The Berlin Wall has long since disappeared from reunified Berlin. Memories of the Wall, however, are still very much alive, and many of the visitors who come from all over the world are disappointed or surprised to find that so little remains of Berlin’s most infamous structure. The two halves of the city, separated for decades, have in fact been visibly reunited, while the remaining sections of the GDR’s border fortifications have lost their power to terrify and are being preserved for future generations. A moment of silence can help visitors grasp the message of the memorial sites dedicated to people who died trying to cross the Wall. These pages are intended as a guide to exploring the former course of the Wall.
Using Google Earth technology, this application shows the former course of the Berlin Wall among 3D images of buildings in today’s Berlin. mehr »
The „Berlin Wall Memorial" along the Bernauer Strasse is a spot, where the remains of the former Border Strip are preserved and victims receive the respect they deserve. Here history can be experienced. Dictatorships are addressed and confronted. From here a stronge message of courage and hope goes out to the world. See the movie. mehr
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Explore the Berlin Wall. Walk through one of the open-air wall museum gateways at the Brandenburg Gate, Potsdamer Platz, Checkpoint Charlie, and four other locations in Twinity and step back in time to 1989. mehr »
The Berlin Wall Trail, a well-developed hiking and bike path, traces the course of the former GDR border fortifications that once encircled West Berlin, taking visitors along the roughly 160 kilometers of the former border. Sections of historic interest, where traces or remains of the old Wall can still be found, alternate with stretches of natural beauty that underscore the country’s good fortune in regaining its unity. mehr »
Between 1961 and 1988, well over 100,000 GDR citizens tried to escape across the inner-German border or the Berlin Wall. mehr »
Even aside from the border crossings and the memorial sites, Berlin’s division left traces that are still visible today. mehr »
“Where was the Wall?” This question, asked frequently by visitors and even Berliners, can best be answered in many places from a bird’s eye view. mehr »
The Berlin Wall was the symbol of Germany’s division and the GDR leadership’s disregard for human rights and basic freedoms. mehr »
In the summer of 1961, the stream of refugees leaving East Germany had grown to proportions that threatened the very survival of the GDR. mehr »
