Rixdorfer Höhe

The Rixdorfer Höhe in Berlin-Neukölln is a 67.9-meter-high rubble hill made up of roughly 700,000 cubic meters of debris. It was piled up between 1948 and 1953 as part of the expansion of Volkspark Hasenheide. When the site opened in 1951, it offered sweeping views over the city, but the mature trees that have grown up since then now block the view. A monument to Berlin's Trümmerfrauen (rubble women) once stood on the hill and was unveiled in 1955. After a renovation in 1986, the monument was moved to the park's northern entrance on Graefestraße.