Is there any parts or demarcations of the wall left in Berlin? Is there any signs saying " the wall was here" or something?
Wikipedia says there are three segments of the Berlin Wall still standing in Berlin. It also shows a plaque reading “Berliner Mauer 1961-1989,” presumably near where the Wall once stood.
There’s this. The East Side Gallery, I think a mile or two long that contains a long section of the Wall. In Potsdamer Platz there’s a section maybe 1 metre or wide that marks where the wall was, or at least that section was still there in 2003 when I visited.
Short stretches of it remain in the few places listed here. Elsewhere parts of where it used to be are marked as in this photo.
I don’t know if the whole thing is marked but there are large sections that are marked on the street showing where the wall was. There is also a chunk on my bookshelf.
There is a replica of a border crossing guard house and a sign marking the location of the famous “Checkpoint Charlie” where US, and Russian tanks faced each other when the wall was built in 1961. There is a museum at that same general location that deals with the history of the famous crossing. It is on Fredrichstrasse, althogh I don’t know the address.
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As far as I know, that’s no longer in the right location. They moved it back a ways to get it out of the middle of the street.
Quite a bit of the wall is still standing (relative to nothing… ;-), especially near the popular areas of downtown). And most of the route of the wall is traced by a strip of bricks in the road/sidewalk/etc. Every 10m or so, where appropriate, is a small plaque embedded in the bricks as described above.
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As others have mentioned, there is a painted line on the road that marks where the wall used to stand. There are parts of wall still standing but it is my understanding from when I visited Berlin, that this wall is the remains of an inner wall, not the original wall that we think of as the Berlin Wall.
Fascinating. Thank God it’s gone, and people are selling flowers where it used to be. Now it seems almost quaint, but it was not so long ago that people were suffering and dying because of it. World War III might even have started over it. Good riddance, says I.
Checkpoint Charlie may not be in the right location, but it is still in the middle of the street.
Bits of the wall are still standing, though IIRC, some maintenance is required to keep it up.
