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Roots Earth in Berlin: audio stories about 55 places

Roots Earth has audio stories about 55 places in Berlin, Germany, in Europe. The Berlin stories are in all seven Roots Earth languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The app needs no account: open Berlin, pick a place on the city's map of places and play. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. The stories are written by local people.

The 55 places are listed below in the order the app shows them, and again further down with their coordinates. The lists were taken from the Roots Earth catalogue on 15 September 2026.

Published 16 September 2026. Markdown: berlin.md

The 55 places in Berlin with audio stories

In the order the app shows them.

  1. Brandenburg Gate
  2. Reichstag Building
  3. Berlin Wall Memorial
  4. East Side Gallery
  5. Museum Island
  6. Berlin Cathedral
  7. Pergamon Museum
  8. Checkpoint Charlie
  9. Berlin TV Tower
  10. Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
  11. Charlottenburg Palace
  12. Unter den Linden
  13. Alexanderplatz
  14. Potsdamer Platz
  15. Gendarmenmarkt
  16. Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
  17. Tiergarten
  18. Berlin Victory Column
  19. Neues Museum
  20. Altes Museum
  21. Bode Museum
  22. Alte Nationalgalerie
  23. Topography of Terror
  24. Jewish Museum Berlin
  25. Berlin State Opera
  26. Humboldt Forum
  27. Nikolai Quarter
  28. Red Town Hall
  29. Konzerthaus Berlin
  30. Berlin Zoological Garden
  31. Kurfuerstendamm
  32. Olympic Stadium Berlin
  33. Oberbaum Bridge
  34. Bebelplatz
  35. Hackesche Hoefe
  36. New Synagogue
  37. German Historical Museum
  38. Mauerpark
  39. Markthalle Neun
  40. Tempelhofer Feld
  41. Goerlitzer Park
  42. Volkspark Friedrichshain
  43. Prenzlauer Berg
  44. Kreuzberg
  45. Neukoelln
  46. Boxhagener Platz
  47. Schoeneberg
  48. Landwehr Canal
  49. Dorotheenstadt Cemetery
  50. Treptower Park
  51. Berghain
  52. Konnopke's Imbiss
  53. Weissensee Cemetery
  54. Badeschiff
  55. Strandbad Wannsee

Is there an audio guide for Brandenburg Gate?

Yes. Brandenburg Gate has its audio stories in the Roots Earth app: a short introduction and a deeper story, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian.

It is place 1 of the 55 Berlin places in the app, at 52.5163, 13.3777. Every one of the other 54 places in the list above has the same two stories.

Roots Earth is not a guided tour: you choose the place on the city's map of places and play its story yourself.

How to use Roots Earth in Berlin

Open Roots Earth and choose Berlin. The city has its own map of places with all 55 of them on it. Tap the place you are standing in front of, or any other, and play its short introduction or its deeper story. You decide what to listen to and in which order.

You can listen in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian, and there is no account. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection.

In full

All 55 places in Berlin, in the app's order, with their coordinates.

All 55 places in Berlin, with coordinates

Every place below has a short introduction and a deeper story in the Roots Earth app, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The names, the coordinates (latitude, longitude) and the one line descriptions are the app's own catalogue values of 15 September 2026; a place without a line here has none that this page can print.

1. Brandenburg Gate

Coordinates
52.5163, 13.3777
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Berlin's only surviving historic city gate, raised between 1788 and 1791 in early German Neoclassicism and crowned by the bronze Quadriga. Once sealed inside the Cold War border zone, it has become the enduring emblem of German reunification.

2. Reichstag Building

Coordinates
52.51861, 13.37611
In one line
Germany's parliament building, raised between 1884 and 1894 to a Neo-Renaissance design by Paul Wallot. Scarred by the 1933 fire and the Second World War, it was crowned with Norman Foster's walkable glass dome and has housed the Bundestag since 1999.

3. Berlin Wall Memorial

Coordinates
52.535, 13.38972
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The central memorial to Germany's division, opened in 1998 along Bernauer Strasse on the former death strip. It preserves the last largely authentic stretch of the Berlin Wall, with watchtower, border installations and a documentation centre commemorating those who died trying to cross.

5. Museum Island

Coordinates
52.52139, 13.39556
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An ensemble of five great museums on an island in the Spree, built between 1824 and 1930 to house Berlin's royal collections. A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999, it traces a century of museum design from Neoclassicism to monumental grandeur.

6. Berlin Cathedral

Coordinates
52.51917, 13.40111
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Germany's largest Protestant church, built between 1894 and 1905 to a design by Julius Raschdorff for Kaiser Wilhelm the Second. Its copper dome dominates the Lustgarten, and its crypt holds around 90 sarcophagi of the Hohenzollern dynasty.

7. Pergamon Museum

Coordinates
52.521, 13.396
In one line
Berlin's most famous archaeological museum, built between 1910 and 1930 on Museum Island to house colossal ancient monuments. It holds the Pergamon Altar, the Ishtar Gate of Babylon and the Market Gate of Miletus, and is currently closed for a major renovation.

8. Checkpoint Charlie

Coordinates
52.5075, 13.39028
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The most famous crossing point of the Berlin Wall, where Allied and Soviet tanks faced off in October 1961. A replica guard booth, the warning sign, and an open-air exhibition now mark this Cold War flashpoint on Friedrichstrasse.

9. Berlin TV Tower

Coordinates
52.52083, 13.40944
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Germany's tallest structure at 368 meters, built by East Germany between 1965 and 1969 as a socialist showpiece. Its steel sphere holds an observation deck and a rotating restaurant, and it dominates the skyline above Alexanderplatz.

10. Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

Coordinates
52.51389, 13.37861
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A field of 2,711 grey concrete slabs near the Brandenburg Gate, designed by Peter Eisenman and opened in 2005 to honor the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. An underground information center records the names of the murdered.

11. Charlottenburg Palace

Coordinates
52.5209, 13.2957
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Berlin's largest palace, begun in 1695 for Sophie Charlotte, the first queen of Prussia. Its Baroque and Rococo wings, domed central tower, and formal gardens were rebuilt after wartime destruction and still display the splendor of the Hohenzollern court.

12. Unter den Linden

Coordinates
52.51722, 13.38861
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Berlin's grand historic boulevard, lined with linden trees and stretching about 1. 5 kilometers from the Brandenburg Gate to the Spree. Grown from a 17th-century riding path, it gathers the city's great Prussian landmarks along a single ceremonial avenue.

13. Alexanderplatz

Coordinates
52.5217, 13.4136
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Berlin's great central square and busiest transport hub, named after a visiting Russian tsar in 1805. Redesigned by East Germany into a vast socialist plaza, it holds the World Time Clock and sits beneath the towering television tower.

14. Potsdamer Platz

Coordinates
52.50894, 13.37633
In one line
Once Europe's busiest square, then a barren strip along the Berlin Wall, now a district of glass towers built from 1994 on one of the continent's largest construction sites. It blends new architecture with markers tracing the vanished border.

15. Gendarmenmarkt

Coordinates
52.51361, 13.39278
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Laid out from 1688 in Berlin's Friedrichstadt, this is widely called the city's finest classical square. Two near-identical domed cathedrals, German and French, flank Karl Friedrich Schinkel's grand concert hall in elegant symmetry.

16. Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church

Coordinates
52.505, 13.335
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A bomb-damaged Romanesque tower, left deliberately in ruins as a war memorial, stands beside a modern church of glowing blue glass. Commissioned by Wilhelm II in the 1890s, the broken spire is one of West Berlin's defining landmarks.

17. Tiergarten

Coordinates
52.51389, 13.35694
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Berlin's largest inner-city park, once a royal hunting ground, opened to the public under Frederick the Great and reshaped as an English-style landscape by Peter Joseph Lenné. Its lakes, lawns and monuments stretch from the Brandenburg Gate to the Victory Column.

18. Berlin Victory Column

Coordinates
52.51444, 13.35
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A 67-metre column crowned by a gilded bronze Victory, raised between 1865 and 1873 to mark Prussia's wars of unification.

19. Neues Museum

Coordinates
52.52056, 13.39778
In one line
A 19th-century museum on Museum Island, designed by Friedrich August Stüler and left a roofless ruin after the war. David Chipperfield's celebrated restoration reopened it in 2009, keeping the scars visible. Home to the bust of Nefertiti.

20. Altes Museum

Coordinates
52.51944, 13.39833
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Berlin's first public museum, opened in 1830 and designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel as a landmark of German Neoclassicism. Its long Ionic colonnade faces the Lustgarten, and a Pantheon-inspired rotunda crowns the interior. Houses classical antiquities.

21. Bode Museum

Coordinates
52.52194, 13.39472
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A domed Neo-Baroque museum at the northern tip of Museum Island, built from 1897 and opened in 1904. Designed by Ernst von Ihne and shaped by director Wilhelm von Bode, it houses sculpture, Byzantine art and one of the world's great coin collections.

22. Alte Nationalgalerie

Coordinates
52.52083, 13.39806
In one line
A temple-like gallery on Museum Island, built between 1866 and 1876 to hold nineteenth-century German art. Reached by a grand double staircase and crowned by a rider in bronze, it houses Caspar David Friedrich, Menzel and Schadow.

23. Topography of Terror

Coordinates
52.50694, 13.38278
In one line
A documentation centre on the ground where the Gestapo, SS and Reich Security Main Office once stood. Opened in its permanent building in 2010, it exposes excavated cellars and the longest surviving stretch of outer Berlin Wall.

24. Jewish Museum Berlin

Coordinates
52.502, 13.395
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Daniel Libeskind's zigzag, zinc-clad building tells two thousand years of German-Jewish history. Completed in 1999 and opened to the public in 2001, its slashing voids, tilting Garden of Exile and bare Holocaust Tower turn architecture itself into memory.

25. Berlin State Opera

Coordinates
52.51667, 13.39472
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Germany's oldest opera house, founded by Frederick the Great and built between 1741 and 1743 on Unter den Linden. Home to the Staatskapelle Berlin orchestra, it survived fire and wartime ruin and reopened after a deep renovation in 2017.

26. Humboldt Forum

Coordinates
52.5175, 13.40278
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A reconstruction of the baroque Berlin Palace, opened in 2020 on the site the GDR cleared in 1950. Behind three rebuilt historic facades and one modern one, it houses Berlin's non-European art and ethnological collections, amid debate over colonial provenance.

27. Nikolai Quarter

Coordinates
52.51667, 13.40722
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Berlin's oldest quarter, gathered around the Nikolaikirche near the Spree. Heavily damaged in the war, it was rebuilt by the GDR for the city's 750th anniversary in 1987, blending reconstructed historic houses with prefabricated blocks into a lane-laced old town.

28. Red Town Hall

Coordinates
52.51861, 13.40833
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Berlin's town hall, built of red brick between 1861 and 1869 in a Renaissance Revival style. Its tall central tower and terracotta frieze of city history make it a landmark near Alexanderplatz, and it remains the seat of the governing mayor.

29. Konzerthaus Berlin

Coordinates
52.51361, 13.39222
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A neoclassical concert hall on Gendarmenmarkt, designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel and opened in 1821 as a royal theatre. Rebuilt after wartime ruin, it reopened in 1984 and is home to the Konzerthausorchester Berlin.

30. Berlin Zoological Garden

Coordinates
52.50833, 13.3375
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Germany's oldest zoo, opened in 1844 at the edge of the Tiergarten. Famous for its ornate Elephant Gate and one of the most species-rich animal collections in the world, it is also the most visited zoo in Europe.

31. Kurfuerstendamm

Coordinates
52.50306, 13.33167
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West Berlin's grand shopping boulevard, stretching roughly 3. 5 kilometres from the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church westward. Once a riding track for Brandenburg's electors, it became a fashionable avenue in the 1880s and remains the city's most famous luxury street.

32. Olympic Stadium Berlin

Coordinates
52.51472, 13.23944
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A monumental stone stadium built between 1934 and 1936 for the Berlin Olympics, designed by Werner March. Site of Jesse Owens's four gold medals, it later hosted World Cup finals and now seats around 74,000 as home of Hertha BSC.

33. Oberbaum Bridge

Coordinates
52.50194, 13.44556
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A double-deck brick bridge over the River Spree linking Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg, built between 1894 and 1896 in North German Gothic style. Once a Cold War border crossing, it carries road traffic below and an elevated U-Bahn line above.

34. Bebelplatz

Coordinates
52.51667, 13.39389
In one line
A grand square off Unter den Linden, laid out in the 1740s as part of Frederick the Great's Forum Fridericianum. Ringed by the State Opera and Saint Hedwig's Cathedral, it is best known as the site of the 1933 Nazi book burning.

35. Hackesche Hoefe

Coordinates
52.52417, 13.40222
In one line
A complex of eight interconnected courtyards in Berlin-Mitte, built from 1906 with a celebrated Art Nouveau facade by August Endell. Restored after reunification, it now blends apartments with cafés, shops, a cinema and a variety theatre.

36. New Synagogue

Coordinates
52.52472, 13.39444
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A gilded dome rises above Oranienburger Straße, marking Berlin's grandest synagogue, completed in 1866 in lavish Moorish Revival style. Destroyed in war yet partly rebuilt, it now houses the Centrum Judaicum and tells the story of Jewish Berlin.

37. German Historical Museum

Coordinates
52.51806, 13.39694
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Germany's national history museum occupies the Zeughaus, a Baroque arsenal of 1695 to 1730 on Unter den Linden. Founded in 1987, it pairs Andreas Schlüter's sculpture-rich courtyard with a glass exhibition hall designed by I. M. Pei.

38. Mauerpark

Coordinates
52.54361, 13.40333
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Laid out on the former death strip of the Berlin Wall and opened in 1994, this Prenzlauer Berg park is famous for its Sunday flea market, open-air karaoke and graffiti-covered Wall remnant, where the city comes to lounge, bargain and perform.

39. Markthalle Neun

Coordinates
52.50222, 13.43111
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A surviving 1891 covered market hall in Kreuzberg, rescued from a supermarket future and reopened in 2011. Now a hub for regional producers and the celebrated Street Food Thursday, it anchors the old Luisenstadt quarter's food culture.

40. Tempelhofer Feld

Coordinates
52.476, 13.395
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The vast airfield of Tempelhof Airport, closed in 2008 and opened as a public park in 2010. Its disused runways and open expanse, saved from development by a 2014 referendum, now serve cyclists, kite-surfers, gardeners and picnickers across central Berlin.

41. Goerlitzer Park

Coordinates
52.49639, 13.43778
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A green expanse in the heart of multicultural Kreuzberg, laid out on the site of the former Görlitzer railway station and opened in 1987. Loved for its lawns, petting zoo and lake, it is also the focus of long-running debates over drugs and policing.

42. Volkspark Friedrichshain

Coordinates
52.52667, 13.43389
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Berlin's oldest public park, laid out from 1846 by Gustav Meyer. It holds the Fairy Tale Fountain of 1913, two rubble hills heaped over wartime bunkers, the graves of the 1848 revolution, and is a daily haunt for runners, picnickers and open-air cinema crowds.

43. Prenzlauer Berg

Coordinates
52.53917, 13.42417
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A 19th-century working-class tenement district north of Mitte, largely spared by wartime bombing. Once an East German haven for artists and dissidents, it is now famous for its young families, leafy squares and one of Berlin's most striking gentrification stories.

44. Kreuzberg

Coordinates
52.4875, 13.38333
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A dense former working-class district named after a hill crowned by Schinkel's 1821 war monument. Walled in on three sides during the Cold War, it became Berlin's capital of punks, squatters and Turkish immigrants, and remains the city's most defiantly multicultural quarter.

45. Neukoelln

Coordinates
52.48333, 13.45
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A southern working-class borough once called Rixdorf, settled by Bohemian Protestant refugees in 1737 and renamed Neukölln in 1912. Long one of Berlin's poorest and most immigrant quarters, its northern streets have become a magnet for artists, nightlife and a rapid wave of gentrification.

46. Boxhagener Platz

Coordinates
52.51028, 13.45972
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A leafy 19th-century square at the heart of Friedrichshain's Boxhagen quarter, ringed by ornate tenements. Known locally as Boxi, it hosts a weekly food market and a popular Sunday flea market, and anchors one of east Berlin's liveliest post-Wall neighbourhoods.

47. Schoeneberg

Coordinates
52.48611, 13.35556
In one line
A western Berlin district that grew rich around 1900 and served as West Berlin's seat of government. It holds the city hall where Kennedy declared "Ich bin ein Berliner," the historic gay quarter around Nollendorfplatz, and the Jewish Bavarian Quarter.

48. Landwehr Canal

Coordinates
52.49778, 13.3925
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A tree-lined waterway built between 1845 and 1850 to a design by Peter Joseph Lenné, looping nearly eleven kilometres through central Berlin. Once a busy shipping route, its shaded towpaths are now a favourite walking place, near where Rosa Luxemburg's body was thrown in 1919.

49. Dorotheenstadt Cemetery

Coordinates
52.5284, 13.3837
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A small 18th-century Protestant burial ground on Chausseestraße in Mitte, founded in the 1760s. Often called Berlin's intellectual resting place, it holds the graves of Bertolt Brecht, Hegel, Schinkel, Schadow and many of the German thinkers, artists and writers who shaped the city.

50. Treptower Park

Coordinates
52.48833, 13.46972
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A sprawling riverside park along the Spree in Treptow, laid out from 1876 to 1888 and host to Berlin's 1896 industrial exposition. It holds the monumental Soviet War Memorial, the historic Archenhold Observatory, and shaded paths beloved by local families.

51. Berghain

Coordinates
52.51111, 13.44306
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A techno club housed in a former East German power plant in Friedrichshain, opened in 2004 and famous worldwide for its towering concrete halls, weekend-long parties, and notoriously strict door. A German court recognised it as a cultural institution in 2016.

52. Konnopke's Imbiss

Coordinates
52.54083, 13.41194
In one line
A beloved currywurst stand under the elevated U-Bahn on Schönhauser Allee in Prenzlauer Berg, founded by Max Konnopke in 1930. It claims to be the first stand in East Berlin to serve currywurst and remains a family-run Berlin institution.

53. Weissensee Cemetery

Coordinates
52.54472, 13.45833
In one line
Europe's largest Jewish cemetery, established in 1880 in Berlin's Weißensee district. Designed by architect Hugo Licht, its 42 hectares hold around 115,000 graves among ivy and old trees, and it survived the Nazi era largely intact.

54. Badeschiff

Coordinates
52.49778, 13.45361
In one line
A floating swimming pool moored in the river Spree at Treptow, converted from an old cargo barge and opened in 2004 as a city art project. Filled with clean water beside the unswimmable river, it has become a cherished Berlin summer spot.

55. Strandbad Wannsee

Coordinates
52.43889, 13.17722
In one line
A vast lakeside lido on the Großer Wannsee in southwest Berlin, with a sandy beach around 1,275 metres long. Its heritage-protected Bauhaus-era buildings, designed by Richard Ermisch and Martin Wagner, opened in 1930 and still draw summer crowds.

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