Berlin-Hohenschoenhausen, City Berlin

Berlin-Hohenschönhausen: More than just slab!

Unfortunately, Hohenschönhausen is much all-too often reduced to the prefabricated building made with pre-cast concrete slabs. Certainly the urban development devise of the German Democratic Republic are distinctive in this district, however, Hohenschönhausen has to offer more than only dismal slab! If you do not have your hotel or holiday apartment in this district, Hohenschönhausen can easily be reached by public means of transportation and a visit is worthwhile.

The old core of this part of town decreases till 1230. Thus Berlin-Hohenschönhausen could a little retain its rural character in the main street. The village church, the old city hall and the castle Hohenschönhausen are worth seeing there.

In the residential area you find one of the mostly visited buildings of Hohenschönhausen: The villa in the Bauhaus style was conceived in the 30s by the world-renowned architect “Mies von der Rohe”, today it accommodates a worth seeing museum about him.

Particularly in history interested visitors should start out from the apartment or hotel in Berlin to Hohenschönhausen: In the street Genslerstrasse 66 (nearby Landsberger Allee) the memorial Berlin-Hohenschönhausen is placed. It reminds, as far as possible in the original condition, how political prisoners were locked up by the safety of the state.

Nearby research- and memorial placed are also engaged in the same subject situated in the street Normannenstrasse. In this building the headquarters of the state security were accommodated.

 

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