Infomations about the tour: |
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Date | According to the arrangement |
Start time | 11:00 Uhr |
Duration | ca 6 h incl. break |
Distance | 21 km |
Price* | 20 Euro p. person Minimum price 50 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 |
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.
Main stations:
- Starting Point Nollendorfplatz
- Motzstraße Quarter
- Winterfeldplatz
- Kleist Park
- Schöneberg Town Hall
- The "Red Island"
- Speer's "Heavy Weight Concrete Body"
- The Aviators' Settlement
- Former Tempelhof Airport
- Sehitlik Mosque
- Südstern Place
- Marheinike Hall and the Bergmannstraße
- The Kreuzberg Hill in Viktoria Park
- Bottleneck Park
- Gleisdreieck Park
- Postdamer Straße
Back to the Starting Point Nollendorfplatz
Explore the inner city of Berlin (inside the S-Bahn circle) one quarter at a time according to a drawing of a four-leaved clover leaf!
The heart-shaped leaves/tours point to the four directions of the compass. Each tour starts and comes back to the center where the four
clover leaves meet. After completing all four tours you can proudly say "Ich bin ein Berliner".
The Clover-Leaf Tour South could be called RIAS: "Ride In (the) American Sector". There we are,
learning about the main topics of this tour: Germania, postwar Germany, the Cold War, West Berlin as a front city. The American
radio station RIAS, as a "free voice of a free world", broadcasted the ringing of the "Freedom Bell" from nearby Schöneberg
Town Hall. From here, West Berlin was governed and here, J.F.Kennedy called himself a citizen of Berlin. But that is all history
now. In the former Headquarters of the Allied Control Council, today, German judges do their usual business and at the Tempelhof
Airport, today, you see kites rising instead of the "Candy Bombers" of the "Berlin Air-Lift". The Nazis had planned for Berlin to
become the world capital city "Germania" but what is left of it? Just one "Heavy Weight Concrete Body". And life went on,
developping into a very colorful life especially in the neighborhoods like Kreuzberg. No fear of being different here.
This is why David Bowie chose Schöneberg to live in. "We can be heroes, just for one day".