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Index
Cemetery
Hall. Tor
Memorial
Tablets
Sale
e Tabacchi
The
Deserted Room
Luisenst. Canal Gardens
Comenius
Garden
Nat. Reserve Schöneberg
Russian Church
R.
Luxemburg Memorial
Cadillacs
in Concrete
Schildhorn
Column
Heerstraße
Cemetery
Kleist's
Grave
Mori-Ogai
Memorial
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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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