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ket and the ultra-deluxe Palais KolleBelle apartment complex are solid indicators of
the neighhourhood's upmarket demographics.
You'll soon arrive at
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Kollw
platz, a square named for the artist Käthe Kollwitz,
who lived here with her husband for over 40 years while tending to the destitute. A
bronze statue in the square's centre park and a plaque on the blue building at Koll-
witzstrasse 58 honour her legacy.
Follow Knaackstrasse to Rykestrasse, past a row of popular cafes, and note the cir-
cular
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Wassertuurm, Berlin's oldest water tower (1877), which is now honeycombed
with pie-sliced flats. In Nazi Germany, its machine room went through a sinister stint
as an improvised prison and torture centre. Follow Rykestrasse, noting the handsome
facades of its restored townhouses. At No 53 is the
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SSynagoge R
ollwiitzpla
e Ryykestrasse, which
survived WWII and again hosts Shabbat services.
Continue on Rykestrasse to Sredzkistrasse, perhaps stopping for a cuppa at
chbauum, a free book ex-
then head inside and get an eyeful of life in East Germany at the new Museum in der
Kulturbrauerei. Exit the Kulturbrauerei onto Knaackstrasse and turn left on Danziger
ücher T
r Tauuschb
WWII BUNKER TOURS
After you've checked off the Brandenburg Gate and the TV Tower, why not explore
Berlin's dark and dank underbelly? Join
Berliner Unterwelten
on their 'Dark Worlds'
tour of a WWII underground bunker and pick your way through a warren of claustro-
phobic rooms, past heavy steel doors, hospital beds, helmets, guns, boots and lots of
other wartime artefacts. Listen on in horror and fascination as guides bring alive the
stories of the thousands of ordinary Berliners cooped up here, crammed and scared,
as the bombs rained down on Berlin. Other tours explore a WWII anti-aircraft tower, a
Cold War nuclear-bomb shelter and Berlin Wall escape tunnels. Buy tickets at the
kiosk outside the south exit of Gesundbrunnen U-Bahn station (in front of Kaufland).
