Memorial to the victims of the Berlin Wall

Memorial to the victims of the Berlin Wall is a memorial in Berlin, Berlin. Memorial to the victims of the Berlin Wall is situated near the garden hdr 1, as well as near hdr 2.

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Type: Memorial
Description: memorial to 15 people shot at the Berlin Wall (including Jörg Hartmann and Lothar Schleusener) in Treptow-Köpenick, Berlin, Germany
Also known as: “Denkmal für die Maueropfer in Berlin-Treptow” and “Gedenkmal Maueropfer”
Inscription: “IN TREPTOW STARBEN FÜNFZEHN / MENSCHEN AN DER BERLINER MAUER. / UNTER DEN TOTEN WAREN 2 KINDER. / JÖRG HARTMANN, 10 JAHRE ALT UND / LOTHAR SCHLEUSENER, 13 JAHRE ALT, / ERSCHOSSEN AM 14.3.1966”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Plänterwald railway station and Soviet War Memorial.

Plänterwald railway station

Railway stop

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Berlin-Plänterwald is a railway station in the Treptow-Köpenick district of Berlin. It is served by the S-Bahn lines S8, S85 and S9. Plänterwald railway station is situated 260 metres northeast of Memorial to the victims of the Berlin Wall.

Soviet War Memorial

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The Soviet War Memorial is a war memorial and military cemetery in Berlin's Treptower Park. It was built to the design of the Soviet architect Yakov Belopolsky to commemorate 7,000 of the 80,000 Red Army soldiers who fell in the Battle of Berlin in April–May 1945. Soviet War Memorial is situated 1¼ km north of Memorial to the victims of the Berlin Wall.

Treptower Park

Park

Treptower Park is a park alongside the river Spree in Alt-Treptow, in the district of Treptow-Köpenick, south of central Berlin.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include High-Deck Estate and Stralau.

High-Deck Estate

Neighborhood

Photo: Lienhard Schulz, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The High-Deck Estate is a large housing estate with approximately 6,000 residents in the Berlin district of Neukölln. Constructed in the 1970s and 1980s as part of a social housing programme, the estate's urban planning concept diverged from the high-density, high-rise construction of estates like the Märkisches Viertel or Gropiusstadt.