Berlin Wall Sites Near Nordbahnhof – Geisterbahnhof
This S-Bahn station was sealed from 1961 to 1989 while Western trains passed through East Berlin territory without stopping. Today the station houses "Grenzübergänge" (Border Crossings), a free permanent exhibition with photographs of bricked-up entrances and ghost station interiors.
15 Berlin Wall Sites Within Walking Distance
Nordbahnhof – Geisterbahnhof
This S-Bahn station was sealed from 1961 to 1989 while Western trains passed through East Berlin territory without stopping. Today the station houses "Grenzübergänge" (Border...
Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer
The "Berlin Wall Memorial", was built in 1998 to commemorate the division the wall created, and the deaths that occurred because of it. It includes...
Tunnel 37 – Brunnenstraße
A memorial plaque marks the site of an escape tunnel through which 37 people reached freedom from East to West Berlin. The tunnel was one...
U-Bahnhof Bernauer Straße
This U8 station sat directly beneath the Berlin Wall boundary on Bernauer Straße. Sealed from 1961, it reopened on 12 April 1990. The Berlin Wall...
Tunnel 57
On 3-4 October 1964, 57 people crawled through a 12-metre-deep tunnel from a disused bakery cellar on Bernauer Straße to Strelitzer Straße in the East....
Tunnel 29
In September 1962, 29 people escaped through a 135-metre tunnel dug from a disused factory on Bernauer Straße to a building on Schönholzer Straße in...
S-Bahnhof Oranienburger Straße
The first ghost station on the north-south S-Bahn tunnel to reopen, on 2 July 1990. During the Wall era it lay sealed underground while the...
U-Bahnhof Schwartzkopffstraße
This U6 ghost station was renamed twice while sealed. In 1951 it became "Walter-Ulbricht-Stadion" and in 1973 "Stadion der Weltjugend". These changes were visible only...
U-Bahnhof Rosenthaler Platz
One of the first ghost stations to reopen after the Wall fell, on 22 December 1989, with a provisional border checkpoint hastily set up on...
Chausseestraße
A lesser-known border crossing at the intersection of Chausseestraße and Liesenstraße, used primarily for West Berlin residents visiting relatives in the East. On 8 April...
Invalidenstraße
A former border crossing at Sandkrugbrücke bridge over the Berlin-Spandau Shipping Canal (Spandauer Schifffahrtskanal). Numerous escape attempts took place here, including that of Günter Litfin,...
U-Bahnhof Naturkundemuseum
This U6 ghost station has had a confusing naming history. During the Wall era it was called "Nordbahnhof" on East German maps, then renamed "Zinnowitzer...
U-Bahnhof Oranienburger Tor
Named after the historic Oranienburger Tor gate that once stood here, this U6 ghost station is just one stop north of Friedrichstraße, the border crossing...
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,...
Tränenpalast
The "Palace of Tears" was the departure hall at Friedrichstraße station where East Germans said goodbye to visiting Western relatives, often not knowing when they...
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