Not much is left from the wall that ringed West-Berlin for 28
years and separated East from West. On Bernauer Strasse (Wedding)
a memorial to the Wall was installed with a few remnants of the
infamous wall as a background.(Gedenkstätte
Berliner Mauer, with the documentation center Berlin Wall
(Bernauer Straße 111, Wed-Su 10am-5pm). In 2003 the building
gained a tower with a viewing platform, where the remaining parts
of the former border are very well visible. Since 1999, at the
place where the church of reconciliation was blown away in 1985,
there is now the chapel of reconciliation, an oval-shaped
clay building behind a wall of strips in filigree.
Right across from here a
documentation centre at the Evangelical Reconciliation
Congregation is devoted to the history of the Berlin Wall. Further
down on Eberswalder Strasse stands a "Wall Park".
Memorial crosses along the Reichstag recall the victims of the
Wall.
You’ll find leftovers from the wall over a length of 200 m along
the memorial area Topographie des Terrors in the
Niederkirchnerstraße. Fragments of the wall can be bought at the infobox and
in Niederkirchner Strasse. The Wall cut in two Martin-Gropius
House and the Parliament Building as well as
Zimmerstrasse.
In the inner city, a double row of paving-stones points out
where the wall was (8 km). The project ‘Berliner Mauerweg’
sketches the 160 km long path from the former border around
West-Berlin on the still partly existing ‘Kolonnen- and
Zollwegen’, which are being unlocked for pedestrians and cyclers.
Certain parts are already finished. Information signs explain the
course of the former border.
The
house at Checkpoint Charlie recalls the history of the wall
and tells of the many adventurous escape attempts by
East-Berliners (Friedrichstrasse 44, daily 9am-10pm).
A special – albeit mightily neglected – stretch of the wall
is the East Side Gallery: after the reunification a piece
of the wall, 1300 metres long, was painted by 101 artists from all
over the world (Mühlenstrasse, Friedrichshain, between
Oberbaumbrücke and Central Station).
Berlin Wall
