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Around Town – Prenzlauer Berg<br />
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Left The façades of restored houses in Hagenauer Straße Right The Jewish Cemetery<br />
Prenzlauer Berg<br />
BERLIN’S PRENZLAUER BERG DISTRICT attracts locals and tourists like<br />
virtually no other part of town because it has undergone the most<br />
dramatic changes in recent years. Today, the old tenement blocks in the<br />
former workers’ district of East Berlin have been taken over by cafés, pubs<br />
and restaurants, and the nightlife is exciting and vibrant. Even when Berlin<br />
was still a divided city, Prenzlauer Berg was an area favoured by artists and<br />
an alternative crowd – and it exerts a similar pull today. Many houses in the<br />
quiet side streets have not yet been renovated and give a genuine<br />
impression of what Berlin once used to be like. But Prenzlauer Berg is<br />
undergoing a transformation. Since the reunification of the city, this quarter<br />
has become one of the most popular residential areas. Many West Germans,<br />
decried as “yuppies” by the locals, settle here, restore the buildings and buy<br />
up the apartments. The standard of life in the district has risen noticeably.<br />
Trendy bars, restaurants and cafés are clustered mainly around Kollwitzplatz<br />
and Husemannstraße. And so a visit to Prenzlauer Berg today is at the same<br />
time a journey back in time to the days immediately following reunification.<br />
SCHWEDTER STRASSE<br />
SWINEMÜNDER STR.<br />
K O P E N HAGEN E R S T RASSE<br />
Mauerpark<br />
BERNAUER STR.<br />
7<br />
GLEIMSTRASSE<br />
Max-<br />
Schmeling-<br />
Halle<br />
FEHRBELLINER STRASSE<br />
Friedrich-<br />
Ludwig-Jahn<br />
Sportpark<br />
SCHWEDTER STRASSE<br />
ZIONSKIRCH STRASSE<br />
W E I NBERGSW E GK A STA N I ENAL LEE<br />
ODERBERGER STRASSE<br />
us<br />
@<br />
u<br />
Eberswalder<br />
Str.<br />
3 2 4<br />
CHORINER STRASSE<br />
SCHWEDTER STRASSE<br />
S C H Ö N H A U S E R A L L E E<br />
SCHÖNHAUSER ALLEE<br />
u<br />
PAPPELALLEE<br />
WÖRTHER<br />
5<br />
Schönhauser<br />
Allee<br />
KNAACKSTRASSE<br />
SREDZKI-<br />
0<br />
Prenzlauer<br />
Berg<br />
LYCHENER STR.<br />
HUSEMANNSTR.<br />
1<br />
6<br />
9<br />
8<br />
Senefelderplatz<br />
METZER STRASSE<br />
KOLLWITZ-<br />
PLATZ<br />
STRASSE<br />
Prater: www.praterteam.de<br />
STRASSE<br />
Prenzlauer<br />
Allee<br />
s<br />
@<br />
KNAACKSTRASSEIMMANUELKIRCHSTRASSE<br />
KOLLWITZSTRASSE<br />
STARGARDER STRASSE<br />
DUNCKERSTRASSE<br />
EBERSW A L DER STR. D A NZIGER ST RASSE<br />
Jüdischer<br />
Friedhof<br />
RYKE- STRASSE<br />
500 yards 0 metres<br />
500<br />
WICHERTSTRASSE<br />
MARIENBURGER STR.<br />
PRENZLAUER ALLEE<br />
Wasserturm<br />
Sights<br />
1 Kollwitzplatz<br />
2 Schönhauser Allee<br />
3 Prater<br />
4 Kulturbrauerei<br />
5 Jewish Cemetery<br />
6 Husemannstraße<br />
7 Zionskirche<br />
8 Wasserturm<br />
9 Synagoge Rykestraße<br />
0 Gethsemanekirche
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