Berlin - Gedenkstätte Plötzensee

 

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Berlin - Memorial Plötzensee

Gedenkstätte Plötzensee

From 1933 to 1945, almost 3,000 people were executed in the Plötzensee prison in Berlin. Today, the cells and a small documentation center can be visited.

Gedenkstätte Plötzensee

In the period 1933-45, 2,891 people were executed. The first 3 years the executioner used an ax and he beheaded 45 prisoners. Later until 1939, guillotine was used. After this, gallows were in use, where 8 people could be hung at the same time. 90 people who were part of the assassination attempt on Hitler on July 20, 1944, were executed here. The last as late as April 9, 1945.

 

Address:

Gedenkstätte Plötzensee

 Hüttigpfad

 13627 Berlin-Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf

 

Opening hours:

March - October

Daily: 9.00 - 17.00

November - February

Daily: 9.00 - 16.00

 

Public transport:

U-Bahnhof Turmstraße or S-Bahnhof Beusselstraße

Subsequent Bus 123 to "Gedenkstätte Plötzensee" (3 minutes on foot)

Link:

Gedenkstätte Plötzensee

 

From the outside

 

Wanted

Berlin is always worth a visit - summer or winter - but where to go? Here are some slightly unusual and very different suggestions for places I like to go.


Interesting places

A B C

"Boxhagener Platz" - Old military hospital

Bendlerblock" - Memorial and museum

"Berlin Untervelten" - Berlin's "Underworld"

"Bernauer Straße" - About the Berlin Wall etc.

"Bornholmer Straße - Former border crossing east/west

"Boxhagener Platz - Green area and flea market"

D E F

"Europacenter" - Shopping center etc.

Flakturm Humboldthain" - Bunker facility WW2

"Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg" - Busy airport

"Flughafen Berlin Tempelhof" - Recreational area.

"Escape tunnels between East and West Berlin - Kold krig

"Friedhof Invalidenhof - Soldiers Cemetery

G H I J K

"Old Danish Embassy"  - Tiergarten

Gedenkstätte Plötzensee" - Memorial

"Glienicker Brücke" - Dividing East/ West

- "Pallasstrasse bunker" Bunker i centrum

" Weissensee Jewish Cemetery - Jewish cemetery

Karlshorst - German-Russian Museum"

L M N O P Q R S

"Majakowskiring"
– GDR elite in Pankow

Prenzlauer Berg"

- Memorial

"Schöneberg town hall"  - JFK tale"

"Schwerbelastungs-
körper"
- Pressure gauge

" Friedhof Grunewald-Forst - Cemetery for suicides

SS residences – Zehlendorf

S T U V X Y Z

"Stasimuseum" - Stasimuseum

Teufelsberg" - NSA in Grunewald

"Tiergarten" - The Nordic Embassies"

"Tiergarten - Siegessäule" 67 meter tall victory column

"Villa Riefenstahl - Leni Riefenstahls House

"Zionskirche Prenzlauerberg - Where Bonhoeffer preached

 

Recreational areas:

"Grunewald"
- Berlins largest green areas

Strandbad Wannsee"
- Europe's largest lake bath

"Tempelhofer Park"
- Formerly Tempelhof Airport

"Tiergarten"
- Berlin's largest city park

"Volkspark Friedrichshein - Recreational area

"Volkspark Jungfernheide" - Recreational area

Food and drinks:

"Biergarden am Neuen See" in the Tiergarten.

Biergarden "Prater" - From 1837 and the oldest

Biergarden "Schleusenkrug", "Biergarden in Tiergarten".

"Mustafa’s Gemüse Kebap" - known all over Berlin

"Restaurant Zillemarkt" Unfortunately closed by now

"Zur letzten Instanz" - Oldest restaurant in Berlin

               

Berlin at War