Monument

The manor house from 1706 is located in a 1.8-hectare park with a historic manor farm in Britz. Celebrations take place in the 220 square meter Ox Stable with up to 100 guests; the package costs 165 Euros per person and includes the wedding night. For a romantic wedding in Berlin-Neukölln, an 1880 Viennese Landau carriage is available.

The ballroom from 1889 is one of Berlin's oldest preserved, with furnishings from the Belle Époque. Over 350 square meters accommodate 135 seated guests, while the winter garden features parquet flooring from the Babelsberg film studio. For a romantic wedding in Berlin-Wedding, a swing for civil ceremonies hangs in the backyard.

Spanning approximately 70 hectares in Wedding, this is one of Berlin's largest and least crowded public parks. The garden monument from 1929 includes a deer enclosure with fallow deer, three small lakes, and an open-air stage with 4,000 seats, which hosts an open-air cinema in summer. Among Berlin's parks, this is the most relaxed large-scale area.

The Havel cycle path at Grunewaldturm leads via Havelchaussee to Berlin's most famous observation tower: 55 meters of brick Gothic from 1899 on the 79-meter-high Karlsberg, about 200 steps to the platform. Along the way are the Schildhorn peninsula with its sandy beach and the island of Lindwerder, to which a bell calls the ferry.

Around 2,700 concrete stelae stand on 19,000 square meters; beneath them, on 800 square meters, lies the Place of Information with the Rooms of Dimensions, Families, Names, and Places. Admission and access to the field of stelae are free. For a class trip to Berlin, this is the place where a number transforms into individual biographies.

Beneath the field of stelae of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe lies the "Place of Information", an underground exhibition covering approximately 800 square meters. It tells the stories of people, families, and places of persecution, and admission is free.

A listed manor house from the 18th century, nestled on the northern edge of the Schorfheide Biosphere Reserve in Uckermark: Schloss Herrenstein combines historic castle ambiance with a solid wellness and activity offering, just 90 kilometers from Berlin.

Behind the baroque Charlottenburg Palace lies one of Berlin's oldest garden complexes, laid out for Sophie Charlotte from 1695 and opened in 1699. Siméon Godeau designed the parterre in the French style, and Lenné later transformed it into a landscape garden with a carp pond, mausoleum, and Luiseninsel (Luise Island). Among Berlin's parks, this is the most formal.

Strausberger Platz is one of Berlin's photo spots with the clearest visual axis: two high-rises, each with 14 floors, conclude the 90-meter-wide stretch of Karl-Marx-Allee, surrounded by 1950s 'wedding cake style' architecture. The square is a garden monument. The Floating Ring water feature is currently dismantled. Redesign is planned for 2027 to 2029.

Berlin's oldest beer garden is located in Prenzlauer Berg: Since 1837, beer has been served under old chestnut trees at Prater Garten on Kastanienallee.

If you are looking for a place to have a picnic in Neukölln far away from Tempelhofer Feld, you should take a look at one of Berlin's most beautiful garden parks - Körnerpark, where a café even offers a picnic basket rental service!

The Ermelerhaus on Märkisches Ufer is one of Berlin's last Rococo townhouses and one of the city's few wedding venues where the ceremony and celebration can take place in the same historic hall. The Bel Etage, with its ceiling paintings, dates back to the 18th century. Celebrations are held directly by the water in the historic harbor.

Viktoriapark in Kreuzberg spans 12.8 hectares around the Kreuzberg hill, which, at 66 meters, is Berlin's highest inner-city elevation. At the top stands Schinkel's cast-iron National Monument from 1821, and on the north side, a 24-meter-high waterfall plunges down the slope at 13,000 liters per minute. No other park in Berlin has such a significant difference in elevation.

In the European Stork Village of Rühstädt, directly in the UNESCO Elbe-Brandenburg Biosphere Reserve in Prignitz, this lovingly restored castle hotel combines wellness with authentic Brandenburg natural romance. Those looking to escape everyday life will find Ayurveda, a sauna, and four-poster beds with castle park views here.

The building on Bebelplatz was the headquarters of Dresdner Bank until 1945; since 2006, it has been a hotel. The ballroom is the old cashier's hall with a ten-meter-high glass ceiling and accommodates 250 guests, while the rooftop terrace holds 40. As a romantic wedding venue in Berlin-Mitte, the hotel has 145 rooms, so the wedding party can stay where they celebrated.

In the boiler house of the former Bergmann-Electricitäts-Werke, Germany's first light bulb factory, Vagabund has been brewing Helles, Pils, Pale Ale, and IPA since 2021 across 1,600 square meters. The tanks hold 4,500 liters per batch. A two-hour tour with six beers costs 22 Euros, plus there's bar food and a beer garden in the Osram Höfe.

The Berlin Wall Trail follows the former border strip around West Berlin for about 160 kilometers, along the patrol road of the GDR border troops and the old customs path. Fourteen sections, between 7 and 21 kilometers long, each begin and end at a train station. Ostalgia takes on a different color here, because on this route, the GDR is not a backdrop, but topography.

Tresor opened in 1991 in the vault of the Wertheim department store and has been operating since 2007 in the disused power plant on Köpenicker Straße, complete with built-in original lockers. A thirty-meter tunnel leads into the Vault, while House music plays in the Globus. Of all techno clubs in Berlin, this one has the longest Detroit connection.

Just a few steps from Klosterstraße subway station stand the walls of a 13th-century monastery church. The ruin of the Franciscan Monastery Church is one of Berlin's oldest buildings and today serves as an open-air exhibition space for contemporary art, with free admission.

Café Sibylle at Karl-Marx-Allee 72 opened in October 1953 as a milk bar and was later named after the GDR women's magazine Sibylle. Besides coffee and cake, it hosts a free permanent exhibition on post-war modernism in East and West. The most famous exhibit is an ear from the Stalin Monument, which stood on the avenue until 1961.

On the evening of November 9, 1989, the Bösebrücke on Bornholmer Straße was the first border crossing to open, hours before other barriers went up elsewhere. The steel bridge, opened in 1916, still stands today, and at the eastern bridgehead, the Square of November 9, 1989, with metal reliefs and a section of the forefield wall, commemorates that night.

The Gethsemane Church on Stargarder Straße was consecrated in 1893 in the presence of the imperial couple and was the center of the East Berlin opposition movement in autumn 1989. Candles burned outside its gates, and thousands kept vigil inside under the motto 'Watch and pray.' This is where the Peaceful Revolution in Berlin began.

Karl-Marx-Allee stretches for about two kilometers from Frankfurter Tor to Strausberger Platz and is the largest preserved grand boulevard of the GDR. Hermann Henselmann's twin towers, the workers' palaces in socialist classicism, and the 1960s buildings such as Kino International and Café Moskau are now listed as an ensemble.

On approximately 2,850 square meters in the government district, Ben Wagin established the Parliament of Trees on the former border strip in 1990. A square of 16 trees was planted by the state premiers, and the names of 258 victims of the border regime are inscribed on granite slabs. Among the Berlin Wall sites, this is the greenest.

In Schlesischer Busch Park on Puschkinallee stands the GDR Watchtower, not a simple observation post, but a command center: From here, 18 watchtowers and the electronic security systems of this border section were controlled. Of 302 towers around West Berlin, three remain. Among the Berlin Wall sites, this is the most authentic.