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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 Core Park to the Brand-new 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 huge 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 finish of the 17th century, Elector Friedrich III created from a former seeking preserve a &#;pleasure park for the people.&#; Over the course of age, the park was redesigned according to several models – including a arrange created by the celebrated 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 capital. You can have adventures in all the 5 parts but the biggest area is near the Tuntenwiese. Here is always something going on, but mostly in the evening and night ho
This story originally appeared on i-D Germany.
For his photo project Hain – German for grove or a small cluster of trees – photographer Lukas Städler spent more than two years visiting Berlin’s most popular cruising spots to take snapshots of men having public sex in parks and local woodlands. Whether hours-long fun immersive in the bushes or a barely-hidden quickie during a lunch break, 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 gay man,” says Lukas about the history behind it. “For a long time, it was a punishable offence to be gay, so there were hardly any common spaces to get to know each other without being in danger.”
Places enjoy 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 concise 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 proud people willingly getting involved too.
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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 proceed to such lengths to assault this part of queer culture. I now imagined the park creature 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 capital like Berlin. Not Berlin!
There were some outdated posts online about where the cruising occured. According to a forum, you earn off at the Tiergarten S-Bahn station and stride down the main road, Straße des 17 Juni, toward the Victory Column. About halfway down you go south into the park to a lake which is the supposed cruising area.
I decided to check it out on a Sunday afternoon. I passed several men on thei
Roaming Revenant
In the evening of my very first morning in Berlin my legs took me to the Tiergarten park &#; it looked like a looming big green space on the map in contrast to the busy urban area life all around me. I was slowly walking from the east to west, navigating the meandering pathways throughout the park and crossing many bridges over lakes and waterways.
Eventually I got to the clearing where there were gay man sunbathing, some couples & some singles. I coudn’t help but look, trying to not make it too apparent. Still I pressed on, there were not a lot of people here and it looked just like a normal sunbathing spot albeit with mainly man around, but nothing extra going on that I can see or sense.
I crossed Hofjägerallee, one of the main roads radiating from the Victory Column monument and walked west for a bit. I knew there is a gay cruising area somewhere here near the Bremer Weg lake but I didn&#;t dependency to check the guide to realise where I was. For the trees grew thicker, the people around where all men, walking at a curiously different pace compared to everyone else in the park. Their steps were slow and measured, frequently turning the head to lo
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