Mehringplatz is being restored to its former glory. I regret not having taken any photographs before they started renovating it, but that is probably because it was a wasteland.
The whole area was practically flattened during WW2, so the “peace column” and the statues must have been in protective storage since they seem to have survived unscathed.
I wonder how it will change the currently very diverse, rather densely populated residential area around it once the work is finished.
Here are photographs taken on 29 August 2020:
Approaching Mehringplatz along the southernmost part of Friedrichstraße from Franz-Klühs-Straße:
The walk, anti-clockwise first:
Some public advice on how to keep moving:
Right now an unlikely location for a contemporary-art gallery (KM ), but some time next year, the surroundings might be more stylish:
And then, between Lindenstraße and Mehringplatz, five minutes from home, a garden I did not know was there:
Between Mehringplatz and Hallesches Ufer, a memorial to Marie Juchacz:
The home stretch: Back along the southernmost part of Friedrichstraße and across to Lindenstraße:
And finally, some new buildings finished around 2018 – in the middle the expansion of the Jewish Museum (the original building is behind me) – where the old retail flower market used to be.
