Universum Landes-Ausstellungs-Park, Public park in Moabit district, Berlin, Germany.
The Universum Landes-Ausstellungs-Park was a triangular exhibition ground bounded by Invalidenstrasse, Alt-Moabit and the Lehrter Bahnhof, covering about 61,000 m². From 1883 a palace of glass and steel stood on the site, later joined by a funfair in the north-western section. Most buildings were blown up in 1963; only the open-air staircase survives, while the entrance lion sculptures now stand in the garden of the Deutsches Technikmuseum.
The site originated in 1879 as an exhibition ground where Werner Siemens demonstrated the first electric locomotive in operation. Later, from 1936 onward, it served as an aviation museum displaying important aircraft technology.
The name ULAP stands for Universum Landes-Ausstellungs-Park, added when the amusement park opened in 1921. Streets laid out on the grounds after 2005 honour women linked to Berlin: Clara Jaschke, one of the city's first female railway officials, Bertha Benz, Katharina Paulus, Ilse Schaeffer, Ella Trebe and Agnes von Zahn-Harnack.
The grounds lie in the triangle between Invalidenstraße, Alt-Moabit and Berlin Central Station, cut by the Stadtbahn viaduct. The old gatekeeper's house was demolished for the main station's rail line; the house opposite, now Restaurant Paris–Moskau, is often mistaken for it but never belonged to the ULAP. Streets on the site are named after Bertha Benz, Katharina Paulus, Ilse Schaeffer, Ella Trebe and Agnes von Zahn-Harnack.
In the night before 23 April 1945, an SS squad led 16 prisoners from the Lehrter Strasse prison into the park and shot them, among them Albrecht Haushofer; one survived severely wounded. A week later Martin Bormann and Ludwig Stumpfegger were found dead on the Invalidenstrasse bridge above the grounds, and in 1972 two skeletons unearthed during cable work were identified as theirs.
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