Checkpoint Charlie
Checkpoint Charlie was the Western Bloc's name for the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War, becoming a symbol of the Cold War, representing the separation of East and West.Photo: Adrian Purser, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: The Central Intelligence Agency, Public domain.
- Type: Border post
- Description: border checkpoint between East Berlin and West Berlin
- Also known as: “Check Point C” and “Check Point Charlie”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Wall Museum and Brandenburg Gate.
Wall Museum
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Wall Museum – Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie is a private museum in Berlin. It is named after the famous crossing point through the Berlin Wall, and was created to document the so-called "best border security system in the world".
Brandenburg Gate
Photo: Der Wolf im Wald, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Brandenburg Gate is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin, Germany. One of the best-known landmarks of the country, it was erected on the site of a former city gate that marked the start of the road from Berlin to Brandenburg an der Havel, the former capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg. Brandenburg Gate is situated 1¼ km northwest of Checkpoint Charlie.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Friedrichstadt and Friedrichswerder.
Friedrichstadt
Quarter
Photo: Tanweer Morshed, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Friedrichstadt was an independent suburb of Berlin, and is now a historical neighbourhood of the city itself. The neighbourhood is named after the Prussian king Frederick I.
Friedrichswerder
Neighborhood
Friedrichswerder is a neighborhood, situated in the Berliner locality of Mitte, part of the homonymous borough. It is identical to the town of Friedrichswerder, founded in 1662, which was an independent town until 1710.
Dorotheenstadt
Quarter
Dorotheenstadt is a historic zone or neighbourhood of central Berlin, Germany, which forms part of the locality of Mitte within the borough also called Mitte.
Checkpoint Charlie
- Categories: Berlin border crossing and tourist attraction
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Stadt, Berlin, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Uzbek—“Checkpoint Charlie” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Checkpoint Charlie”
- Arabic: “نقطة تفتيش تشارلي”
- Armenian: “Չեքփոյնթ Չարլի”
- Azerbaijani: “Çekpoynt Çarli”
- Basque: “Checkpoint Charlie”
- Belarusian: “Checkpoint C”
- Belarusian: “Checkpoint Charlie”
- Belarusian: “Чэкпойнт Чарлі”
- Breton: “Checkpoint Charlie”
- Bulgarian: “Чекпойнт Чарли”
- Catalan: “Checkpoint Charlie”
- Chinese: “查理检查站”
- Chinese: “查理檢查哨”
- Chinese: “查理檢查哨博物館”
- Croatian: “Checkpoint Charlie”
- Czech: “Checkpoint Charlie”
- Danish: “Checkpiont Charlie”
- Danish: “Checkpoint Charlie”
- Dutch: “Checkpoint Charlie”
- Dutch: “Checkpoint Charly”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نقطة تفتيش تشارلى”
- Esperanto: “Checkpoint Charlie”
- Finnish: “Checkpoint Charlie”
- French: “Check Point Charlie”
- French: “Checkpoint Charlie”
- French: “Friedrichstraße”
- Galician: “Checkpoint Charlie”
- German: “Checkpoint Charlie”
- Greek: “Check Point C”
- Greek: “Σημείο ελέγχου Τσάρλι”
- Hebrew: “צ’ק פוינט צ’ארלי”
- Hebrew: “צ’ק פוינט צ’רלי”
- Hebrew: “צ’קפוינט צ’ארלי”
- Hebrew: “צ’קפוינט צ’רלי”
- Hungarian: “Checkpoint Charlie”
- Icelandic: “Checkpoint Charlie”
- Indonesian: “Checkpoint Charlie”
- Italian: “Checkpoint Charlie”
- Japanese: “チェックポイント・チャーリー”
- Japanese: “チャーリー検問所”
- Korean: “체크포인트 찰리”
- Lombard: “Checkpoint Charlie”
- Luxembourgish: “Checkpoint Charlie”
- Malayalam: “ചെക്പോയ്ന്റ് ചാർളി”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Checkpoint Charlie”
- Norwegian: “Checkpoint Charlie”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Checkpoint Charlie”
- Persian: “ایستبازرسی چارلی”
- Polish: “Checkpoint Charlie”
- Portuguese: “Checkpoint Charlie”
- Romanian: “Checkpoint Charlie”
- Russian: “КПП Фридрихштрассе”
- Russian: “КПП Чарли”
- Russian: “Чекпойнт Чарли”
- Russian: “Чекпойнт-Чарли”
- Serbian: “Контролна тачка Чарли”
- Serbian: “Чекпоинт Чарли”
- Slovak: “Checkpoint Charlie”
- Slovenian: “Checkpoint Charlie”
- Spanish: “Checkpoint Charlie”
- Spanish: “Punto de control Charlie”
- Swedish: “Checkpoint Charlie”
- Tagalog: “Tsekpoint Charlie”
- Turkish: “Çarli Kontrol Noktası”
- Turkish: “Checkpoint Charlie”
- Ukrainian: “Чекпойнт Чарлі”
- Ukrainian: “Чекпойнт-Чарлі”
- Urdu: “چیک پوائنٹ چارلی”
- Uzbek: “Checkpoint Charlie”
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