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Berlin has more flea markets than any city in Europe. We take a tour through the city's best. |
Berlin has more than 20 flea markets |
Apart from all this culture, there's also something more down-to-earth: Berlin's weekend flea markets, which can be found in virtually every district of the city these days.
"Berlin has more flea markets than any other city in Europe," claims Berlin-based Ralf Morawietz, 48, a collector and seller of coins, rare maps and late 19th century German postcards.
"More than 20 are to be found in Berlin," says Morawietz, who is constantly on the move between Berlin and Warsaw, Paris and Barcelona, in search of items for the stall he shares with two pals, one a Kurd, the other a Turk, at a flea market in front of the Rathaus Schoeneberg, formerly West Berlin's Town Hall.
A gifted linguist, who speaks fluent French, English, Polish and Spanish besides German, Morawietz owns thousands of finely-delineated maps of cities, towns and villages in Germany's former East Prussian territories.
In the communist era, the German Democratic Republic's Interior Ministry had custody of the maps. "When the Berlin Wall fell, a city book-store proprietor gained possession of them. Later on, knowing of my interest in maps, he agreed to sell them to me," he confides.
"They are of interest to the Poles, Czechs and Russians living in the former German territories."
Busy at his stall, he says, "I don't display the maps here. I use the Internet for that side of my business. Here, I'm dealing in coins, and late 19th and early 20th century German postcards," he explains.
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