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Heinrich Mann Strasse 29, Berlin, 13156, Germany
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Queue For The Dome In June
Monument of Old Fritz
Konnopke’s Imbiss
Thomaskirche in Kreuzberg, dome
Hello everyone,
I will be in Berlin for a few days in September and I would like to find a nice hotel, not too far from the main attractions and not too expensive. I will be there with my boyfriend and we are looking for a simple and clean place. It does not have to be necessarily romantic.
Any suggestion will be welcome.
Thank you!
In March we stayed in Motel One at Alexanderplatz, an excellent location as all the main train/underground lines stop there.It is a nice and basic place to stay, and definitely not romantic.
Last year we stayed in the Hotel Kima, off Ku'damm, so not as good locactionwise, but very good rates and a charming,little B&B in an old building.
Of the two, I liked the Kima better, but the Motel One is the more convenient for sightseeing.
http://www.motel-one.com/
http://www.hotel-kima.de/kima.html
Alternatively try The Circus:
http://www.circus-berlin.de/circus_hotel_berlin.html
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Although you can buy Currywurst (curry sausage) at any fastfood shop in the country the “real” one comes from Berlin. A lady named Herta Heuwer invented it and offered it for the first time at her foodstall – called Imbissstube in German – at the corner of Kantstraße and Kaiser-Friedrich-Straße in the suburb of Charlottenburg on 4 September 1949.
To prepare a good Currywurst you need a light-coloured sausage – either in a skin or naked, as we call it – and nicely BBQ it. Then cut it in about 1cm thick slices, season it with a lot of curry, and then put ketchup or a mix of ketchup and tomato sauce over it. Serve it with French Fries or a soft roll which you can dip into the sauce and so clean the oval cardboard container LOL
Of course, at those Imbissbuden they have special cutting machines for slicing the sausages, and their ready-made sauces.
But back to Frau Heuwer. She even had a patent for her sauce named Chillup, made of tomato puree, curry, and worcester sauce. The other ingredients were secret, and the food giant Kraft tried unsuccessfully to get the production rights of her sauce. Frau Heuwer became so successful that she moved to bigger premises in Kaiser-Friedrich-Straße 59 (later Kantstraße 101) and at the peak of her career employed 19 staff. As the Imbiss was close to a nightlife area with brothels, it was open 24/7. Since 2003 – it would have been her 90th birthday - you will find a plaque at the former site of her business at the corner Kant- and Kaiser-Friedrich-Straße (Aldi building). Herta Heuwer died in 1999.
On German TV we even had a weekly series named “Drei Damen vom Grill” – three ladies from three generations who ran such a currywurst Imbiss, and of course, it was located in Berlin. And a novel was written about the invention of the Currywurst.
Everywhere in Berlin you find little stalls or premises with the name Curry-Bude, Currywurst-Paradies, and similar. Of course, they do not only serve Currywurst – but in Berlin Currywurst is just the synonym for fastfood.
To honour the success of the Currywurst a Currywurst Museum will finally be opened on 15 August 2009:
More information about the:
Deutsches Currywurst-Museum
on this website:
http://currywurstmuseum.com/?Home
There you can learn everything about the world of the Currywurst.
Contact Details:
Address: Schützenstraße 70 (near Checkpoint Charlie)
Phone (030) 887186-30
Open daily 10am - 10pm
Admission 7 - 11 Euro
On my photo you do not see a currywurst but another unique invention around the Wurst. I spotted this mobile Wurstmann in front of the U- and S-Bahn station Alexanderplatz. He had to be recharged by an assistant LOL
We thought that June was a warm month in Europe so we packed our shorts and t-shirts but Berlin was still very cold and windy. Be careful as the weather can still be somehow chilly until the very end of the spring.
The concrete skeleton of the octagonal building is visible on the outside – to me it looks like a giant Tupperware cake plate with cover. (Apologies for blasphemy.) The steeple has been positioned at quite a distance to the church building as a landmark on the street corner.
Date: 1959-1961
Architect: Werner March
Confession: protestant
Address: Detmolder Straße 17/18, 10715 Berlin
Location: Wilmersdorf, corner Detmolder Straße / Blissestraße. Bus 101 to "Hanauer Straße"
How to get in: contact the parish
We visited Berlin in end of August and realized that it was the weekend of the annual "Lange Nacht der Museen". Every summer one night more than 100 museums and cultural institutions stay open all night and give access to their exhibitions, collections and art objects throughout the night. There are many organized events for this evening as well and public transport functions all night enabling easy access to all sites.
It happened almost by accident that we realized one evening that the city was especially lively with large groups of people gathering around museums and other cultural institutions. As we were walking all day, we were too tired to spend even the night for walking so we just took a peek into this "Die Brucke" exhibition in Mies' Nationalgalerie.
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