Southernmost wall remains in Berlin. Third-generation concrete slabs between H-shaped reinforced concrete supports. Located north of Rudower Höhe, a 28-metre artificial hill built from wartime rubble. The former death strip is now a nature reserve with 2,500 trees.
Southernmost wall remains in Berlin. Third-generation concrete slabs between H-shaped reinforced concrete supports. Located north of Rudower Höhe, a 28-metre artificial hill built from wartime...
Airport transit crossing for West Berliners accessing Schönefeld Airport from 1963. A shuttle bus service was added in 1980. After 1985, passport control moved to...
This was one of the quieter border crossings. It became better known after the 1999 comedy movie with the same name. Today it is marked...
A simple cross and information panel mark the spot at the Britzer Zweigkanal where 20-year-old Chris Gueffroy was shot on 5 February 1989. He was...
Eduard Wroblewski memorial erected in 2009 at the Mahlower Grenzgraben. Features a preserved Kolonnenweg patrol road with original GDR lamp posts. A scenic section of...
In the early 1960s, several escape tunnels were dug along the Neukölln-Treptow border near Kiefholzstraße, where favourable soil conditions and the border configuration aided tunnel...
Known as the "Straße der Tränen" (Street of Tears), Heidelberger Straße was split down the middle by the Berlin Wall, with the western pavement in...
From 1953 to 1990, the Marienfelde Emergency Reception Centre processed over 1.35 million refugees fleeing East Germany and East Berlin. It was the first point...
Site of two of the most daring Berlin Wall escapes. On 31 March 1983, Holger Bethke climbed to a rooftop near Treptow Park, fired an...
The airport where the Berlin Airlift (1948-1949) broke the Soviet blockade of West Berlin, with Allied planes landing every 90 seconds to supply the city....
In Schlesischer Busch park, a former four-storey command tower still stands. It is one of only a handful of surviving Berlin Wall watchtowers. Unlike standard...
Crossing the River Spree, this beautiful double-decker bridge is well-known Berlin landmark. It became a pedestrian border-crossing for West Berliners. The entire width of the...
The longest surviving stretch of the Berlin Wall, this 1.3km open-air gallery along the Spree was painted by 118 artists from 21 countries in 1990....
Located in the former headquarters of the Ministry for State Security in Lichtenberg, this museum preserves the office of Stasi chief Erich Mielke exactly as...
In 1962, Siegfried Noffke and Dieter Hötger dug a tunnel approximately 30 metres long from this building in West Kreuzberg under the Wall to Heinrich-Heine-Straße...