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Location:
Europe,
Germany, Berlin
Category:
City Webcam
Description:
View
of the Potsdamer Platz area
Location Information:
Potsdamer Platz is an important
public square and traffic
intersection in the centre of
Berlin, Germany, lying about one
kilometre south of the Brandenburg
Gate and the Reichstag, and close to
the southeast corner of the
Tiergarten park. It is named after
the city of Potsdam, some 25 km to
the south west, and marks the point
where the old road from Potsdam
passed through the city wall of
Berlin at the Potsdam Gate. After
developing within the space of
little over a century from an
intersection of rural thoroughfares
into the most bustling traffic
intersection in Europe, it was
totally laid waste during World War
II and then left desolate during the
Cold War era when the Berlin Wall
bisected its former location. Since
German reunification, Potsdamer
Platz has been the site of extensive
redevelopment.
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