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Schwerbelastungskörper, Berlin

The Schwerbelastungskörper is a massive concrete cylinder erected in 1941-1942 under Hitler to evaluate the area's soil for the feasibility of constructing the proposed gargantuan Volkshalle which was to be built as part of his vision for Welthauptstadt Germania..

The Schwerbelastungskörper is a massive concrete cylinder erected in 1941-1942 under Hitler to evaluate the area's soil for the feasibility of constructing the proposed gargantuan Volkshalle which was to be built as part of his vision for Welthauptstadt Germania.


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About Schwerbelastungskörper

 General-Pape-Straße 34A, 12101 Berlin, Germany

Schwerbelastungskörper and Nearby Sights on Map

Kaiser-Wilhelm-Blick

The Kaiser-Wilhelm-Blick offers good views of the Old Market and the Nikolai Church in Potsdam

Viktoriapark

Akazien

Restaurants abound here, with cuisines ranging from Afghan to Nepalese and Thai

Flughafen Tempelhof

German Museum of Technology

Huge technical museum, featuring among many other things an exhibit about computer pioneer Konrad Zuse's work, a collection of old locomotives, and the interactive SPECTRUM science center with various hands-on experiments

Neue Nationalgalerie

Closed till 2018

Neue Staatsbibliothek

Berlin State Library House Potsdamer Straße

Kammermusiksaal

Berlin Kunstgewerbemuseum

The oldest museum of its kind in Germany which, despite great losses during the World War II, still possesses one of the world's primary collections of European applied art

Philharmonie

Concert hall, home to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, designed by Hans Scharoun