{"id":142,"date":"2011-10-13T23:07:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T21:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/?p=142"},"modified":"2011-10-17T23:17:18","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T21:17:18","slug":"viktoriapark-walk-with-annie-melissa-and-rachel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/2011\/10\/13\/viktoriapark-walk-with-annie-melissa-and-rachel\/","title":{"rendered":"Viktoriapark walk with Annie, Melissa and Rachel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our students Annie, Melissa and Rachel took us on a tour of Viktoriapark this week. As they explained, the park is home to the “Kreuzberg” (literally “Cross Mountain”) and gives its name to the surrounding neighborhood. The “Kreuz” – really a monument to the wars of liberation against Napoleon – was designed by this week’s featured 19th-century starchitect, Karl Friedrich Schinkel.<\/p>\n

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It’s a bit of a climb …<\/p>\n

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… but it’s worth it! There are beautiful views of the city, and of course, a lovely gothic monument to admire as well.<\/p>\n

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Schinkel isn’t the only artist to have left his mark (whether officially sanctioned or not) on the park. Our guides showed us an artwork commemorating a recent act of sexual violence in the park, another in honor of the uprising of Communist workers in 1953, and one (a spray-paint-covered statue of Heinrich von Kleist) that attests to one of Berlin’s biggest vandalism issues – graffiti. As in the rest of Berlin, Viktoriapark is packed with history, and our tour guides did a lovely job of uncovering some of that for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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