Schifferbrunnen

Schifferbrunnen is a work of art in Berlin, Berlin. Schifferbrunnen is situated nearby to the bridge Hansabrücke, as well as near the sports venue Turnhalle Gymnasium Tiergarten.

Photo: OTFW, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Type: Work of art
Artwork type: sculpture
Description: fountain in Berlin, Germany

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Grips-Theater and Hansabrücke.

Grips-Theater

Theater building

Photo: De-okin, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Grips-Theatre in Berlin is a well-known and well-respected emancipatory children's and youth theatre, located at Altonaer Straße at Hansaplatz in the Hansaviertel in Berlin's Mitte district. Grips-Theater is situated 200 metres southeast of Schifferbrunnen.

Hansabrücke

Bridge

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0 de.

Hansabrücke is a bridge.

Siegessäule

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

The Victory Column is a monument in Berlin, Germany. Designed by Heinrich Strack after 1864 to commemorate the Prussian victory over Denmark in the Second Schleswig War, by the time it was inaugurated on 2 September 1873, Prussia had also defeated Austria and its German allies in the Austro-Prussian War and France in the Franco-Prussian War, giving the statue a new purpose. Siegessäule is situated 1 km southeast of Schifferbrunnen.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hansaviertel and Westfälisches Viertel.

Hansaviertel

Suburb

Photo: Fridolin freudenfett, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Hansaviertel is the smallest Ortsteil of Berlin and is between Großer Tiergarten and the Spree River, within the central Mitte borough of Berlin. The district was almost completely destroyed during World War II but was rebuilt from 1957 to 1961 as a social housing project by international master architects such as Alvar Aalto, Egon Eiermann, Walter Gropius, Oscar Niemeyer, and Sep Ruf.