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Two angels walk across a big gray square, a huge empty wasteland in the middle of the city, only a wall stands in nowhere. Skyscrapers soar into the sky, hustle and bustle everywhere, people stroll through a shopping center, go to the cinema and sit in a café. If you see the 1987 film "Der Himmel über Berlin" and look at today's Potsdamer Platz, you can hardly imagine that they are one and the same place. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, a lively new district arose on what was once empty space, traversed by the Berlin Wall. A must for your visit to Berlin, because there are numerous restaurants, cinemas, theatres, shopping centers and new architecture. Potsdamer Platz today The name Potsdamer Platz is actually imprecise. It actually only refers to the square next to Leipziger Platz, but it has become common to mean Potsdamer Platz as the whole area. Popular places to go shopping on Potsdamer Platz and the adjacent Leipziger Platz are the Potsdamer Platz Arkaden with its numerous shops, which are currently being completely renovated, and the Mall of Berlin. You whiz up to the panorama point in the Kollhof building in Europe's fastest elevator, from where you have a magnificent view of Berlin's skyline. The LEGOLAND® Discovery Center Berlin with around five million LEGO® bricks is great fun for the whole family. The Movie House at the Sony Center Every year in February, Potsdamer Platz is the center of the Berlin Film Festival - the Berlinale. But not only at this time of the year is it the place to go for film fans. The CinemaxX is a large multiplex cinema. In the art-house cinema Arsenal, cineastes get their money's worth with experimental works and classic films. The Museum for Film and Television offers an exciting tour of German film and television history. On the median of Potsdamer Strasse in front of the Sony Center, the Boulevard der Stars is reminiscent of great German actors. Where the first traffic light was: Potsdamer Platz yesterday The first traffic light in Europe at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin The first traffic light in Europe at Potsdamer Platz visitBerlin, Photo: Pierre Adenis First of all, since the 18th century, the Potsdamer Tor has stood on the Berlin-Potsdamer Chaussee, which gives the square its name. The square has its heyday at the beginning of the 20th century: Traffic is humming here and life is raging here. As early as 1924, the first traffic light system on the continent directs buses, trams, carriages and vehicles. In addition, the cultural elite meets in the cafés and restaurants around the square. The Second World War left a devastated square, which then became the "border triangle" between the Soviet, British and American sectors. The Wall divides the square, so Potsdamer Platz spent more than 40 years in a slumber - as a wasteland between East and West. The Weinhaus Huth is the only undestroyed building in no man's land next to the remains of the Hotel Esplanade. At the end of the 1980s, a magnetic train was used on a 1.6 km long route on Potsdamer Platz. The rebirth of Potsdamer Platz But after reunification, there is a unique opportunity to rebuild a complete urban quarter in the center of a metropolis. In 1991, the architects Heinz Hilmer and Christoph Sattler won the “Potsdamer Platz/Leipziger Platz ideas competition”. Their concept is based on the model of the "European city", which consciously decides against dense high-rise development. In 1993, construction began on the DaimlerChrysler Quarter according to the master plan of the architects Renzo Piano and Christoph Kohlbecker. The execution is carried out by international star architects such as Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers and Arata Isozaki. On the largest construction site in Europe, a new, urban center is being built from scratch in just five years. Helmut Jahn's Sony Center, completed in 2000, stands in contrast to the DaimlerChrysler Quarter with its cool, futuristic aesthetics. At the beginning of 2004, the elegant Beisheim Center opened at the Lenné triangle. Travel through time at Potsdamer Platz: It's worth taking a look down Potsdamer Platz train station Remnants of the Wall on Potsdamer Platz visitBerlin; Photo: Arthur F Selbach If you're at Potsdamer Platz, don't be afraid to take a look down, because there's a strip of metal embedded in the floor that reminds you of the course of the Berlin Wall at Potsdamer Platz. And you can go on a journey through time right in front of the Deutsche Bahn tower: a huge QR Cobble, a digital cobblestone, is embedded in the ground. Scan this with your mobile phone's QR scanner and experience an exciting, interactive journey through time with historical panorama pictures.