Kurfürstendamm (Ku'damm)
A 3.5 km boulevard that begins at a bombed-out church and ends at Cold War Cadillacs cast in concrete.
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The Ku'damm runs from the ruins of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church at Breitscheidplatz southwest to Grunewald, threading past a pre-WWI artists' café, a theatre built on a Berlin Secession exhibition hall, and four continuous lines of plane trees. The western terminus drops a genuinely strange sculpture on you with no warning.
What to look for
- The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church ruins at Breitscheidplatz — the shell still standing at the start of the boulevard
- Café Kranzler at Joachimstaler Straße, successor to the Café des Westens where artists and bohémiens gathered before World War I
- Wolf Vostell's 1987 "Beton Cadillacs" at Rathenauplatz — a long-disputed sculpture marking the western terminus
Start at U-Bahn Kurfürstendamm (Joachimstaler Str. exit) and walk the full 3.5 km southwest to Rathenauplatz to catch the sculpture before turning back.
Kurfürstendamm (Ku'damm) is one of 37 sights worth the detour in Berlin, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Berlin pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Berlin
- Berlin WallBuilt to keep citizens in, not enemies out — and the death strip of anti-vehicle trenches and beds of nails makes that intent impossible to misread.
- Brandenburg GateFor 28 years a wall sealed it shut — now you walk straight through.
- ReichstagA fire in 1933, a battle in 1945, a dome in 1999 — you walk inside Germany's working parliament.
- Berlin Olympic Stadium (Olympiastadion)Designed for the 1936 Olympics and still hosting European finals — the bowl has barely left the world stage.
- Pergamon MuseumThe Pergamon Altar and the collections of the Vorderasiatisches Museum once filled this hall — closed since 2023, with the North Wing returning in 2027.
- Fernsehturm BerlinA 368-metre Cold War statement that outlived the government that built it — and now stands for the city that absorbed it.