On our forays through the city, we also pass the sights that many people travel to Berlin for. Often people leave these very places in their hometown unnoticed – not us! We are on the trail of Berlin sights in the city and present them here one by one.
Discover Berlin sights
Berlin and mountains? It's hard to believe, but Berlin's Kreuzberg, the city's highest inner-city elevation, is located in Viktoriapark.
A green area of around 6 hectares was created in Berlin's Mitte district after the Second World War. It is bordered by Karl-Liebknecht-Straße, Alexanderplatz station, Rathausstraße and Spandauer Straße. One of the city's most famous buildings, the Rotes Rathaus (Red Town Hall), is located here
For someone who was born in Berlin in the 1960s, this place simply belongs in the city. Today, visitors from all over the world stand at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin and cannot imagine that a border crossing from one part of the city to the other once existed here.
One of the most beautiful bridges in Berlin, I think, is the Oberbaumbrücke, which connects Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain across the Spree.
Berlin Pankow - Buch district, here stands the somewhat lesser known Buch Soviet Memorial on the edge of the Schlosspark. It is one of 12 Soviet memorials in Berlin.
If the flag is flying on the roof…an unmistakable sign at Bellevue Palace …the Federal President is in the Berlin city area. Whether he is then in his official residence on the outskirts of Berlin or in his offices in the palace can only be guessed by taking a walk along the edge of the…
We get off the S-Bahn at Grunewald station and leave the platform where trains arrive and depart every day. The pedestrian underpass brings us not only to the station building, but also to a place that today you can no longer see at first glance what cruel things happened here, the platform 17 at Grunewald…
Next to the Brandenburg Gate, the Berlin Reichstag is not only a landmark of the city, but also one of the most famous buildings in Germany. Every day, thousands of Berlin visitors are drawn there to take a look at the historic building not only from the outside, but also from the inside.
There is hardly a visitor to Berlin who does not visit the East Side Gallery. Here, on a preserved piece of the Berlin Wall, an open-air gallery has been created that is really worth seeing.
The main attraction in the Park am Fernsehturm is the Berlin TV Tower. It is one of the most famous and important buildings in Berlin and a landmark of the city.
If you travel on the Berlin S-Bahn ring, you will come to the Messe Nord station. This is a busy place, especially during trade fairs, and from here you can get to the Messezentrum Berlin. But not only that. Here is also the ICC Berlin, the Berlin Radio Tower, the House of Radio and not…
"Where were you in Berlin?", visitors to Berlin are often asked. Most then answer "Alexanderplatz", but do they really mean Alexanderplatz?
If you walk along John-Foster-Dulles-Allee from the Reichstag in Berlin towards Bellevue Palace, you can't miss the Pregnant Oyster and the Carillon - provided you know what to look for.
The Soviet Memorial in Schönholzer Heide is rather unknown, but I find it no less impressive than the memorials in Treptow and at the Brandenburg Gate.A tip brought the memorial to my attention, so we went to Pankow to discover it.
I think every visitor to Berlin is drawn to the Brandenburg Gate and Pariser Platz. The gate is the most famous landmark, a good reason for Berliners to drive by and stroll along the tourist paths.
I am a Berliner - I was born here and grew up with the Berlin Wall, experienced the fall of the Wall and the growing together of the city. After years, I now went to the Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Strasse for the first time.
About halfway between the Brandenburg Gate and Potsdamer Platz is the "Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe" or "Holocaust Memorial". It's a place you have to see and an exhibition that took me away emotionally.
Viewpoints are simply the highlight of every city discovery for me. So a visit to the Panorama Point at Potsdamer Platz was just the thing for me.
Berlin has many places that inspire me. One of the most beautiful squares in the city is probably the Gendarmenmarkt. The buildings on the square are really impressive and I keep discovering details that I haven't seen before.
For us Spandau residents, it is simply part of the cityscape, the Spandau Citadel. For Berlin visitors, the Renaissance fortress is one of the sights in the district of Spandau that should not be missed.
In the district of Charlottenburg stands one of the most beautiful palaces in Berlin. We took a little walk around the palace and enjoyed the beautiful weather in the palace park.
on the way in the large housing estate Siemensstadt I've been living in Siemensstadt for over 25 years now, but I haven't really paid much attention to the architectural history of my neighborhood. Sure, I have seen tourist groups walking along here from time to time and I also know the signs on some rows…
Berlin's local transport system is very well developed. You can explore the whole city by bus, S-Bahn, U-Bahn or tram. Day tickets or even tourist tickets are not that expensive and if you choose the right route, you can save on expensive bus tours offered by other tour operators.
Our tour through Berlin led us to the Soviet Memorial in the Tiergarten, which is located directly on the Straße des 17.Juni, less than 300 meters from the Reichstag.
I love to discover Berlin. Unfortunately, one often takes far too little time for his hometown and in addition Berlin is not exactly small. Since you are often with the public transport, especially from my home district Spandau, quickly times an hour on the road until you reach the desired destination. The Treptower Park is…
The Glienicke Bridge is one of the less spectacular bridges that connect Berlin and Potsdam. It stretches across the river Havel and wouldn’t be worth a specific mention if it wasn’t the place of the spy swaps during the Cold War.
The victory column (“Siegessäule”) in Berlin is located on the main square in the district Tiergarten, the “Großer Stern” – the great star square. It was built according to a design by Heinrich Strack and is now under monumental protection.
The Olympic Stadium in Berlin is definitely worth a visit. On non-working days you can explore this historical place either alone or on a guided tour.