Brandenburg Gate
Today the Brandenburge gate is the main symbol for the recovery of the Town and country from their devision. It was building 1771 by the architect Carl Gotthard Langhaus, who used the draft of the Acropolis.

Memorial library in honour of the victims of the Stalin regime
Special library for Facts about the causes and consequences of Soviet Communism comprising approx. 7000 Volumes aswell as sound- and videotapes of the frequently held library exhibitions.
Further information at http://www.gedenkbibliothek.de (click here)
Nikolaikirchplatz 5-7
tel. +49 (030) 283 43 27 / fax +49 (030) 280 97 193
open Tues - Thurs 10.00 - 18.00 by arrangement

"Tränenpalast" palace of Tears
Former GDR border officials´ dispatch office for visitors from the West Berlin or West Germany who left East Berlin using the "Friedrichstrasse" station. Today an important cultural location where Jazz-, Rock- and Pop concerts, by renoumned artists, are held."Reichtagsufer 17"
tel. +49 (030) 238 62 11
(Foto - please click)

Museum House at Checkpoint Charlie
At the former border crossing checkpoint Charlie is today the wall museum with a constant exhibition..
Friedrichstrasse 43-44
daily opened 9.00 - 22.00 O'Clock
tel. +49 (030) 253725 - 0

Information- and Documentation Center Berlin
(beim Bundesbeauftragten for the documents of the public security service of the former GDR) with the permanent exhibition:
"Public security - power instrument
of the SED dictatorship"
Mauerstrasse 38,opened Mo.- Sa. 10.00 -18.00
tel. +49 (030) 22 41 77 70
Further Information under http://www.bstu.de

Memorial for Peter Fechter
"....he only wanted Freedom"
On August,17.1962 died the eighteen-year old after a escape attempt.

Watchtower at Checkpoint Charlie
 

The parliament of trees

The memorials are dedicated to the victims of the war and to the German seperation. The large 400 m² green area was designed by multinational artists. The basis is made up of tree plantations aswell as segments of the wall on display, granit slabs and sculptures.

Invalid cemetry
The Invalid cemetry is over 250 years old. It includes recently unveiled sarcophagus trench memorials dating back to the last third of the 18th centuary, thus making it one of the most remarkable Berlin cemeteries. From 1961 large areas of the cemetry, where the wall passed, became part of the border zone.The graves that lay within no mans land were removed by the GDR officials. Today, information boards tell us about the topography of this border zone.

Reconciliation church
The reconciliation church lay directly in no mans land.
In 1985 it was blasted
Today the newly built "reconciliation chapel" serves as a memorial.

Wall memorial
Bits of the Berlin wall were left, here in the Bernauer street, as a memorial.
A reference library is part of the memorial.

Wall park
To a "Wall Park" within the former no mans land. The Max-Schmeling-Hall with over 10 000 seats ist part of this complex.

Route North
This tour will lead you from the border crossing in the Bornholmer street– the first one to be opened in the night of the 9 November 89 – up to the North station. Tour highlights include the wall park and the wall memorial.
Please click Route North

Central Tour
This tour starts in the heart of the city at the Brandenburg gate and continues to the Cemetery of the Invalids where you can visit one of the last restored watch towers.
Please click Central Tour

Route South
extends from the Potsdamer Platz square with its monumental new high rise buildings to the Fechter memorial on Zimmer street.Visitors with some extra time can stop at the East Side Gallery with its world-famous graffiti. 
Please click Route South

Gropiusbau

Wall segments in the Niederkirchnerstreet
 

Tower in the Kieler Street
 

Memorial stone
"for the victim
of the wall
Ida Siekmann
22.8.1961
murdered."

Information board

On the diagram pictures and texts describe the history of the cemetery of the St.Hedwig municipality as a part of Berlin wall

Information board
The community of interest ralating to the
Berlin wall e.V., A group of former owners of the walls plots of land. For further information contact
http://www.berlinermauer.de
(click here).

Remainders of the wall
The last Wall segments at Potsdamer Platz with a little Museum.

Watchtower
Remainder of one of the last Watchtowers.

Meanwhile, the former location of the wall, can be followed for 20km thanks to a double course of granit slabs.

Print the route
Please do not click the "normal" Map with the print option of your internet programm.
We have put a comprehensive path description incl. pictures, a map and a few location sketches to your disposal for downloading.
Please click Print

  East Side Gallery:
With 1000m  the longest work of art in the world - if you need more information, just click.

The Tours

Using different routes we will provide you with the opportunity to discover the original path of the wall, seek out its remnants, and to experience Berlin’s history from the perspective of its division.

  Route North
This tour will lead you from the border crossing in the Bornholmer street– the first one to be opened in the night of the 9 November 89 – up to the North station. Tour highlights include the wall park and the wall memorial.

  Central Tour
This tour starts in the heart of the city at the Brandenburg gate and continues to the Cemetery of the Invalids where you can visit one of the last restored watch towers.

  Route South
extends from the Potsdamer Platz square with its monumental new high rise buildings to the Fechter memorial on Zimmer street.Visitors with some extra time can stop at the East Side Gallery with its world-famous graffiti. 

For each of these routes we have prepared a map for you and a detailed description with which you can see the path of the old wall and its remnants. 

Show Map

  The memorial fence
The memorial fence, with its 16 crosses, pays tribute to the victims of the wall, who lost their lives between 1961 and 1989 in an attempt to flee from East to West. These include among others: Axel Hannemann, Marienetta Jirkowski and Chris Goeffroy.

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