Even before Kreuzberg was invented in 1820, people enjoyed hanging out around Schinkel’s memorial which marked the highest elevation of Prussia’s capital at the time: 66 meters above sea level. At the time, even the trend aware Vice Magazine could not foresee Kreuzberg to host Berlin’s centroid at 52.502778/13.404167 from 1996 onward, nor did enyone suspect a Schuttberg to take the lead in Berlin’s Urban Mountain League (which categorically disqualifies the big Müggelberg for its unswallowable distance to Alexanderplatz).
In 1886: People hanging out on 'cross hill', named after Schinkel's memorial to the Napoleonic Wars.
While in 1978 its excessive nights had arrived as a topos in leftist pop culture, in 1979 the above documentary thwarts this consumistic approach to Kreuzberg with a nostalgic video tour through the early morning. Today, of course, these morning hours have been internationally acknowledged as the new nights.
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