Tauentzienstraße

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Tauentzienstraße (colloquially: der Tauentzien; English: Tauentzien Street) is a major shopping street in the City West area of Berlin, Germany. With a length of about 500 m (1,600 ft), it runs between two important squares, Wittenbergplatz in the east and Breitscheidplatz in the west, where it is continued by the Kurfürstendamm boulevard. While the eastern half belongs to the Schöneberg district, the western part (beyond Nürnberger Straße) is in Charlottenburg.

History

The broad street was laid out in the manner of a

During the

During the Cold War era, the street became part of the commercial center of West Berlin, along with the nearby Kurfürstendamm. Tauentzienstraße is actually the busier of the two streets due to the concentration of shops along its length.^[1]

In 2022, one person was killed and many others injured when a car crashed into pedestrians.

Stolpersteine

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  Stolperstein at Tauentzienstraße 7, commemorating the Hirsch family and Edith Seelig
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  Stolperstein at Tauentzienstraße 13a, commemorating the Hahn family

Attractions

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Today, Tauentzienstraße is one of the busiest shopping streets in Berlin with top rents for prime retail business locations, strongly dominated by

Midway along the street is a sculpture, entitled Berlin, that expresses the "broken" nature of the city during the Cold War.

References

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