She’s exactly 90 years young: The Siemens Railway.
On our exploration along the route you will learn almost everything about the history of this important branch line.
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New Tour:
New tour:
Sacral buildings of the Siemensstadt & Mosque
Exciting stories about the construction (and dismantling) of the churches and the symbolism. Interesting for everyone.
Including: One of the most beautiful Mosques ever. Built at the same time as the churches visited.
Guided Tour:
Living in a world heritage site
Bauhaus next to organic architecture. Six architects, one garden architect and 14 different lines. Built in 1931/34.
And: Far ahead of its time.
A UNESCO world heritage site.
Tour:
Siemensstadt 1.0
How and why it began. Here.
An exciting journey through the history of the origins of an artificial city, against all (unexpected) odds.
Tour:
Charlottenburg-North
More green than built-up area. Objectively striped up to squeaky colored. Social hotspot, memorials, Berlin’s second largest park. A UNESCO World Heritage Site and high density of listed buildings. Variety.
Lectures & research assistance
Whether industrial heritage or world heritage.
Whether Berlin, London or Venice.
Whether breathless in 10 minutes, summarizing in 30 minutes or even longer and more detailed.
Or are you writing a book, a newspaper article or preparing a TV documentary?
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In development:
App-Tourguide “World heritage”
This tour is a slightly different and reduced version of my tour “Living in a World Heritage”. The app is in preparation.
Start your tour whenever you want and at your own pace. The offline function allows you to listen to the tour anytime and anywhere.
Groups & Special Topics
Student group of architecture, company outing of a building cooperative or gift from the staff to the boss of a local company:
A group tour not only has the advantage of being with people you know.
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Beneath the hat
Whom do you confide in?
If you ever meet the “man with the hat” without a hat, I’m Christian Fessel. I make my living from time to time as a director-cameraman or photographer and was for many years the head of the then so-called “Infostation Siemensstadt” for the UNESCO World Heritage Site “Berlin Modernist Housing Estates – Ringsiedlung Siemensstadt” and run the website Infostation-Berlin.de
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Special Tour:
London Crossrail
A highly exclusive tour as guests of London Rail.
It goes by construction elevator far into the depth of the underground facility.
We visit an already completed station and the tunnel.
With a little luck there is the possibility to accompany a test drive