As far as historical objects go no other object is more famous than the Berlin Wall although the Great Wall of China has a similar meaning in Chinese culture. Constructed in 1961, in an effort to separate East and West Berlin during the Cold War, the wall became the symbolic barrier between the Soviet nations and the West. The wall, however, was demolished in 1989 although part of it has since be left on different parts of Berlin. So next, let us try and locate erstwhile renowned barrier called the Berlin Wall on a map.
The original course of the Berlin Wall is presented below.
The actual wall was much shorter, approximately 96 mil Initial Km and covered the entire perimeter of West Berlin. It included walls, wire fences, watch towers and double layers of boom gates or highly-fenced barriers. Its original route ran along the border between East and West Berlin and thus subdivided the access.
Key Locations: East Side Gallery
One of the well known sections of the Berlin Wall which remain today are the East Side Gallery. This section is in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg and measures approximately 1 ½ km long and painted with murals done by artists from different parts of the world. The East Side Gallery gives a scenic view of the impact of the wall; the historical demoralization and the subsequent re-emergence of the human spirit.
Checkpoint Charlie and Museum
Another famous spot connected to the divisions of Berlin by means of the wall is Checkpoint Charlie. Located in the Mitte district of Berlin before the construction of the reunified Germany it was the popular crossing point between east and west. Checkpoint Charlie has been turned into a museum where tourist can learn about division of people through a wall and the life-death stories of the would-be escapers to the West. That coupled with other histories and displays make the museum an interesting period piece of the Cold War.
Other Landmarks and Remnants
Though as a massive structure the Berlin Wall has not been standing in its full form there are other places and relics that can be visited. The Topography of Terror has itself at the site of the former headquarters of the Gestapo and SS during Nazi Germany and of the Wall’s death strip near Potsdamer Platz. Today it is an exhibition place where the history of Nazi and Stasi terror is told from practice.
On Bernauer Strasse you can follow a preserved fragment of the wall where the Memorial is located today – a park. Es wird noch intensiver fühlen, da man sich hier die Besonderheiten dieser Wand, sowie die Bemühungen der Ostberliner zeigen kann um in den Westen zu gelangen.
At the same time, there are fragments of the wall in many other places in the city as well as the rest of the Parts mentioned above. Such fragments still exist to help people remember the influence of the Berlin Wall on the life of the city and its inhabitants.
Conclusion
The Berlin Wall was a protector of the cold war period and a pointer to the sharp divide seen in the city of Berlin. Since the dismantling of the wall itself, there has not been a fading of the historical importance it conveys. The places above named are potential historical sites where people may go to educate and introspect on this epoch moment in history. Visiting the Berlin Wall map may give you an idea of how it once ran and give an opportunity to see the effects the wall left behind.