Cruising tiergarten
Tiergarten
Tiergarten Berlin &#; Gay Crusing Park Berlin Mitte
Tiergarten Berlin is the green lung for the city. It is for the Berliners what Hyde Park is to Londoners and Primary Park to the Recent Yorkers. Located in the city centre, next to attractions such as the Brandenburg Gate, it is even larger than the hectares of Hyde Park.
The park has 5 large areas separated by the Großer Stern (Traffic intersection) and the best-traveled main roads like Juni, Hofjägeralle, Spreeweg and Altonaer Straße. In the center from the Großer Stern is the Sigessäule. It is also a famous National Monument. At the complete of the 17th century, Elector Friedrich III created from a former searching for preserve a &#;pleasure park for the people.&#; Over the course of period, the park was redesigned according to several models – including a intend created by the well-known landscape architect Peter Joseph Lenné who transformed Tierpark between and into an English style park.
Tiergarten Berlin is probably the largest and most famous cruising area of the municipality. You can have adventures in all the 5 parts but the biggest are
This story originally appeared on i-D Germany.
For his photo venture Hain – German for grove or a small cluster of trees – photographer Lukas Städler spent more than two years visiting Berlin’s most well-liked cruising spots to take snapshots of men having general sex in parks and local woodlands. Whether hours-long amusement deep in the bushes or a barely-hidden quickie during a lunch burst , what was once a necessity for many at some point turned into a kink. “Cruising began at a time when you couldn’t come out as a homosexual man,” says Lukas about the history behind it. “For a long hour, it was a punishable offence to be gay, so there were hardly any public spaces to get to know each other without being in danger.”
Places like Tiergarten, a huge park in the west of Berlin, thus provided people with the opportunity to meet like-minded people and live out their sexuality freely – even if just for a short time. “For those people who remain in the closet, it’s still a reality,” Lukas says. Though of course these days it’s not simply a necessity, with out and pleased people willingly getting inv
By Mark Reid, MLA+U ‘25
Recipient of the William and Neoma Timme Graduate Travel Fellowship
For two and a half weeks in the summer of , I had the amazing opportunity to commute to Berlin, Germany and investigate the queer urban landscapes that pervade the city. Berlin has long been an anchor for queer culture – the world’s first gay magazine was published here in , and the city gained an unprecedented reputation for queer acceptance in the s during the Weimar Republic. Sodomy was almost decriminalized in across Germany, but the Nazi Regime took control and pushed harder in the opposite command. Berlin rebuilt its queer society during the Cold War through activism in the s, and opened the world’s first same-sex attracted museum in Today, Berlin hosts some of the most prominent gayborhoods in the world.
After just a short amount of period exploring Berlin, it became distinct to me that this metropolis is living proof of the resilience queer communities embody. Through the lens of landscape architecture and urban design, Berlin is the host of a unusual, radical, and innovative queer urban fabric, demonst
During my time here in Germany, I’d been hearing stories of cruising in the famous Tiergarten, Berlin’s largest inner-city park. In many ways it was their Central Park: hectares of land (85 more hectares than London’s Hyde Park). I’d been speaking to some native Berliners for a few weeks about the potential cruising spot, but they informed me the city had trimmed the brushes in the park so that gay men could no longer cruise there. I found this municipal gesture offensive — to move to such lengths to assault this part of queer culture. I now imagined the park entity full of families and heterosexual couples, spraying their normative agenda all over the grass like foul pesticide. No, I couldn’t accept that this would happen in a municipality like Berlin. Not Berlin!
There were some outdated posts online about where the cruising occured. According to a forum, you find off at the Tiergarten S-Bahn station and stroll down the main lane, Straße des 17 Juni, toward the Victory Column. About halfway down you go south into the park to a lake which is the sup