Berlin Wall Sites Near Eiskeller Exclave
West Berlin exclave of three farmsteads connected to the main city by a 4-metre-wide, 800-metre-long corridor. Named for its cold microclimate — up to 10°C colder than surrounding Berlin. Famous 1961 photograph showed 12-year-old Erwin Schabe stopped by GDR police on his way to school, an image that circulated worldwide.
15 Berlin Wall Sites Within Walking Distance
Eiskeller Exclave
West Berlin exclave of three farmsteads connected to the main city by a 4-metre-wide, 800-metre-long corridor. Named for its cold microclimate — up to 10°C...
Falkensee
GDR town where 80% of the male population lost their jobs overnight when the Wall severed the commute to West Berlin. The S-Bahn link from...
Staaken
Staaken, on the west-most outskirts of West Berlin, was home to several different rail and road crossings during the cold war years. Albrechtshof rail crossing...
Grenzturm Nieder Neuendorf
One of the last surviving Berlin Wall watchtowers, this Führungsstelle (command post) was built in 1987 as the command centre of Border Security Regiment 38...
Stolpe Border Crossing
The last checkpoint built before the Wall fell, opened in 1982. Served travellers heading to Scandinavia via Route 96. One of the last crossings to...
Flughafen Tegel
The Berlin Airlift's great construction feat: Tegel airport was built from nothing in around 90 days by 19,000 Berliners - more than 40 per cent...
Teufelsberg
An artificial hill built from 26 million cubic metres of World War II rubble in the Grunewald forest. The US National Security Agency built a...
Groß Glienicke Wall Memorial
Only surviving "first generation" (1961/62) wall segment, over 30 metres long. Original concrete slabs with hollow blocks and Y-shaped barbed wire deflectors. Shows three generations...
Flugplatz Gatow
RAF Gatow in the British sector was one of the Berlin Airlift's three airfields, handling the British share of the lift while Sunderland flying boats...
Oranienburger Chaussee Tunnels
Site of some of the earliest successful escape tunnels. On 24 January 1962, brothers Günter and Bruno Becker dug a tunnel from their basement at...
Glienicke/Nordbahn Family Tunnel
Mass escape in March 1963. Eleven-year-old Detlef Aagaard, his parents, and ten others (13 in total) fled through a tunnel dug from beneath a living...
Bergfelde Watchtower
Former border command post hidden in a reforested border area near Hubertussee. Memorial to Joachim Mehr, aged 19, shot on 3 December 1964, and two...
Schönholzer Mauerreste
80-metre early-era wall triangle preserved in its original form. Built from World War II house rubble in the early 1960s. Concealed and forgotten for 30...
Gedenkstätte Günter Litfin
A former watchtower, named after Günter Litfin, a tailor from Weissensee, who was the first person to be shot dead by border guards while trying...
Invalidenfriedhof
The Invalidenfriedhof, one of Berlin's oldest military cemeteries (founded 1748), was bisected by the Berlin Wall from 1961. The Wall ran directly through the cemetery,...
