Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall, officially the Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart, was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Berlin Nordbahnhof and Pergamon Museum.
Berlin Nordbahnhof
Railway station
Photo: Jörg Zägel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Berlin Nordbahnhof is a railway station in the Mitte district of Berlin, Germany. It is served by the Berlin S-Bahn and local bus and tram lines. Until 1950, the station was known as Stettiner Bahnhof. Berlin Nordbahnhof is situated 220 metres southwest of Berlin Wall.
Pergamon Museum
Museum
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The Pergamon Museum is a listed building on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin, Germany. It was built from 1910 to 1930 by order of Emperor Wilhelm II and according to plans by Alfred Messel and Ludwig Hoffmann in Stripped Classicism style. Pergamon Museum is situated 1½ km south of Berlin Wall.
Natural History Museum
Museum
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The Natural History Museum is a natural history museum located in Berlin, Germany. It exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history and in such domain it is one of three major museums in Germany alongside Naturmuseum Senckenberg in Frankfurt and Museum Koenig in Bonn. Natural History Museum is situated 800 metres southwest of Berlin Wall.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Spandauer Vorstadt and Europacity.
Spandauer Vorstadt
Quarter
Spandauer Vorstadt is a historic district in what is now the Mitte district of Berlin.
Scheunenviertel
Neighborhood
Scheunenviertel is a neighborhood of Mitte in the centre of Berlin. It is situated to the north of the medieval Altberlin area, east of the Rosenthaler Straße and Hackescher Markt.
Berlin Wall
- Type: City walls
- Description: barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic, enclosing West Berlin (1961–1989)
- Categories: cordon, destroyed building or structure, tourist attraction, defense line, separation barrier, historic site, and tourism
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Stadt, Berlin, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
52.53406° or 52° 32′ 3″ northLongitude
13.3894° or 13° 23′ 22″ eastElevation
35 metres (115 feet)Open location code
9F4MG9MQ+JQOpenStreetMap ID
node 13277221839OpenStreetMap feature
historic=citywalls
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Berlin Wall” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Berlynse Muur”
- Albanian: “Muri i Berlinit”
- Amharic: “የበርሊን ግድግዳ”
- Arabic: “جدار برلين”
- Arabic: “حائط برلين”
- Arabic: “سور برلين”
- Aragonese: “Muro de Berlín”
- Armenian: “Բեռլինի պատ”
- Asturian: “Muriu de Berlín”
- Azerbaijani: “Berlin divarı”
- Bashkir: “Берлин диуары”
- Basque: “Berlingo harresia”
- Belarusian: “Берлінская сцяна”
- Belarusian: “Бэрлінская сьцяна”
- Belarusian: “Бэрлінскі мур”
- Bengali: “বার্লিন প্রাচীর”
- Bosnian: “Berlinski zid”
- Brahui: “Barlin Dívál”
- Breton: “Moger Berlin”
- Bulgarian: “Берлинска стена”
- Burmese: “ဘာလင် တံတိုင်း”
- Catalan: “Mur de Berlín”
- Central Kurdish: “دیواری بەرلین”
- Chinese: “Pek-lîm Chhiûⁿ-ûi”
- Chinese: “反法西斯防卫墙”
- Chinese: “柏林围墙”
- Chinese: “柏林圍牆”
- Chinese: “柏林墙”
- Corsican: “barriera di protezione antifascista”
- Corsican: “Muru di Berlinu”
- Croatian: “Berlinski zid”
- Czech: “Berlínská zeď”
- Danish: “Berliner Mauer DDR”
- Danish: “Berliner Mauer”
- Danish: “Berlinmuren”
- Danish: “Den østtyske mur”
- Dimli (individual language): “Dêsê Berlini”
- Dutch: “Berlijnse Muur”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سور برلين”
- Esperanto: “Berlina muro”
- Esperanto: “kontraŭfaŝisma remparo”
- Esperanto: “la muro”
- Estonian: “Berliini müür”
- Faroese: “Berlinmúrurin”
- Finnish: “Berliinin muuri”
- French: “Berlin, Mur de (1961-1989)”
- French: “Mur de Berlin”
- French: “Mur de la honte”
- Galician: “Muro de Berlín”
- Georgian: “ბერლინის კედელი”
- German: “antifaschistischer Schutzwall”
- German: “Berliner Mauer”
- German: “Schandmauer”
- Greek: “Τείχος του Βερολίνου”
- Guarani: “Berlin mongoraha”
- Hebrew: “חומת ברלין”
- Hindi: “बर्लिन की दीवार”
- Hungarian: “berlini fal”
- Hungarian: “Berlini fal”
- Hungarian: “Fasisztaellenes Védőfal”
- Icelandic: “Berlínarmúrinn”
- Ido: “Muro di Berlin”
- Inari Sami: “Berlin muvrâ”
- Indonesian: “Tembok Berlin”
- Interlingua: “Muro de Berlin”
- Interlingue: “Mur de Berlin”
- Irish: “Balla Bheirlín”
- Italian: “Muro di Berlino”
- Japanese: “ベルリンの壁”
- Japanese: “ベルリンの壁記念広場”
- Javanese: “Témbok Berlin”
- Kabyle: “Aɣṛab n Berlin”
- Kannada: “ಬರ್ಲಿನ್ ಗೋಡೆ”
- Kazakh: “Берлин қабырғасы”
- Khmer: “ជញ្ជាំង ប៊ែរឡាំង”
- Korean: “베를린 장벽”
- Kurdish: “Dîwarê Berlînê”
- Kurdish: “Hêta Berlînê”
- Latin: “Murus Berolinensis”
- Latvian: “Antifašisma aizsardzības siena”
- Latvian: “Berlīnes mūris”
- Ligurian: “Miâgia de Berlin”
- Limburgan: “Moeër”
- Literary Chinese: “柏林圍牆”
- Lithuanian: “Berlyno siena”
- Lombard: “Mür de Berlin”
- Low German: “Berliner Müür”
- Luxembourgish: “Berliner Mauer”
- Macedonian: “Берлински ѕид”
- Malagasy: “Rindrin’i Berlin”
- Malay: “Tembok Berlin”
- Malayalam: “ബെർലിൻ മതിൽ”
- Manx: “Boalley Verleen”
- Marathi: “बर्लिनची भिंत”
- Mazanderani: “برلین دیوار”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Berlin Chhiûⁿ-ûi”
- Mingrelian: “ბერლინიშ კიდა”
- Mongolian: “Берлиний хана”
- Moroccan Arabic: “السور د برلين”
- Neapolitan: “Muro ‘e Berlino”
- Neapolitan: “Muro ’e Berlino”
- Nepali: “बर्लिन पर्खाल”
- Nepali: “बर्लिनको पर्खाल”
- Northern Sami: “Berlinamuvra”
- Northern Sami: “Berlinmuvra”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Berlinmuren”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Muren”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Berlinmuren”
- Norwegian: “Berlinmuren”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Mur de Berlin”
- Panjabi: “ਬਰਲਿਨ ਦੀ ਕੰਧ”
- Papiamento: “Muraya di Berlin”
- Persian: “دیوار برلین”
- Piemontese: “Mur ëd Berlin”
- Polish: “Berliner Mauer”
- Polish: “Mur Berliński”
- Portuguese: “Muro de Berlim”
- Pushto: “د برلین دیوال”
- Quechua: “Berlin pirqa”
- Romanian: “Zidul Berlinului (1961-1989)”
- Romanian: “Zidul Berlinului”
- Romanian: “Zidul rușinii”
- Russian: “Антифашистский вал”
- Russian: “Берлинская стена”
- Saraiki: “دیوار برلن”
- Sardinian: “Muru de Berilinu”
- Sardinian: “Muru de Berlinu”
- Saterfriesisch: “Berliner Muure”
- Scots: “Berlin Waw”
- Serbian: “Берлински зид”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Berlinski zid”
- Sicilian: “Muru di Birlinu”
- Silesian: “Berliński mur”
- Sinhala: “බර්ලින් තාප්පය”
- Slovak: “Berlínsky múr”
- Slovenian: “Antifašistična zaščitna pregrada”
- Slovenian: “Berlinski zid”
- Slovenian: “Zid sramote”
- Spanish: “Muro de Berlin”
- Spanish: “Muro de Berlín”
- Spanish: “Muro de la vergüenza”
- Spanish: “Muro de Proteccion Antifascista”
- Spanish: “Muro de Protección Antifascista”
- Swahili: “Ukuta wa Berlin”
- Swedish: “Berlinmuren”
- Swiss German: “Berliner Mauer”
- Tagalog: “Pader ng Berlin”
- Tamil: “பெர்லின் சுவர்”
- Tamil: “பேர்லின் சுவர்”
- Tatar: “Берлин дивары”
- Telugu: “బెర్లిన్ గోడ”
- Thai: “กำแพงเบอร์ลิน”
- Tibetan: “པེར་ལིན་ལྕགས་རི།”
- Tosk Albanian: “Berliner Mauer”
- Turkish: “Berlin Duvarı”
- Ukrainian: “Антифашистський вал”
- Ukrainian: “Берлінська стіна”
- Ukrainian: “Берлінський мур”
- Upper Sorbian: “Berlinska murja”
- Upper Sorbian: “Murja”
- Urdu: “دیوار برلن”
- Uzbek: “Berlin devori”
- Uzbek: “Berlin devorining qulatilishi”
- Venetian: “Mur de Berlin”
- Venetian: “Muro de Berlin”
- Veps: “Berlinan sein”
- Vietnamese: “Bức tường Berlin”
- Vlaams: “berlinse mure”
- Vlaams: “twasn”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bungbong han Berlin”
- Welsh: “Mur Berlin”
- Western Frisian: “Berlynske Muorre”
- Western Panjabi: “برلن کند”
- Western Panjabi: “برلن کندھ”
- Wu Chinese: “柏林墙”
- Yiddish: “בערלינער וואנט”
- Yoruba: “wall of Berlin”
- Yoruba: “Yoruba”
- Yue Chinese: “柏林圍牆”
- “Berlin pāntli”
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