East Berlin's showpiece boulevard of the 1950s, the former Stalinallee: 'residential palaces' with tiled neoclassical facades between Strausberger Platz and Frankfurter Tor, so costly that the GDR switched to modernism; Hermann Henselmann planned the plainer second phase from 1958.
- Address
- Karl-Marx-Allee (Strausberger Platz to Frankfurter Tor), 10243 Berlin
- Hours
- Open 24 hours (public street)
- Price
- Free (public street)
- Price level
- €
Details can change. Check hours and prices before you go.
Good to know
- Walk from Strausberger Platz to Frankfurter Tor (U5).
- Look for the Hochhaus an der Weberwiese, the model building whose flats cost nine times the average.
- The Computer Games Museum is at no. 93a on the way.