The Rathaus Schöneberg is a four-wing sandstone building dominated by a seventy-meter-high central clock tower. Built between nineteen eleven and nineteen fourteen, the town hall features a high base zone of stone and Ionic pilasters along…
Babylon Berlin Filming Locations
I've mapped out the real-world buildings and theaters across Berlin that brought the 1929 world of the hit television drama to life. Walk in the footsteps of Inspector Gereon Rath and Charlotte Ritter to see how modern Berlin was transformed into Weimar-era Weimar Germany.
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1. Rathaus Schöneberg
2. Tausend
Tausend is hidden beneath the railway arches of the Friedrichstraße S-Bahn station at Schiffbauerdamm eleven. There is no sign or exterior display to mark the entrance, only an unassuming steel door and a doorbell. Inside, the space is a…
3. Theater am Schiffbauerdamm
The Theater am Schiffbauerdamm rises along the river as a neo-baroque stone structure designed by architect Heinrich Seeling. Opened in November eighteen ninety-two, the building hosted the premiere of Gerhart Hauptmann’s naturalistic…
4. Red City Hall
The Rotes Rathaus, or Red City Hall, is defined by its facade of vibrant red bricks and a soaring tower that rises seventy-four meters above the surrounding Mitte district. Designed by architect Hermann Friedrich Waesemann and completed in…
5. Old City Hall
The Altes Stadthaus is defined by a massive eighty-meter tower that rises above the Molkenmarkt. Built between nineteen oh two and nineteen eleven, the structure was commissioned by the city magistrat to house Berlin's growing…
6. Alexanderhaus
The Alexanderhaus is a distinctive office building on Alexanderplatz, immediately recognizable by its grid-like facade of light-colored stone and its large, rectangular windows that wrap around the corners of the structure. Designed by the…
7. Karl-Marx-Allee
Karl-Marx-Allee is a nearly two-kilometer-long boulevard in Berlin, stretching between Alexanderplatz and Frankfurter Tor. It is defined by its immense width of ninety meters and the rows of eight-story residential buildings clad in ornate…
8. Immanuelkirche
The Immanuelkirche stands on Prenzlauer Allee with a sixty-eight-meter tower that rises above the surrounding neighborhood. When it was inaugurated on October twenty-first, eighteen ninety-three, the building sat on an open field, a new…
9. Theater im Delphi
The Theater im Delphi, located at Gustav-Adolf-Straße two, is a former silent movie house that opened in nineteen twenty-nine. Designed by architect Julius Krost, it once served a neighborhood known as Little Hollywood, a hub for Berlin’s…