Bergmannkiez: cobbled streets and the hill that names the district
Café-and-secondhand Bergmannstraße, a gas-lit square, the waterfall, and the view from Kreuzberg's summit. This is a Claude-drafted route awaiting the editor's walk.

1. Bergmannstraße
The gentle *Kiez*. Start at the Gneisenaustraße end and walk the café-and-secondhand street west — record shops, books, junk you'll want. Take a coffee with you; the hill comes later.

2. Marheineke Markthalle
A nineteenth-century covered *Markthalle*, still a working food hall rather than a tourist set-piece. Cheese, bread, a stool for a quick lunch. In and out, or stay.

3. Chamissoplatz
One block south and a century back. A cobbled *Gründerzeit* square with its original gas lamps and unbroken nineteenth-century facades — the streetscape rarely looks this whole anywhere in Berlin. Walk it slowly.

4. Viktoriapark waterfall
An artificial waterfall tumbling down the north face of the hill, modelled on a falls in the Giant Mountains. Loud after rain, a trickle in a dry spell. Climb beside it.

5. Kreuzberg summit & the Schinkel monument
The high point that names the whole district — sixty-odd metres, which counts for a lot in flat Berlin. Karl Friedrich Schinkel's 1821 cast-iron monument to the wars against Napoleon stands on top, and the city opens out below. This is the *oh-my-god*.

6. Platz der Luftbrücke
Down the south side to the Airlift memorial outside the old Tempelhof terminal — the three concrete prongs for the three air corridors that fed West Berlin in 1948–49. The U6 is right here.

Bergmannkiez: cobbled streets and the hill that names the district