Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz

Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, formerly the Bülowplatz, is a square in Berlin-Mitte, Germany.

Photo: Der Wolf im Wald, CC0.

Type: Square
Description: square in Berlin, Germany
Also known as: “Bülowplatz”, “Horst-Wessel-Platz”, “Placo Rosa Luksemburg”, “RLP”, and “Trg Rose Luxemburg”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Fernsehturm Berlin and Alexanderplatz.

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 640 metres south of Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz.

Alexanderplatz

Square

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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. Alexanderplatz is situated 510 metres south of Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz.

Kino Babylon

Movie theater

Photo: Jörg Zägel, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Kino Babylon is a cinema in the Mitte neighbourhood of Berlin and part of a listed building complex at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz opposite the Volksbühne theatre.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Scheunenviertel and Alt-Berlin.

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.

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.