December 2011
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walks iii * Treptower Park
Treptower Park, a day of walking in the rain past abandoned fairground rides and the truly monumental soviet war memorial. Spreepark I (formerly “Kulturpark Plänterwald”) was open from October 1969 to 2001, now abandoned. owned by Norbert Witte - closed with debts of €11,000,000 [in 2004 Witte was arrested for attempting to smuggle £14m of cocaine from Peru to Germany in the masts...
Dec 21st
walks ii * around Marzahn
Berlin Marzahn with a complicated history including: the first district to be conquered by Red Army forces on 21 April 1945; the site of a labour camp where Roma were interned two weeks before the Summer Olympics of 1936; and where in March 1973 the Politbüro of the SED announced the objective to build 55,000 new apartments by 1980 as a solution to the housing crisis. Today, Marzahn has the...
Dec 19th
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walks I * Bibliothek Friedrichshain-Kreutzberg to...
08/12/2011 Starting at the Bibliothek Friedrichshain-Kreutzberg…. Central Library Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg (2010) Frankfurter Allee 14a a former school remodelled by architect: Peter W Schmidt Velodrom (1999) Architect: Dominique Perrault Velodrom - towards Forum Landsburger Allee Ernst-Fürstenberg Straße Denkmal des polnischen Soldaten und deutschen Antifaschisten (1972)...
Dec 12th
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