The Märchenbrunnen - the Fairy Tale Fountain - largely survived the devastation of World War II. It was designed in 1913 by Berlin's city planning director, Ludwig Hoffmann, and features a fountain with 106 stone sculptures representing characters from traditional German fairy tales. The fountain was created for Berlin's children when rickets and typhus were raging. The war had a dramatic impact on the rest of the park as the military used it and in 1941 additional flak towers and bunkers were built. As a result of this, a very large part of the park was destroyed by Allied bombing.

The destroyed "flakturm" in Volkspark Friedrichshain

After the war, the park was rebuilt by the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and two small artificial mountains were created from the rubble from the bombed city. In 1946, the bunkers were blown apart, filled and covered with over two million cubic meters of rubble from the ruins of destroyed buildings. The larger of the two hills became known as both "Mont Klamott" and "Großer Bunkerberg" - the "big bunker mountain", which is 78 meters high. The smaller hill, "Kleiner Bunkerberg", the "little bunker mountain", has a height of 48 metres.

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Friedenstraße or Danziger Straße or Landsberger Allee,