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 The prison...
 ... and the lawyer's church
  Hauptbahnhof
 "Lehrter Straße",
as seen from about 200 meters away from Hauptbahnhof. Will the street
ever turn into a red light district?
 The Moabit part of river Spree
 Typical streets
  "Westhafen", Berlin's
greatest port for trading ships.
 "Großmarkt
Beusselstraße", Berlin's central market for fruit and
vegetable, where all the merchants pick up their
bananas at four in the morning.
 S-Bahn station
Beusselstraße
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This is the district of Moabit
 Moabit used to be famous
for Berlin's Central Criminal Court and prison. The building
sure looks quite impressive. The adjoining church is renting out most
of its rooms to lawyers. Lots of them and it must be a quite
wealthy church.
"Going to Moabit" in Berlin is a synonym for going to prison, so watch out what you're saying. The prison is located at the intersection of Alt-Moabit and Rathenower Straße. Today the main point of interest in Moabit is Berlin's new central train station "Hauptbahnhof" (>>> more). A peculiar street is "Lehrter Straße", leading from the station into Moabit. In any other German city a street that close to the central train station would be a nightlife strip and red light district. Not so in Berlin. Probably that's because all the tourists leaving Hauptbahnhof are heading south and walk straight to the nearby districts of Tiergarten and Mitte to look at Reichstag, Brandenburger Tor and the Holocaust memorial. Nobody ever turns north to go to Moabit. It is a traditional working-class residential area and there's not much to look at for a tourist. More about Moabit: Wikipedia |
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