Memorial To The Murdered Jews of Europe, one of several monuments to humans killed during the WWII-era holocaust that have been established in Berlin since the last time I really had a chance to explore the city fully. More photos of this quite wonderful city where history indeed weighs very heavily in future posts.
On the lovely garden path along the Spree, a memorial to Dr Magnus Hirschfeld & his institute for sexual sciences, destroyed (naturally) by the Nazis in WWII…
This is the Panke, a creek that originates in the town of Bernau north and east of Berlin then runs into Berlin’s main river (the Spree) via a canal near the center of the city, in the process passing more than once through the divided sectors of both city and country back in the day, I believe. This is for now our farewell photos of this lovely bit of the natural world in the heart of this great city, which we’ve also shown you in one previous post.
Großfürstenplatz & the Tritonbrunnen in Berlin’s lovely central Tiergarten park…for those of you viewing this in email or on small screen who thus don’t see the metadata categories and tags :-).
Returning to Berlin in July for those work meetings gave me a chance to visit neighborhoods where the city was once and is now no longer divided. Yes, I still cry when I walk past these places and remember my own crossings of that wall when it was really rather scary, because you knew armed border / wall guards were watching you. These photos are all from an evening walk in and around the Berlin Wall memorial park along Bernauer Strasse, one of the streets along which the wall itself once ran. The lovely murals in the gallery below were on an apartment building in what was then East Berlin…I’m fairly sure…my dear brother, for whose book on the period right after the wall was finally breached I will give an unabashed plug right here, might correct me if he sees fit.
Made it back to Berlin for a few day of work meetings last week, for this first time since 2017. Spent almost all the time in our office and its environs, in a for-me entirely new quarter of the city where I discovered amongst other things this interesting little legacy gateway / entrance.
As noted in the last entry for this series, one finds urban canals even outside NL, once one starts looking. Hadn’t been to this particular city in quite some time, and you’ll be seeing more of it in upcoming posts. If you’d like to verify your own guess about which city it is, open in full-screen view so you can see the “categories” and “tags” :-).
Returning to Berlin in July for those work meetings gave me a chance to visit neighborhoods where the city was once and is now no longer divided. Yes, I still cry when I walk past these places and remember my own crossings of that wall when it was really rather scary, because you knew armed border / wall guards were watching you. These photos are all from an evening walk in and around the Berlin Wall memorial park along Bernauer Strasse, one of the streets along which the wall itself once ran. The lovely murals in the gallery below were on an apartment building in what was then East Berlin…I’m fairly sure…my dear brother, for whose book on the period right after the wall was finally breached I will give an unabashed plug right here, might correct me if he sees fit.
(so much world, so little time....) 