Historical Places

The aristocratic land and estate owners in Buch were Wiltberg, Bredow (from 1342), Röbel (from 1450), Pölnitz (from 1669), Viereck (from 1724) and Voß (from 1761). The German novelist Theodor Fontane (1819-1898) describes the towns of Buch, its owners, and Malchow in his "Hiking through Mark

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Between 1875 and 1964 the Hartmann family ran this bakery, which was built in 1860 and later renovated, becoming a memorial in 2001. Today you will find here,a meeting place, the“Museum für Kindheitin Pankow”(childhood in Pankow) and a showplace of traditional handicrafts with the selling of bread

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Old and new malthouse. One of the most important monuments in Pankow is the Alte und Neue Mälzerei, which was built for the Schultheiss brewery.

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The Ballhaus Pankow, built as early as 1880, served at the beginning as an excursion pub called Schönhausen Palace and was at that time still located outside the gates of the city of Berlin. Today it is one of the most beautiful and oldest still preserved buildings in Pankow. The building ensemble

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In 1852 the barman Johann Friedrich Adolph Kalbo took over the bar and expanded it into a beer and coffee garden. In 1857 a dancehall was built, and on a podium in the garden there were singers and artists who provided entertainment for the guests. After the example of the Vienna amusement park the

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 Tens of thousands of citizens of the GDR crossed the Böse bridge into West Berlin passing over the state border which also stood for the communist system.
 
location: Bornholmer Strasse
 
The border installations were torn down in 1990 and after the re-unification of Berlin the bridge was

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The Berlin-Weissensee School of Art and Design (at Bühringstrasse 20 - accessible via Gustav-Adolf-Strasse) established a youth club in the old „Weissensee Point" bakery in 1986. However, two months after the opening of the youth club the GDR authorities shut it down for political reasons. In 1987

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In March 1848 the first council meeting during the 1848 revolution was held near the cottonwood tree in front of the Schönhauser gate. Up to 20.000 people demanded from Friedrich Wilhelm IV (1765-1861; 1840-1857 the Prussian king) that there be general elections, 12 hour working day, minimum wage

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Brewer Christoph Groterjan (died 1909) bought a mostly vacant property on Schönhauser Allee 129/130 in the near of the old “Exer“ where he had the brewery and a beer garden. From 1905 to 1907 a splendid residential and administration buildings were developed (Mila St 2) together with a hall and a

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In the founding years after 1870 the population of Berlin exploded. The industrialisation aggravated the social problems and brought poverty, deficiency diseases and homelessness which had to be solved. So after 1886 a hospital, a hospice and a shelter for homeless were built all at the same time on

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The rich citizens of Charlottenburg could not be expected to look at an elevated electric railway and that is the reason why when the first route for the public city transport was built in 1896 starting from the Warschauer Bridge the stretch between Nollendorfplatz and Knieplatz (today Ernst-Reuter

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The green residential complex created according to plans by architect Josef Tiedemann consists of three and four-story buildings made of red clinker and a 9,000 square meter park-like courtyard. The Dutch Quarter is adjacent to the Weissensee Community Forum designed by architect Carl James Bühring

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Today the cemetery is the oldest visible Jewish burial place in Berlin. At its beginning in the year 1827 the "Jewish Path" was just a simple way through the fields. When that area was built up between Metzer Strasse (on Senefelder Platz) and Kollwitzplatz the path remained. Its original function is

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The cemetery installed 1872 comprising five hectares served for all Jews who died until 1890 in Berlin but also took in a few individuals up to 1970.
 
Of particular interest is the fact that there are bilingual inscriptions on the gravestones in German and Hebrew. They are witness to the

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Jewish Cemetery
This cemetery, which today is a protected historic site, was consecrated in 1880. There are 115,000 grave plots on this site encompassing 42 hectares in all. The intricate pathways divide the site into 120 cemetery tracts. The main pathways and smaller walkways are bordered by trees

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Bertha (1837-1918) and Moritz Mannheimer (1827-1916) established and paid the institution on the occasion of their silver-wedding. The family grave of that generous couple is located on the Jewish Cemetery directly on the wall bordering on the Jewish Old People's Home. When it was inaugurated twelve

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This generously decorated orphanage owned a school and a synagogue room with a lavishly decorated, and today restored, coffered ceiling, donated by cigarette manufacturer Josef Garbáty-Rosenthal (1851-1939). In 1906 the businessman had moved his factory from Schönhauser Allee to a property adjacent

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The teacher and welfare worker Baruch Auerbach (1793-1864) founded 1833 a Jewish orphanage for boys on the Rosenstrasse 12 which was financed by donations from the community. First there were only four boarders but in 1943 the first two girls were admitted. All in all, 800 children found a home

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This house dates from the times of the Frederickian rococo and is one of the oldest historical monuments in Pankow. The heptagonal building with a hip roof and Baroquian stairs recalls courtiers’ houses, the so-called Kavalierhäuser, in spite of the fact that it was built in 1770 as a merchant’s

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Around 1870, the community of Weissensee, which at the time was not yet part of Berlin, embarked on ambitious housing projects. With the Berliner Alexanderplatz being only six kilometers away it meant that buildings at this location would be very profitable. Entrepreneur Ernst Gäbler (1812-1876)

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What was once Europe's largest hospital city was created between 1901 and 1916 under the leadership of Ludwig Hoffmann (1852-1932), the head of town planning who spearheaded Berlin's public works projects. The hospital city comprises five city social facilities: an „old-folks home“, two tuberculosis

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