Karl-Marx Allee

I recently took a little stroll in my new Kiez and walked along Karl-Marx Allee.

Over 2 kilometers long and 90 meters wide, Karl-Marx Allee is one of Berlin’s most impressive avenues. It stretches from Alexanderplatz to Frankfurter Tor and was formerly known as Stalinallee until 1961. Both sides are lined with monumental eight-floor buildings designed in the wedding-cake style, the socialist classicism of the Soviet Union.

Being the flagship building project of the great reconstruction programme after the WW2, Karl-Marx Allee still remains a true symbol of glory and power of the East Germany past.