Places

Some stretches of the Wall saw escape after escape. These pages gather the stories around one spot, for reading on the sofa or on the pavement where it happened.

1. Bernauer Straße

   The street where the houses stood in the East and the pavement in the West. Today the Berlin Wall Memorial runs along it.

   125 events, 1961–1989

2. Checkpoint Charlie

   The Allied crossing point on Friedrichstraße, at the corner of Zimmerstraße.

   37 events, 1961–1989

3. Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag

   The Gate stood just inside the East; the Reichstag and the Spree bank beside it were on the border.

   18 events, 1961–1989

4. Friedrichstraße station

   The East Berlin station where trains, S-Bahn and U-Bahn lines from the West met the border controls.

   13 events, 1961–1983

5. Invalidenstraße and the Humboldthafen

   The crossing point on Invalidenstraße, the Sandkrugbrücke and the canal basin beside the Charité.

   12 events, 1961–1978

6. The Spree between Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain

   Here the river itself was the border, from the Oberbaumbrücke along today's East Side Gallery.

   25 events, 1961–1988

7. Treptow and Neukölln

   Allotments, canals and back gardens along Kiefholzstraße, the Heidekampgraben and Sonnenallee.

   40 events, 1961–1989

8. Glienicker Brücke and Klein Glienicke

   The Havel bridge between Potsdam and West Berlin, and the East German enclave of Klein Glienicke beside it.

   18 events, 1961–1988

9. Staaken

   The village on the western edge of Spandau that the border cut through.

   14 events, 1961–1989

10. Kleinmachnow, Teltow and the Teltow Canal

    The canal and the border land between Kleinmachnow and Teltow in the GDR and Zehlendorf and Lichterfelde in West Berlin.

    19 events, 1961–1988

11. Hennigsdorf, Nieder Neuendorf and the Havel

    The Havel and the Nieder Neuendorfer See, where the water divided Nieder Neuendorf and Hennigsdorf from Heiligensee and Spandau in West Berlin.

    13 events, 1961–1989

12. Glienicke/Nordbahn, Frohnau and Bergfelde

    The northern edge of West Berlin, where the street Am Sandkrug ran between Hermsdorf and Frohnau as the 'Entenschnabel' and the border ran on through the Bergfelde woods.

    13 events, 1961–1989

13. Groß Glienicke, Kladow and the Sacrower See

    The lakes and woods on the western edge of Spandau, where the border ran through the middle of the Groß Glienicker See between the GDR village and West Berlin.

    6 events, 1961–1988

14. Rudow, Altglienicke and the Teltow Canal

    The south-eastern corner of West Berlin, where the Teltow Canal and the fields towards Schönefeld separated Rudow and Buckow from Johannisthal, Altglienicke and Großziethen.

    22 events, 1961–1988