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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

Charlottenburg and Kurfürstendamm
The elegant West-Berlin of the Roaring Twenties

A fascinating walking tour of Charlottenburg, once the richest city in Germany – independent until it became part of Greater Berlin in 1920.
Learn about the history, significance, residents and admirers of the famous boulevard of the “Rich West”, Kurfürstendamm.

During our walking tour Charlottenburg, we will show you the most beautiful sides of the magnificent boulevard Kurfürstendamm and tell you about famous personalities who resided in Charlottenburg after World War I, about the rampant “dance on the volcano” that was celebrated here the “Golden Twenties” – and also about the large Russian community that found a new home here after fleeing the horrors of the Russian Revolution.
Of course, this tour also includes the City-West with Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Europa Center, Tauentzienstr. and Bahnhof Zoo.
The center of West-Berlin is subject to constant change. The two new towers – the Zoofenster and the Upper-West – the first major projects in Charlottenburg after reunification, are testimony to this.
Great 50s architecture can be admired in the Bikini-Haus, which has been extensively renovated and houses a very special shopping mall.

Walking Tour Charlottenburg

A guided walking tour of Charlottenburg includes major parts of the City-West, as well as one of the most beautiful sections of Kurfürstendamm and its magnificent side streets.

Panoramic sightseeing tour Charlottenburg/West-Berlin

By bus we extend the radius and visit with you also Ernst-Reuter-Platz, Charlottenburg Gate, Charlottenburg Palace, Radio Tower, ICC, Exhibition Grounds and Olympic Stadium and more.

Basics:

  • Tour parameters: private, individual walking for you and your group only
  • Date and time: according to your requests
  • Starting location: e.g. Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church or your hotel in Charlottenburg
  • Length:  min. 2 hrs
  • tour characteristics: walking tour through elegant West-Berlin (Charlottenburg)
  • Languages: engl., span., ital., french, russ. and more

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Dancing on a Vulcano
A fascinating tour to The Roaring Twenties in Berlin

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

private walking tour Neukölln /Rixdorf

An exciting walk through “Bohemian-Rixdorf”

…between trendy neighborhood, social hotspot
and rural idyll …

If you stroll through Berlin’s Neukölln district near Richardplatz, you might think you’re in the countryside in some corners and far away from the metropolis of Berlin. Small 18th century houses enclosed by old walls, in lush gardens – an idyll.
At Richardplatz, the former village green of Bohemian-Rixdorf, the stroller is delighted by the Bethlehem Church, the late medieval village church built with fieldstones. Here you can also find the historical blacksmith’s shop. It was first mentioned in a document in 1624, and forged goods are still made here – it’s hard to believe that you’re in the middle of Berlin.

private walking tour Neukölln, Rixdorf ChurchIn 1737, a village was founded here by bohemian protestants – religious refugees. They were allowed to settle here at the invitation of the Prussian King Friedrich-Wilhelm I and founded then “Bohemian Rixdorf”.
During the population explosion in the 2nd half of the 19th century, Rixdorf grew – the typical Berlin tenement housing estates were also built here.
Rixdorf gained fame at the end of the 19th century, the local nightlife became notorious. “In Rixdorf is Musicke” was the motto – (in Rixdorf is music).
In 1912, on the birthday of Wilhelm II, the district was renamed Neukölln; Rixdorf had become too much of a symbol for raunchy entertainment.

Today, Neukölln-North, to which old Rixdorf belongs, shows an exciting mix of trendy neighborhood (“Kreuzkölln”), migrant-influenced life and village idyll – not free of conflicts, but a lively, livable place of contrasts. The old Bohemian-Rixdorf continues to exist, with its gardens, such as the wonderful Comeniusgarten, historic buildings of the 17th century, upper middle-class villas, tenements – with Berliners, newcomers, hipsters and tourists.

Let our knowledgeable guide show you the old Bohemian Rixdorf during our private walking tour through Berlin Neukölln and explain the upheavals of the last 250 years – an exciting, sometimes nostalgic, sometimes controversial look into past and present.

Basics:

  • Tour parameters: private walking tour for closed groups
  • Date and time: upon request
  • Starting location: e.g. Richardplatz
  • Length:  1,5-2 hrs
  • tour characteristics: highly recommended for those who want to see more
    than the typical, well known Berlin highlights.
  • Languages: engl., ital., french, span., russ. and more

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Exciting walking tour Berlin-Neukölln
– between village idyll and big city hassle …

Searching for traces in the Nikolai Quarter and the Monastery Quarter

Discover old Berlin with us.
We will take you to where it all began.

Nikolai Quarter

The Nikolai Quarter is considered the cradle of Berlin. In the Middle Ages, a small trading settlement – Berlin – was located on the eastern bank of the Spree. A ford across the Spree ran here, and goods could be conveniently transported across the river.
On the western bank there was another settlement – Cölln. This name is still remembered today by the district of Neukölln.

Nikolaikirche Rundgang das alte Berlin

The Nikolaiviertel (and also Cölln) was completely destroyed during the air raids of the 2nd World War. The GDR later had the remains removed.
On the occasion of the 750th anniversary in 1987, the historic quarter was rebuilt. Unlike in the surrounding area, care was taken here to preserve the old street layout.
The Nikolai Church was destroyed down to the foundation walls and was reconstructed true to the original. It is (actually) the oldest church in Berlin. Around the church still gets the best impression of the old Berlin.
Nearby impresses the beautiful Ephraimpalais, the rococo facade is amazingly preserved. The Kurfürstenhaus on the banks of the Spree with its Renaissance facade is also worth seeing – as is the “Nussbaum”, a pub where Heinrich Zille and Claire Walldorff frequented. However, in the original – today’s Nussbaum is only a reconstruction, but very cozy and certainly worth a visit.

So today the quarter is quite cozy and popular with tourists, although there are hardly any really old buildings left. Critics called the quarter therefore also gladly “Honecker`s Disneyland”.
Nevertheless, it is worthwhile to take a stroll here with our guide and let yourself be transported back to the old times.

Klosterviertel

Klosterruine-berlin

Crossing the giant intersection at the disappeared historic Molkenmarkt, you reach the Stadthaus. The monumental building with a domed tower was created at the beginning of the 19th century as an extension to the Red City Hall. Obviously, the available space was no longer sufficient for the administration of the growing city.
Behind the impressive building is the enchanted monastery quarter. Much quieter than the Nikolai Quarter, it is also worth a visit for this reason. Here you can discover some evidence of medieval Berlin.

The Monastery Quarter takes its name from the Grey Monastery, a Franciscan monastery. Only the ruins of the monastery church are still preserved. On Klosterstraße, once a noble address, the Reformed Parochial Church from 1695 is impressive – damaged in the war but not destroyed. Rebuilt in 1952 by the East Berlin Senate, the baroque Palais Podewils, in GDR times “House of Young Talents,” is now used for various events.
Just a few meters away, our guide will be happy to show you the only remaining section of the medieval city wall. Around 1660 it was demolished and replaced by a fortified ring further out. Almost 100 years later, this was in turn replaced by the Aczisemauer. A customs wall that already lay beyond Alexanderplatz. Berlin grew.

Right next to the old city wall, the “Letzte Instanz”, Berlin’s oldest restaurant, founded in 1621, invites you to linger. Here you can end our tour in a pleasant way with food and drink – in summer also in the beer garden.

Highlights of the trail

Nikolaiviertel: Nikolaikirche, Ephraim-Palais, Kurfürstenhaus, Gerichtsklause, Zum Nussbaum, bronze sculpture St.Georg, reconstructed town houses and more.
Klosterviertel: Palais Podewils, Klosterkirche (ruins), Parochialkirche, Zur letzten Instanz, city wall, old and new town house, business house of the Tietz brothers and more.

Eckdaten:

  • Art der Tour: pivater Stadtrundgang
  • Termin: nach Vereinbarung
  • Dauer:  2 Std.
  • Startort: i.d.R. Nikolaiviertel, Rathausstr.
  • Personenzahl: max. 20 Personen – darüber hinaus benötigen Sie weitere Guides.
  • Sprachen: dt., engl., alle gängigen Sprachen auf Anfrage

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Spannende Stadtführung durch die “Wiege Berlins”

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 …

Walking Tour Berlin - West to East

Exploring East- and West-Berlin

See the most important sites of the City-West – around the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church – and the old city center, located in East-Berlin – east of the Brandenburg Gate.

In between these two centers you will experience during our walking tour Berlin West to East
a ride with one of the yellow doubledecker busses, the typical public transport bus in Berlin.
You will drive with our guide  from Kurfürstendamm, West-Berlins grand boulevard, via the diplomatic quarter to Potsdamer Square. Our professional guide will show the amazing architecture of Helmut Jahns Sony Center, before you will walk with him via Holocaust Memorial to Brandenburg Gate and Government Quarter.
The highlight on this tour is “Mitte”, the historical city centre with beautiful Gendarmenmarkt …

You will see the following highlights:

City-West with Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche, Breidscheidplatz, Kurfürstendamm …
Bus ride (public transport) through Embassy Quarter to the Kulturforum.
Potsdamer Platz,  Holocaust-Memorial,  Government Quarter, Reichstag, Brandenburger Tor,  Gendarmenmarkt, Unter den Linden,  (Armory, Museums Island, Berlin Cathedral, Spandauer Vorstadt, Hackesche Höfe) – Sites in brackets: optional

Basics:

  • Tour parameters: private, individual tour just for you
  • Date and time: according to your plans
  • Starting location: city-east or city-west
  • Length:  min. 3 hrs
  • tour characteristics: walking tour, including public transport
  • Languages: engl., span., ital., french, russ. and more

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The best of both city centres – a classic

Walking Tour Berlin Mitte

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Through Berlin`s impressing historical city center

Berlin old City Centre is definitively worth a visit. Within walking distance it is possible to see the most important historical highlights in Berlin.

Let`s start with your Walking Tour Berlin Mitte e.g. at Potsdamer Square, the new city centre directly west of where the wall was – with Daimler- and Sony-Center. The architecture of Helmut Jahn is stunning.

Our guide will take you then to the Brandenburg Gate via Holocaust Memorial and the former location of the “Führerbunker”.
From Paris Square we will take you to the most interesting historical sites of the old city center. See Berlins beautiful square, Gendarmenmarkt, and walk on via Unter den Linden to Museums Island, a unique ensemble of museums, set under Unesco World Heritage Protection in 1990.

In case you are not to tired now, our guide will show the close by Hackesche Höfe, the biggest closed courtyard system in Germany. Around this popular site you have bustling nightlife – with lots of good restaurant, bars, pubs, live music locations …

The main focus during this classical Walking Tour Berlin Mitte lies upon city history, Prussia, WorldWar II, Berlin Wall, Cold War, politics, architecture, culture, life, scene in Berlin …

Tour highlights:

Potsdamer Platz, Holocaust-Memorial, Brandenburger Tor, Government Quarter,Reichstag, Gendarmenmarkt, Friedrichstr., Unter den Linden, Zeughaus, Museums Island, Lustgarten, Berliner Cathedral, Old Museum (Spandauer Vorstadt, Hackesche Höfe, Oranienburger Str., Neue Synagoge, Tacheles, Railway Station Friedrichstr..)

Basics:

  • Tour parameters: private, individual walking tour just for your group
  • Date and time: according to your requests
  • Starting location: e.g. Potsdamer Square or Brandenburg Gate
  • Length:  min. 2 hrs
  • tour characteristics: walking tour, prussian sites, but also Cold War sites
  • Languages: engl., span., ital., french, russ. and more

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Through the old centre east of Brandenburg Gate – a must!

 

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 walking tour Jewish Berlin 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 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

Old BerlinWalking Tour - Courtyards

Walking Tour Spandauer Vorstadt/Courtyards

Old Berlin walking tour features “Nikolai Quarter”, Berlin`s cradle, where everything started, when Berlin was a small settlement at the eastern banks of the Spree river, was destroyed completely during World War II.
The GDR-Government restored it due to the 750 years celebration of Berlin in 1987, but not historically correct.

That`s why a real, authentic old part of town today is the Spandauer Vorstadt, formerly situated right in front of the medieval fortification walls of old Berlin.

Compared to the close-by center of Berlin, Spandauer Vorstadt survived the war rather undistroyed. With its narrow streets,  lines of baroque houses (17th century) and romantic courtyards, it belongs to the UNESCO World Heritage and is a must for every Berlin visitor.

Enjoy with us following highlights:

Hackescher Markt, Hackesche Höfe, Sophienstr. Sophie-Gips-Höfe, Sophies Ballroom, Sophien Church, Große Hamburger-Street, Oranienburger Street, Heckmannhöfe, New Synagogue, Postfuhramt, Friedrichstr. …

Basics:

  • Tour parameters: individual and private walking tour
  • Date and time: up to your requests
  • Starting location: Hackescher Markt, am to pm
  • Length:  app. 2 hrs
  • tour characteristics: walking tour incl. wonderful restored courtyards
  • Languages: engl., ital.,span., french, russ. and more

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Spandauer Vorstadt is a fascinating Berlin neighbourhood

 

Walking Tour Berlin -Architecture

Berlins fascinating architectural landscape

Interested in neoclassic, modern or post-modern architecture?  The main focus of this special Berlin tour is up to you.

The classical Walking Tour Architecture could start e.g. at Cultural Forum – the example of modern Sixties architecture by Mies van der Rohe and Hans Scharoun.

Just a short distance away you will see Sony- and Daimler-Center at old/new Potsdamer Square – a feast of excellent post-modern art of building –  by Helmut Jahn, Sir Richards Rogers, Renzo Piano and others.

Follow our Guide along the former no-men`s land via the impressing Holocaust Memorial of Peter Eisenman to a little touch of 18th century neoclassic architecture – the well known Brandenburg Gate.

After that it is high time to turn around and admire at Paris Square a wonderful work of Gehry, the creator of Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.
We close this inspiring tour usually in the new Government Quarter. North of the dominating parliament building, the Reichstag, built till 1894 by Wallot, you will find the “Ribbon of the Federation” the three new government buildings and the new central station, the excellent work of Meinhard Gerkan.

This Architecture Walking Tour Berlin is a must for aficionados of grand architecture.

Architectural highlights of this tour:

Cultural Forum and Philharmonie (Scharoun), Potsdamer Square, Sony Center (Helmut Jahn), Leipziger Square with Canadian Embassy, Holocaust Memorial (Peter Eisenmann), Pariser Platz and DZ-Bank (Gehry), Academy of the Arts (Behnisch), Government Quarter, Ribbon of Government Buildings, Bundeskanzleramt (Axel Schultes), Reichstag (Wallot).

Basics:

  • Tour parameters: individual, exclusive walking tour
  • Date and time: according to your requests
  • Starting location: Potsdamer Square
  • Length:  min. 2 hrs
  • tour characteristics: architectural walking tour,
  • can be combined e.g. with Berlin Mitte walking tour
  • Languages: engl., ital., french, span., russ. and more

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Modern and post-modern architectural highlights around
Potsdamer Square

Political Berlin -Walking Tour

Through Berlins new and old government quarter

During our walking tour Political Berlin the focal point is the political importance of Berlin in history and today – especially during World War II and Cold War.
Our knowledgeable guide will show you the old Government Quarter, where Hitlers favorite architect Speer once built the “New Reichs-Chancellary” as well as the new Government Quarter with the Reichstag, seat of parliament.
Also we deal with the history of the Berlin Wall, walking along the former death-strip via Brandenburg Gate and Potsdamer Square to Checkpoint Charlie.

Walking Tour Political Berlin – basics:

  • Tour parameters: private walking tour exclusively for you
  • Date and time: according to your plans – if you book right in time
  • Starting location: Reichstag or Checkpoint Charlie
  • Length:  min. 2 hrs
  • tour characteristics: walking tour through the old and new government quarter, can be combined e.g. with Berlin Mitte walking tour
  • Languages: engl., span., ital., span., russ. and more

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Tour “Political Berlin” – highly recommended also for students

Walking Tour Berlin Wall

30 years fall of the Berlin Wall – along the former deathstrip

Walk with us along the former deathstrip from Checkpoint Charlie, symbol of Cold War, via Potsdamer Platz to the new Government Quarter.
During our walking tour Berlin Wall you will see the longest still existing part of the Berlin wall, close to Topography of Terror, a documentation centre about Nazi terror.
See one of the last existing guard towers close to Potsdamer Square and learn more about the Berlin Wall and Cold War. Why did the GDR build up a wall around West-Berlin and why did it fell almost by accident in 1989?

Main highlights:

Checkpoint Charlie, longest still excisting part of the Wall in the centre, Topography of Terror, Berlin Parliament, Martin-Gropius-Building, original GDR guard-tower, Leipziger Square, Potsdamer Square, Sony Center, Holocaust Memorial, Brandenburger Tor, Reichstag, Government Quarter …

Basics:

  • Tour parameters: private walking tour just for you (and your group)
  • Date and time: according to your plans
  • Starting location: Checkpoint Charlie or Brandenburg Gate
  • Length:  2 hrs
  • tour characteristics: Berlin Wall walking tour,
    can be combined e.g. with Berlin Mitte walking tour
  • Languages: engl., ital., french, span., russ. and more

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Learn more about the Berlin Wall and Cold War in Berlin

Walking Tour Berlin Kreuzberg

Wild Berlin – exploring multicultural Kreuzberg

Kreuzberg, 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.

See following sites during our Walking Tour Berlin Kreuzberg:

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

Basics:

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

Contact for guidance and booking

Kreuzberg is Berlins most fascinating neighbourhood

Walking Tour Potsdam - Sanssouci Palace

Potsdam Sightseeing by foot

Beautiful Potsdam is located about 35 km (23 miles) southwest of Berlin and can be reached easily by commuter trains (S-Bahn).
Once the favorite residential town of the prussian kings, where they seeked refuge from polital business in Berlin,  Potsdam is rich of historical sites, such as palaces and baroque quarters. The most known palace is for sure Sanssouci palace, but there are more – like the grand New Palais or the Orangerie Palace of the 19th century.
But Potsdam has also quite a few important Cold War sites, such as Glienicke Bridge, the border between West-Berlin and GDR –  famous because of spy exchange – or Cecilienhof Palace, where the Big Three (Truman, Churchill, Stalin) signed the Potsdam agreement after the war.

Main highlights during our walking tour Potsdam:

Historic city center with Nikolaikirche and City Palace,  New Market, Old Market, Bassinplatz, Dutch Quarter, Brandenburg Gate, Sanssouci Palace and Gardens.

If you book early, we can arrange an inside visit of Sanssouci Palace

Basics:

  • Tour parameters: pivate walking tour, exclusively for you (and your group)
  • Date and time: according to your schedule
  • Starting location: e.g. Potsdam Central Station, if you come from Berlin
  • Length:  min. 3 hrs
  • tour characteristics: walking tour with historical sites of central Potsdam
  • Languages: engl., french, ital., span., russ. ….

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Potsdam is a beautiful Unesco World Heritage site