Industrial heritage in Berlin

Several metres of reconstructed tram tracks recall the world's first electric tram ride in the German capital, Berlin. Werner von Siemens stood at the cradle of that world first. 

From 1894, on Brunnenstraße and Ackerstraße in Berlin, AEG built a veritable city within the city: the brand-new 'AEG-Humboldthain' plant.

Hartung columns or 'Hartungsche Säule' may be a familiar name in Berlin, but outside the German capital, their name mostly raises questions. What does the name Hartung stand for?

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.

Blue ventilation pipes protrude like cannon barrels from the former Research Facility for Experimental Medicine in Berlin, an example of concrete-dominated brutalism.