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(''Animal Garden'') is a large park and a former Borough of Berlin , since 2001 a part of the expanded borough Mitte . Before reunification, it was a part of West Berlin . It contains the neighbourhoods of Hansaviertel , Moabit and Tiergarten-Süd. Among others, the Reichstag (parliament), the office of the German Chancellor and several embassies, as well as the residence of the German President, Schloss Bellevue , are located in Tiergarten. The Brandenburg Gate and the Potsdamer Platz are situated on its eastern border, which used to be the frontier between East and West Berlin. The Tiergarten also contains several notable sculptures and sites of interest, including the four-tiered Victory Column , the Bismarck Memorial and several other memorials to prominent Prussian generals, all of which were located in the ceremonial park facing the Reichstag before they were moved to their present location by the Nazis. In addition, the tree-lined walkways eminating from the Victory colum contain several ceremonial sculptures of Prussian aristocrats enacting an 18th Century hunt. At the Victory Column ,located at the heart of the Tiergarten, a large Live 8 concert took place on July 2, 2005. The Tiergarten was largely deforested after 1944 because it served as a source of firewood for the devastated city. The first '' Institut Für Sexualwissenschaft '' (Institute for Sex Research) was situated here ''In den Zelten'', near the contemporary Kongreßhalle , from 1919 until it was closed by the Nazis in 1933. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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