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Berlin Wall Sites Near U-Bahnhof Jannowitzbrücke

The first ghost station to reopen, on 11 November 1989, just two days after the Wall fell. A provisional border checkpoint was hastily set up on the U8 platform. Designed by Alfred Grenander, the station opened in 1928.

15 Berlin Wall Sites Within Walking Distance

U-Bahnhof Jannowitzbrücke

U-Bahnhof Jannowitzbrücke

Ghost Station 0m

The first ghost station to reopen, on 11 November 1989, just two days after the Wall fell. A provisional border checkpoint was hastily set up...

U-Bahnhof Alexanderplatz (U8)

U-Bahnhof Alexanderplatz (U8)

Ghost Station 840m · 10 min walk

East Berlin's busiest transport hub was simultaneously a ghost station. The U2 and U5 platforms served East Berliners normally, while the physically separate U8 platform...

Sebastianstraße Tunnel

Sebastianstraße Tunnel

Escape Site 950m · 11 min walk

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...

DDR Museum

DDR Museum

Museum 1.14 km · 14 min walk

An interactive museum dedicated to everyday life in East Germany. Visitors can sit in a Trabant, explore a reconstructed East German apartment, and learn about...

Heinrich-Heine-Straße

Heinrich-Heine-Straße

Border Crossing 1.18 km · 14 min walk

A former border crossing between the Russian and US sectors. There isn't much to see here today. The route of the Berlin Wall is marked...

U-Bahnhof Weinmeisterstraße

U-Bahnhof Weinmeisterstraße

Ghost Station 1.46 km · 18 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...

Internationales Pressezentrum

Internationales Pressezentrum

Cold War Site 1.59 km · 19 min walk

The GDR's official press centre for foreign correspondents, where Günter Schabowski held his historic press conference on 9 November 1989. Asked when new travel regulations...

East Side Gallery

East Side Gallery

Wall Segment 1.82 km · 22 min walk

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....

Zimmerstraße Escape Tunnels

Zimmerstraße Escape Tunnels

Escape Site 1.85 km · 22 min walk

Two escape tunnels were dug on Zimmerstraße, close to Checkpoint Charlie. In summer 1962, a tunnel from an empty lot in the West to Zimmerstraße...

U-Bahnhof Französische Straße

U-Bahnhof Französische Straße

Ghost Station 2.01 km · 24 min walk

After serving as a U6 ghost station from 1961 to 1990, this station operated normally for 30 years before being permanently closed on 4 December...

Peter Fechter Gedenkstele

Peter Fechter Gedenkstele

Memorial 2.02 km · 24 min walk

A memorial cross marks the spot where 18-year-old Peter Fechter was shot by border guards on 17 August 1962 while trying to escape to the...

Checkpoint Charlie

Checkpoint Charlie

Border Crossing 2.03 km · 24 min walk

At Friedrichstraße, and featured in many cold-war era spy movies and books, this was the most famous of the border crossings. It was the only...

Mauermuseum – Haus am Checkpoint Charlie

Mauermuseum – Haus am Checkpoint Charlie

Museum 2.03 km · 24 min walk

Founded in 1962 by human rights activist Rainer Hildebrandt, this museum documents the ingenuity and desperation of escape attempts from East Berlin. Exhibits include a...

U-Bahnhof Rosenthaler Platz

U-Bahnhof Rosenthaler Platz

Ghost Station 2.03 km · 24 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...

U-Bahnhof Stadtmitte (U6)

U-Bahnhof Stadtmitte (U6)

Ghost Station 2.03 km · 24 min walk

Like Alexanderplatz, Stadtmitte was a split station. The U2 platform operated normally for East Berliners (as "Otto-Grotewohl-Straße"), while the physically separate U6 platform was sealed...

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