Cityscape Prenzlauer Berg
ernst thälmann monument apartment buildings completed in 1987
apart apartment buildings in area around ostseestraße built in 1950s, characterized architectural style of socialist classicism, borough left alone socialist city planners until 1980s when prestigious high rise buildings built in ernst-thälmann-park.
at time of german reunification borough s residential areas characterized dilapidated grey facades had not seen coat of paint since 1930s. in 1990s buildings belonged state-owned housing associations sold private investors had them renovated , raised rents. of borough s original inhabitants not able afford increased costs , have since moved away. in 21st century many empty lots sites street culture integral bohemian character of borough filled high-class condominiums.
today, prenzlauer berg forms homogeneous historic building area. on 300 buildings remain protected historic monuments, municipal swimming pool @ oderberger straße , breweries on milastraße , knaackstraße. borough famous restaurants , bars. although places provide traditional berlin staple few , far between, there vast array of restaurants offering arab, turkish, vietnamese, tex-mex, , italian cuisine, around kastanienalle, kollwitzplatz, , helmholtzplatz. nightlife concentrates around u-bahn station eberswalder straße. area around intersections of schönhauser allee, danziger straße, eberswalder straße, kastanienallee , pappelallee has been associated youth culture since 1950s , immortalised in defa film ecke schönhauser .
with regard urban planning, district affords relatively uniform picture. predominantly characterized five-story, multiple dwelling units in closed blocks. long property lots, blocks, more not, large , have abundant backyards, having perimeter of more kilometer.
notable buildings large churches of district, of gethsemane church (designed august orth , built in 1891-1893) @ stargarder straße best known role in peaceful revolution brought down wall in 1989. 66-meter steeple surpassed of segenskirche on schönhauser allee (79 meters) , of immanuelkirche on prenzlauer allee (68 meters). representative school buildings, planned ludwig ernst emil hoffmann (1852–1932), stand out in area.
the largest synagogue in germany on rykestraße. construction began @ end of 1903 , dedicated on 4 september 1904. during third reich building escaped antisemitic november pogrom in 1938, synagogue tightly surrounded residential buildings. synagogue desecrated , confiscated in april 1940. in july 1945 reopened services, underwent several renovations (1952/1953, 1976, 1987/1988) , on occasion of 100th anniversary restored original splendor. in jewish cemetery on schönhauser allee, opened in 1827, there more 22,500 graves , 750 family tombs, including graves of david friedländer, max liebermann, leopold ullstein, ludwig bamberger, eduard lasker , giacomo meyerbeer.
the zeiss-großplanetarium berlin
a landmark in prenzlauer berg former water tower fat hermann @ rykestraße corner of knaackstraße year 1877, first water tower in berlin. remarkable building zeiss-großplanetarium on prenzlauer allee, opened in 1987.
in west, bordering borough of wedding, adjacent friedrich ludwig jahn sportpark, stretch public green area goes name of mauerpark (wall park). consists of former border zone, or death strip between both walls separated east- , west berlin. before war, terrain site of freight station. after reunification area turned public park, home weekly flea market , open air concerts. attracts thousands of visitors on summer weekends.
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