[4K🇩🇪] What’s Going on at Potsdamer Platz-Berlin (JUNE 2024) City Walking Tour

🐢Welcome to Potsdamer Platz, and thank you for joining us today, as we make an interesting virtual walking tour around Berlin-Potsdamer Platz and the Sony centre, and absorb ourselves with the sights and sounds from the German Capital.
We begin our walk at the underground train station, and walk around the Potsdamer Platz and the Sony Centre. The Sony Centre is undergoing construction work at this time, but is usually a busy and popular shopping and entertainment centre.

📅 Filmed 4th June 2024 (16°c) Berlin, Germany
🎬 Filmed with my DJI Osmo Pocket 2

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🌍 Potsdamer Platz is a square-like traffic junction in the Berlin districts of Mitte and Tiergarten in the Mitte district between the old city centre in the east and the new Berlin west. As a double court, it adjoins Leipziger Platz to the west.

During the construction of the Berlin Customs and Excise Wall in 1734, the Potsdam Gate was erected. From the late 18th century, the Berlin-Potsdamer Chaussee (later Potsdamer Straße) began there, which was an important link in the network of the Prussian State Highways. The green area west of the gate, the square in front of the Potsdam Gate, was given its current name in 1831.

With the Potsdam long-distance train station, the underground station and the numerous tram and bus lines, Potsdamer Platz was one of the busiest squares in Europe until the end of the Second World War and therefore received one of the first traffic lights at the end of 1924 with the traffic tower-facilities on the continent. In the first 40 years of the 20th century, the square and the streets leading from it were a popular meeting place for Berlin’s political, social and cultural scene.

After the end of the war, Potsdamer Platz formed a “border triangle” between the Soviet, British and American sectors in divided Berlin. From August 1961, the Berlin Wall ran across the square, which for the next almost three decades eked out a marginal existence as an inner-city wasteland. After the fall of the Wall on November 9, 1989, a new situation arose: On November 12, early in the morning, a section of the Wall was cleared at Potsdamer Platz and a temporary border crossing was created.

The terrain, which was newly developed on the historic road layout after 1990, is one of the most striking places in the city and is a tourist attraction. The development of Potsdamer Platz is considered one of the most important buildings of the 1990s. Important architects of world renown were won over for the development, including David Chipperfield, Giorgio Grassi, Helmut Jahn, Hans Kollhoff, Rafael Moneo, Arata Isozaki, Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers.

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