A building of this kind can hardly be indicated in a better way: On the one side, there is the “Tunnelstraße” (Tunnel Street) and on the other you find the “Platz vor dem Spreetunnel” (Square in Front of the Spree Tunnel). Only the tunnel itself couldn´t be seen for a long time. It is the former tram tunnel connecting... more

The former village of Schöneberg gained city rights on April 1st 1898. By the turn of the century, it had more than 100,000 inhabitants. The north of the district already had a surface railway of the Berliner Hochbahngesellschaft running through it. The German Emperor, Wilhelm II, was against a metro in that part of Berlin. However, increased building activity in... more

Berlin, spring 2001. It's almost done – at least some kind of quiet has returned to the Tiergarten district as the new north-south tunnel is nearing completion. This prestigious undertaking, a combination of railway, metro and road traffic tunnel, is not the first of its kind, though. Right in the vicinity of this structure, some other mysterious, subterranean buildings... more