Mengenlehreuhr

The Mengenlehreuhr or Berlin-Uhr is the first public clock in the world that tells the time by means of illuminated, coloured fields, for which it entered the Guinness Book of Records upon its installation on 17 June 1975.

Photo: Muritatis, Public domain.

Type: Clock
Description: public clock in Berlin, Germany, that tells the time by means of illuminated, coloured fields
Also known as: “Berlin-Uhr”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Europa-Center and Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church.

Europa-Center

Shopping center

Photo: A.Savin, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Europa-Center is a building complex on Breitscheidplatz in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin, with a shopping mall and a high-rise tower 86 metres tall. Built between 1963 and 1965, by 2003 it had been designated as a historically preserved building.

Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church

Church

Photo: GerardM, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, mostly known simply as the Memorial Church is a Protestant church affiliated with the Evangelical Church in Berlin, Brandenburg and Silesian Upper Lusatia, a regional body of the Protestant Church in Germany. Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church is situated 260 metres west of Mengenlehreuhr.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include City West and Kielgan-Viertel.

City West

Photo: Meho29, CC BY-SA 3.0.

City West is the heart of former West Berlin and even after reunification it represents the main retail centre of Berlin — all the best and most expensive shops are here.