Berlin's centre: real, ruined or rebuilt

Fourteen landmarks between the Staatsoper and Alexanderplatz, drawn from their real map footprints. Move the year and watch the historic centre get built, burn and come back as something younger than it looks.

2026
1200150018001945today

The historic centre of Berlin, coloured by what each landmark was in the selected year Real OpenStreetMap footprints of fourteen landmarks between the Staatsoper Unter den Linden and Alexanderplatz, with the Spree drawn through them. Each footprint is shaded to show whether the building was standing as built, a ruin, cleared away or rebuilt in the selected year.
standing as built ruin or burnt-out shell cleared away rebuilt fabric

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It reads as-the century your eye gives it
What you touch--
Lifeline of the selected building from 1200 to today

How to tell on site.

Building outlines and river lines are real geometry from OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0. Construction, destruction and reconstruction years come from each building's own institution and from standard architectural histories, checked on 24 August 2026.