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private walking tour Berlin Spandau

An exciting walking tour through the old town of Spandau

The old town of Spandau is a gem. Idyllically situated on an island in the Havel River, it is hard to believe that we are still in the metropolis of Berlin.
However, this is also home to its own people. So far away from the noisy city, it is rather difficult for the Spandauer to call himself a “Berliner”.

private walking tour Berlin Spandau, St. Nikolai

In fact, Spandau, like Köpenick on the opposite side of Berlin, was founded as a Slavic settlement and is much older than Berlin.
In 1232, the settlement was granted city rights by the Ascanian dynasty, but it was not until the founding of Greater Berlin in 1920 that Spandau was suburbanized into the booming metropolis.
Spandau is home to one of the oldest surviving Renaissance fortresses in Europe, which is now extremely popular as a concert venue in summertime.

During our guided tour of Berlin Spandau, you will get to know the winding old town from its most beautiful side.
Walk with our knowledgeable city guide to the Kolk, the oldest settlement area of Spandau and along the Havel River – or to the Gothic House, one of the most important medieval monuments and the oldest building in Berlin.
In the centre of the city is St.Nikolai, an extremely imposing medieval church.

Other buildings worth seeing are on the way and our humorous guide knows many anecdotes to tell about burghers, merchants, military and other personalities.
A walk through the largest and oldest pedestrian zone of Berlin is of course also part of this exciting walking tour in Berlin Spandau.

Basics:

  • Tour parameters: private walking tour for closed groups
  • Date and time: up to you
  • Starting location: e.g. S-Bahn Station Spandau
  • Length:  min. 2 hrs
  • tour characteristics: highly recommended for people who like to see
    Berlin off the beaten track.
  • Languages: engl., ital., french, span., russ. and more

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Guided walking tour Berlin Spandau –
a fascinating walk through one of the oldest settlements in Berlin

walking tour Berlin Schöneberg, town hall

An exciting walking tour through
the Bavarian Quarter of Berlin-Schöneberg

The founding of the German Reich in 1871 led to an unprecedented building boom. Farmers from the village of Schöneberg sold building land to the growing city of Berlin. These “millionaire farmers” founded the prosperity of Schöneberg, which received city rights in 1898.

The newly-born city became attractive to the upper middle class and developed rapidly.  The Bavarian Quarter with its magnificent Gründerzeit facades still bears witness to this today.

walking tour Berlin Schöneberg, Nollendorfplatz

Decorative squares such as Bayerischer Platz and Viktoria-Luise-Platz were laid out.
In 1910, the people of Schöneberg even got their own subway – a symbol of the influence and prosperity of Schöneberg’s citizens. It still runs today from Innsbrucker Platz to Nollendorfplatz.

Before the Nazis wiped out Jewish life in Berlin, over 6,000 Jewish Berliners lived in the Bayerisches Viertel. Among them were Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Albert Einstein and Gottfried Benn. The monument “Places of Remembrance in the Bavarian Quarter” commemorates the persecution and destruction.

In the “Golden Twenties”, Schöneberg was famous for its nightlife. Around Nollendorfplatz developed the queer neighborhood, which also today is an integral part of Berlin’s colorful scene.
The Metropol, the former Piscator stage, would still be the site of raucous parties if Covid-19 hadn’t struck.

During the Cold War, Schöneberg City Hall was the city hall of West-Berlin. Here John F. Kennedy held his famous speech in 1963, in which he uttered, among other things, his most famous words – for us Germans: “Ich bin ein Berliner”.

Private walking tour Berlin Schöneberg – Highlights:

Schöneberg City Hall, Rudolph-Wilde Park, Bavarian Square, Auguste-Viktoria-Square, Motzstr., Nollendorfplatz, Metropol and more …

Basics:

  • Tour parameters: private walking for you and your group only
  • Date and time: according to your requests
  • Starting location: Schöneberg City Hall
  • Length:  min. 2 hrs
  • tour characteristics: walking tour through the Bavarian Quarter
  • Languages: engl., span., ital., french, russ. and more

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Berlin off the beaten Track:
Private walking tour Berlin Schöneberg

Walking Tour Berlin Kreuzberg

Wild Berlin – exploring multicultural Kreuzberg

Kreuzberg neighbourhood, a meltingpot of different nationalities living here more or less peacefully together, is a living, authentic quarter off the beaten track. During the Cold War Kreuzberg was surrounded from three sites by the Berlin Wall and developed to vibrant nighlife place. Up to today Kreuzberg is the most interesting Berlin neighbourhood – in spite or because of fascinating social and ethnic diversity.
Our walking tour Berlin Kreuzberg is a real unique experience.

See following sites:

Landwehrkanal, Fraenkelufer, Synagogue, Kottbusser Tor, Oranienstr., along the former Wall to the Engelbecken, Mariannenplatz, Künstlerhaus Bethanien …

Basics:

  • Tour parameters: private walking tour for closed groups
  • Date and time: up to you
  • Starting location: e.g. Kottbusser Tor
  • Length:  min. 2 hrs
  • tour characteristics: walking tour, highly recommended also for students and school classes
  • Languages: engl., ital., french, span., russ. and more

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Kreuzberg is Berlins most fascinating neighbourhood

Walking Tour Jewish Berlin

Through the old jewish quarter

Before World War II Spandauer Vorstadt, also known as “Scheunenviertel”  was a quarter with a high share of jewish population – since the 17th century.

The consequences of the Nazi-rule are still present, but today you will find here again a growing jewish community with a vital cultural life.

Enjoy during this important Berlin tour a unique quarter, rich of jewish history. Visit the oldest jewish cemetry in Berlin or the New Synagogue from 1864, opened under the presence of chancellor Bismarck. Also the former factory of Otto Weidt, kind of a Berlin Oscar Schindler,  is a must.

Learn during our walking tour Jewish Berlin how important the jews were in culture and commerce for the city – before the Nazis destroyed everything. Most of the Berlin jews were liberal. Primarily they considered themselves to be Germans and after this they were Jews …

Highlights of this tour:

Rosenstr. (location of the first synagoge in Berlin), Hackescher Markt, Hackesche Höfe, Sophienstr., Factory of Otto Weidt, Anne Franck House, Große Hamburger Str. (Street of Tolerance), Jewish Boys School, oldest jewish cemetery with the tomb of Moses Mendelsohn, Oranienburger Str., New Synagoge, Friedrichstr..

Basics:

  • Tour parameters: private walking tour just for you (and your group)
  • Date and time: up to your plans
  • Starting location: Hackescher Markt, am to pm
  • Length:  2 hrs
  • tour characteristics: walking tour incl. jewish sites and memorials
  • Languages: engl., ital.,span., french, russ. and more

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Jewish Berlin – historicals site of jewish history in Berlin

BErlin Historical Walking Tour

Not only for historians

Berlin is a rather young city in European comparison. Only in 1987 was its 750th anniversary celebrated on both sides of the Wall.

But what has the city experienced!

From an unimportant trading post situated at a ford across the Spree – in the middle of the “gritting sandbox of the empire”, Brandenburg – it first became an electoral residence city and then, from 1701, the capital of the Kingdom of Prussia.
After the end of the Napoleonic war, the city had to cope with a huge population explosion. Berlin became an industrial city – Siemens, AEG and Borsig started here in the middle of the 19th century.
With the foundation of the German Empire in 1871 Berlin became the capital of the German Empire and the most important metropolis in Germany. Already in 1880 Berlin had 1 million inhabitants, making it one of the largest cities in the world, along with London and Paris.

Pariser Platz Berlin Tiergarten Brandenburger Tor Berlin

The upheavals of the 20th century, World War I, the conflict-laden Weimar Republic, the Nazi era, house fighting at the end of the war – Berlin was more or less destroyed by up to 95% – then reconstruction, the economic miracle in the western part, division, the Wall, reunification and now a population explosion again with all its advantages and disadvantages. This city never comes to rest.

During our Berlin historical walking tour through the old city centre, our historically educated guide unfolds the whole kaleidoscope of Berlin’s development from the beginnings to the present.
No historical layer is left out, the monuments, buildings, memorials and ruins shown speak their own language.

An exciting historical walkin tour with knowledgeable but also humorous guides, suitable not only for historians but also for all those who want to take a deep look into Berlin’s diverse, glorious but also painful past.

Key data:

  • Type of Tour: Private wlaking tour exclusively for you  (and your group)
  • Appointment: upon consultation
  • Duration: from 2 hrs.
  • Starting Location: eg. your hotel, airport or any other location suitable for you
  • Number of pers.:  max 20 Pers., for more than 20 pers you will need more guides
  • languages: dt., engl., span., ital., french – mor languages upon request

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Berlin Historical Walking Tour – Immerse yourself in Berlin’s changing history …

Ab durch die Mitte – lernen Sie das alte Berlin kennen

Das historische Stadtzentrum direkt östlich des Brandenburger Tores lädt zum Flanieren ein. Hier sind viele Highlights zu Fuß erreichbar.
Mit uns lernen Sie Berlin-Mitte besser kennen. Ihr persönlicher Stadtführer zeigt Ihnen die wichtigsten Bauwerke, Plätze und Sehenswürdigkeiten. Sie erfahren von ihm alles Wichtige  – Anekdoten und bemerkenswerte Geschehnisse inbegriffen.

Starten Sie am Potsdamer Platz mit seiner grandiosen Architektur und laufen Sie zuerst entlang des ehemaligen Todesstreifens zum Brandenburger Tor. Ein kleiner Abstecher zum Regierungsviertel ist ebenfalls möglich.

Rundgang Friedrich der zweite Unter den Linden BoulevardLassen Sie sich von unserem Stadtführer vor dem Brandenburger Tor erzählen, warum Napoleon nach der französischen Besetzung Berlins auch gern als Pferdedieb beschimpft wurde.
Laufen Sie weiter die Linden hoch, dem Prachtboulevard des alten Zentrums, der derzeit leider unter dem U-Bahn-Bau leidet.
Aber bald wird es wieder prächtig. Der Gendarmenmarkt gilt zu Recht als schönster Platz Berlins und zeugt auch heute noch von Preußens Glanz und Gloria. Auch hier hat unser Guide Einiges zu berichten, z.B. über die Hugenotten, die dem Französischen Dom seinen Namen gaben.
Eine weiterer preußischer Schmuckplatz liegt ganz in der Nähe: der Bebelplatz mit Staatsoper, die leider noch immer saniert wird, der Hedwigskathedrale, Sitz des katholischen Bischofs (!) und der Humboldt-Universität, die einst den Ruf Berlins als Metropole von Kultur, Wissenschaft und Forschung geprägt hat.

Rundgang Berlin Mitte Berliner DomWeiter geht es zur weltberühmten Museumsinsel, einem einzigartigen Ensemble von Museen, 1990 unter Unesco-Schutz gestellt. Das Highlight ist wohl heute das Neue Museum, seit der Wiedereröffnung 2008 die Heimat der Nofretete.
Und natürlich muss in diesem Zusammenhang auch das Pergamon-Museum mit dem berühmten Pergamon-Altar erwähnt werden. Es wird derzeit allerdings saniert.

Gegenüber des Pergamon Museums hat übrigens Frau Merkel Ihre Privat-Wohnung, wo genau, zeigt Ihnen gern unser Guide.

Dieses und noch viel mehr sehen Sie während dieser spannenden Stadtführung Berlin-Mitte, mitten durch das historische Stadtzentrum.
Auf Wunsch gehen wir nach der Museumsinsel gern mit Ihnen in die nahe gelegene Spandauer Vorstadt. Dort können Sie sich vom vielen Laufen erholen – beim Lunch oder Dinner in einem der hervorragenden Restaurants.
Oder machen Sie einfach einen Kaffee-Stopp und lassen sich dann von Ihrem Guide die Spandauer Vorstadt zeigen – ein ebenfalls sehr lohnenswertes Stadtviertel – so ganz anders als das benachbarte Zentrum mit seinen preußischen Prachtbauten.

Eckdaten:

  • Art der Tour: Individuelle Stadtführung ausschließlich für Sie (und Ihre Gruppe)
  • Termin: nach Wunsch
  • Dauer: min. 2 Std.
  • Startort: im Zentrum, z.B. Potsdamer Platz oder Brandenburger Tor
  • Stopps: nach Ihren Wünschen
  • Personenzahl:
    Stadtführung zu Fuß: bis max 25 Pers., darüber hinaus benötigen Sie weitere Guides
  • Sprachen: dt., engl., span., ital., franz. und weitere Sprachen auf Anfrage

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Lernen Sie Berlins historisches Stadtzentrum besser kennen …