Berlin Wall Sites Near 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 the platform. When workers first entered, they found 1961-era advertisements still on the walls, unchanged for 28 years.
15 Berlin Wall Sites Within Walking Distance
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...
U-Bahnhof Weinmeisterstraße
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Mauerpark
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...
DDR Museum
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...
U-Bahnhof Alexanderplatz (U8)
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...
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...
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...
Bahnhof Friedrichstraße
As an important travel hub between the West Berlin sectors, despite it being located entirely in the Soviet occupied West Berlin, its underground U and...
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