Walking Tour: Unrest in Moabit

Name: Walking Tour: Unrest in Moabit
Start: 2025-09-19T17:30:00+02:00
End: 2025-09-19T19:30:00+02:00
Location: Beusselstraße, Berlin, Deutschland

Schedule

Fri Sep 19 2025 at 05:30 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Beusselstraße, Berlin, Deutschland | Berlin, BE

## We only do this tour once a year. It's the 115th anniversary of the biggest riots in Berlin's history! This is a fundraiser for the Internationalist Autumn Camp from October 3-6. ##
When we picture riots in Berlin, we all think of Kreuzberg. But 77 years before the Neighborhood Uprising in Kreuzberg, Moabit saw the biggest riots in the city's history. In 1910, a run-of-the-mill strike by coalmen escalated. Within a week, up to 30,000 workers were on the streets fighting against police. This week of street battles became known as the Moabit Unrest.
In a two-hour walking tour, we will look at Moabit's enormous factories, some of which are still standing. We will visit the bars where socialist workers got organized, and look at spots where windows were smashed, fires were started, and shots rang out. Women workers played a prominent role in the unrest, and we will see where journalists wrote about "bloodthirsty amazons."
If you would like to attend a tour, please send an e-mail with your name and the date of the tour to: [email protected]. You will get a confirmation e-mail within one day. This is to make sure we have enough people (at least 5) but also not too many (no more than 25) for a tour to take place.
Our tour will be meeting at the corner of Beusselstraße and Sickingenstraße, near S-Bhf Beusselstraße, in front of Hotel Sickinger Hof. We will meet at 17:30 and leave by 17:40.
The tour will end two hours later at the Amtsgericht, near U-Bhf Turmstraße. We will not be using public transportation — the tour will be entirely outside.
Suggested donation is 15 euros per person, but any contribution is appreciated and none is required. You can also pick up a signed copy of the book "Revolutionary Berlin."
If you have any questions, please send an e-mail: [email protected]