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The "Hollow Tooth"


"Europa Center"...


... the place to check out what time it is with Berlin's most impressive and complicated clock


Do you wanna be the next Mona Lisa?


Berlin is short of money. So there's no water for fountains. But the Mayor is always looking for someone to pay the bills. The fountain on Breitscheidplatz is working from spring to fall, thanks to one company or another.




Breitscheidplatz

Breitscheidplatz is a major public square and from 1961 to 1990 used to be what one might call „Downtown Berlin-West“. 

It’s features are the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Memorial-Church, the shopping mall „Europa-Center“ and of course the place itself. Brimming with tourists, street artists, shops and restaurants of all kinds it still is a heavily visited point of interest in Berlin’s district of Charlottenburg.

After World War II, the heavily bombed place experienced massive reconstruction and became the symbolic center and memorial against war in West Berlin.

In 1965, the „Europa Center“ was built and from then on Breitscheidplatz got the reputation of being Berlin's commercial center. Nowadays Europa-Center is featuring Berlin's most interesting clock. Have a look on the pics on the left.

The stairs of the memorial church (in German „Gedächtniskirche“, Berliners call it „hollow tooth“ because there's nothing going on inside) used to be a major meeting point for revolutionary students in the sixties, hippies in the seventies and punks in the eighties. Now it‘s a major meeting point for everyone. 

Historic details: Wikipedia

How to get there:
U1, U9, Kurfürstendamm, U2, U9, S5, S7, S9, S75 all to Zoologischer Garten (plus a two-minute walk)