BEUSSELSTRASSE
Tips and Links for Beusselstraße
1. Gedenkstätte Plötzensee | Reconstructed gallows memorialize Plötzensee's bloody history of 1943, when more than 250 prisoners were hanged | Hüttigpfad | www.gedenkstaette-ploetzensee.de
2. Alfred Messel's reform housing estate | The communal alternative to Moabit's tenements | Sickingenstraße 7/8
3. AEG Turbinenfabrik | Germany's most famous industrial building, turbine production since 1909 – first by AEG, now by Siemens | Huttenstraße 12-16
4. Tiergarten business park | The starting point of the bloody "Moabit riots" – begun in 1910 when workers of the locally-situated "Kohlenhandlung Kupfer & Co" striked for a wage increase | Sickingenstraße 20-23
5. JobCenter Mitte | In 1911 AEG began producing light bulbs here; later, Telefunken took over with the production of tubing for audio equipment | Berlichingenstraße 25
6. Reformationskirche | The church was built in 1901 as the second congregational church for Moabit’s rapidly growing population | Beusselstraße 35
7. Theater Engelbrot (formerly Hanse Theater) | The house itself has a 120-year-long history, part of which is Marlene Dietrich, who made her first cabaret appearances here | Alt-Moabit 48
8. Berliner Großmarkt | Important selling center for fruits, vegetables, fish and meat since 1965 | Beusselstraße 44 | www.berliner-grossmarkt.de
9. SOS Kinderdorf Moabit | The first children and family center of its kind in the middle of a metropolis | Waldstraße 23/24 | www.sos-kd-berlin.de
10. Bookstore for Esoteric, Fairy Tales and Anthroposophy | The small bookstore offers specialized literature and good advice | Oldenburger Straße 33
11. Café Achteck | One of the only 30 still existing landmark protected nineteenth-century Berlin urinals. | Unionplatz
12. Tônis Vietnamese Cuisine | Food "without glutamate and 100% fresh" | Huttenstraße 68
13. Ya-Man | Caribbean soul food; every first Sunday of the month they serve a Caribbean brunch | Gotzkowskystraße 17 | www.ya-man.info
14. Taverna Merkouri | Authentic Greek dishes, and plenty of Ouzo | Wiclefstraße 30 | www.merkouri.de