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(East) Berlin: Tierpark U-Bahn station

Above/featured: Photo, 21 Jun 2026.

With the division of the capital to West and East Berlin, the zoo-park Zoologischer Garten lay in the west. East German authorities opened in 1955 their own zoo-park Tierpark (“animal park”) in a swath of open space in Friedrichsfelde-Lichtenberg, about 8 km southeast from Alexanderplatz. Subsequently, East Berlin’s east-west underground transport U-Bahn line “E” commenced its eastwards expansion with the addition of Tierpark station. Construction for Tierpark station began in 1969 with inauguration for service in 1973. The station is the only underground station built by East German authorities. Today, Tierpark station is part of U-Bahn line U5 with renumbering and reorganization of the overall transport network after reunification of the two Berlins and the two Germanys in 1990. The city-state of Berlin designated the station as a historical monument under heritage protection in 2023.

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Daphne and Apollo, One Wall 2018, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany, Deutschland, fotoeins.com

Berlin: “Daphne & Apollo” mural in Kreuzberg

• “Daphne and Apollo”, by Francisco Bosoletti 🇦🇷 & Young Jarus 🇨🇦.
• Commissioned by Urban Berlin for the “One Wall” project in 2018.
• The mural appears on the south wall of an apartment building in Kreuzberg (Bezirk Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg), facing Gitschiner Strasse and the Berliner U-Bahn Stammstrecke.
• Characters from “Metamorphoses” by Roman poet and writer Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), written in Latin and published about 8 CE.

Part 1: original photo, corrected for geometric distortion.

Part 2: corrected photo converted to monochrome.

Part 3: black- and white-points reversed in monochrome image.

The mural is located between U-Bahn stations Prinzenstrasse and Kottbusser Tor. If you’d like to see the mural illuminated in natural light, it’s best to visit between 11am and 2pm (when the sun is at or near zenith). In addition to the Google Map below, here is the corresponding view on Open Street Map.

I made original images above on 7 Jun 2026 with an iPhone15; I edited images with Polarr Pro and Preview. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-z1A.