Prenzlauer Berg - Places of Interest

Places of Interest

  • Gethsemane Church, former meeting place of the resistance in the GDR
  • Helmholtzplatz and Kollwitzplatz on market days
  • Jewish cemetery on Schönhauser Allee, where painter Max Liebermann and composer Giacomo Meyerbeer are buried
  • Mauerpark (former location of the Berlin wall)
  • Rykestrasse Synagogue
  • Wasserturm Prenzlauer Berg (water tower), designed by Henry Gill, constructed by the English Waterworks Company and finished in 1875.

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