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A storied locale
The train platform is eye-level with the city's Autobahn, underneath runs the street Bundesallee, still deeper is the U-Bahn line nine, and between its tracks is a car tunnel for throughway-traffic. Housing blocks to the north edge up against this traffic knot (during construction also called Buddelplatz, or "burrower's square"), and a church tower twinkles to the south. Here lies the ... by Sven Olaf Oehlsen and Mathis Sommer

Walkabout: A neighborhood of fame and fortune, by the books

A beloved idyll and an almost forgotten center of cool fluttering between provinciality and prominence. Rather than taking the main exits, plastered in green tile, to thunderous Bundessallee, depart Bundesplatz station through the east exit, through old masonry and directly between the cafe chairs posted on the quiet Varziner Platz... by Sven Olaf Oehlsen and Mathis Sommer

Tips and Links for Bundesplatz
Rosa Luxemburg and Joseph Goebbels, the Harmonist Comedians, and Klaus Kinski didn’t happen here by chance. South of the busy traffic node, a well-educated and sophisticated world still offers bookstores, gourmet food shops, and chamber orchestra: Cosima-Filmtheater | Antiquariat für Literatur | Friedenauer Kammerkonzerte | Schwedenmarkt | House of the Comedian Harmonists | ...