SEEING A FOREST THROUGH A TREE: TIERGARTEN RELOADED

Today in Berlin: 17 March, 1949

Aerial photo of the park and its surroundings (Hansaviertel to the left) taken in autumn of 1945 by Hein Gorny and Adolph C. Byers.

On March 17, 1949 the first Governing Mayor of West Berlin, Ernst Reuter (the one of the eponymous "Ihr Völker der Welt, schaut auf diese Stadt!" speech) planted the very first gifted tree sapling in the nearly completely de-forested Berlin’s Tiergarten.