
The central Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Straße shows the permanent exhibition "1961 | 1989. The Berlin Wall".
16 Locations
A watchtower is one of the most chilling relics of divided Berlin, a lookout from which guards once watched the Wall. A few watchtowers survive across the city, preserved as memorials to the border years. This overview gathers Berlin locations where they still stand.
The Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Strasse keeps a watchtower within its preserved stretch of border, while lone towers stand near the former crossings, including the Guenter Litfin memorial in a restored command tower. Information panels explain their grim purpose, and they bring the scale of the surveillance home. They are sobering reminders of the divided city.
Browse the venues below to find a watchtower across Berlin, from the Wall Memorial to preserved command towers.

The central Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Straße shows the permanent exhibition "1961 | 1989. The Berlin Wall".




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.


Roger Moore used Checkpoint Charlie as a backdrop for the James Bond film 'Octopussy'.


In front of the museum is the former Checkpoint Charlie. Inside, everything revolves around the creative escape attempts of people in the GDR and the border security system of that time.


Friedrichhain's East Side Gallery is with its 1.361 metres the longest open air gallery in the world and at the same time the longest piece of the Berlin Wall still standing!





Follow the path of the Berlin Wall and discover a major part of Berlin’s history by foot or by bike.



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.





The Wall Museum East Side Gallery is located directly in the Mühlenspeicher (mill warehouse) on the Spree and offers a deep insight into the history of German division. With over 100 screens and exciting interviews, this exhibition tells the events from 1961 until the fall of the Berlin Wall in a modern way.

Where was the Berlin Wall? This is the question city guides get asked most frequently.



Together with tens of thousands of other GDR citizens, Chancellor Angela Merkel crossed into the West at this very spot on the day the Wall fell.





Open Air Karaoke in summer and the flea market on Sunday all year round - these are the two highlights that most people associate with Mauerpark.

The monument "Parliament of Trees" was created by artist Ben Wargin in 1990 and commemorates the people who died on the Berlin Wall.


This memorial site commemorates the victims of gunfire and barbed wire at the Berlin Wall and is named after Günter Litfin, the first victim of precision shooting at the Wall.



Pictures, films, original quotes, interviews and games make history and histories of the Berlin Wall come alive with the multimedia WallGuide.

His tragic death converted Peter Fechter into a symbol. He was shot in 1962 when trying to climb across the Wall.


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!