Berlin Customs Wall
The Berlin Customs Wall was a ring wall around the historic city of Berlin, between 1737 and 1860; the wall itself had no defence function but was used to facilitate the levying of taxes on the import and export of goods, which was the primary income of many cities at the time.Photo: Jörg Zägel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City walls
- Description: wall of berlin to 1860
- Also known as: “Berliner Zoll- und Akzisemauer”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Berlin Wall and Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.
Berlin Wall
Photo: fauxaddress, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Berlin Wall was a concrete barrier separating Western and Eastern parts of Berlin from 1961 to 1989. It is regarded as one of the symbols of the Cold War. Berlin Wall is situated 1 km northeast of Berlin Customs Wall.
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Museum für Naturkunde Berlin 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. Museum für Naturkunde Berlin is situated 240 metres north of Berlin Customs Wall.
Berlin Hauptbahnhof
Railway station
Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Berlin Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station in Berlin, Germany. It came into full operation two days after a ceremonial opening on 26 May 2006. It is located on the site of the historic Lehrter Bahnhof, and on the Berlin S-Bahn suburban railway. Berlin Hauptbahnhof is situated 800 metres southwest of Berlin Customs Wall.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Europacity and Dorotheenstadt.
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.
Spandauer Vorstadt
Quarter
Spandauer Vorstadt is a historic district in what is now the Mitte district of Berlin.
Berlin Customs Wall
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Stadt, Berlin, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
52.52843° or 52° 31′ 42″ northLongitude
13.38008° or 13° 22′ 48″ eastOpen location code
9F4MG9HJ+92OpenStreetMap ID
node 10695759505OpenStreetMap feature
historic=citywallsWikidata ID
Q532578
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Swedish—“Berlin Customs Wall” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “柏林关税城墙”
- Chinese: “柏林关税墙”
- Chinese: “柏林關稅城牆”
- Chinese: “柏林關稅牆”
- Danish: “Berlins toldmur”
- Finnish: “Berliinin tullimuuri”
- French: “mur de douane et d’accise de Berlin”
- French: “Mur de douane et d’accise de Berlin”
- Galician: “Muro da Aduana de Berlín”
- German: “Akzisemauer”
- German: “Berliner Zoll- und Akzisemauer”
- German: “Berliner Zollmauer”
- Hebrew: “חומת המכס של ברלין”
- Italian: “Akzisemauer”
- Italian: “Zoll- und Akzisemauer”
- Japanese: “ベルリン税関壁”
- Latin: “Murus telonarius Berolinensis”
- Slovenian: “berlinski mitniški zid”
- Spanish: “Muro de la Aduana de Berlín”
- Swedish: “Berlins tullmur”
Notable Places Nearby
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