Tiergarten
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The Schwules Museum tells the story of the LGBT+ movement in Berlin and also features rotating exhibitions on feminism and queers in other countries.
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Concrete fragments from a WWII bunker in Tiergarten are scattered behind a flowerbed in Tiergarten. But who were using the bunker?
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There are remains of a demolished bunker in Tiergarten. However, the story about the WWII bunker is a bit of a mystery. This is what we know about it.
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The Goethe memorial in Tiergarten is the original from 1880, but it wasn’t always the case. For many years, it was replaced by a replica made of concrete.
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A winter evening in 1919, Karl Liebknecht was taken to the Tiergarten and shot. Today, a memorial stone marks the spot of Karl Liebknecht’s murder.
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The Soviet War Memorial in Tiergarten is third largest and the only Soviet memorial not located in the former Soviet sector, for a very specific reason.
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Close to the Ronald Reagan memorial plaque in Berlin, a 2 meter statue of the president secretly watches over it.
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It’s not just a song by Ben E. King. There is also a Stand By Me tree in Tiergarten with the first verse of the song carved into it.