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Soviet heroes on the techno strip
Stepping out of the Ringbahn at Treptower Park, one would hardly guess the paramount importance of the vicinity – for East German political history as well as the contemporary young Berlin and its "Easyjet-Set." The station's eponym is a public park that was laid out on the banks of the Spree towards the end of the nineteenth century. The park stretches past docks of pleasure boats to the ... by Julia Cornelius

Walkabout: A true urban jungle
Welcome to a world where dinosaurs, plastic swans, and dilapidated rollercoasters peek out from an overgrown wilderness, where a traditional watering hole shares space with a burger chain, where the sarcophagi of a Soviet memorial are inscribed with Stalin's words. The road into this manmade nature leads you south from Treptower Park station into the park, which follows the flow of the Spree... by Julia Cornelius

Walkabout: Spree ahoi! Terra firma and wobbly planks
North of Rignbahn station Treptower Park, three high-rise buildings huddle together, trying to look as downtown as they can; the abrupt glass and concrete needles mark the edge of the city and the beginning of nature. In the shadow of the Treptowers a path leads across the multi-lane street to the southern bank of the Spree. In the distance you might catch a glimpse of the Molecule Man and a half-sunken ship... by Julia Cornelius

Tips and Links for Treptower Park
The so-called “Island of Youth” (Insel der Jugend) appears to the south, just to the other side of an abandoned amusement park and bronze memorial statues of fallen Soviet heroes. Trend-seekers and techno freaks cross paths north of the station: Zenner | Insel der Jugend | Spreepark Plänterwald | Club der Visionäre | Sowjetisches Ehrenmal | Hallenflohmarkt Treptow | Freischwimmer | ...