Alexanderplatz Berlin

AIRVŪZ STAFF NOTE : Check out this drone video of the Alexanderplatz public square in Berlin, Germany, compliments of AirVuz contributor sphereview. One of the German capital city's most well-known public spaces, the square is situated in the Mitte, one of the main districts of central Berlin. The square is named in honor of the Russian Tsar Alexander I, who visited Berlin in 1805 when Prussia (the predecessor to modern Germany) was allied to Russia in the decades-long struggle against Napoleon Bonaparte.

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Alexanderplatz is a central square and traffic junction in Berlin's Mitte district. One of city's the most visited squares, Alexanderplatz is the site of many attractions and sights in Berlin. "Alex" to Berliners, a cattle market in the Middle Ages, a military parade square and an exercise ground for nearby barracks until the mid 19th century - Alexanderplatz is the square named to honour Alexander I, Tsar of Russia, on his visit to Berlin in 1805. It was here that Alfred Döblin took the pulse of the cosmopolitan metropolis portrayed in his 1929 novel "Berlin Alexanderplatz" filmed by Fassbinder for a TV series as a portrait of the bustling city in the 1920s before the imminent Nazi takeover. Fast forward to more recent times, one million people congregated here, on 4 November 1989 to demonstrate against the GDR regime shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall. This was the largest anti-government demonstration in its history.