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Locations associated with the Fall of the Berlin Wall / Memorial Sites

Eisenhüttenstadt It is where people, events and locations link up with it that history comes to life. Many sites in Brandenburg provide reminders of the day 20 years ago when the Wall came down and these reminders make it possible to re-live the events of the time.  One example is the Glienicke Bridge, which has gone down in the annals as “the Agents’ Bridge”, the so-called “Forest Enclave” in Wandlitz, where prominent people in the Politbureau lived or the first socialist grid town of  Eisenhüttenstadt. Some of the memorial sites are listed on the following pages
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The Wind of Change

Potsdam - Am Kanal The 1989/90 ’Wende’ presented huge challenges to people in the eastern part of Germany – but it also opened up new opportunities. This made it possible to embark on the restoration of castles, country estates and other representative buildings that had been expropriated after the Second World War and sometimes abandoned and left to decay. Today, for example, the Marble Palace in Potsdam is resplendent with new glory, whilst Castle Meseberg, the German Federal Government ’guesthouse’, has also undergone an extensive refit.
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20 years on from the Fall of the Berlin Wall – Activity Holidays

The Berlin Wall Trail When it comes to the theme of “20 Years On from the Fall of the Berlin Wall“, this is something that you can also actively “experience” – in the truest sense of the word! The Wall Trail leads around and through Berlin for a distance of 160 kilometres. As it follows the route of the former border, there are many stations that remind the visitor of the time when Germany was partitioned. Along the River Elbe you will also come across traces of the internal German border and experience the unique flora and fauna of the UNESCO biosphere reserve in the Elbe river landscape. The most famous East German product in the world – the Spreewald gherkin – is the focus of the Gherkin Cycleway (‘Gurkenradweg’) which offers a myriad of information and, of course, innumerable opportunities to sample the gherkin, over a circular route of more than 250 kilometres..
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