Wiesen-Biotop

Wiesen-Biotop is a nature reserve in Berlin, Berlin. Wiesen-Biotop is situated nearby to the neighborhood Möckernkiez, as well as near Lützowviertel.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Brandenburg Gate and Siegessäule.

Brandenburg Gate

Photo: Der Wolf im Wald, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Brandenburg Gate is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin, Germany. One of the best-known landmarks of the country, it was erected on the site of a former city gate that marked the start of the road from Berlin to Brandenburg an der Havel, the former capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg.

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.

Checkpoint Charlie

Photo: Adrian Purser, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Checkpoint Charlie was the Western Bloc's name for the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War, becoming a symbol of the Cold War, representing the separation of East and West.