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Unter den Linden: Walk down Unter den Linden to Museum Island
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    • mgmarcus
  • Updated By mgmarcus on April 27, 2005
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    • Altes Museum - Berlin
    Altes Museum
    by mgmarcus
    Walking down Unter den Linden from Brandenburg Gate will lead you to Museumsinsel (Museum Island). Not only do you get a great walk down this famous avenue and all it's historic buildings but you finish at a spot where there is plenty more to explore. View the Altes Museum (pictured), Lustgarten (part of which is in picture), Alte Nationalgalerie, Pergamonmuseum, Bodermuseum, Berliner Dom, Schlossbruke (bridge to museum island), Berliner Dom (Berlin Cathederal), Schlossplatz and Palast der Republik (East German Parliament building). Walk a bit further and you will arrive at Alexanderplatz at the foot of the Television Tower.

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  • Directions: S-Bahn: Unter den Linden, Bus 100
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    Unter den Linden: Friedrichswerdersche Kirche
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  • Updated By mgmarcus on April 30, 2005
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    • Friedrichswerdersche Kirche - Berlin
    Friedrichswerdersche Kirche
    by mgmarcus
    Strictly speaking this church it is not on Unter den Linden but rather behind the Kronprinzenpalais which is. It is well worth a short detour to visit it. Completed in 1830 but destroyed in WW2 and re-built it now does not function as a church but rather as a museum. The contents are in honour of architect/city planner Karl Friedrich Schinkel responsible for the design of a number of the cities buildings / monuments / boulevards / squares, including Friedrichswerdersche Kirche itself and the Altes Museum. While the prime emphasis is 19th century sculptures, there are other items of interest a lot of which revolve around Schenkel. When I visited Friedrichswerdersche Kirche it was open six days a week, closed each Monday. The picture was taken feom the top of the Berliner Dom. You can also see part of the Schlossbrucke (Bridge) that leads over the river onto the start of Unter den Linden and the first building on Unter den Linden the Alte Kommandatur (Old Army Headquarters).

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  • Directions: S-Bahn: Unter den Linden, Bus 100
  • Website: http://www.smb.spk-berlin.de/fwk/e/g.html
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    Unter den Linden: Humbolt University
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  • Updated By mgmarcus on May 1, 2005
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    • Humbolt University - Berlin
    Humbolt University
    by mgmarcus
    Humbolt University is one of many historic buildings to be viewed on a walk down Unter din Linden. Completed in 1753 as the Palace of Prince Heinrich of Prussia. The University was founded there in 1810. The statue is of Hermann Helmholtz, famous German physician and physicist who had a signicant impact on the direction of the University. When I visited there was a book market taking place out the front which I have been told is a regular occurance. The "Little Humboldt Gallery" is located in the main building, Unter den Linden 6, open Tuesday to Friday drom noon to 6:00 p.m and shows exhibitions of artistic works by university staff, students and artists from the Berlin area. There is also a shop in the same building selling university badged clothing such as T shirts, caps and sweatshirts.

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  • Directions: S-Bahn: Unter den Linden, Bus 100
  • Website: http://www.hu-berlin.de/indexe.html
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    Unter den Linden: Neue Wache: Eloquent Memorial
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  • By iblatt on November 1, 2008
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    • Neue Wache, Berlin - Berlin
    Neue Wache, Berlin
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    Thousands of tourists stroll down Unter den Linden. They notice the impressive neoclassical facade and colonade of the Neue Wache building, just before reaching the Lustgarten.
    Not all of them walk inside. Some peep in, see what seems like an almost empty hall, and walk out again. My tip is: take your time and spend a few minutes inside.

    The Neue Wache is today the official "Central Memorial of the Federal Republic of Germany". The interior is dark and empty, creating a sensation of void, and and in the center you will find Käthe Kollwitz 's "Pieta" sculpture, eloquent, expressive and moving, like all of her sculptures (see my tip on the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Berlin).
    This is a memorial to all war victims.

    The history of the building goes back to 1816, when Friedrich Wilhelm III ordered its construction as a guard house. This was the first architectural gem conceived by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in Berlin. It served afterwards as "Memorial for the Fallen of the War" (First World War) before 1945, "Memorial for the Victims of Fascism and Militarism" (during the communist era), and now "Central Memorial of the Federal Republic of Germany".
    So, take 5 minutes of your time, admire the building and the Pieta sculpture, and remember all the victims of war.

  • Directions: S-Bahn: Unter den Linden, Bus 100
  • Website: www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/denkmal/denkmale_in_berlin/en/unter_den_linden/neue_wache.shtml
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    Unter den Linden: Alexanderplatz Tower in the distance.
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  • By dabidc on April 1, 2004
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    • Unter den Linden looking East - Berlin
    Unter den Linden looking
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    by dabidc
    My walk continued from the Brandenburger Tor to the east along the Unter den Linden. Tjis photo shows the Television Tower in Alexanderplatz and the facade of the Humbolt University from a point beside the statue of Prussian reformer and statesman Freiherr vom Stein.

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  • Directions: S-Bahn: Unter den Linden, Bus 100
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    Unter den Linden: Unter den Linden - Bebelplatz
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  • Updated By sabsi on September 19, 2003
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    • Bebelplatz - Berlin
    Bebelplatz
    by sabsi
    Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen
    Heinrich Heine

    This square at Unter den Linden has a sad past. It was here where the Nazi on 10 May 1933 burned books by Jewish authors and other authors they didn't like. There is an interesting memorial here now, kind of an underground bookshelf you can see through a glass floor.

    Heinrich Heine's sentence means "Where they burn books in the end they will also burn people". I bet he didn't know how right he was ....

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  • Directions: S-Bahn: Unter den Linden, Bus 100
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    Unter den Linden: Unter den Linden - Humboldt Universität
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  • Updated By sabsi on September 19, 2003
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    • Humboldt University - Berlin
    Humboldt University
    by sabsi
    Humboldt University is one of Berlin's biggest universities and one of Germany's best ones. Its main building at Unter den Linden is such a nice one, it must be nice to study here. But then again, my university was in a castle as well and it wasn't much fun still ;)

    The buildings were destroyed in the war but the people of Berlin cleaned up quickly and reopened the university already in 1946.

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  • Directions: S-Bahn: Unter den Linden, Bus 100
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    Unter den Linden: Unter den Linden - Deutsche Staatsoper
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  • Updated By sabsi on September 19, 2003
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    • Deutsche Staatsoper - Berlin
    Deutsche Staatsoper
    by sabsi
    The opera was opened in 1743. It was the Royal Opera for King Friedrich II. As many of the other buildings along Unter den Linden the opera burned down in WWII and it wasn't reopened before 1955. It is now one of the three biggest operas of Berlin.

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  • Directions: S-Bahn: Unter den Linden, Bus 100
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    Unter den Linden: Unter den Linden - Staatsbibliothek
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  • Updated By sabsi on September 19, 2003
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    • Staatsbibliothek - Berlin
    Staatsbibliothek
    by sabsi
    For obvious reasons there are two big libraries in Berlin, one in Tiergarten and one here at Unter den Linden. After the reunification they were turned into one, the two buildings were kept. And this building at Unter den Linden ist the nicer one ;-)

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  • Directions: S-Bahn: Unter den Linden, Bus 100
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    Unter den Linden: Unter den Linden - Kronprinzenpalais
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  • Updated By sabsi on September 19, 2003
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    • Kronprinzenpalais - Berlin
    Kronprinzenpalais
    by sabsi
    Inside Kronprinzenpalais you will find exhibtions of the German history museum's while that's closed. Official name of the building is Palais Unter den Linden, it was built in 1663 and remodeled in 1732 for the successor (Kronprinz) to the throne who became king Friedrich II.

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  • Directions: S-Bahn: Unter den Linden, Bus 100
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