Mercure Hotel & Residenz Berlin Checkpoint Charlie

Mercure Hotel & Residenz Berlin Checkpoint Charlie is a hotel in Berlin, Berlin which is located on Schützenstraße. Mercure Hotel & Residenz Berlin Checkpoint Charlie is situated nearby to Wall Museum, as well as near the quarter Friedrichstadt.

Type: Hotel
Description: hotel in Berlin, Germany
Also known as: “Mercure Hotel + Residenz Berlin Checkpoint Charlie”
Address: Schützenstraße 11, Mitte, Berlin, 10117

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Checkpoint Charlie and Wall Museum.

Checkpoint Charlie

Photo: Adrian Purser, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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. Checkpoint Charlie is situated 240 metres southwest of Mercure Hotel & Residenz Berlin Checkpoint Charlie.

Wall Museum

Museum

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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". Wall Museum is situated 240 metres southwest of Mercure Hotel & Residenz Berlin Checkpoint Charlie.

New Church

Photo: Jörg Zägel, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The New Church, is located in Berlin on the Gendarmenmarkt across from French Church of Friedrichstadt. Its parish comprised the northern part of the then new quarter of Friedrichstadt, which until then belonged to the parish of the congregations of Jerusalem's Church. New Church is situated 460 metres north of Mercure Hotel & Residenz Berlin Checkpoint Charlie.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Friedrichstadt and Friedrichswerder.

Friedrichstadt

Quarter

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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.