trade and change

"Alt-Friedrichsfelde is the extension of Karl-Marx-Allee and connects Alexanderplatz in Mitte with the districts to the east. As one of the major exit roads out of Berlin, it leads as the B5 to the Polish border with Frankfurt/Oder. In the morning, rush-hour traffic from east to west towards the city center jostles on four lanes here, only to leave the center of Berlin in the opposite direction at closing time. This east-west and north-south intersection forms an important traffic junction. The intersection is located on the former east-west trade route and is part of the old Reichsstraße No. 1 (now Bundesstraße 1), which stretched from Königsberg to Aachen. Federal road no. 5, which used to connect the trade routes from Hamburg to Breslau, also runs through this section. In the 1970s, the junction was extended to its present form. In the middle of this perpetual flow of cars, trucks, streetcars, buses, occasional pedestrians and cyclists, the blue, squiggly steel sculpture stands as a commentary on the hectic noise above the road underpass, in the middle of the intersection: an endless loop at a traffic junction."

Source (translated): https://www.publicartwiki.org/wiki/ Handelundwandel;_Erika_Klagge