The Tiergarten
This is one of my favourite places in Berlin, translated literally it means “The Animal Garden”, but it’s one of those confusing compound German words that actually just means “Zoo”, although this “Tiergarten” actually refers to the massive public park in zentral Berlin.
Berlin is located on the European plain, and over one third of the city comprises of forests, parks, gardens, rivers and lakes, much of which is the result of the last ice age, sheets of ice grinding the area flat, the subsequent thaw leaving bare a very sandy soil and thousands of lakes, around which forests have grown..
And all this can be observed in microcosm in the Tiergarten.
This is a series of winter images, mostly capturing the reflections of these trees in the surface lake water.
- Winter Trees in the Tiergarten
- Jewish Memorial
- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy-Park/Gleisdreieck
- Schlesische Straße/Falckensteinstraße
- Yorckstraße/Mehringdamm
- The Boxi
- The tree
- The family journey
- The old boy
- The crossing
- Endstation
- The street corner
© Andrew James Kirkwood – 2024