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The senate of Berlin decided to introduce a new state holiday on every March 8 starting in 2019. Visitors shall be aware that shops will be closed - except some at airports and major train stations. Restaurants and bars are free to open; sights and museums will operate in Sunday mode. Public transport will operate this holiday 2019 in Saturday mode.
German Bauhaus celebrates this year its anniversary "100 years of Bauhaus". What started as an art school in Weimar became a movement which transferred its principles into applied architecture, arts and hand craft. Until today the buildings are unique and remarkable in their styles. The school was also present in Berlin and Dessau.
Public news, TV & radio station rbb provided an overview map of renowned Bauhaus architecture examples in and around Berlin. Travelers can find Bauhaus architecture in a lot of states of Germany (page). The Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung in Berlin is currently being renovated in accordance with historic monument requirements during the next few years. For this reason a temporary archive is opened. Anniversary website of Bauhaus: https://www.bauhaus100.com Info about anniversary on website of Berlin. On November 18 the new exhbition "PERGAMON. Masterpieces from the Ancient Metropolis with a 360° Panorama by Yadegar Asisi" opened for the first time. The too long name is often replaced by the acronym "Pergamon360". Most interesting is the mix of real ancient pieces such as statues with modern multimedia techniques and formats. "The panorama takes visitors back to the year AD 129, showing the ancient city of Pergamon on the west coast of Asia Minor. Yadegar Asisi reconstructs the city as it was during the time of the High Roman Empire under the rule of the Emperor Hadrian (AD 117–138). Embedded in the terraces of the Acropolis atop the city’s 300-metre-high hill, monumental buildings, among them several temples and a massive theatre, blend into the landscape of hilly peaks." (original statement from website of exhibition). More details you will find on the following websites:
November 9 is a remarkable date in German history with three big events in different younger epochs. And they all happened in Berlin. A good chance to walk through three epochs of history on that symbolic day:
Have a great day at historic memorials in Berlin or start a good read. To help people getting better orientation I also upload photos, especially of new places, to Google Maps. Today my Google Maps account there reached 99,999 views / calls of my photos. Thanks to all reading and viewing my stuff and leaving a comment or feedback.
Today Berlin police published a pickpocketing heatmap which illustrates the concentration of delicts in July 2018 at some city locations. It is very clear that tourist spots are the most affected areas.
So: always have an eye and a hand on your belongings, dear guests. The new Berlin Palace is currently built at the same place on which socialist Palace of Republic and before the historic Berlin Palace were standing. The new palace is in construction since 2013. On Aug 25 & 26 2018 the construction site was opened for public. Here are some pictures of my visit on the second day: Personal impressions from that day:
I ask myself if it was a good decision to partly rebuild an old approach. That way the building had not an authentic on character to me. May be the concept how to do an interpretation of a palace in 21st century would have been the better approach. Even modern hotels impress more than this palace. Deep inside I hope that the building which is just "standing" there gets finally the necessary equipment to be outstanding - to be a real palace. Finally I recommend to visit new Berlin Palace - not only for the classic fascade elements - but also to get an own impression and opinion of this building. Global Cold War was also carried out into architecture style and prestige projects in eastern and western part of Berlin.
And so much more typical buildings fom this era:
On city planning level in the outer districts Berlin still has three examples of how to store as much people in new buildings as possible. Here East and West were doing the same mistakes which were done gloablly at this time:
Interesting add-on is to look at - luxury houses. Here you can likely see the biggest contrast:
Tip: German public TV ZDF produced a documentary about the "War of Buildings" (German language only, likely protected by geofencing). And there are so much more details ... Welcome2Berlin. |
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Thanks to Julia Weihe for great top photo.
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