Prenzlauer Berg

is one of the most colorful East Berlin´s districts where the past meets the present.
It is the real old Berlin from the 19th century you can discover in these days. There are many old houses in this former heavily built-up workers´district where you still find old advertising from the twenties.
Take time for a cup of coffee in one of the many cafés and watch the livly scene for which the Prenzelberg is also famous.


The most interesting streets and places are:

Helmholtzplatz / Raumer Str.
Husemannstr.
Kollwitzplatz
Kastanienallee/Schönhauser Allee
Knaakstr. / Rykestr.

Take the U2 to the station "Eberswalder Str." and from there you will easily walk to these places.

Museums

• Berliner Arbeiterleben um 1900
  Husemannstr. 12, 10435 Berlin, phone 4422508
  Tue - Sun 11-18
  U-Bahn Eberswalder Straße
  reconstructed worker´s flat around 1900
  
  
• Prenzlauer Berg Museum
  für Heimatgeschichte und Stadtkultur
  Prenzlauer Allee 75, 10405 Berlin, phone 4240 1097
  Tue 10-12 u. 13-19, Wed - Thu 10-12 u. 13-17, Sun 13-17 Uhr
  S-Bahn Prenzlauer Allee
  
  
• Sammlung Industrielle Gestaltung
  Kulturbrauerei
  Knaackstraße 97
  "Altbewährt & Jugendfrisch" and
  "Hinterlassenschaften"
  until February 21, 1998 10435 Berlin, phone 443-9382
  Wed - Sun 14-21 Uhr
  Subway U2 Eberswalder Straße

Cinemas

• Blow Up, Immanuelkirchstr. 14, phone 4428662
• CinemaxX Colosseum, Schönhauser Allee 123, phone 44018180, 181
• FT am Friedrichshain, Bötzowstr. 1-5, phone 42850140
• Nord, Greifenhagener Str. 32, phone 44651020
• Odyssee, Prenzlauer Allee 80 (Zeiss-Planetarium), phone 4211110

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© photos:
by Heiko Burkhardt, all May 1997
top,middle: inscriptions from the Twenties (?)
bottom: inscription in German and Russian, 1945
© hbk 1997, 1998
updated 11. Mai 98