Gesundbrunnen - Ringbahn-Project of Technische Universität Berlin

GESUNDBRUNNEN

Of Gray and Green
"Friendly fruit-tree plantations greet us along the entire stretch, on both the right and the left sides; as we ride on we cross 'Schwedter Straße' and arrive at 'Gesundbrunnen' station." The westbound route from Schönhauser Allee has long not been so picturesque as in Emil Dominik's Ringbahn travel guide of 1883. Apartment buildings turn their blank backsides to the tracks, the ride takes you ... by Gernot Schaulinski

Walkabout: Going right to the source
The Gesundbrunnen Center erected here in 1997 is hard to miss as it dominates one's field of vision around Gesundbrunnen station. The architecture recalls an ocean liner, the jutting glass tower its very own command bridge. The shopping center is far from a love boat, and it defies any comparison to the garden city Atlantic. That was the maritime name architect Rudolf Fränkel gave his modern residential colony built in the English fashion in the 1920s... by Gernot Schaulinski

Tips and Links for Gesundbrunnen
At one point it was thought to be the Baden-Baden of Berlin, but the small suburb with its mineral springs was soon subsumed by the quickly growing capital. Today, artists' ateliers, body shops, and old bunkers draw people to the neighborhood: Berliner Unterwelten | Humboldthöhe | Kletterhalle Magic Mountain | Curry Baude | Gesundbrunnen-Center | Gartenstadt Atlantic | Lichtburgforum | ...

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