Berlin Center
| Infomations about the tour: |
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| Date | According to the arrangement |
| Start time | 11:00 Uhr |
| Duration | ca 4,5 h incl. break |
| Distance | 18 km |
| Price* | 18 Euro p. person Minimum price 45 Euro |
| Bikes | bring your own or rent a bike at 8 Euro/24 h at the meeting point |
| Meeting point** and point of return |
U-Station Nollendorfplatz Exit: Karl-Heinrich-Ulrichs-Straße Bike rental "mrm" |
| How to get there |
U1,
U2 U3, U4, Tariff zones AB |
| Languages | German or English |
Tour request - Contact
info@schaut-auf-berlin-touren.de
* does not include local transportation tickets, rental fee or entry tickets
** Meeting point is at the bike rental "mrm" at Nollendorfplatz.
The official adress is:
Einemstr. 6, 10787 Berlin but, strangely enough,
it is located directly at Karl-Heinrich-Ulrichs-Straße
next to the CVJM (YMCA). Rental bikes can be used for 24 hours.
West City and Inner City
Circle Tour around and through the Tiergarten Park
Main stations:
- Starting Point Nollendorfplatz
- West City between KDW and Zoo
- Charlottenburg Gate
- Royal Porcelain Factory
- Hansa Quarter
- Spree River Bend in Moabit District
- Bellevue Palace
- "Great Star" with the Victory Column
- Chancellery and Reichstag Building
- Brandenburg Gate
- Monument for the Fallen Soviet Soldiers
- Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe
- Postdamer Platz
- Culture Forum
- Stauffenberg Memorial
- From "Luise Island" to the "New Lake"
- Tour End at Nollendorfplatz
In Berlin, you find the largest number of animal species in Germany. Yet, this is not where the name "Großer Tiergarten" (Great Animal Garden) comes from. The Tiergarten used to be the privat hunting ground of the electors and kings. In the mid of the 19th century, Friedrich II opened it to the public and Peter Lenné created the garden in the present form. At that time, it was still located outside the gates of Berlin. Today, the Tiergarten is right in the middle of the capital city. With its garden landscapes, watercourses and monuments, it is literally the greatest sight of Berlin. Seen from here, all the other sights and places of interest in Berlin Center appear to be kind of marginal features: the zoo in the West City, the "Mauerweg" (Wall Way) at Brandenburg Gate, the "Temples of the Arts" at the Culture Forum, the government and administrative district nestling into a bend of the Spree River, the postwar modern architecture in the Hansa Quarter, Potsdamer Platz which only became rebuilt after the reunion of West and East Berlin and, finally, the foreign embassies district and the the President's Palace. The Tiergarten, however, still is the star. And this is because, last not least, from here, five magical, shiny polished rocks from all five continents are going to save the world.