Friedrichshain - Points of Interest

Points of Interest

  • East Side Gallery, a part of the Berlin Wall that was turned into an international outdoor gallery
  • Karl-Marx-Allee, a boulevard lined with buildings in the Stalinist style, originally called Stalinallee
  • Frankfurter Tor, two landmark towers on Karl-Marx-Allee, which resemble the church domes on Gendarmenmarkt
  • Oberbaumbrücke, a road and rail bridge connecting Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain built in North German brick
  • Fairytale Fountain in Volkspark Friedrichshain
  • Simon-Dach-Straße, a street with numerous pubs
  • Boxhagener Platz, heart of the Friedrichshain Kiez or neighborhood
  • Straße der Pariser Kommune, a street beginning a block north of the Karl-Marx-Allee and extending to the banks of the Spree
  • Samariterviertel with the Samariterkirche (Church of the Good Samaritan)
  • Berlin Ostbahnhof
  • Volkspark Friedrichshain, with its Memorial to Polish Soldiers and German Anti-Fascists
  • Skatehall Berlin, Revaler Strasse 99

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