Sightseeing in Berlin

The most famous square in East Berlin

Anyone who has read Alfred Döblin's bestseller will have trouble recognising this huge square in the centre of Berlin which was once a major nerve centre for commerce and transport for the proletarian East of the city. New roads coming from areas located in the North of Berlin used to meet in this square which was called the royal square (Ochsenplatz). It was renamed Alexanderplatz during the visit of Tsar Alexander I in 1805. Most of the buildings around the square were destroyed in the war. As for the rest, other than two buildings in the northeast of the square, Alexander and Berolina, built between 1928 and 1931 by Peter Behrens, the Alexanderplatz is a monument to socialist architecture.

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