Berlin/Spandau

Spandau is the westernmost district (Bezirk) of the German capital city of Berlin, the town itself situated at the confluence of the Spree and Havel rivers.


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Understand

Once a town in its own right, Spandau is one of the oldest in the Berlin region and still retains much of its own unique character, having been spared the worst of the Allied bombing in the Second World War that so devastated the rest of the city. The centre of the town is formed by a dense network of medieval streets and a market square, still retaining a large number of timber-framed buildings.

Spandau was the site of the military prison in which Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess was imprisoned after the 1946 Nuremberg trials until his death in 1987. The prison was then demolished.


Get in

By U-Bahn

  • Zitadelle (U7)


See

  • Zitadelle Spandau (Spandau Citadel), tel 354 94 42 00, open Tu-Fr 9 am - 5 pm, Sa-Su 10 am - 5 pm, entry €2.50 (concessions available) - a fortress built between 1560-1590 to Italian design on the site of a 12th century castle
  • St Nikolai Kirche - a splendid 15th century Gothic church with many fine accoutrements
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