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 A fence protects the Wall near
Martin-Gropius-Bau by Kakapo2, 1 more photos
The most-liked parts of the Wall were the parts with graffiti. The western side of the Wall was said to be the world’s longest gallery. Many artists painted their works onto the four metre high concrete slabs.
You see some great examples of Wall art some metres further in front of the world’s largest helium balloon, and a souvenir shop.
(On photo 2 you can see a gaping hole in the Wall, damaged by souvenir hunters.) Address: Niederkirchnerstraße, Berlin-KreuzbergDirections: At walking distance from Potsdamer Platz and Checkpoint Charlie U-Bahn U2, stations Potsdamer Platz and Mohrenstraße S-Bahn S 1, 2 and 25, stations Potsdamer Platz and Anhalter Bahnhof
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 Cold War Divide by yooperprof
If you are fortunate, you'll visit this section of the Wall on a gray and dismal day in November. (I did.) I hadn't planned upon the weather, but it was certainly appropriate for the milieu. Leave a Comment
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Aug 1961 - Oct 1989.
In between years the city was divided - East and West Berliners were cut off from their jobs, friends, and family overnight (unless they were of retirement age when they were able to travel freely.)
There now are a few remaining sections left as a kind of memorial. But only a very few, ie around 40 meters or so. If you look in the road on 17 Juni Strasse around the Brandenburg gate you will see a line of red brick embedded in the tarmac - this red line represents where the wall stood for 28 years.
During the four years I lived in Berlin in the early 70's, I was frequently taken on school trips and family trips to see The Wall - and will always remember the sad little memorials placed alongside it, for the East Berliners who had been shot whilst attempting to escape.
Check the website for an indepth history. Leave a Comment
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Berlin – a City I always will remember as THE divided city in Europe and
witness/ result of the second world war tragedy.
I once visited Berlin when I was a student ( so a long time ago) and never will forget the Wall – separating East and West - keeping the western Germans out of the “Democratic” Republic, and keeping the eastern Germans far away from Liberty.
But – now that I revisited Berlin and maybe strange to say – you will find hardly
a piece of stone from this previous divider. Except on touristic places – but even there .. i have my serious doubts if it is a real touristic trap or not
Maybe it is better this way ... Leave a Comment Address: Check Point Charly
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Some guides tell you this museum is not as popular as some of the others like Checkpoint Charlie because it is not as central; do not be fooled. The museum which is free, documents the history of the wall with photographs and films. It is extremely moving as you watch the film and the desperate attempts of escape. There is a tower attached to the museum where you can look down on the wall and no mans land. You can walk by the wall and touch it. There is information across the road on a piece of waste land regarding the competition held to create an extension to the museum in a new building. The winning entry should be completed in the next few years. Leave a Comment
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We passed along the kept site of the Berlin wall on Mulhenstrasse. It was constructed during one night on August, 13th, 1961 to prevent flights of east Germans to Western Germany. Till this moment about two hundred thousand people run away . The length of a wall was 161 kilometer. 45 kilometers divided east and western zones of Berlin. The wall was double. Nearby two hundred persons were lost, trying to get over through it to the Western Berlin. On November, 9th, 1989 the wall has fallen. After association of Germany in 1990 the wall was almost completely destroyed, except for that site by which we pass . In 1991 artists from 28 countries of the world ornamented it and transformed into a wall-gallery. Its fragments are interesting to former Soviet citizens with the kissing Brezhnev's and Honecker images, Gorbachev's and Saharov's portraits.
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Mauer Park is a preserved section of the Berlin wall with a museum and viewing platform across the street. Inside the museum you can see historical videos and read or buy books and pamphlets in just about any language. Me, I had enough of that in school, but it was interesting to see the park itself. The last time I'd been to Berlin sections of the wall still stood but had a very mundane character. This was a little different in that when they chose to make the park, they chose one of the most histoircal and best viewed sections. For instance, in the picture you will see the famous graveyard which was cut in two by the wall. You can also enter the park and see what the wall looked like from the eastern side, no graffiti or anything fun like that. The platform gives you an idea what the wall might have looked like from a sentry's point of view. Leave a Comment Directions: Bernauerstr.
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 urban blight? by yooperprof
The picture was taken from the observation tower at the Wall Documentation Center. Leave a Comment
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 Trace of the former Berlin
Wall by der_geograf
The trace is characterized by either different-colored concrete, or a dual line of bricks placed in the ground, with plaques that read "Berliner Mauer 1961-1989" placed periodically along it. Leave a Comment Directions: Anywhere along the former Wall boundary (Behind the Reichstag, in front of the Brandenburger Tor, and along Friedrichstrasse are all good places to see it.)
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