List of sights in Berlin

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Brandenburg Gate

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View of Unter den Linden

Berlin grew out of the historical city centre, the Nikolai quarter, its sister town of Cölln, the settlements founded by the Elector, such as Dorotheenstadt or Friedrichstadt and finally the creation of Greater Berlin in 1920, when the hitherto independent towns of Spandau, Charlottenburg or Cöpenick were merged with the old Berlin to form a city of four million inhabitants. This decentralised historical development has resulted in a plethora of sights in Berlin today – not just in the centre of the city, but also in the outlying boroughs.

For various reasons the main symbol of the city is the Brandenburg Gate; its unmissable landmarks are the Berlin TV tower in Mitte and the broadcasting tower on exhibition land in Westend.

Selected sights

Berlin-wide

• Historic cemeteries in Berlin
• Religious buildings in Berlin
• Windmills in Berlin
• Fountains in Berlin

Rotes Rathaus (Red City Hall)

View over Gendarmenmarkt at night

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Weltzeituhr on Alexanderplatz with Berlin TV tower

East Side Gallery

The Buddy Bear (or Berlin Bear) is a symbol of Berlin. A symbol of freedom, peace and tolerance among cultures and religions. Here on the Bebelplatz

Berlin Cathedral

East Centre (Mitte)

• Museum Island
  • Berlin Cathedral
  • Lustgarten
  • Granitschale im Lustgarten
  • Jungfern Bridge
• Unter den Linden: Berlin's historical boulevard
  • Neue Wache
  • Sing-Akademie/Maxim Gorki Theatre
  • Alte Kommandantur, head office of Bertelsmann
  • Zeughaus (Deutsches Historisches Museum)
  • Berlin State Opera
  • St. Hedwig's Cathedral
  • Humboldt University and the "Old library" (Kommode)
  • Berlin State Library (originally known as Deutsche Staatsbibliothek until 1991)
  • Berlin City Palace (under construction) and the palace bridge
  • numerous embassies
  • Madame Tussauds Berlin
• Brandenburg Gate and Pariser Platz
  • Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
  • Hotel Adlon
  • French Embassy
  • U.S. Embassy
  • The Kennedys Museum
  • Akademie der Künste
• Alexanderplatz and Nikolai quarter
  • TV tower
  • World Clock
  • Haus des Lehrers
  • Rotes Rathaus and Neptune Fountain
  • St. Mary's Church
  • St. Nicholas' Church
  • Marx-Engels Forum
  • Dom Aquaree
  • Hanf Museum
  • East Germany Museum
  • Holy Ghost Chapel
  • Remnants of the old city wall of Berlin-Cölln along Klosterstraße
• Karl-Marx-Allee
• Friedrichstraße, next to the Kurfürstendamm Berlin's greatest shopping mile
  • Galeries Lafayette and many other shops
  • Checkpoint Charlie
  • Friedrichstadt Palast
• Gendarmenmarkt
  • Konzerthaus Berlin (formerly the Schauspielhaus)
  • German Cathedral
  • French Cathedral
• "Spandauer Vorstadt"
  • Oranienburger Straße
  • Kunsthaus Tacheles
  • Postfuhramt
  • New Synagogue
  • Große Hamburger Straße, with Old Jewish Cemetery
  • Sophienkirche
  • Hackesche Höfe
  • Hackescher Markt
  • Hamburger Bahnhof
  • Museum of Natural History
  • Volksbühne

Beach at Museum Island

Charlottenburg Palace

The Elephant Gate at Berlin Zoo

West Centre

• Tiergarten
  • Carillon
  • Haus der Kulturen der Welt
  • Victory Column
  • Bellevue Palace (seat of the federal presidents)
  • Soviet War Memorial
• Around the Kurfürstendamm
  • Europa-Center
  • Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (memorial and new building)
  • Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe)
  • Kranzler Eck
  • Theater des Westens
  • Weltkugel Fountain
  • Zoological Garden
• Miscellaneous
  • Deutsche Oper Berlin
  • Luckhardt Villa, Westend Heerstraße
  • Messe exhibition hall with radio tower and the International Congress Centre (ICC)
  • Charlottenburg Town Hall
  • Berggruen Museum
  • Charlottenburg Palace

Berlin Victory Column

The New Berlin around Potsdamer Platz

• Potsdamer Platz
  • Sony Centre with the Film Museum and Emperor Hall (Kaiser-Saal)
  • Daimler Quarter with Potsdamer Platz Arcades, Bluemax (in the former IMAX Berlin), Theater am Potsdamer Platz and the Spielbank Berlin
• Kulturforum
  • Philharmonie and Chamber Music Hall
  • Museum of Musical Instruments
  • New National Gallery
  • Art Gallery
  • Berlin State Library (Haus 2)
  • St. Matthew's Church
• Leipziger Platz
• Museum of Communications (former Postal Museum), Leipziger Straße /corner of Mauerstraße
• German Museum of Technology, Trebbiner Straße
• Tempodrom (with the Liquidrom)

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Potsdamer Platz

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The Reichstag

Government quarter

• Regierungsviertel
  • Reichstag (Bundestag)
  • Paul Löbe Haus
  • Marie Elisabeth Lüders Haus
  • Jakob Kaiser Haus
  • Federal chancellery
  • Embassy quarter by the Tiergarten
    • Swiss Embassy
    • Nordic Embassies
  • Berlin Hauptbahnhof and the Europacity

Inside Government quarter

Outlying areas

North

• Amtsgericht Wedding
• Bogensee
• Brotfabrik
• Bürgerpark Berlin-Pankow
• Jewish Cemetery, Berlin-Weißensee
• Pankow Town Hall
• Schönhausen Palace
• Schönholz Heath
• Tegel House
• Weißer See in Weißensee

East

• Molecule Man
• Oberbaum Bridge
• East Side Gallery
• Biesdorf House
• Gründerzeit Museum
• Dorf Marzahn with its post mill
• Kienberg with the Erholungspark Marzahn and the exhibition there: "Gardens of the World"
• Tierpark and Friedrichsfelde House
• Treptower Park with the Archenhold Observatory and Soviet War Memorial
• Köpenick Old Town (Altstadt) with Rathaus (see also: Hauptmann von Köpenick)
• Köpenick Palace with the Kunstgewerbemuseum, castle church and Schlossinsel
• Friedrichshagen Waterworks (in the engine hall of the Museum im Wasserwerk) at the Großen Müggelsee
• Müggelberge with Müggelturm and Teufelssee
• German-Russian Museum
• Wuhlheide, public park and leisure and recreation centre with the Berlin Park Railway
• Stasi Museum in the former Stasi Ministry
• Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial (former Stasi prison)

Oberbaum Bridge

Southeast

• Luisenstadt Canal
• St. Michael's Church

South

• Askania Watch Manufacturers
• Britzer Garten
• Ceciliengärten
• Gropiusstadt
• Hufeisensiedlung
• Insulaner hill with the Planetarium and the Wilhelm Foerster Observatory
• Kaisereiche
• Südgelände Nature Park
• Tempelhof Airport with the Airlift Memorial
• Victoria Park on Kreuzberg

Hufeisensiedlung

The Great Tropical House at the Botanical Gardens

Southwest

• Botanical Gardens
• Wannsee
• Lilienthal-monument in Lichterfelde
• Lichterfelde West
• Grunewald Hunting Lodge
• Grunewald Tower at the Havelchaussee
• Monument at Schildhorn to Jaxa von Köpenick
• Flensburg Lion
• Glienicke Hunting Lodge
• Glienicke Palace with park and Glienicke Bridge
• Pfaueninsel
• Düppel Museum Village
• Rost- und Silberlaube with the Philological Library of the Freie Universität Berlin
• Liebermann Villa
• Bierpinsel

West

• Berlin Olympic Village (formerly the Reich Sports Fields or Reichssportfeld), with the Olympic Stadium, Bell Tower, Maifeld, Forest Stage and the Sports Forum
• Ruhleben Water Meadows, Murellenberge, Murellenschlucht and Schanzenwald
• Tiefwerder, Tiefwerder Meadows, Stößensee
• Spandau Citadel with its monuments on Victory Avenue (Siegesallee)
• Spandau's Old Town (Altstadt) with its church and town hall

Spandau Citadel

Museums

• See: List of museums and galleries in Berlin

Monuments and memorial sites

The Neue Wache

• The Neue Wache Unter den Linden – to victims of war (Napoleonic wars, 1WW, 2WW)
• Berlin monuments at the Royal Porcelain Factory in Berlin
• National Bismarck Monument
• Beethoven-Haydn-Mozart Memorial
• Count von Moltke monument at the Victory Column
• Memorial to those murdered by the Nazi Military Judiciary at the Murellenberg in Ruhleben
• The Berlin Wall Memorial in Bernauer Straße.
• The Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial to the victims of Communist oppression in Germany in the former central Stasi Investigation Centre of the GDR.
• Stasi Museum

Equestrian statue of Frederick the Great

• Equestrian statue of Frederick the Great
• Memorial to those Shot Down by Anti-Aircraft Artillery
• Airlift Monument
• Memorial of the 17 June 1953
• Old Garrison Cemetery
• The Holocaust Memorial, Germany’s monument to the murdered Jews of Europe, completed in May 2005 in Berlin. The memorial site has 2711 concrete steles as well as underground exhibition rooms.
• The so-called Wannsee Conference took place in the villa at Am Großen Wannsee 56−58 on 20 January 1942, the “final solution to the Jewish question“. Today it is a memorial site.
• Memorial and Information Point for the Victims of National Socialist Euthanasia Killings, the memorial site to the victims of euthanasia in Berlin, Tiergarten-Straße 4. (see Nazi Euthanasia Programme).
• Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted Under Nazism
• Plötzensee Prison, looked after by the Memorial to the German Resistance. In the place of execution at Plötzensee almost 3,000 people were murdered between 1933 and 1945 by hanging or by guillotine. This memorial site recalls especially the death of resistance fighters in the 20 July plot.
• Prussian National Monument for the Liberation Wars
• Soviet War Memorial in the Großer Tiergarten, Mitte, Straße des 17. Juni
• Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park, Treptow-Köpenick, Park the gefallenen Soldaten
• Soviet War Memorial in the Schönholz Heath, Pankow

Gallery of Berlin sights and attractions

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  Berlin along the Spree river and the Fernsehturm by night

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  Brandenburg Gate

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  Berlin TV Tower (Fernsehturm)

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  Reichstag building

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  Reichstag dome _(inside)

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  Bundeskanzleramt German Chancellery

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  View of the Regierungsviertel _{(Government area)}

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  Berlin Cathedral (Dom)

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  St. Hedwig's Cathedral

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  Şehitlik mosque

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  Bode Museum on Museum Island

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  Rotes Rathaus (Red City Hall)

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  New Synagogue

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  Gendarmenmarkt

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  Deutsches Historisches Museum

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  View over Potsdamer Platz

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  Inside the Sony Center

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  Alexanderplatz

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  Leipziger Platz

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  Pariser Platz with Brandenburg Gate

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  Berlin Victory Column in the Tiergarten

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  Straße des 17. Juni

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  View over Großer Tiergarten

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  Soviet War Memorial

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  Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church

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  Charlottenburg Palace

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  Bellevue Palace

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  Entrance to Berlin Zoo

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  Olympic Stadium

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  Kurfürstendamm (shopping street)

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  Oberbaum Bridge

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  Section of the Cold War Berlin Wall

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  The Kaufhaus des Westens department store

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  Berliner Philharmonie

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  Inside the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

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  Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

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  Pergamon Museum

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  Haus der Kulturen der Welt

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  Alte Nationalgalerie

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  Zoofenster

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  Debis-Haus is part of the Daimler-Complex

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  Humboldt Box

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  Friedrichstadt-Palast

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  View over Mediaspree with Treptowers

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  Neue Wache

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  Inside the Hackesche Höfe

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  View over Nikolaiviertel (Nicholas' Quarter) with St. Nicholas' Church

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  Großer Wannsee

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  Teufelsberg

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  View over Europacity quarter (under construction) with Berlin Hauptbahnhof at center

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  Berlin City Palace, demolished in 1950, three façades scheduled for reconstruction

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  Charlottenburg Gate

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  Former Prussian Landtag, Niederkirchnerstr. 5, Berlin, Germany

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  The UNESCO World Heritage Site Berlin Modernism Housing Estates

See also

• List of memorials to the victims of Nazism
• Berlin Memorial Tablets

External links

• Sights in Berlin
• Top 50 sights in Berlin