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Berlin's Vanished Canal: A Self-Guided Walking Tour

Les descriptions sont affichées en anglais.

  • 1–1,5 heures
  • Annulation gratuite jusqu’à 24 h avant
  • Guidé en anglais
  • Confirmation immédiate

Points forts

Berlin's Luisenstadt district played a key role in shaping the city we know today, yet surprisingly little of it survives. On this self-guided audio tour, you'll follow the route of a vanished 19th-century canal that once cut through it, linking the River Spree in Berlin-Mitte with a busy inner-city harbour in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Along the way, you'll discover how this waterway later became part of the Berlin Wall border strip—and how local residents reclaimed it after decades of division. The tour begins beside the former canal - transformed into a chain of gardens - just a short walk from the Spree. From there, you'll stroll along Bethaniendamm, past Sankt-Thomas-Kirche, tracing the canal's forgotten course through Oranienplatz. The walk ends at Urbanhafen, the harbour where the canal once joined the Landwehr Canal. Today, it's a favourite local gathering spot, full of lazy sunbathers, hobby musicians, inflatable flamingos and the best seats for a Berlin sundowner.

Inclus

Ce qui est inclus

  • Lifetime access to this tour in English before your booking date and after it
  • Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata
  • Flexibility to explore at your own pace with a self-guided GPS tour
  • App for Android and iOS
  • Directions to the starting point so that when you’re in the right place, the tour will start

Non inclus

  • Smartphone and headphones
  • Transportation
  • Food and drink
  • Personal expenses for admission fees not included during the tour

Itinéraire

  1. Discover the remarkable story of a Turkish guest worker who planted onions at the Berlin Wall, creating a hidden Kreuzberg garden that survived in its shadow. Marvel at how this small act of quiet resistance endured through decades of division.

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  2. Stroll past Sankt-Thomas-Kirche as you trace the canal's forgotten course through the neighbourhood. Learn how this stretch of Berlin, including one of the city's oldest hospitals nearby, escaped large-scale demolition thanks to local activists and squatters in the 1970s and 80s.

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  3. Visit Engelbecken, the only stretch of the old canal that still contains water, home to more than a tonne of fish and an occasional rogue swimmer. Take in this rare survivor of a waterway that otherwise vanished from Berlin's map long ago.

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  4. Discover Waldemarbrücke, which marked the border between East and West Berlin after 1961. Learn why 6,880 glowing balloons floated above the former Wall route here in 2014, marking 25 years since its fall.

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  5. Pass this stretch of Erkelenzdamm, where a murdered Jewish family were symbolically rejoined again nearly 70 years later. Reflect on this quiet, personal act of remembrance along the former canal's course.

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  6. See how landscape architect Erwin Barth transformed the drained canal into this public park. Discover the poignant detail that Barth even designed his own final resting place within it.

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  7. Explore the industrial courtyards of Elisabethhof, where grand pianos, telegraph equipment, and even a top-secret Nazi cipher machine were once produced. Learn how a simple human mistake helped crack this code system, even more sophisticated than Enigma.

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Annulation

Annulation gratuite jusqu’à 24 heures avant le début de l’expérience, avec remboursement intégral.

À savoir avant de partir

Point de rendez-vous
This tour starts at Luisenstadt. Before arrival, please install the mobile app and use the code provided on your confirmation ticket. Detailed starting point instructions are available after downloading.
Prise en charge
Tout le monde se retrouve au point de départ ; il n’y a pas de prise en charge.
Type de billet
Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Opéré par
VoiceMap Audio Tours
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

How it compares in Berlin

  • Its from-price is 88% below the median of the 961 experiences we list in Berlin.
  • It is shorter than most of them.
  • The operator lists free cancellation on it.

About Berlin

Berlin, capitale créative et ouverte d'esprit : monuments d'une histoire tourmentée, art, parcs verts et vie nocturne légendaire.

La porte de Brandebourg est le symbole de la ville, près du Reichstag à coupole de verre et du Mémorial aux Juifs assassinés d'Europe. Des fragments du mur de Berlin subsistent, le plus frappant étant l'East Side Gallery, long tronçon couvert de fresques, et le mémorial de la Bernauer Strasse, tandis que Checkpoint Charlie marque l'ancien poste-frontière le plus célèbre.

Top-ranked sights in Berlin: Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor), Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (Holocaust Memorial), Checkpoint Charlie.

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