The waterfall
A stepped channel drowning out the city.
Miriam Guterland โ CC BY-SA 3.0 ยท Kasa Fue โ CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท Kasa Fue โ CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท Rijksmuseum โ CC0
No โ it operates in the warm season only, usually late spring to early autumn, and is shut off in winter to avoid freezing and frost damage to the stone channel. Visit in January and you will find only a dry stone course. The dates shift yearly with the weather, so no fixed schedule is published.
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Viktoriapark covers the Kreuzberg hill that gave the whole district its name, and at sixty-six metres it is the highest natural point in central Berlin โ a modest figure, but valuable in a completely flat city. Its distinguishing feature is a long artificial waterfall descending from the summit to the foot of the hill down a stepped stone channel, designed in 1894 in imitation of a fall in the Riesengebirge mountains. It runs in summer only and is shut off in winter, and its sound covers the noise of the city entirely when you stand near it โ a rare experience in Berlin. At the summit stands the monument to the wars of liberation against Napoleon, a Gothic iron spire designed by Schinkel in 1821 and topped with a cross โ and that cross is the origin of the name Kreuzberg, the cross hill. The platform around it gives a direct view over central Berlin and the TV Tower. At the southern end a small vineyard produces a symbolic local wine.
A stepped channel drowning out the city.
An 1821 Gothic iron spire at the summit.
Kreuzbergstrasse, 10965 Berlin