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Bernauer Straße was the border between the districts of Wedding (West) and Mitte (East).
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Border Strip
11 Locations
The border strip, or death strip, was the deadly no man's land between the two Berlin Walls. Today its course is marked across the city, and the former border strip has become a green trail, a memory and a place of remembrance.
This overview gathers Berlin locations along the border strip, from the Wall Memorial on Bernauer Straße to watchtowers and open-air exhibitions. Some focus on the mechanics of the border, others on the victims and the stories of escape.
Browse the places below to explore the former border strip in Berlin, compare exhibitions and opening hours, and plan your visit.
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The central Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Straße shows the permanent exhibition "1961 | 1989. The Berlin Wall".
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The most unusual and extraordinary location for a birthday party is moored close to one of Berlin's most beautiful bridges across the Spree, the Oberbaumbrücke.
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The Tränenpalast ("Palace of Tears") near Bahnhof Friedrichstraße is home to the permament exhibition "GranzErfahrungen", giving an insight into the day-to-day life of a country divided in two.
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Potsdamer Platz is a place of superlatives in the middle of Berlin in the former border strip.
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The Berlin Wall Memorial is the central place of the German division and is in the historical site of Bernauer Strasse.
Bernauer Straße 119, 13355 Berlin Mitte+49 30 213085166www.berliner-mauer-gedenkstaette.de/en/index.html
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The large Panorama wall of the artist Yadegar Asisi visualizes the daily life next to the Berlin wall on a fictitious autumn day in the 1980s.
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Located between Club der Visionäre, Badeschiff and Arena Treptow, you will find the BBQ area Schlesischer Busch - ideal location for a pre-party weekend BBQ.
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Pictures, films, original quotes, interviews and games make history and histories of the Berlin Wall come alive with the multimedia WallGuide.
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The Mauerpark (Wall Park) was created in the former border strip as a public green space which contains about 300 metres of original Berlin Wall!
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On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall, Stadtmuseum Berlin deals with the insular city that West-Berlin was dedicating it the exhibition "WEST:BERLIN - an island in search of the mainland".
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