The literal translation of Mitte is “middle” but “heart” is so much more appropriate. In the first half of the 20th century it was almost self-contained when all that mattered in German history, art, government, diplomacy and fun took place within its confines. It had a less .... Click Here for More This is undoubtedly Berlin's most changing area. The Reichstag (Parliament) used to stand out in bleak isolation. It is now one of many government buildings along the Spree River. The Wall had made the Potsdamer Platz equally desolate; it is now almost a town in its own right, a new Manhattan of .... Click Here for More Charlottenburg will never reclaim the role it won when Berlin was divided. Then, it was a showcase enjoying massive subsidies from the Bonn government. The aim was always to show West Berlin in contrast to the East so visitors to both would always leave with a positive impression of the West and .... Click Here for More Kreuzberg is hard to typecast; to some it is the former Prenzlauerberg which in the 1980s attracted the young, the artistic and the unconventional. To others it is now the Turkish quarter, reflected in many streets where hardly a German shop sign is to be seen. Yet this ignores Yorkstrasse with .... Click Here for More Money does not just grow on trees here, it flows in all directions. Londoners will appreciate why it is twinned with Hampstead. Everything is on a grand scale with even the railway stations being individually designed. It grew up as a transit stop between royal Berlin and royal Potsdam, being ex .... Click Here for More Potsdam has always provided an escape from Berlin. In the 18th century, Frederick the Great, trying to be more French than the French, hoped to run a court there similar to the one Louis XIV had established a century earlier in Versailles. For Friedrich Wilhelm IV in the 19th century, however, i .... Click Here for More Köpenick was a very necessary adjunct to East Berlin when the city was divided. It was all that the capital was not; it had ample gardens and lakes and still offered a small-town Germany that bombers and planners had destroyed in the town centre. The Royal Palace here was not an embarrassme .... Click Here for More
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