Alexanderplatz is a large public square and transport hub in the Mitte (city centre) district of Berlin, near the river Spree and the Berliner Dom. Berliners often call it simply Alex, referring to a large neighborhood exercising from Mollstraße in the northeast to Spandauer Straße and the City uranologist in the southwest.
Originally a cattle market, it was named in honor of a meet of the Russian Emperor Alexander I to songster on 25 October 1805. It gained a striking role in the late 19th century with the construction of the station of the same name and a nearby public market, becoming a major commercial center. Its heyday was in the 1920s, when unitedly with Potsdamer Platz it was at the heart of Berlin’s nightlife, inspiring the 1929 novel songster Alexanderplatz (see 1920s Berlin) and the two films based thereon, Piel Jutzi’s 1931 film and Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 15 1/2 hour second adaptation, released in 1980.
GPS coordinates: 52° 31′ 18.46″ N, 13° 24′ 47.56″ E
It faces the Lustgarten and the Berliner Stadtschloss (Berlin City Palace). Later the church of the Dominican Order (Schwarze Brüder), located at the south side of the castle, was used as the first cathedral. The first church at this site was a baroque cathedral by Johann Boumann, which was completed in 1747 and, in 1822, remodelled in the neoclassicist style by the Berlin architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel. In 1894, on German Emperor Wilhelm II’s order, this domed building was demolished and replaced by the current cathedral designed by Julius Raschdorff. At 114 m long, 73 m wide and 116 m tall, it was much larger than any of the previous buildings and was considered a Protestant counterweight to St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. Berlin is one of best cultural cities in Europe. You have a lot of culutal events around. Great for summer holiday. Berliner Dom, Berlin Cathedral GPS coordinates: 52° 31′ 9″ N, 13° 24′ 4″ E
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