Berlin - Treptow
Treptow
Treptow is connected superbly to the city-train net: the lines S3, S41/42 (ring train), S6, S8 and S9 open the district, regional trains stop at train station Schöneweide. South of Treptow there is the New Brandenburg airport just outside the city’s border. The narrow, longish district between Köpenick and Neukölln is one of Berlin’s favourite jaunting targets: the vast Treptower Volkspark and the Plänterwald forest permit a near-to-centre nature experience. The recovery area on the Spree River is to be reached by city-train as well as by steamer. Treptower Hafen, a marina, is one of the main landing stages for Berlin’s sightseeing ships.
In the Treptower Volkspark the monumental, in Stalinistic architecture designed Soviet Memorial recalls a sunken era. The Bridge of Hearts guides you to the “Insel der Jugend” (Island of Youth). Persons and institutions who engage for the dreams and hopes of children are honoured here with blue hearts which are embedded in the bridge. The giant sculpture, 30 meters in height, of the “Molecule Man” in the Spree points to the newly raised office centre “Treptowers” facing Volkspark. In Archenhold observatory, whose 21-meter large lens telescope is the world’s longest, Albert Einstein presented his relativity theory to the public. A visit in Adlershof, where writer Anna Seghers resided, kann payoff: the modern research and science centre WISTA with its futuristic buildings as Photonic Centre and the former television centre of the GDR attract the science- and technique-devotee.
