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Apartment Block Entrance Off Karl Marx Allee
Restaurant Amritt
Neptune Fountain - Stadt Mitte
BRANDENBURG GATE
What was the name of Berlin main railway station before modernisation a couple of years ago. thanks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Hauptbahnhof
http://www.berlin-hauptbahnhof.de/site/berlin__hauptbahnhof/en/start.html
Lehrter Bahnhof
I wouldn't call this modernisation. Apart from the location the new Hauptbahnhof has nothing in common with the old station. Not even the routes of the tracks.
There have been actually 2 stations before at this location.
Lehrter Bahnhof was a major terminal station. Badly damaged in WWII and after the war demolished.
Lehrter Stadtbahnhof was a S-Bahn stop in front of the above station and in use till the new Hauptbahnhof was built. "Over the first weekend of July 2002 the bridges and main station hall were brought into service so that traffic could be diverted onto the new alignment. The old Lehrter Stadtbahnhof S-Bahn station was closed and rapidly demolished to make way for further new building."
Or do you mean Bahnhof Zoo? This was the main train station before the new station, at least for trains coming from the west.
In the east part of Berlin you will notice that the pedestrian crossing signals are quite unique. The red and green figures are much larger than normal and are postioned differently. Yoiu can by many souvenirs showing these men, images on t-shirts to gummie bears! Too many to mention!
Cows in Switzerland, lions in Munich and bears in Berlin.... loads of them - everywhere - standing outside shops advertising their wares, on balconies supposedly supporting the building, along the street adding a bit of art and colour, from around the world organised into alphabetical order and called the "Buddy Bears". These Gentle Ben's are absolutely everywhere and most of them have their forearms (if bears front legs can indeed be called forearms) upright, looking rather shocked or as though they have been taken hostage at gun point!
I don't usually get touristy photos of myself and neither do I usually put photos of me on VT but, with this bear.... my friend and I just couldn't resist (I'm the one faking the cheesey grin on the left whilst my retinas were being burnt out by the sun whilst waiting for the shutter to snap shut!)... Oh, and the second photo... is to show that whilst rare in Berlin, some bears do stand like bears should!
The official Botschaftsviertel is south of Tiergarten, with the touristic highlight of the modern fairy-tale building with the embassies of the United Arab Emirates in Hiroshima-Straße. Also the northern European countries have made a joint effort in Rauchstraße.
However, most embassies and consulates are now located east of Tiergarten, in an area where also the heart of German politics is, between the river Spree/Reichstag/Brandenburger Tor in the north and Kochstraße/Rudi-Dutschke-Straße (near Checkpoint Charlie) in the south, Ebertstraße in the west and the Spree/Museumsinsel in the east.
The US American Embassy is in the procedure of shifting house from Neustädtische Kirchstraße (U-Bahn U6, Friedrichstraße) to Pariser Platz which is the square on which Brandenburger Tor is sitting. The building is south of Brandenburger Tor, at the corner of Ebertstraße and Behrenstraße. When we were there in 2007 they were still busy building. The plan is to have the people in there working in the European spring of 2008.
On our search of New Zealand’s Embassy which we found in the city map we saw a lot of impressive embassy buildings. So we thought our NZ representatives would also reside in an impressive building. But we nearly missed it because it just occupies some rooms in a big office building at the corner of Friedrichstraße and Kronenstraße. Only a small sign at the building directory, between the signs of the Association of Private Clinics, a bank and a French gas company, indicates that the embassy is there. Magnifying glasses would have been of great help to identify the sign between all the others.
But NZ is not alone in its relative insignificance: The economic and commercial offices of the Egypt Embassy are also housed in the modern building ;-)
A great attraction is the "Galerie Lafayette" at the corner of Französische (French) Strasse 23 and Friedrichstrasse.
This elegant store is a branch of the well known Paris department store.
the architectural design is very modern and has a conical décor, Everything and specialized on fashion Expensive
This large Irish pub offers all the favourites, good beer and a comforting menu of British home cooked food. Has several tv's and a Big Screen TV for those important football matches and also has live music! Also has a large outside seating area. Casual
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