The foundation stone for the Parochialkirche, the first church built for a Protestant congregation in Berlin, was laid in 1695, not far from the historic 13th-century city wall.
With its magnificent dome, the Berlin Cathedral is definitely one of the capital’s crowd pullers.
Anyone who has ever been to Berlin has seen it. Indeed, it is hard to imagine not being able to take notice of it. No wonder - the Berlin Television Tower, which is 368 metres tall, is the highest publicly accessible building in Europe. But it’s even more than that.
While the only remaining city gate of Berlin formerly used to represent the separation of the city between East and West Berlin, since the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 the Brandenburg Gate has now come to symbolise German unity.
Actually, it was just meant to be a small garden castle for Sophie Charlotte, the wife of Elec-tor Friedrich III.
The Abspannwerk Buchhändlerhof (Substation Buchhändlerhof) is an outstanding example of industrial architecture from the 1920s.
On 9 June 1884, Kaiser Wilhelm I needed three attempts to lay the foundation-stone. It is said that, while he was using the tool, it cracked.
The Stadtschloss (City Palace), originally the residence of Prussian kings and German Emperors in the heart of Berlin, is to be rebuilt mora than 60 years
In addition to the three existing UNESCO world heritage sites in the German capital, Berlin proposes two places as future world heritage sites.
Berlin’s elegant boulevard is found in the old heart of Berlin, going all the way from the Brandenburg Gate to the Schlossbrücke bridge.
