Alexanderplatz
Alexanderplatz is a large public square and transport hub in the central Mitte district of Berlin. The square is named after the Russian Tsar Alexander I, which also denotes the larger neighbourhood stretching from Mollstraße in the north-east to Spandauer Straße and the Rotes Rathaus in the south-west.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Fernsehturm Berlin and Berlin Alexanderplatz station.
Fernsehturm Berlin
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The Fernsehturm in central Berlin was constructed between 1965 and 1969 by the government of the German Democratic Republic as both a functional broadcasting facility and a symbol of Communist power. Fernsehturm Berlin is situated 290 metres southwest of Alexanderplatz.
Berlin Alexanderplatz station
Railway station
Photo: IngolfBLN, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Berlin Alexanderplatz is a German railway station in the Mitte district of Berlin's city centre. It is one of the busiest transport hubs in the Berlin area, servicing surface-level trams and buses as well as the U-Bahn, S-Bahn, and regional rail. Berlin Alexanderplatz station is situated 140 metres west of Alexanderplatz.
World Clock
Clock
Photo: Noebu, Public domain.
The World Clock, also known as the Urania World Clock, is a large turret-style world clock located in the public square of Alexanderplatz in Mitte, Berlin.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Alt-Berlin and Scheunenviertel.
Alt-Berlin
Locality
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Alt-Berlin, also spelled Altberlin, is a neighborhood, situated in the Berliner locality of Mitte, part of the homonymous borough. In the 13th century it was the sister town of the old Cölln, located on the northern Spree Island in the Margraviate of Brandenburg.
Scheunenviertel
Neighborhood
Scheunenviertel is a neighborhood of Mitte in the centre of Berlin. It is situated to the north of the medieval Altberlin area, east of the Rosenthaler Straße and Hackescher Markt.
Mitte
Mitte, literally meaning "the middle" and being a contraction of Stadtmitte, contains the historical heart of Berlin and represents in many ways the real centre of the city.
Alexanderplatz
- Type: Square
- Description: square in Berlin, Germany
- Categories: tourist attraction and locality
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Stadt, Berlin, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
52.52198° or 52° 31′ 19″ northLongitude
13.4132° or 13° 24′ 48″ eastElevation
41 metres (135 feet)Named after
Alexander I of RussiaOpen location code
9F4MGCC7+Q7OpenStreetMap ID
way 783052052OpenStreetMap feature
place=squareGeoNames ID
6944049Wikidata ID
Q152783
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Alexanderplatz” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ألكساندر بلاتز”
- Arabic: “ميدان ألكسندر”
- Armenian: “Ալեքսանդրպլաց”
- Azerbaijani: “Aleksanderplats”
- Basque: “Alexander platz:”
- Basque: “Alexanderplatz”
- Belarusian: “Аляксандарпляц”
- Belarusian: “Плошча Аляксандра”
- Catalan: “Alexanderplatz”
- Chinese: “亚历山大广场”
- Chinese: “亞歷山大廣場”
- Czech: “Alexanderplatz”
- Danish: “Alexanderplatz”
- Danish: “Berlin Alexanderplatz”
- Dutch: “Alexanderplatz”
- Dutch: “Alexanderplein”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميدان الكسندر”
- Esperanto: “Aleksandra Placo de Berlino”
- Esperanto: “Aleksandra Placo”
- Estonian: “Alexanderplatz”
- Finnish: “Alexanderplatz”
- French: “Alexander Platz”
- French: “Alexanderplatz”
- Galician: “Alexanderplatz”
- Georgian: “ალექსანდერპლაცი”
- German: “Alex”
- German: “Alexanderplatz”
- Greek: “Αλεξάντερπλατς”
- Hebrew: “אלכסנדרפלאץ”
- Hebrew: “אלכסנדרפלץ”
- Hebrew: “כיכר אלכסנדר”
- Hungarian: “Alexanderplatz”
- Icelandic: “Alexanderplatz”
- Indonesian: “Alexanderplatz”
- Italian: “Alexander Platz”
- Italian: “Alexanderplatz”
- Japanese: “アレキサンダー広場”
- Japanese: “アレクサンダープラッツ”
- Japanese: “アレクサンダー広場”
- Korean: “알렉산더 광장”
- Lithuanian: “Aleksandro aikštė”
- Macedonian: “Александерплац”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Alexanderplatz”
- Norwegian: “Alexanderplatz”
- Persian: “الکساندر پلاتس”
- Persian: “الکساندرپلاتس”
- Polish: “Alexanderplatz”
- Portuguese: “Alexanderplatz”
- Russian: “Александерплатц”
- Russian: “Александерплац”
- Russian: “Площадь Александра”
- Serbian: “Александерплац”
- Slovak: “Alexanderplatz”
- Slovenian: “Aleksandrov trg”
- Slovenian: “Alexanderplatz”
- Spanish: “Alexanderplatz”
- Swedish: “Alexanderplatz”
- Tagalog: “Alexanderplatz”
- Thai: “Alexanderplatz”
- Thai: “อเล็คซันเดอร์พลัทซ์”
- Turkish: “Aleksanderplatz”
- Turkish: “Alexander Meydanı”
- Turkish: “Alexanderplatz”
- Ukrainian: “Александерплац”
- Welsh: “Alexanderplatz”
- Western Frisian: “Alexanderplatz”
- Western Panjabi: “الیگزنڈرپلاٹز”
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