Schöneberger Hauptstraße - Then and now

Posted on February 25, 2008 - Filed Under Berlin, Streetsigns, Then and now, Trams | 4 Comments

I’ve extended this entry, originally posted in September 2006, to include other images that have since come to hand and I have now included the adjacent Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz…
In the spring of 1963, T33U 3760 on route 74 to Lichterfelde, Finckensteinallee stops at Hauptstraße/Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz.
The 74 tram was withdrawn as from 03/05.1963 and was replaced by bus route […]

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Rilke 1875-1926 - Ihr Garten und Gut, grenzt gerade an Gott

Posted on February 21, 2008 - Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment

It might take quite a long time to get into, but once one gets a “feeling” for German, it really can be a very moving language. One of my favourites is the Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Maybe I’m old fashioned, but I seem to be especially attracted to artists from the late Nineteenth century […]

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The Schöneicher-Rüdersdorfer Tramway - Updated

Posted on February 17, 2008 - Filed Under Then and now, Trams, Transport | 2 Comments

This entry was first posted in July 2007, but has been updated since then.
For a while now I’ve been planning to write something about the three privately operated Tramway routes on the eastern edge of Berlin,
all of which have a really nice provincial feel to them.
The first System that I’ve got around to visiting is […]

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