To celebrate the 55th birthday of Berlin’s best-known chronometer, here’s a podcast episode from Series 1 of the Berlin Companion Podcast. Everything you never even knew you wanted to know about Berlin clocks 🕰️ theberlincompanion.com/p/ep2-treffp...
In the 1920s elegant Berliners fell in love with a scent called "Treffpunkt 8 Uhr" (Rendezvous at 8PM).
Thanks! And cheers to you😎
"Germans don't drive like other people. They drive to show that they are right." From Kurt Tucholsky's 1929 book "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles". Image: Prince Heinrich of Prussia at the start of the 3rd Prinz-Heinrich-Fahrt held 2-8.06.1910. The 1945 km route ran Berlin-Homburg v. d. H.
"Brring-brring! Brrring-brring! At the third stroke, it will be 7 o'clock precisely." So, it seems you still have some time to read my new text: a story of Berlin's speaking-clock. Or, rather, clocks. Hold the line, please! theberlincompanion.com/p/calling-fr...
For all those of you still undecided as to how to spend the rest of your Sunday: the cafe on the roof of Karstadt am Hermanplatz might still have some free tables. And the band are about to start playing, too.
Thank you! It’s a lovely place. Still hanging onto Twitter as so many lovely people are still only reachable there but I think we all feel that’s not gonna last. So this is heaven🌞
I have! Finally heard your voice after so many years.
As a consequence of the Gleisdreick crash #OTD 1908 the junction was re-designed and built anew to prevent similar accidents in the future. And that's why the only thing that reminds of the junction's original shape, is its name: Gleisdreieck means "triangle".
