Cold War Checkpoint Charlie

Cold War Checkpoint Charlie is a museum in Berlin, Berlin, which is located on Friedrichstraße. Cold War Checkpoint Charlie is situated near the church Saddleback Berlin, as well as near the fitness club Bodystreet.

Opening hours: 10:00 AM–6:00 PM
Type: Museum
Also known as: “BlackBox Kalter Krieg”
Address: Friedrichstraße 47, Berlin, 10117

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Checkpoint Charlie and Wall Museum.

Checkpoint Charlie

Photo: Adrian Purser, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Checkpoint Charlie was the Western Bloc's name for the best-known Berlin Wall 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.

Wall Museum

Museum

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

Brandenburg Gate

Photo: Der Wolf im Wald, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Brandenburg Gate is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin, Germany. One of the best-known landmarks of the country, it was erected on the site of a former city gate that marked the start of the road from Berlin to Brandenburg an der Havel, the former capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg. Brandenburg Gate is situated 1¼ km northwest of Cold War Checkpoint Charlie.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Friedrichstadt and Friedrichswerder.

Friedrichstadt

Quarter

Photo: Tanweer Morshed, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Friedrichstadt was an independent suburb of Berlin, 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 Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichswerder.

Friedrichswerder

Neighborhood

Friedrichswerder is a neighborhood, situated in the Berliner locality of Mitte, part of the homonymous borough. It is identical to the town of Friedrichswerder, founded in 1662, which was an independent town until 1710.

Dorotheenstadt

Quarter

Photo: Fridolin freudenfett, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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.

Cold War Checkpoint Charlie

Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Stadt, Berlin, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude

52.50798° or 52° 30′ 29″ north

Longitude

13.39066° or 13° 23′ 26″ east

Wheelchair access

yes

Operator

Berliner Forum für Geschichte und Gegenwart

Open location code

9F4MG95R+57

OpenStreetMap ID

way 307731758

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=museum

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Saddleback Berlin and Bodystreet.

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Places to explore: M’illumino d’immenso and UNHCR Deutschland.

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