Green and clean
by Luchonda
I noticed on my last trip that Berlin is a green and clean city.
Next to the mixture of renovated buildings and a unique architecture
the city has a lot of urban qualities implicating green and open spaces with parks, sports facilities and cemeteries, boulevard trees, gardens and promenades along the waterside and woods. Berlin has a surface of 890 skm of which 18% is green area and 7% waterside.
I never knew or realized that Berlin has that lot of greens and canals and lakes to offer.
Must be a paradise for walkers and bikers
The green lung is without doubt “Tiergarten” Visiting Berlin via the waterside must be a unique experience
People enjoy being outdoors, relaxing and spending time in the urban environment with family and friends. It is a pitty I had no time to visit the most south/western part of Berlin – better known as Potsdam.
See the Siegerseule
by jonkb
It's right in the middle of the Tiergarten Park, and offers a wonderfull, but distant view of Berlin. It's possible to visit the top via a spiral staircase inside. The coloumn was risen in memory of germanys victory in war.
For kids
by matcrazy1
I didn't see any playing grounds for small kids in Berlin. Do they hide them somewhere?
Instead I did find one but outside Berlin on my way back to Poland. It was a small playing ground at the first rest area ("rasthaus" in German) along Autobahn (freeway/motorway) 13 (E36, E55) in Motzen.
Follow the link below for info on Berlin for kids, please.
Church in Tempelhofer Feld, 1927-1928
by Kathrin_E
The whole new quarter of Neu-Tempelhof was designed by the same architect Fritz Bräuning in the 1920s. The church in the surrounding park was the first larger church built in Berlin after World War I. Bräuning designed a plain round church without a steeple with the typical triangular ornaments of the late 1920s.
In World War II the church was heavily damaged. Nevertheless repair works were already finished in 1949. The interior has been restored and redesigned ten years later by the architect Günter Behrmann.
Date: 1927-1928 / 1950 / interior redesigned 1959-1960
Architect: Fritz Bräuning / Günter Behrmann
Confession: protestant
Address: Neu-Tempelhof, Wolffring 72
Location: Tempelhofer Feld
How to get in: contact the parish
Go for a meal
by mccrorj about Oranianburg Strasse
Try an evening on this busy street where I have found the food to be generally good with exceptions, I would encourage you to read my specific hint about individual restaurants. You certainly wont be disappointed in the choice although there is definitely a far eastern and asian biase (whose complaining about that!!)Coming from the uk the prices appear reasonable at about 10 euros for a main course. I'm not a short, tie and suit man and to date I havent been turned away or felt that the treatment I recieved was anything but excellent (even when the food is poor). Berlin is a laid back sort of city and as far as I can make out more or less anything is acceptable.
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