Government Quarter
| Bundestag (5)
Reichstag Building
1894
The Reichstag Building in Berlin was constructed to house the Reichstag, the first parliament of the German Empire. It was opened in 1894 and housed the Reichstag until 1933.
|
|  | Berlin Central Station (7)
Berlin Hauptbahnhof
between 2002 and 2006
Berlin Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station in Berlin, and the largest crossing station in Europe. It began full operation two days after a ceremonial opening on 26 May 2006.
|
Unter den Linden
|  | Brandenburg Gate (1)
Brandenburger Tor
between 1788 and 1791
The Brandenburg Gate is a former city gate and one of the main symbols of Berlin, Germany. It is located between the Pariser Platz and the Platz des 18. März and is the only remaining gate of a series through which one formerly entered Berlin. One block to its north lies the Reichstag.
|
Kreuzberg
|  | Checkpoint Charlie (3)
between 1945 and 1989
Checkpoint Charlie was the name given by the Western Allies to a crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War, located at the junction of Friedrichstraße with Zimmerstraße and Mauerstraße (which coincidentally means "Wall Street"). It is in the Friedrichstadt neighborhood, which was divided by the Berlin Wall.
|
Mitte
|  | Berlin Cathedral (5)
Berliner Dom
approx. between 1950 and 1970
Berlin Cathedral is a Lutheran cathedral in Berlin, Germany. It is located on Museum Island in the Mitte district, and was built between 1895 and 1905. Dedicated on February 27, 1905, it faces the Lustgarten (a city park) and the former site of the imperial palace, the Stadtschloss.
|
Tiergarten
|  | Victory Column (8)
Siegessäule
between 1865 and 1873
Designed by Heinrich Strack after 1864 to commemorate the Prussian victory in the Danish-Prussian war, by the time the Victory Column was inaugurated on 2 September 1873 Prussia had also defeated Austria in the Austro-Prussian War (1866) and France in the Franco-Prussian War (1870/1871), giving the statue a new purpose.
|
City
|  | Berlin Wall
between 1961 and 1989
The Berlin Wall was a barrier separating West Berlin from East Berlin and the rest of East Germany. The longer 'inner German border' demarcated the remainder of the East-West German border between the two states. Both borders were part of the Iron Curtain.
|
 |
