Berlin Wall Cold War Sites — Outer Berlin

An information stele and three panels of photographs stand in a quiet meadow park on the southeastern edge of Berlin, marking where the CIA and MI6 dug a 450-metre tunnel under the sector border to tap the telephone cables of the Soviet army. It is one of the few sites on the Berlin Wall Trail […]

The Eiskeller exclave was one of the strangest geographical anomalies of the Cold War. Three West Berlin farmsteads, connected to the main city by a corridor just four metres wide and 800 metres long, became an island of freedom surrounded by GDR territory.

Falkensee, a town just west of Spandau in Brandenburg, experienced the economic devastation of the Berlin Wall more acutely than almost any other community. When the border was sealed in 1961, 80% of the town’s male workforce lost their jobs overnight.

Heilandskirche Sacrow, the Church of the Redeemer, is a striking Italianate church on the banks of the Havel near Potsdam. Walled off for 28 years during the division of Germany, it became one of the most powerful symbols of the Berlin Wall’s impact on daily life.

Klein Glienicke was a GDR enclave wedged between West Berlin and Potsdam, accessible only through a single surveilled bridge. Its residents lived in near-total isolation for 28 years, surrounded on three sides by territory they could see but never enter.