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A brief history of Berlin

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This brief history of Berlin contains only the most important facts!  From prehistory to the foundation of Berlin 8000 BC In the Paleolithic Age the area around Berlin is populated for the first time. 6/7 AD West Slavic tribes move to the area. In the west, the Hevelli, in the east (in Köpenick), the Sprewane settle. 11. 6. 1157 Albert the Bear (1100-1170), of the House of Ascania, conquers Brandenburg. 1197 Spandau, now a well-known subburb of Berlin, is first mentioned in a document. 28. 10. 1237 Cölln, the sister town of Old Berlin, appears in a document. 26. 1. 1244 Berlin is first mentioned in a document. From 1280 to the Thirty Years War   1280 Berlin gets a mint. 1230-1250 The Nicolaikirche, the oldest church in Berlin, is built. Nicolaikirche is the oldest church in Berlin  1294 The Marienkirche (St. Mary' s church), appears in a document. 20. 3. 1307 Union between Berlin and Cölln. The two ci...
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Berlin's city walls

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Everybody knows the famous Berlin wall, but the German capital  had actually four city walls. None of them still exists, but you can still find remains or discover their traces. Medieval town wall The first one was erected during medieval times, you can still find a large piece of it in Klosterstrasse, near the Restaurant “Zur Letzten Instanz".    U Bahn:  U2 (Klosterstraße)    the medieval wall in Klosterstraße is the oldest of Berlin's city walls The Fortress T he second wall belonged to a fortress that was built by the order of the “Great Elector" Frederick William (1620-1688) shortly after the 30 Years' War. Contruction of it began in 1658. The fortress was torn down in 1744. A tower of it, the Wusterhausener Bär, still exists in Köllnischer Park.  U2 (Märkisches Museum)   the Wusterhausener Bär The Customs Wall The third wall in Berlin was the Berlin Customs Wall (Berliner Zoll-und Akzisemauer). ...
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Berlin's unknown areas - Feuerland (Fireland) and its surroundings

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 Feuerland (Fireland) is an area almost quite unknown even by us Berliner’s ! This "hot" area around Chauseestraße in Mitte got it’s name in the middle of the 19th century. But why is it called so?  Many companies that produced engines and metalwork settled here.These factories used a lot of fire for production, large amounts of smoke from the chimneys rose into the sky,  August Borsig, Louis Schwartzkopff, Friedrich Adolf Pflug and Johann Friedrich Ludwig Wöhlert had their factories here. None of these are left. The factories closed or moved away. Only street names, such as Schwartzkopffstrasse, remind of the former factory owners. Dorotheenstädtischer Cemetery You should visit the Dorotheenstädtischer Cemetery if you are interested in Berlin's history, politics, science and culture. The cemetery was created around 1763 outside the Oranienburger Tor, which lay not in Berlin. At that time, it was feared that the neighborhood of the graves could cause diseases,...
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