Berlin Wall Sites Near 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 Spandau to Falkensee was cut in 1961. The population shrank during the division and doubled after reunification.
15 Berlin Wall Sites Within Walking Distance
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Heilandskirche Sacrow
Protestant church walled off for 28 years during the division. Its bell tower was incorporated into the barrier wall. The church was visible from West...
Glienicker Brücke
A bridge spanning the Havel river, connecting Wannsee with the Brandenburg capital, Potsdam. Spies captured during the Cold War were often exchanged here, earning it...
Klein Glienicke
GDR enclave accessible only via one surveilled bridge (Parkbrücke). Residents lived in near-total isolation — surrounded by West Berlin on three sides, connected to the...
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...
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...
Checkpoint Bravo (Dreilinden)
The Allied checkpoint on the transit motorway between West Berlin and West Germany. All vehicles travelling the Autobahn corridor to Helmstedt passed through here, making...
