Kollwitzplatz
Leafy triangular square with a circular flower bed, weekly markets, and a bronze artist's monument.
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This guide to Kollwitzplatz in Berlin starts at the bronze statue of artist Käthe Kollwitz seated at the square's center, sketchbook on her knee. It traces her fifty years living here from 1891, raising two sons while her husband Karl worked as a doctor for the neighborhood's poorest families, and the square's earlier life as Wörther Platz, laid out in the 1870s and named for a Franco-Prussian War battle. Take a seat near the statue and notice how many children still climb into her lap.
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