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Index
Hugendubel
at Tauentzien Ty
Breizh-Savoie Rire
Cadillacs
in Concrete
Church
Hohenzollerndamm
Nature
Reserve Schöneberg
Registry
Office
The
Schildhorn Column
Universum
Cinema
Villa
Harteneck's Garden
Ahmadiyya
Mosque
Heerstraße
Cemetery
Mélanie's
Specialities
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Over a few
decades, S-Bahn (overground train) users have watched unused rails and train installations being turned into unique landscapes instead of
rotting, blackened industrial wasteland. With the Nature Reserve in southern Schöneberg ,
conservationists, academics, town planners and artists have raised a small section of the S-Bahn biotope to the level of a philosophical
garden. This former shunting yard is now under the spell cast by untouched woodland and
meadows. Rotting sleepers and rusting rails are parts of the same transformation as the encircling roots of young birch and black
locust. The traces of the decay of human endeavour and the signs of a new beginning in the landscape are dependent on each other and show each other to
advantage. Modern man’s contribution to the undisturbed park are sculptures of rusting iron and paths that are noticeably
artificial. These go dead straight along the rails or lead alongside the
reserve, not into it, in the form of a metallic catwalk. The park designers and conservationists would like an observing public who knows how to enjoy things by simply looking at them. However the visitor in this lovely setting will not want to completely forego closer inspection and understanding of their natural
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