Denkmal für die im Nationalsozialismus ermordeten Sinti und Roma Europas
Historic Mitte
This memorial commemorates the Sinti and Roma victims of the Holocaust and consists of a circular reflecting pool with a floating stone decorated daily…
Must-see attractions in Historic Mitte
Historic Mitte
On 17 August 1962, 18-year-old would-be escapee Peter Fechter was shot and wounded by Berlin Wall border guards and then left to bleed to death as the…
Former Reichsluftfahrtministerium
Historic Mitte
Designed by Ernst Sagebiel in 1935 and ’36, this behemoth was not only Hermann Göring’s power centre but also where the resistance group ‘Red Orchestra’…
Historic Mitte
The broad boulevard bisecting Tiergarten was named Street of 17 June in honour of the victims of the bloodily quashed 1953 workers’ uprising in East…
Historic Mitte
This exhibit traces the fate and history of the Mendelssohn family, one of Germany's most influential dynasties starting with the pater familias, Jewish…
Historic Mitte
Home to the parliamentary library, this recently expanded, extravagant structure has a massive tapered stairway, a flat roofline jutting out like a…
Historic Mitte
Now occasionally used as an event space and for special exhibits, this froufrou baroque palace was blueprinted by Johann Arnold Nering as the residence of…
Denkmal für die im Nationalsozialismus verfolgten Homosexuellen
Historic Mitte
Since 2008 this memorial has trained the spotlight on the tremendous suffering of Europe’s LGBT community under the Nazis. The freestanding, 4m-high, off…
Historic Mitte
This fortress-like US Embassy opened in 2008 and was designed by the California-based architectural firm of Moore Ruble Yudell. It is not open to the…
Historic Mitte
The seven white crosses on the southern Spree bank behind the Reichstag were put there in 1971 by a group of West Germans in memory of the East Germans…
Historic Mitte
This hulking behemoth is a fine example of Stalinist Zuckerbäckerstil (wedding-cake style) architecture, but a tall wall allows only glimpses of the…
Historic Mitte
Contemporary art, culture and sports activities are the focus of this gallery sponsored by Deutsche Bank and set within the updated rooms of a rococo…
