Gartenstrasse Mural

Berlin Wall Memorial


Folder: Berlin
In the northern part of the city, parts of the Berlin Wall have been transformed into an open-air exhibition which explains the operation of the wall and commemorates those who dies attempting to cross the border

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05 Jul 2015

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Gartenstrasse Mural

The mural gives an idea of the width of the 'death strip'

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In place of the wall

Parts of the wall have been replaced by poles of weathering steel

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05 Jul 2015

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Bergstrasse

Bergstrasse was severed by the construction of the wall in 1961 and has been left much as it was.

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05 Jul 2015

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Window of Remembrance

This panel is dedicated to the 138 people who lost their lives at the Wall

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05 Jul 2015

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Along Bernauer Strasse

A view of the so-called "History Mile" looking east. Information boards tell the stories of some of those who attempted to escape to the west

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05 Jul 2015

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Wall Bricks

The course of the wall is marked throughout by a double line of bricks set into the road or pavement.

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05 Jul 2015

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Border fortifications

From the Documentation Centre, there is a view into a barriered-off section which gives an indication of what the wall used to look like on the East side

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05 Jul 2015

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Guard post

A former guard post in the death strip