Anhalter Bahnhof has been wiped off the map, except for the facade. However, in 1880, it was the largest station in Europe.
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Anhalter Bahnhof has been wiped off the map, except for the facade. However, in 1880, it was the largest station in Europe.
The Behrensbau is the crown jewel of Berlin's Oberschöneweide industrial area. In 1917, architect and AEG designer Peter Behrens established the Nationale Automobil Gesellschaft (NAG) automobile factory there, a subsidiary of AEG.
Of the forty-five historic railway bridges built in 1870, twenty-nine still span Berlin's Yorckstraße today.
Near the Hauptbahnhof station in Berlin, Germany, the only relict of the Berliner Gewerbeausstellung from 1879 is a higgledy-piggledy staircase.
A half-sunken, rusted, painted and wholly plundered ship has been floating in Berlin's East Harbor for a quarter of a century.
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