Berlin Wall Sites Near 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 the East. The escape was filmed by an NBC television crew, producing the Emmy-winning documentary "The Tunnel".

15 Berlin Wall Sites Within Walking Distance

Tunnel 29

Escape Site 0m

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...

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Tunnel 57

Escape Site 100m · 1 min walk

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....

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U-Bahnhof Bernauer Straße

Ghost Station 280m · 3 min walk

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...

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Tunnel 37 – Brunnenstraße

Escape Site 330m · 4 min walk

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...

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Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer

Memorial 400m · 5 min walk

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...

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Mauerpark

Memorial 620m · 7 min walk

Now famous for its flea market and bearpit karaoke every Sunday, Mauerpark was once home to part of the death strip and Berlin Wall. A...

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Nordbahnhof – Geisterbahnhof

Ghost Station 730m · 9 min walk

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...

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U-Bahnhof Rosenthaler Platz

Ghost Station 880m · 11 min walk

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...

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Gleim-Tunnel

Cold War Site 1.12 km · 13 min walk

130-metre long, 23-metre wide street tunnel built in 1905 beneath the railway tracks. The Berlin Wall ran through the middle during the division. Sealed in...

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U-Bahnhof Schwartzkopffstraße

Ghost Station 1.21 km · 15 min walk

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...

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S-Bahnhof Oranienburger Straße

Ghost Station 1.26 km · 15 min walk

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...

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Chausseestraße

Border Crossing 1.3 km · 16 min walk

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...

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U-Bahnhof Weinmeisterstraße

Ghost Station 1.45 km · 17 min walk

A ghost station on the U8 line in the Scheunenviertel quarter. One of the last to reopen on 1 July 1990, it retains elements of...

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Berliner Unterwelten

Museum 1.54 km · 18 min walk

The Berliner Unterwelten association offers guided tours through underground bunkers, tunnels, and infrastructure connected to Berlin's Cold War history. Their 'Escape Tunnels' tour follows the...

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Invalidenstraße

Border Crossing 1.73 km · 21 min walk

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,...

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