🐢Thank you for joining us today, as we take an Early Evening 'immersive' walking tour from Museum Island towards Alexanderplatz.

📅 Filmed 3rd August 2024 (23°c) Berlin, Germany
🎬 Filmed with my DJI Osmo Pocket 2

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🌍 Alexanderplatz is a square on the northeastern edge of the historic center of Berlin. The rectangular square in the Mitte district goes back to the square in front of the King Gate and was given its current name in 1805 after the Russian Tsar Alexander I. In the Berlin vernacular, he is usually just called "Alex".

The square, which has been redesigned several times, as well as a large part of the surrounding buildings, suffered considerable destruction during the Second World War due to Allied air raids. In the 1960s, the East Berlin administration had the area of the square in the centre of the GDR capital completely redesigned, with the exception of the Alexanderhaus and Berolinahaus. A previously very busy roundabout has been turned into a pedestrian zone that occupies an area of around eight hectares. By 1970, the Interhotel Stadt Berlin and the HO Centrum department store, among others, were built on this fourfold larger area, which continue to exist today as the Park Inn and Galeria Kaufhof.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, further redesigns took place; with more than 360,000 passers-by every day, Alexanderplatz was the fourth busiest square in Europe in 2009 and, according to a study, is the most visited area in Berlin, ahead of City West around Kurfürstendamm and Tauentzienstraße. It is a popular starting point for tourists, who can reach many sights such as the TV Tower, the Nikolaiviertel and the Red Town Hall from the two stations of the same name on the S-Bahn (Stadtbahn) and U-Bahn. With the Alexa and die mitte shopping centres, the Rathauspassagen and the Galeria Kaufhof, there are also several large retail locations.

The park at the television tower to the southwest behind the S-Bahn station with the Neptune Fountain, St. Mary's Church and Red City Hall is often mistakenly assigned to Alexanderplatz. However, this spacious open space in the central area of Berlin's historic centre, the former Marienviertel, is not part of the square, like the Marx-Engels Forum between Spandauer Straße and the Spree.

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