Checkpoint Charlie

Checkpoint Charlie was the Western Bloc's name for the best-known 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.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: border checkpoint between East Berlin and West Berlin
  • Also known as: “Çarli Kontrol Noktası”, “Check Point C”, “Check Point Charlie”, “Checkpiont Charlie”, “Checkpoint C”, “Checkpoint Charly”, “Friedrichstraße”, “КПП Фридрихштрассе”, “КПП Чарли”, “Чекпойнт-Чарли”, “צ’ק פוינט צ’רלי”, “צ’קפוינט צ’ארלי”, “צ’קפוינט צ’רלי”, “チャーリー検問所”, “查理检查站”, and “查理檢查哨博物館”
  • Address: Friedrichstraße 43-45, Berlin, 10969

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Wall Museum and Topography of Terror.

Museum
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The – Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie is a private museum in . It is named after the through the , and was created to document the so-called "best border security system in the world".

Museum
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The is an outdoor and indoor history museum in , . It is located on Niederkirchnerstrasse, formerly Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse, on the site of buildings which during the Nazi regime from 1933 to 1945 were the SS Reich Security Main Office, the headquarters of the SiPo, SD, Einsatzgruppen, and Gestapo. is situated 430 metres west of Checkpoint Charlie.

Photo: Der Wolf im Wald, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in , Germany. One of the best-known landmarks of the country, it was erected on the site of a former that marked the start of the road from Berlin to , the former capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg. is situated 1¼ km northwest of Checkpoint Charlie.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Friedrichstadt and Friedrichswerder.

Quarter
Photo: Tanweer Morshed, CC BY-SA 3.0.
was an independent suburb of , and is now a historical neighbourhood of the city itself. The neighbourhood is named after the Prussian king Frederick I, who founded it in 1691 as the third expansion of the Berlin-Cölln city centre, after and .

Neighborhood
is a neighborhood, situated in the locality of , part of the . It is identical to the town of , founded in 1662, which was an independent town until 1710.

Quarter
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is a historic zone or neighbourhood of central , , which forms part of the locality of within the borough also called .

Checkpoint Charlie

Latitude
52.50743° or 52° 30′ 27″ north
Longitude
13.39038° or 13° 23′ 25″ east
Wheelchair access
yes
Open location code
9F4MG94R+X5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 417346627
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Wiki­data ID
Q68689
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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 Charlie”
  • Belarusian: “Чэкпойнт Чарлі”
  • Breton: “Checkpoint Charlie”
  • Bulgarian: “Чекпойнт Чарли”
  • Catalan: “Checkpoint Charlie”
  • Chinese: “查理檢查哨”
  • Croatian: “Checkpoint Charlie”
  • Czech: “Checkpoint Charlie”
  • Danish: “Checkpoint Charlie”
  • Dutch: “Checkpoint Charlie”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نقطة تفتيش تشارلى”
  • Esperanto: “Checkpoint Charlie”
  • Finnish: “Checkpoint Charlie”
  • French: “Checkpoint Charlie”
  • Galician: “Checkpoint Charlie”
  • German: “Checkpoint Charlie”
  • Greek: “Σημείο ελέγχου Τσάρλι”
  • Hebrew: “צ’ק פוינט צ’ארלי”
  • 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”
  • 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: “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: “Checkpoint Charlie”
  • Ukrainian: “Чекпойнт Чарлі”
  • Ukrainian: “Чекпойнт-Чарлі”
  • Urdu: “چیک پوائنٹ چارلی”
  • Uzbek: “Checkpoint Charlie”

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