The tower platform
A northern view nearly empty of visitors.
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Both were built over flak towers buried under war rubble, but at Friedrichshain the two towers were completely buried and became natural-looking hills with nothing visible. Here part of the concrete structure remains exposed and can actually be stood on — which makes Humboldthain the one place in Berlin where you can see and touch a flak tower.
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Humboldthain is a public park in the Wedding district, opened in 1876 to mark the centenary of the birth of the scientist Alexander von Humboldt. But what makes it unlike any other park in Berlin stands at its northern end: the remains of a massive concrete anti-aircraft tower from the Second World War. The tower was built in 1942 with walls over three metres thick to withstand direct bombing and shelter thousands of civilians. After the war the Allies tried to demolish it and only partly succeeded — one side collapsed and the rest stayed standing, so it was buried under the rubble of the destroyed city and planted with trees. Today you climb a grassy hill and find yourself on an exposed concrete roof. The platform on top gives a wide view over northern Berlin, and it is free, always open, and almost empty of visitors compared with the city's known viewpoints. Guided tours inside the tower's tunnels and lower floors run in certain seasons through a specialist association — the only way to see the interior.
A northern view nearly empty of visitors.
The only way to see inside the tower.
Hochstrasse, 13357 Berlin