# Roots Earth in Berlin: audio stories about 55 places Canonical: https://rootsearth.com/cities/berlin Published: 16 September 2026 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. ## 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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. ### 4. East Side Gallery - Coordinates: 52.505, 13.43972 - In one line: A 1. 3 kilometre stretch of the Berlin Wall along the Spree, painted by artists from around the world in 1990. The longest surviving section of the Wall, it carries around 105 murals and ranks among the largest open-air galleries on earth. ### 5. Museum Island - Coordinates: 52.52139, 13.39556 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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 - In one line: 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. ## Roots Earth in short Roots Earth has audio stories about 5,665 places in 130 cities, 25 countries and 6 regions, written by local people. - No account - Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection - Audio stories in English and German in every city, and in Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian in 126 of the 130 cities Roots Earth for Android is available on Google Play: [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rootsearth.app](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rootsearth.app). ## More from Roots Earth - [Europe in the Roots Earth catalogue](https://rootsearth.com/cities#europe): every city in Europe with its number of places and its languages. - [What Roots Earth is](https://rootsearth.com/app): the app in one page, how it works and what is in it. - [Questions travellers ask](https://rootsearth.com/faq): the cities, the languages, the account, listening without a connection. - [The 7 languages](https://rootsearth.com/languages): the seven languages with their codes and how many cities each one covers. - [Munich](https://rootsearth.com/cities/munich): 98 places in Germany with audio stories. - [Heidelberg](https://rootsearth.com/cities/heidelberg): 40 places in Germany with audio stories. - [Nuremberg](https://rootsearth.com/cities/nuremberg): 44 places in Germany with audio stories. - [Rothenburg](https://rootsearth.com/cities/rothenburg): 40 places in Germany with audio stories. - [Ismaning](https://rootsearth.com/cities/ismaning): 24 places in Germany with audio stories. 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