The Kurfürstendamm (colloquially Ku’damm) is one of the most famous avenues in Berlin. The street takes its name from the former Kurfürsten of Brandenburg. This very broad, long boulevard can be considered the Champs-Élysées of Berlin—lined with shops, houses, hotels and restaurants. Inparticular, many fashion designers have their shops there, as well as several car manufacturers’ show rooms.
The avenue includes four lines of plane trees and runs for 3.5 km (2.2 mi) through the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf borough in western Berlin. It branches off from the Breitscheidplatz near Bahnhof Zoo and the ruins of the Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtniskirche and leads southwestward through the Charlottenburg district.
Between u-bahn stations Uhlandstraße and Tauentzienstraße you can find many luxureus clothing shops, like 7 for all Mankind, Bally, Burberry, Cartier, Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana, Escada, Giorgio Armani, Gucci, Prada, Rolex, and many more.
Also many luxureus hotels are located at the Ku’damm.
Café Kranzler is a famous café on the Kurfürstendamm. the cafe opened in 1932, but the building was destroyed in 1945.
The current building reopend soon after the war and became a huge tourist attraction.
Nevertheless, the Café Kranzler has fallen victim to the massive redevelopment programme which has been changing the face of Berlin since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In 2000 it reopened as a small bar in the rotunda on the second floor, built-in the Neues Kranzler Eck shopping centre designed by Helmut Jahn