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r Kreuzberg
Checkpoint Charlie: Friedrichstraße
43–45. Tel 030-253 7250. 
Kochstraße. @ M29. Open 9am–
10pm daily. & Jüdisches Museum:
Lindenstraße 14.  Hallesches Tor,
Kochstraße. @ 248. Tel 030-2599
3300. Open 10am–10pm Mon,
10am–8pm Tue–Sun.
Kreuzberg is an area of contrasts,
with luxury apartments next to
dilapidated buildings. The
district’s attractions are its wealth
of restaurants and Turkish bazaars,
as well as a wide selection of
theaters, cinemas, and galleries.
Checkpoint Charlie was Zoologischer Garten, home to over 1,400 animal species
once the notorious border
crossing between the Soviet t Zoologischer After World War II, the ruins
and American sectors, and Garten were removed, leaving only
witness to a number of Hardenbergplatz 8 or Budapester the massive front tower, at the
dramatic events during the Straße 34. Tel 030-254 010. base of which the Gedenkhalle
Cold War. The museum close   Zoologischer Garten. (Memorial Hall) is situated. This
by, Haus am Checkpoint @ 100, 204, 249 & many others. hall documents the history of
Charlie, houses exhibits Open daily. & the church and contains some
connected with the ingenious of the original ceiling mosaics,
attempts by East Germans The Zoological Garden forms marble reliefs, and liturgical
to escape to the West. part of the Tiergarten and dates objects. The latter include the
The imaginative architecture from 1844, making it the oldest Coventry Crucifix, a modest
of the Jüdisches Museum, zoo in Germany. It offers a cross fashioned from nails
dedicated to Jewish history number of attractions, including found in the ashes of Coventry
and art, conveys something the monkey house, which Cathedral, England, which was
of the tragic history of the contains a family of gorillas, and destroyed in the bombing
millions of Jews who lost their a specially darkened pavilion raids of the 1940s.
lives in the Holocaust. The for observing nocturnal animals. In 1963, Egon Eiermann
zigzag layout recalls a torn The hippopotamus pool has a designed a new octagonal
Star of David, while the interior glazed wall that enables visitors church in blue glass. His
arrangement is dominated to watch these enormous hexagonal bell tower stands
by a long empty area, which creatures moving through the on the site of the former nave
symbolizes the void left in water. The aquarium, one of of the destroyed church.
Europe by the exile and murder the largest in Europe, contains
of countless thousands of Jews. sharks, piranhas, and unusual
animals from coral reefs. There
is also a huge terrarium with an
overgrown jungle that is home
to a group of crocodiles.
y Kaiser-Wilhelm-
Gedächtniskirche
Breitscheidplatz. Tel 030-218 5023.
 Zoologischer Garten,
Kurfürstenstraße.  Zoologischer
Garten. @ 100, 200, X9. Gedenkhalle:
Open Mon–Sat, Sun pm. &
The damaged roof of this
former church has become one
of the best-known symbols
of postwar Berlin. The vast
Neo-Romanesque building was
Berlin Wall sculpture at entrance to consecrated in 1895, but was New and old bell towers of the
Haus am Checkpoint Charlie destroyed by bombs in 1943. Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche
For hotels and restaurants see pp546–8 and pp549–51

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