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Index
Brandel's
Bookshop
Hostel
am Flussbad
Kiboko
Lakeside
Residence
Overnight
in Fischerkietz
Späthsches
Arboretum
Treptow
Crematorium
At
the Flutgraben
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Hidden from
Bölschestrasse, behind the one-storey house in which Die Andere Buchhandlung
(bookshop) has its quarters is an idyllic courtyard garden. Here is another of the small
houses, built about 1850 and now a listed building. Away from the hubbub of the high
street, is possibly the most unusual restaurant in Friedrichshagen, the Kiboko. Kiboko is Swahili for
rhinocerous, a sacred animal for both the proprietor and the restaurant. Pictures of the thick-skinned creature are everywhere and together with other African
mementoes, embellish the two lovingly arranged dining rooms. In the
courtyard, under the spreading walnut trees, one can study the menu with its colonial and exotic
suggestions, - crocodile, ostrich, guinea fowl. Next to the garden furniture are preserved the remains of the last fruit-bearing mulberry tree in
Bölschestrasse, felled in 1998 or ‘99. It is a reminder of the origins of the settlement in the 18th
century, when cotton and silk weavers from Bohemia and Saxony settled here and Bölschestrasse was covered by hundreds of mulberry
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