Strausberger Platz and Frankfurter Allee

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  Two Berliners and their dog take a break at the fountain on Strausberger Platz.

• A demonstration marches across Strausberger Platz.

• People walk and sit on the grass verge on Frankfurter Allee.

• GDR buildings and the northern of the two high-rise buildings at Frankfurter Tor at the end of Karl-Marx-Allee.

Frankfurter Allee is one of the oldest traffic routes in Berlin. The boulevard connects Frankfurter Tor with Strausberger Platz. Strausberger Platz is the square where the GDR national uprising began.

Between Strausberger Platz and Frankfurter Tor, the former East Berlin boulevard Frankfurter Allee was built between 1951 and 1964 in the style of Soviet neoclassicism. Frankfurter Allee is one of the oldest traffic routes in Berlin and extends Karl-Marx-Allee in the direction of Frankfurt (Oder). Today, many large apartments have been modernized along this impressive piece of Berlin's urban architecture.

Strausberger Platz is the square where the popular national uprising began in 1953 with the strike of 300 construction workers. The uprising was crushed by Soviet tanks on the evening of June 17, 1953

Information

• Address:
  Strausberger Platz 5
  10243 Berlin
  City map
• Architecture: Soviet neoclassicism