ALPS IN TREPTOWER PARK

Strolling Through Vanished Berlin

The Alpine Panorama from the outside (from the main catalogue of the 1896 Berlin Trade Exhibition; via ZLB, image in the public domain.

Is this Zerrmat? Is it Zillertal? No, this is Berlin. Berlin-Treptow, to be exact: we are in Treptower Park.

It was there that on 1 May, 1896 Berlin celebrated the opening of its Trade and Industrial Exhibition – an event which went down in history as “The World Fair That Never Was”…