NH Berlin City Ost am Kaskelkiez
Zille’s Milljöh meets modern lifestyle
The area around Frankfurter Allee S-Bahn station offers a particularly interesting cityscape, from prefabricated buildings and Stasi history to historic Wilhelminian-style neighbourhoods. The cityscape has changed and modernised considerably in recent decades, particularly at Rummelsburger Bucht. From the centrally-located NH Berlin City Ost, you can easily explore the neighbourhoods and highlights of the surrounding area.
Stylish comfort in the east of the city centre
The modern NH Berlin City Ost is an ideal starting point for exploring typical Berlin neighbourhoods and many special sights in the eastern part of the city centre. It is located in the district of Lichtenberg, which is characterised by numerous cultural attractions, right on the border with the lively Friedrichshain district. Both districts can be easily explored on foot or by bicycle from here. In the stylish and brightly-furnished hotel rooms, you can expect comfortable facilities, from flat-screen satellite TV and free WLAN to digital security lockers and a minibar. Most of the rooms are also air-conditioned.
Another highlight of the hotel is the greenery-filled terrace, where coffee and refreshing drinks are served. Right next to the hotel is the Italian restaurant ‘Rossini Quattro’, which serves a breakfast buffet for hotel guests in the morning. To get to all the sights quickly from the NH Berlin City Ost hotel, you can use the bike hire service at the nearby nextbike station at Frankfurter Allee S+U station. There, bikes can be hired easily via the nextbike app.
Exploring Friedrichshain and Lichtenberg neighbourhoods
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Kajak auf dem Rummelsburger See in Lichtenberg
You can immerse yourself in Berlin's history right in the neighbourhood of the NH Hotel City Ost: The Stasi Museum is only about 500 metres away. Located on the site of the former GDR MfS headquarters, the museum is also a research and memorial centre. Theater an der Parkaue, a children’s theatre and youth theatre, is also just a short walk away in a building inspired by the Renaissance. Behind it is the Stadtpark Lichtenberg. A little further to the west, on the inner side of the S-Bahn ring, is the Samariterkiez neighbourhood.
If you cross Frankfurter Allee from the hotel in a southerly direction, you will soon reach a special neighbourhood right on the border between Lichtenberg and Friedrichshain. Built at the end of the 19th century in the Wilhelminian style, the Kaskelkiez neighbourhood with its striking oval shape is particularly well preserved, and is still reminiscent of the cityscape of over 100 years ago. Incidentally, the famous ‘Milljöh’ illustrator Heinrich Zille also lived here in the neighbourhood, historically known as Victoriastadt, around 1900. You can find out more about the neighbourhood and the district at the Museum Lichtenberg in the Stadthaus on Türrschmidtstraße. On the site of the former Berlin-Lichtenberg-Ost train yard, numerous contemporary artists work at B.L.O.-Ateliers. The listed Schrotkugelturm on Nöldnerstraße is also worth seeing in the neighbourhood.
Pass through the Rummelsburg S-Bahn station and continue southwards, where you will find the picturesque Rummelsburger Bucht. This became famous throughout the GDR as the setting for the film "Paul und Paula" and is now lined with modern residential buildings. The best way to explore the waterfront is on a walk along the Zillepromenade. If you continue along Rummelsburger See to the mouth of the Spree, there are more highlights to discover. These include the Dark Matter art museum, a multidimensional world of light, space and sound, and the Klingenberg combined heat and power plant. Now fully equipped with modern technology, it produces heat and electricity for around 300,000 people - albeit behind the now-listed facades from the 1920s.
Diverse culinary offerings in the surrounding area
Karte neu NH Berlin City Ost im Kaskelkiez
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Between Samariterkiez, Kaskelkiez and Rudolfkiez, there is also a particularly diverse culinary selection. Just a few hundred metres out of town on Frankfurter Allee you will find the small Asian-Mexican fusion restaurant Tacuza. On Möllendorfstraße, just around the corner from the hotel, the cosy and nostalgically-furnished Cooquin Café serves Vietnamese cuisine, from Bánh Mì baguettes to main courses. At the trendy KleinMein Coffee & Coworking in the Samariterkiez neighbourhood, thyme focaccia, cakes that change daily and coffee are once again on the menu. Another highlight is the vegan doner snack bar Vöner on Boxhagener Straße, not far from the Kaskelkiez neighbourhood. Last but not least, the stylish Hafenküche with its beautiful view of Rummelsburger Bucht is the crowning highlight of your trip to the waterfront.
