the Forum Fridericianum. In today’s Hotel Club the Rome, the SPD and KPD were forcibly united. Hence the name August Bibles, the founder of the SPD, may also fit. Otherwise, the square used to be simple and poignant, which would also fit better. In the middle of the square, you walk easily over it, unless there is a crowd of people there, a glass window in the floor that points to an empty library. On May 10, 1933, all books that were unsuitable from the Nazi perspective were burned here. The square forms a beautiful square with the Humboldt University, as the Berliner says. Because this building was also built as a palace, namely for the younger brother of Friedrich II, Heinrich. A few years after his death, it was used as the nucleus of the royal Friedrich Wilhelm University, now Humboldt University

For many earlier the spectacle under the linden trees: the change of guard at the new guard, the East Berlin soldiers then went up and down in a jump-off. That is long gone, but in fact this guard housed the castle guard, at least a small part of it. Formerly a kind of eternal flame inside (actually made of glass but a case that looks like this through light), today a pieta, an enlarged form of the sculpture by Käthe Kollwitz, which mourned her son, who had died in World War I after only a few weeks. Today a place of mourning for all victims of war and terror, so often statesman-like wreaths here, especially after the Memorial Day in November

This building and the neighboring Kronprinzessinnenpalais are often overlooked – when all the giant objects on Unter den Linden are named, they quickly go under. In fact, their most important purpose was the one that is already hidden in the name: not only were crown princes and princesses born here, but they also grew up here and often gave birth to them themselves. The two palaces are connected by a corridor. Since the KronPrinzessinnenpalais is so close to the State Opera, it was often used as an opera cafe, and is currently being used as an exhibition location. The Crown Prince’s Palace is still used by the administration for the reconstruction of the City Palace / Humboldt Forum

Stop or drive past depending on your interests
The German Historical Museum is located in the former armory. According to tradition, this contains the “toy” for men in the event of war, ie war equipment. Also the enemy’s captured. As a result, a war weapons museum developed here, and in the GDR times a military history museum. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the decision was made to set up a central museum of German history after the groundbreaking had already taken place where the Chancellor’s Office is today. Then the story came in between … The house itself was renovated after the turn of the wall, and especially the frescoes outside and also in the courtyard of the building make many shiver, because they are replica dead masks of dying warriors. Andreas Schlueter, who is the builder of the baroque Berlin palace, drew here as a sculptor

rebuilt. Humboldt Forum. Opening at the end of 2020/2021
Depending on your interests, stop or drive past
For decades there was simply nothing here, a large parking lot, sometimes used for merrymaking and hype. For centuries, the Berlin Palace of the Berlin Electors, later kings, later emperors stood here. Burned out during the war and not extinguished, its silhouette was still unbroken and was partly used inside after the war, for example for exhibitions on how Berlin should continue after the war. Nevertheless, the gentlemen in East Berlin let it blow up for months, despite all the criticism from home and abroad, because it represented an icon of north German baroque. Photographically documented in detail before the blasting, it now allows an externally exact reconstruction. The inner courtyard of the Schlueter was also reconstructed true to detail. At the end of the trip, a visit to the roof terrace is possible as a highlight

Depending on your interests, a tour of the church, the burial place of the Hohenzollern and ascent to the dome
If I have a favorite object in Berlin, it is probably because Berlin Cathedral precisely because it does not represent the absolute beauty in its current form, precisely because it pretends to be much older than it is (namely only about 115 years and thus only 64 years younger than the television tower) and precisely because, despite its external bread, it hides so much different beauty inside – from the dome to the strength. This brings together a lot of things that seem symptomatic of Berlin: a not too long story, actually compressed to a few decades. Coupled with a lot of destruction, but also with a lot of will to rebuild, which stretched over decades like here. And yet today it shines almost in old splendor again – even if, as already mentioned, it is actually not that old

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• Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
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• Child seat for toddlers from six months to three years available, as well as a booster seat for older children. A baby seat can be brought along on request (MaxiCosy)
• Wheelchair-friendly transport means: the guest rushes into the raised passenger seat and the wheelchair is taken in the rear
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  Taxi: Part of the package price is a taxi ride according to the tariff (7% VAT), the rest city tour fee (19% VAT)
  Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes: Surcharge possible for longer periods
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  Pick-up / max 2 exits: Pick-up from your accommodation in the Berlin S-Bahn ring
  All exits or tours are individually arranged by e-mail
  Taxi : Part of the package price is a taxi ride according to the tariff (7% VAT), the rest city tour fee (19% VAT)
  Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes: Surcharge possible for longer periods
  SST-Tour City East/Berlin Mitte: Depending on your wishes and possibilities (traffic, construction sites, etc.), the route can be individually and planned or spontaneously adapted
  Taxi SUV Toyota RAV4 Hybrid: raised seating position for better visibility, leather seats, not visible from outside
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• Both the taxi ride according to the tariff (7% VAT) and the city tour (19% VAT) are included.
• Pick up from your desired location in the city (hotel, apartment …)

• Entrance fees
• Pick-up from BER airport or outside the S-Bahn ring only for an extra charge (Berlin taxi tariff)

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• This Tour is Provided by Gunter Bauer GAT-Productions.
• Tour Timezone & Starts at Europe/Berlin.
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