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East Side Gallery (Berlin Wall)

East Side Gallery (Berlin Wall)

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East Side Gallery (Berlin Wall)

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Location: Berlin, Germany

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Anette

August 31, 2023

A 1.3 kilometer long remnant of the Berlin Wall stretches along the Spree. As early as 1990, 118 artists from 21 countries were invited to paint the remains of the wall. In 2009 the paintings were restored because destruction, pollution and weather had damaged the works of art. Today a foundation is responsible for its preservation.

Take some time to visit the East Side Gallery. The mix of surreal images, graffiti and political statements is really worth seeing. Surprising views of the Spree always open up.

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Paul

September 1, 2022

Berlin wall
The Berlin Wall was a border fortification system of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) during the division of Germany that existed for more than 28 years, from August 13, 1961 to November 9, 1989, and was intended to hermetically seal off the GDR from West Berlin. It not only separated the connections in the Greater Berlin area between the eastern part ("capital of the GDR") and the western part of the city, but also completely surrounded all three sectors of the western part and thus also interrupted its connections to the rest of the surrounding area, which was in the GDR district Potsdam lay. The wall usually ran a few meters behind the actual border.
The Berlin Wall is the former inner-German border between West (former Federal Republic) and East Germany (GDR).
The Berlin Wall, as the last action in the division of the four-sector city of Berlin created by the post-war order of the Allies, was a component and at the same time a striking symbol of the conflict in the Cold War between the Western powers, dominated by the United States, and the so-called Eastern bloc led by the Soviet Union. It was built on the basis of a decision by the political leadership of the Soviet Union at the beginning of August 1961 and an instruction from the GDR government issued a few days later. The Berlin Wall completed the 1,378-kilometer inner-German border between the GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany, which had been "fortified" more than nine years earlier to stem the flow of refugees.
Since 1960, the GDR border guards had been ordered to shoot in cases of “illegal border crossings”, which was only formally incorporated into law in 1982. According to the current state of research (2009), between 136 and 245 people were killed in attempts to cross the 167.8 km long[1] and heavily guarded border installations in the direction of West Berlin. The exact number of fatalities at the Berlin Wall is not known.
The Berlin Wall was opened on the evening of November 9, 1989 as part of the political transition. This happened under the growing pressure of the GDR population demanding more freedom. The fall of the Wall paved the way for the collapse of the SED dictatorship, the dissolution of the GDR and, at the same time, the unification of Germany within a year.
Text/Source: Wikipedia
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_Mauer

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MW aus LE

September 8, 2017

Between Ost-Bahnhof and Oberbaumbrücke the construction of the border installations did not follow the usual pattern. The political border with West Berlin ran southwest on the banks of Kreuzberg. The water surface belonged in entire width to East Berlin.

Patrol boats were in action on the Spree. Elements of the "Grenzmauer 75" first rose up on the banks of the Friedrichshain, behind which were the signal fence, the "Kolonnenweg", the "Lichttrasse" and, close to the water, the "Grenzsicherungszaun". Because the passing mill street was extended to the so-called protocol route between East Berlin city center and Schönfeld Airport, here the concrete elements otherwise used as "West Wall" should prevent insights into the border strip and unfold their trivializing effect.
Source: berlin.de/mauer/orte/weitere-wichtige-orte/east-side-gallery

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1. Köpenick Town Hall – Teltow Canal Cycle Path loop from Prenzlauer Allee

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3. View of the Berlin TV Tower – Paul and Paula Embankment loop from Rummelsburg

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