Berlin: area by area – Tiergarten - Grosser Stern

At the wide alignment of the road Straße des 17.Juni, roughly half way between Ernst-Reuter-Platz and Brandenburg Gate, is the "Große Stern" with the victory column in its centre situated.At the Tiergarten, which was used in the 16th century by the elector as hunting ground, a clearing was created here for the game and called since 1832 "Großer Stern“.
Opened to the public by Friedrich the Great, the Tiergarten was then redesigned in the 19th century by the landscape architect Peter Joseph Lenné and got essentially today's form. The representative building of the "Großen Stern“ happened at the same time.