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Moabit, located north of the river Spree's bend, had long been an industrial and military area : well into the 19th Century gun powder magazines or hospitals were relegated there. During the time of the Wall penal institutions and the courts shaped the area, but as of the mid-80's Moabit has been being converted into a service industries centre. Nowadays, Moabiter Werder houses the apartments of federal employees, while the governmental and parliament district lies inside the river Spree's bend at the other side of Tiergarten, the city's central park.
A bit further, the newly re-built "Kronprinzenbruecke" (Crown Prince Bridge) once again connects the Tiergarten district with Mitte, the city's centre, which is where the "Bundes-Presseamt" (Federal Press Office) has moved (in close proximity to the Friedrichstraße train station).
Thus the "governmental ribbon," the largest of Berlin's new urban development projects - it spans from the "Kanzlerpark" (Chancellor Park) in the west to the "Bundeskanzleramt" (Federal Chancellery) and the "Abgeordnetenbüros" (parliament offices) in the east - now structurally links not only about 400 years of urban development history, but also the once separated halves of the East and West. |
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