Mitte Historic Monuments

The Reichstag Building is identifiable by the massive, modern glass dome sitting atop its nineteenth-century stone base. Completed in eighteen ninety-four, the structure was designed by Paul Wallot to house the parliament of the German…

The Brandenburg Gate is a sandstone structure defined by twelve Doric columns that create five distinct passageways. Completed in seventeen ninety-one, it was commissioned by King Frederick William the Second as a monumental entrance to…

The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe is a vast, open field of two thousand seven hundred and eleven gray concrete slabs, or stelae, arranged in a grid across nearly five acres of undulating ground. These rectangular blocks vary in…

The site of the Führerbunker is marked today by an ordinary parking lot in central Berlin, near the intersection of Gertrud-Kolmar-Straße and In den Ministergärten. Beneath this pavement lie the remnants of an underground concrete complex…

The Gendarmenmarkt is a wide, paved square defined by a symmetrical trio of monumental buildings. Two domed, tower-crowned structures stand on the north and south ends, framing the neoclassical Konzerthaus that sits squarely in the middle.…

Bebelplatz is a rectangular, fully paved square in Berlin that is distinguished by its surrounding historic facades, including the State Opera, the Old Library, and the dome of Saint Hedwig’s Cathedral. Originally laid out between…

The Neue Wache is a Neoclassical building on the Unter den Linden boulevard, recognizable by its sturdy portico of six Doric columns and its four prominent corner towers. Designed by the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel and completed in…

The Lustgarten is a green, rectangular park on Museum Island distinguished by a massive seventy-tonne granite bowl resting at its center. This space began in the sixteenth century as a kitchen garden for the Elector of Brandenburg, where…