{"id":2444,"date":"2017-08-14T00:49:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T00:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shelvialoveridge.com\/?p=2444"},"modified":"2017-08-14T00:49:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T00:49:34","slug":"tiergarten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shelvialoveridge.com\/?p=2444","title":{"rendered":"Tiergarten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2445\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shelvialoveridge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20170814_00_49-DSC_6123.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"690\" height=\"458\"><\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<b>Tiergarten<\/b>&nbsp;(formal German name:&nbsp;<b>Gro\u00dfer Tiergarten<\/b>) is&nbsp;<a title=\"Berlin\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Berlin\">Berlin<\/a>\u2019s most popular inner-city park,<sup id=\"cite_ref-berlin.de_1-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>&nbsp;located completely in the&nbsp;<a title=\"Tiergarten, Berlin\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tiergarten,_Berlin\">district of the same name<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The park is located on the northern and central side of&nbsp;<a title=\"Tiergarten, Berlin\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tiergarten,_Berlin\">Tiergarten<\/a>&nbsp;<i>Ortsteil<\/i>&nbsp;and is bordered, on the northern side, by the river&nbsp;<a title=\"Spree\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spree\">Spree<\/a>. The little quarter&nbsp;<a title=\"Hansaviertel\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hansaviertel\">Hansaviertel<\/a>&nbsp;borders on it at the north-western side and the&nbsp;<a title=\"Berlin Zoological Garden\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Berlin_Zoological_Garden\">Zoological Garden<\/a>&nbsp;is situated on the south-western side. The principal road is the&nbsp;<i><a title=\"Stra\u00dfe des 17. Juni\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stra%C3%9Fe_des_17._Juni\">Stra\u00dfe des 17. Juni<\/a><\/i>&nbsp;which ends, in the east, at the&nbsp;<a title=\"Brandenburg Gate\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brandenburg_Gate\">Brandenburg Gate<\/a>. Other main roads are the&nbsp;<i>Altonaer Stra\u00dfe<\/i>,&nbsp;<i>Spreeweg<\/i>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<i>Hofj\u00e4gerallee<\/i>. In the middle of the park is the square named&nbsp;<i><a title=\"Gro\u00dfer Stern\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gro%C3%9Fer_Stern\">Gro\u00dfer Stern<\/a><\/i>&nbsp;(&#8220;Great Star&#8221;) with the&nbsp;<i><a title=\"Berlin Victory Column\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Berlin_Victory_Column\">Siegess\u00e4ule<\/a><\/i>&nbsp;(Victory column) located in its centre. In addition to the Brandenburg Gate, other notable buildings and structures located close to the park are the&nbsp;<a title=\"Soviet War Memorial (Tiergarten)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soviet_War_Memorial_(Tiergarten)\">Soviet War Memorial<\/a>, the&nbsp;<a title=\"Reichstag building\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reichstag_building\">Reichstag<\/a>, the&nbsp;<a title=\"Bundestag\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bundestag\">Bundestag<\/a>&nbsp;(all in the eastern borders), the new&nbsp;<a title=\"Berlin Hauptbahnhof\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Berlin_Hauptbahnhof\">central railway station<\/a>&nbsp;(in the north) and, on the southeastern borders, the&nbsp;<a title=\"Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Memorial_to_the_Murdered_Jews_of_Europe\">Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe<\/a>, the&nbsp;<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Memorial to the Sinti and Roma victims of National Socialism\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Memorial_to_the_Sinti_and_Roma_victims_of_National_Socialism\">Memorial to the Sinti and Roma victims of National Socialism<\/a>&nbsp;and the central square of&nbsp;<a title=\"Potsdamer Platz\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Potsdamer_Platz\">Potsdamer Platz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the northerly neighbouring quarter of&nbsp;<a title=\"Moabit\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moabit\">Moabit<\/a>&nbsp;a much smaller park bears the same name, thus both are differentiated as Gro\u00dfer and&nbsp;<a title=\"Kleiner Tiergarten\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kleiner_Tiergarten\">Kleiner Tiergarten<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Tiergarten has an area of around 210 hectares (520 acres), and after&nbsp;<a class=\"extiw\" title=\"de:Tempelhofer Park\" href=\"https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tempelhofer_Park\">Tempelhofer Freiheit<\/a>, it is the second biggest parkland in Berlin and the third biggest inner-city parkland in Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Tiergarten&nbsp;(formal German name:&nbsp;Gro\u00dfer Tiergarten) is&nbsp;Berlin\u2019s most popular inner-city park,&nbsp;located completely in the&nbsp;district of the same name. The park is located on the northern and central side of&nbsp;Tiergarten&nbsp;Ortsteil&nbsp;and is bordered, on the northern side, by the river&nbsp;Spree. The little quarter&nbsp;Hansaviertel&nbsp;borders on it at the north-western side and the&nbsp;Zoological Garden&nbsp;is situated on the south-western side. The principal &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shelvialoveridge.com\/?p=2444\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tiergarten&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-people","category-street","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shelvialoveridge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shelvialoveridge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shelvialoveridge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shelvialoveridge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shelvialoveridge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shelvialoveridge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shelvialoveridge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shelvialoveridge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shelvialoveridge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}