Behrenstraße to Brandenburger Tor

Описание: Life in the Berlin Bike Lanes, Cycling from Behrenstraße, along Ebertstraße, towards the Brandenburger Tor. Follow the links at the end of each video to explore the city further.

Ebertstraße runs roughly on a south-north line from Potsdamer Platz to the Brandenburg Gate in the centre of the city.
As one heads north along Ebertstraße, the Tiergarten, a large forested park, is to one's left, and the new United States Embassy to the right. Across the corner of Behrenstraße on the right is the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. Beyond that is the Ministergarten, which was once the gardens at the rear of the old Foreign Office building in Wilhelmstraße, and now the location of numerous modern office buildings. At the southern end of the street, past the corner of Lennéstraße on the left, is the new entertainment precinct around the rebuilt Potsdamer Platz.

The street follows the line of the walls of the mediaeval Prussian fortress town of Berlin, linking the Brandenburg Gate with the Potsdam Gate, which stood where Potsdamer Platz now is. After the demolition of the walls it was laid out as a street. Following the Austro-Prussian War in 1866, it was named Königgrätzer Straße in honour of the Prussian victory over Austria at the Battle of Königgrätz. After World War I, this name was considered unsuitably militaristic, and the street was renamed "Budapester Straße" (the street south of the Tiergarten now called Budapester Straße was at that time an eastwards continuation of the Kurfürstendamm). After the death of the first President of the Weimar Republic, Friedrich Ebert, in 1925, it was renamed Ebertstraße in 1930, but in 1935, under the Nazi regime, it was called Hermann-Göring-Straße, after Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, whose official residence was close by.
(info adapted from Wikipedia)

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