Potsdamer Platz
In Potsdamer Platz once stood a piece of Berlin’s urban hinge: a public square and traffic intersection about 1 km (1,100 yd) south of the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag, near the southeast corner of the Tiergarten. The name reaches back to Potsdam—about 25 km (16 mi) to the southwest—and to the route where the old road from Potsdam passed through the city wall at the Potsdam Gate. Long before the traffic boom, the open ground by the gate was used for military drills and parades. By the 19th and early 20th centuries, it had become Europe’s most bustling junction, formed from suburban thoroughfares converging here. That momentum ended brutally: the area was totally destroyed during World War II and then left desolate during the Cold War, when the Berlin Wall bisected it. After German reunification in 1990, Potsdamer Platz was redeveloped throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. …
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