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Question for the day

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Why is

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it called “Golgatha”

If you were wondering why it is called “Golgatha”, well: As you may know, Golgatha (or Calvary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvary) is the name of the hill outside of Jerusalem, where Christ was crucified and part of the Viktoriapark is the Kreuzberg (or cross mountain, 66m above N.N. , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreuzberg_(Tempelhofer_Berge) ) which is named after the iron cross on top of it that Schinkel designed as a monument to celebrate the victory over Napoleon (https://goo.gl/maps/r9EEvk9otPWBaYN29) and it is the reason, why the the borough of Kreuzberg is called Kreuzberg.

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