Street signs in Berlin through time

Berlin 1974–2024 9 photos of this spot

9 photographs taken at the same spot in Berlin, spanning 1974–2024 — 1 of them from before 1980. Line them up and watch the place change.

For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions , which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme .

Bundesarchiv Bild 183-N0627-317, Berlin, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 1974 For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions , which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme .

Берлин 2013 A 2013 street scene from Berlin, the German capital, captured as part of a broader photographic survey of the reunified city more than two decades after the fall of the Wall.

Berliner Fernsehturm and Marienkirche 2016 Berliner Fernsehturm and Marienkirche 2016.

Blurred Dreams In A Native Life 2017 Rain has darkened the platform of a Berlin railway station in this 2017 evening view, where empty tracks curve past canopies lit by overhead lamps and reflections spread across the wet pavement.

Alexanderplatz 2018 Alexanderplatz in Berlin, Germany, photographed in 2018. The square was a major hub in former East Berlin and is anchored by the Fernsehturm television tower and the World Clock.

Alexanderplatz 2018 A view of Alexanderplatz in Berlin, Germany, in 2018. Rebuilt in the postwar decades as a showcase public square of East Berlin, it remains one of the city's busiest transit and shopping hubs.

Alexanderplatz 003 2018 unteilbar, Hermannplatz-Alexanderplatz, 2020-06-14

Street signs in Berlin 2022 Street signage in Berlin, Germany, photographed in 2022. Such images document the everyday wayfinding and streetscape of the German capital rather than a specific monument.

Alexanderplatz 003 in 2024 2024 A street scene photographed in Berlin, Germany, in 2024. The German capital's mix of historic and postwar architecture reflects its complex twentieth-century history.