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25-521: Tauentzienstraße (colloquially: der Tauentzien ; English: Tauentzien Street ) is a major shopping street in the City West area of Berlin , Germany . With a length of about 500 m (1,600 ft), it runs between two important squares, Wittenbergplatz in the east and Breitscheidplatz in the west, where it is continued by the Kurfürstendamm boulevard. While the eastern half belongs to

50-470: Is a locality within the borough of Mitte , in central Berlin ( Germany ). Notable for the great and homonymous urban park , before German reunification , it was a part of West Berlin . Until Berlin's 2001 administrative reform , Tiergarten was also the name of a borough (Bezirk), consisting of the current locality ( Ortsteil ) of Tiergarten (formerly called Tiergarten-Süd ) plus Hansaviertel and Moabit . A new system of road and rail tunnels runs under

75-837: The Kristallnacht pogrom of 1938. After World War II and the division of Germany the area around the Zoologischer Garten railway station developed to the West Berlin city centre in the Cold War era. The process was reinforced by the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, followed by the opening of the Europa-Center high-rise on Breitscheidplatz two years later. After the German reunification in 1990,

100-637: The 20 July plot were shot by a firing squad. Today the building serves as second office of Germany's Federal Ministry of Defense ; the headquarters of the Christian Democratic Party , the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and Friedrich Ebert Foundation academies as well as the Bauhaus Archive and the high schools Französisches Gymnasium and Canisius-Kolleg are located nearby. The adjacent western area at

125-614: The Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf borough, while the eastern half of Tauentzienstraße with the famous Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe) department store on Wittenbergplatz belongs to Tempelhof-Schöneberg . The adjacent streets of Tiergarten in the northeast since 2001 are part of the Mitte borough. City West started developing in the Wilhelmine era from about 1895 onwards as a commercial and entertainment centre of

150-764: The German Empire 's capital, in addition to the historical centre in Mitte. At that time, Charlottenburg, Schöneberg and Wilmersdorf still were towns in their own right, rivalling with Berlin for locational advantages. The KaDeWe opened in 1907 competed with the Wertheim and Tietz department stores on Leipziger Straße in Mitte. Likewise, the Theater des Westens opened in 1896 or the Romanisches Café from 1916 were newly established cultural institutions. In

175-737: The Potsdamer Platz are situated on the eastern rim of the locality, which itself was the former frontier between East and West Berlin. Nearby is the Kulturforum stretching from the Berliner Philharmonie , a 1963 concert hall by architect Hans Scharoun and home of the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra to the Neue Nationalgalerie built by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1968. In between are

200-589: The Reichstag building by architect Paul Wallot opened as the seat of the German parliament. The lawn between the contemporary Haus der Kulturen der Welt (House of World Cultures) and the Reichstag building was the site of the Krolloper opera house, built in 1844, which served as parliament house after the Reichstag fire on 27 February 1933 and was demolished by air raids in 1943. On 15 January 1919

225-684: The Schöneberg district, the western part (beyond Nürnberger Straße) is in Charlottenburg . The broad street was laid out in the manner of a Parisian boulevard according to the Hobrecht-Plan of 1862. It was then part of a larger road link from Charlottenburg through Schöneberg to the Berlin district of Kreuzberg named after victorious Prussian generals (therefore colloquially called Generalszug in German ). The projected section

250-477: The localities of Charlottenburg and Wilmersdorf in the west to Schöneberg and Tiergarten in the east. It is located southwest of the central Mitte locality and the Großer Tiergarten park, along Kurfürstendamm and Tauentzienstraße , two leading shopping streets meeting at Breitscheidplatz , where the landmark of the ruined Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church rises. The major part belongs to

275-669: The neoclassical Saint Matthew Church, built in 1845 by Friedrich August Stüler , the Gemäldegalerie as well as the new branch of the Berlin State Library ( Staatsbibliothek ). The adjacent area between the park and the Landwehrkanal is home to Emil Fahrenkamp 's 1932 Shell-Haus , numerous embassies and the Bendlerblock , where in 1944 Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and the conspirators of

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300-767: The Brandenburg Gate. The Tiergarten itself became part of the British sector . The locality houses many parliamentary and governmental institutions, among others the Bundestag in the Reichstag building and the new German Chancellery . The residence of the German President , Schloss Bellevue and the Carillon are also located in the Tiergarten park. It contains several notable sculptures including

325-605: The Nazis was dedicated in 2014 in Berlin at that site. Although the villa was destroyed, a Stolperstein set in the pavement on Tiergartenstraße marks its location and historic significance. After 1944, the park was largely deforested because it served as a source of firewood for the devastated city. In 1945, the Soviet Union built a war memorial along the Straße des 17. Juni , the Tiergarten's main east–west artery, near

350-658: The border to Charlottenburg houses the Berlin Zoo . The 1985 album Le Parc by Tangerine Dream contains a track titled Tiergarten . Rufus Wainwright also released a track titled Tiergarten as part of his 2007 album, Release the Stars . Since 1987, the annual Berlin Marathon starts at Tiergarten near the Brandenburg Gate. Between 1996 and 2003 and then in 2006, the Love Parade music festival took place at

375-837: The central administrative functions of reunified Berlin are today again located in Mitte. Nevertheless, City West has struggled to maintain its status as "second centre" and one of the main commercial areas of the city beside Alexanderplatz , Friedrichstraße and Potsdamer Platz , stressing its distinct boulevard character and the exclusive range of items. Recent building projects like the Zoofenster document these efforts. 52°30′17″N 13°20′07″E  /  52.5047°N 13.3353°E  / 52.5047; 13.3353 Tiergarten, Berlin Tiergarten ( German: [ˈtiːɐ̯ˌɡaʁtn̩] , literally Animal Garden , historically meaning deer park or hunting game park )

400-520: The commercial center of West Berlin , along with the nearby Kurfürstendamm . Tauentzienstraße is actually the busier of the two streets due to the concentration of shops along its length. In 2022, one person was killed and many others injured when a car crashed into pedestrians. Today, Tauentzienstraße is one of the busiest shopping streets in Berlin with top rents for prime retail business locations, strongly dominated by flagship stores of international fashion brands . Stores along its length include

425-466: The famous Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe) opened in 1907, the largest department store in continental Europe , the Europa Center mall with a branch of Saturn electronics, and a Peek & Cloppenburg clothing store. Midway along the street is a sculpture , entitled Berlin , that expresses the "broken" nature of the city during the Cold War . City West The area stretches from

450-655: The four-tiered Victory Column ( Siegessäule ), the Bismarck Memorial and several other memorials to prominent Prussian generals, all of which were located in the ceremonial park facing the Reichstag before they were moved to their present location by the Nazis . In addition, the tree-lined pedestrian avenues emanating from the Victory Column contain several ceremonial sculptures of Prussian aristocrats enacting an 18th-century hunt. The Brandenburg Gate and

475-546: The grounds of merit. During the Wilhelmine era, in 1902, the first Berlin U-Bahn line ( Stammstrecke ) was inaugurated, which ran under the Tauentzienstraße pavement (the present-day U2 ). Furthermore, a tramway line ran on the central strip. The street became a popular neighbourhood for middle-class families: notable residents included the author Hermann Sudermann , the later Nobel laureate Gustav Stresemann ,

500-528: The painter Emil Nolde , and young Marlene Dietrich . The Romanisches Café , opened in 1916 at the western corner, quickly became a venue of artists and intellectuals of Berlin's Roaring Twenties . Many Jewish residents were deported and murdered during The Holocaust . The development was badly damaged by the Bombing of Berlin in World War II . During the Cold War era, the street became part of

525-543: The park towards Berlin's main station in nearby Moabit. Once a hunting ground of the Electors of Brandenburg the Großer Tiergarten park of today was designed in the 1830s by landscape architect Peter Joseph Lenné . In the course of industrialization in the 19th century, a network of streets was laid out in the Hobrecht-Plan in an area that came to be known architecturally as the Wilhelmine Ring . In 1894

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550-443: The socialist Karl Liebknecht was shot by Freikorps soldiers within the park near the lake Neuer See . The corpse of Rosa Luxemburg , murdered on the same day, was found in the nearby Landwehrkanal on 1 June 1919. The first Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sex Research) of Magnus Hirschfeld was situated at the former In den Zelten street, near the contemporary Haus der Kulturen der Welt , from 1919 until it

575-952: The time of the Weimar Republic after World War I , the New West incorporated by the 1920 Greater Berlin Act became synonymous to the Golden Twenties . Large cinemas like the Ufa-Palast am Zoo opened, then the main locations of German film , accompanied by a lively variety and Kabarett scene, while in 1928 Max Reinhardt took over the Kurfürstendamm theatres in the rooms of the former Berlin Secession . Shortly afterwards, first antisemitic encroachments occurred on Jewish residents and shopkeepers, culminating in

600-407: Was closed by the Nazis in 1933. A site next to the Tiergarten park is the former location of a villa at Tiergartenstrasse 4 where more than 60 Nazi bureaucrats and doctors worked in secret under the " T4 " program to organize the mass murder of sanatorium and psychiatric hospital patients deemed unworthy to live. The German national memorial to the people with disabilities systematically murdered by

625-539: Was named after Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien (1760–1824) by order of King William I of Prussia in 1864, celebrating the 50th anniversary storming of French-occupied Wittenberg by the Prussian Army in the aftermath of the German Campaign of 1813 . Tauentzien had been in command and, although he did not personally take part in the battle, he had been vested with the title von Wittenberg on

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