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25T53 Final day in Berlin: Kreuzberg

E52, B47.

So goes this day, number 47 of my stay in Berlin. Most of my day is in Kreuzberg district, but I haven’t returned to the little hill that’s given the district name.

Did I accomplish everything in my to-do list for Berlin? No, the list was an impossible task, but that’s how “life-long projects” should continue. I’m starting to consider whether I should return to Berlin next summer. But those Alps beckon me, too …

According to iOS’ Health app, I walked today almost 21-thousand steps for a distance of just under 15.5 km. My sore feet and joints tell me I need to take more breaks and sit down; I’ll chew on that at the next destination. But that’s tomorrow, and as for today, here’s some of what I saw, what compelled me to make these images.

“Less castles, more jungle.” Hera (of Herakut) + Juli Jah + friends for the Green Forest Fund, 2023.
“Neues Deutschland” (new Germany).
“My home might be no palace, but we can share it if you like.” Herakut 2018.
Outside Hallesches Tor, a U-Bahn junction station for lines U1, U3, and U6.
Willy-Brandt-Haus, SPD party headquarters.
Inside Willy-Brandt-Haus.
The sky over Pankow, the city district where I’ve stayed over the last 7 weeks. It’s outside of the (S-Bahn) Ring, but not by much. I got to know the Nord-Süd Bahn, as well as the “East Berlin” segment of the U2 line.

I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 29 June 2025. This post composed within Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.

25T12 Berlin-Kreuzberg

E11, B06.

Mehringplatz, Lindenstraße, Zimmerstraße, Friedrichstraße.

Hallesches Tor, Jüdisches Museum, Checkpoint Charlie, Bethlehemkirchplatz.

Here are a few sights of mine, after an afternoon in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district.

One Wall Mehringplatz (2014), by Shepard Fairey 🇺🇸.
Jewish Museum Berlin: In 1935, Regina Jonas became the first woman in the world to be ordained as rabbi in Germany.
Jewish Museum Berlin: In 2010, Alina Treiger became the first woman to be ordained as rabbi in Germany after the Holocaust.
DPA (Deutsche Presse-Agentur): the German Press Agency’s central editorial office. In front are statues of 3 politicians who saw and navigated big changes in 1989 and 1990.
George Bush 🇺🇸, Helmut Kohl 🇩🇪, and Mikhail Gorbachev 🇷🇺 : the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989; and German reunification in 1990.
Checkpoint C: Friedrichstraße at Zimmerstrasse, facing south. Note the line of bricks across the street and the horizontal metal “plate” at lower right.
Checkpoint C: Friedrichstraße at Zimmerstrasse, facing north. Note the line of bricks across the street and the horizontal metal “plate” at lower left.
The line of bricks traces the former Berlin Wall (1961-1989).
Memorial to Peter Fechter who died at the Berlin Wall on 17 Aug 1962. Trying to escape into West Berlin, the 18 year old was shot by border guards, and bled to death alone in the border strip. The stele and paving with red-basalt circular-disk stone marks the spot where he died, on the East Berlin side, next to the Wall.
“Peter Fechter, 1944-1962: All he wanted was freedom.”
This street ran along the Berlin Wall from 1961 to 1990. Construction worker Peter Fechter was shot here trying to escape from East to West on 17 August 1962.
The “mobile & me” needed a boost. Phone got some charge, as I sat inside a bakery from one of the national chains, Kamps, with a Milchkaffee (latté) and Zitronenkuchen (lemon cake). Nothing “heavy”!
Stadtmitte U-Bahn station entrance “J”, in the middle of Friedrichstraße.

I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 19 May 2025. This post composed within Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.

Berlin Gleisdreieck: winter vs. summer

Gleisdreieck (“railway triangle”, “triangular junction”) is a U-Bahn train- and junction-station at the western end of the Kreuzberg district in the German capital city of Berlin.

The station has both upper-level and lower-level platforms serving lines U1 and U2, respectively, although both sets of track are raised above ground. At Gleisdreieck, the U1 line runs west-east, whereas the U2 line runs perpendicularly and temporarily “north-south”.
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