Tiergarten S-Bahn Station, Berlin Live Cam

The Hansaviertel is the smallest district of Berlin, a block of modernist housing on the northern edge of the Tiergarten. The webcam looks down on the S-Bahn bridge and the Straße des 17. Juni.

The quarter was flattened in the war and rebuilt for a building exhibition in 1957, with one block each from about fifty architects, among them Gropius, Niemeyer and Aalto. It was meant as the western answer to the Stalinallee going up on the other side.

The street it faces is named after the uprising of 17 June 1953 in East Berlin. The zoo flak tower stood where the hotel is now until it was blown up in 1947, and the Tiergarten itself was cut down for firewood in the winters after the war.