Alexanderplatz, Berlin, Germany

Visit duration: 30 min Editorial visit time estimate

Reviewed by Elena Voss · Roavina Travel Editor

About Alexanderplatz

Alexanderplatz in Mitte is one of Berlin's best-known squares and its biggest. It is named after Tsar Alexander I, who visited the Prussian capital in 1805, and most people simply call it Alex. Until the 1850s it was a military parade ground and a market for local farmers; it became a major transport junction when its railway station opened in 1882. Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz made it world-famous, and in November 1989 the peaceful protests against the East German regime culminated here.

Checked 2026-11-10 · Source

What's inside

Largely destroyed in the Second World War, the square took its present shape in the 1960s, when it became a pedestrian zone surrounded by busy multi-lane roads. From that time date the Weltzeituhr (World Clock), installed in September 1969 during the socialist redesign, the Fountain of International Friendship and the Fernsehturm, East Berlin's famous television tower. Today Alexanderplatz is Berlin's eastern centre and an important junction for S-Bahn, U-Bahn, regional trains, trams and buses.

Checked 2026-11-10 · Source