Step Into History
Walk Berlin in 1871
AI rebuilds Berlin street by street, and you walk through it in your browser.
Step Into History · City walk
Imperial Berlin, 1871
This is the city at the moment it becomes the capital of a newly proclaimed German Empire: a centre of court ceremony, booming industry and feverish building. The walk follows broad avenues, river quays and market squares where gaslight, horse traffic and uniformed troops meet Gründerzeit façades and older medieval lanes.
34 scenes — 22 streets, squares and views, 12 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Berlin as it stood in 1871 (“History of Berlin”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Potsdamer Bahnhof
- ↳ Arrival Concourse · interior
- 2. Potsdamer Platz
- 3. Leipziger Platz
- 4. Leipziger Straße
- 5. Wilhelmstraße
- 6. Brandenburger Tor
- 7. Unter den Linden (west)
- ↳ Main Café Salon · interior
- 8. Opernplatz
- 9. Royal Opera House
- ↳ Main Opera Auditorium · interior
- 10. Humboldt University
- ↳ Philosophy Lecture Hall · interior
- 11. Schlossbrücke
- 12. Lustgarten
- 13. Berliner Stadtschloss
- ↳ White Audience Hall · interior
- ↳ Ceremonial Staircase · interior
- 14. Altes Museum
- ↳ Antiquities Rotunda · interior
- 15. Neues Museum
- ↳ Egyptian Sculpture Room · interior
- 16. Nikolaiviertel
- ↳ Saint Nicholas Choir · interior
- 17. Alexanderplatz
- ↳ Panorama Rotunda · interior
- 18. Rotes Rathaus
- ↳ Municipal Council Chamber · interior
- 19. Schiffbauerdamm Quay
- 20. Neue Synagoge
- ↳ Gilded Dome Hall · interior
- 21. Oranienburger Straße
- 22. Großer Stern (Tiergarten)