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WHEELS ON FIRE: THE RACING TRACK CATASTROPHE IN TODAY’S KLEISTPARK

Today in Berlin: 18 July 1909

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On this day in 1909 a new cycling track “Alter Botanischer Garten" (Old Botanical Garden) opened in Berlin-Schöneberg in Potsdamer Straße. It was the first open wooden track in Germany, and at slight…

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