Fragments of Berlin – Copyright
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Month: September 2018
Fragments of Berlin – Editors’ Preface
At the beginning, the series “Fragments of Berlin” was only a very vague idea born in a Roman trattoria, which…
Tracks
Horse-drawn carriages could still be found in Berlin at the beginning of 1920 but, little by little, they too began…
The S-Bahn
The S-Bahn is the urban line whose stations are easily recognizable by the white S on a green background as…
The Ring
The Ring is that circular stretch of the S-Bahn that, quite logically you might say, encircles the entire semi-central zone…
Berlin Hauptbahnhof
After eight years of work, on May 28, 2006, the new Hauptbahnhof or Central Station of Berlin opened on the…
The Brandenburg Gate
The Brandenburg Gate is without any doubt a familiar symbol throughout much of the world, but what much of the…
Gleis 17 / Track 17
From Hauptbahnhof we can take the S7 toward Wannsee. The line travels quite a ways aboveground through the center of…
Wannsee
The question now is: shall we turn around or continue onward to Wannsee, the largest lake in West Berlin? If…
On the S1
The first thing you may notice is that the train stops every two minutes, as punctual as a Swiss clock,…
