Topography of Terror

The Topography of Terror 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.
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  • Opening hours:
    10:00 AM—8:00 PM
    January 1st, December 24th, and December 31st: closed
  • Email: info@topographie.de
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: military museum
  • Address: Niederkirchnerstraße 8, Kreuzberg, Berlin, 10963

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Checkpoint Charlie and Brandenburg Gate.

Photo: Adrian Purser, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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. is situated 430 metres east of Topography of Terror.

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 north of Topography of Terror.

Railway station
Photo: Tonythepixel, Public domain.
The Anhalter Bahnhof is a former railway terminus in , Germany, approximately 600 m southeast of . Once one of Berlin's most important railway stations, it was severely damaged in World War II, and finally closed for traffic in 1952, when the GDR-owned Deutsche Reichsbahn rerouted all railway traffic between Berlin and places in the GDR avoiding the West Berlin area. is situated 350 metres southwest of Topography of Terror.

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
Photo: Fridolin freudenfett, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a historic zone or neighbourhood of central , , which forms part of the locality of within the borough also called .

Topography of Terror

Latitude
52.50619° or 52° 30′ 22″ north
Longitude
13.38434° or 13° 23′ 4″ east
Inception
1987
Wheelchair access
yes
Operator
Stiftung Topographie des Terrors
Open location code
9F4MG94M+FP
Open­Street­Map ID
way 24368681
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­memorial
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Wiki­data ID
Q819081
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Topography of Terror” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “طوبوغرافية الإرهاب”
  • Arabic: “طوبوغرافية الارهاب”
  • Catalan: “Topografia del Terror”
  • Chinese: “恐怖地形图”
  • Chinese: “恐怖地形圖”
  • Danish: “Topographie des Terrors”
  • Dutch: “Topografie van de Terror”
  • Dutch: “Topographie des Terrors”
  • Esperanto: “Topografio de la teroro”
  • Estonian: “Terrori Topograafia”
  • Finnish: “Topographie des Terrors”
  • French: “Topographie de la terreur”
  • French: “Topographie des Terrors”
  • German: “Prinz-Albrecht-Gelände”
  • German: “Topographie des Terrors”
  • Hebrew: “הטופוגרפיה של הטרור”
  • Hebrew: “טופוגרפיה של הטרור”
  • Hebrew: “טופוגרפיה של טרור”
  • Italian: “Topografia del terrore”
  • Italian: “Topographie des Terrors”
  • Japanese: “テロのトポグラフィー”
  • Japanese: “恐怖政治の見取図”
  • Korean: “공포의 지형학”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Terrorens topografi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Topographie des Terrors”
  • Norwegian: “Topographie des Terrors”
  • Polish: “Topografia Terroru”
  • Russian: “Топография террора”
  • Serbian: “Топографија терора”
  • Spanish: “Topografia del terror”
  • Spanish: “Topografía del terror”
  • Swedish: “Topographie des Terrors”
  • Turkish: “Terörün Topografyası”
  • Ukrainian: “Топографія терору”

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