Tauentzienstraße belongs to the so-called “Generals Parade“. The wide street, built at the time of the German Empire, recalls the great boulevards in Paris and leads through the whole southwest of Berlin. In the past, a tram drove along the dividing strip. Today you will find, among other objects of interest, a silver sculpture known as the “Intertwined Intestines”. The official name is “Berlin”, and it was erected during the city jubilee in 1987. With chromium-nickle tubes, the artist couple Matschinsky and Denninghof wanted to symbolize the divided and yet connected city. Two years later the theme of this work of art no longer applied.

IHK news-item: 

The ascertainment of the number of pedestrians on Kurfürstendamm and Tauentzienstraße shows that this shopping area is still one of the most popular in Berlin. The ranking list of Berlin shopping districts shows that Tauentzienstraße and Kurfürstendamm have many more passers-by than Wilmersdorfer Straße, Schloßstraße, Alexanderplatz and Friedrichstraße.

Ranking by “Kempers Frequenzanalyse 2000/2001”: 

Counting: Numbers of passers-by in both directions on every Thursday of May and June 1999 in the time of 5.00 pm till 6.00 pm; the numbers within the brackets were ascertained on every Saturday of May and June 1999 in the time of 12.00 pm till 1.00 pm.

Tauentzienstrasse 5,430 (13,275)
Kurfürstendamm 6,205 (7,335)
Wilmersdorfer Strasse 4,605 (5,580)
Schlossstrasse/Steglitz 2,355 (3,765)
Alexanderplatz 3,450 (2,025)
Friedrichstrasse 1,185 (1,163)

Further information under:

www.berlin.citysam.de/kurfuerstendamm.htm
http://www.charlottenburg-wilmersdorf.de/wissenswertes/lexikon/tauentzien.html
http://www.berlin.de/tourismus/sehenswuerdigkeiten/00152.html
http://www.berlin.de/stadttouren/de/tauntz.html
http://archiv.tagesspiegel.de/archiv/11.03.2005/1694451.asp