Checkpoint Charlie
N 52° 30.450 E 013° 23.416
33U E 390748 N 5818704
Checkpoint Charlie
Waymark Code: WME1DD
Location: Berlin, Germany
Date Posted: 03/21/2012
Views: 159
[DE]
"Der Checkpoint Charlie war einer der bekanntesten Berliner Grenzübergänge durch die Berliner Mauer zwischen 1961 und 1990. Er verband in der Friedrichstraße zwischen Zimmerstraße und Kochstraße (beim gleichnamigen U-Bahnhof) den sowjetischen mit dem US-amerikanischen Sektor und damit den Ost-Berliner Bezirk Mitte mit dem West-Berliner Bezirk Kreuzberg. Der Kontrollpunkt wurde im August 1961 in Folge des Mauerbaus eingerichtet, um die Grenzübertritte des westalliierten Militärpersonals und ausländischer Diplomaten erfassen zu können.
Das „Mauermuseum – Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie“ wurde am 14. Juni 1963 in unmittelbarer Nähe zur Berliner Mauer eröffnet. Es zeigt Fotografien und Fragmente der Trennung Deutschlands. Vom 31. Oktober 2004 bis zur Räumung am 5. Juli 2005 stand auf einem gepachteten Gelände das umstrittene Freiheitsmahnmal, eine aus originalen Mauersegmenten neu errichtete weiß gestrichene Mauer und 1067 Gedenkkreuze für die Opfer des DDR-Grenzregimes." - Quelle: Wikipedia
[EN]
"The Checkpoint Charlie was one of Berlin's most famous border crossing through the Berlin Wall between 1961 and 1990. He married in Frederick Street between rooms street and cooking road (at the subway station), the Soviet of the U.S. sector, and thus the East Berlin district center with the West Berlin district of Kreuzberg. the checkpoint was set up in August 1961 as a result of building the wall in order to capture the border crossings of the Western Allied military personnel and foreign diplomats can.
The "Wall Museum - Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie" was born on 14 June 1963 in the immediate vicinity of the Berlin Wall opened. It features photographs and fragments of the division of Germany. Of 31 October 2004 until the evacuation on 5 July 2005 was on a leased site, the controversial Freedom Memorial, a wall of original segments newly built white-painted walls and 1067 commemorative crosses for the victims of the GDR border regime "-. Source: Wikipedia
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Hours of Operation:
always
Admission Prices:
free
Approximate amount of time needed to fully experience the attraction: Up to 1 hour
Transportation options to the attraction: Personal Vehicle or Public Transportation
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