Ebook: Berlinwalks
Author: Fritzsche Peter, Hewitt Karen
- Tags: Walking--Germany--Berlin, Walking, Guidebooks, Tours, Berlin (Germany) -- Tours, Walking -- Germany -- Berlin -- Guidebooks, Germany -- Berlin
- Series: Henry Holt walks series
- Year: 1994
- Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
- City: New York;Berlin (Germany);Germany;Berlin
- Language: English
- epub
Berlin is a city that visionary architects, city planners, social revolutionaries, and ruling kaisers have all tried to reshape. As a result, it is sheathed in layers of modern history, each providing a chapter in the city's story of constant change. Its rich atmosphere of energy made it the intellectual hub of early twentieth-century Europe: its lively theaters, cafes, and bawdy street life drew visitors form around the world.
The four intimate walking tours in this book reveal Berlin's breathtaking history as a small medieval commercial town; as the capital of a ninteeth-century Prussia; as the modern dreamscape of the Weimar Republic; as the "new Rome" of the Third Reich; as a divided city' and now, as the capital of a reunited Germany. Readers will be taken through Merlin Mitte, site of the Brandenburger Tor and the dismantled Wall; past the old stones and new synogogues of the Jewish Quarter; among the working-class neighborhood of Prenzlauer Berg; and into...