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  • Glienicker Brücke, Picture: TMB Tourismus-Marketing Brandenburg GmbH/Steffen Lehmann Glienicker Brücke, Picture: TMB Tourismus-Marketing Brandenburg GmbH/Steffen Lehmann
    German Unity and fall of the wall

Experiencing German unity On the trail of the history of German-German unity in Brandenburg

History comes alive at the Glienicke Bridge in Potsdam, once the scene of legendary agent exchanges, or on the Wall Cycle Path, which runs around the Berlin Wall. In the former military town of Wünsdorf in Fläming, you can immerse yourself in the secrets of times gone by. Follow actor Tom Hanks' example and visit Eisenhüttenstadt, 1.5 hours east of Berlin. The town was the first socialist planned town to be designed entirely at the drawing board.

 

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Explore the history

Looking for traces of German history?

Then off you go to Brandenburg. Whether on foot or by bike, we have put together some exciting excursion tips centred around the Day of German Unity and the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. A perfect occasion for an autumn excursion. 

  1. Historic cycle tour along the Berlin Wall  
  2. Memorial memorial and meeting place Drewitz-Dreilinden border checkpoint
  3. The bunker town of Wünsdorf-Waldstadt
  4. Border checkpoint Drei Linden
  5. Wall memorial at Groß Glienicker See

 

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Border tower in Nieder Neuendorf, Picture: Stadtarchiv Hennigsdorf/Frank Liebke Border tower in Nieder Neuendorf, Picture: Stadtarchiv Hennigsdorf/Frank Liebke

Places of remembrance

The architectural testimonies from the time of National Socialism, the GDR and the former German division are of outstanding importance for the recent history of Germany and can still be seen in numerous places today.
Places of remembrance
  • Border tower in Nieder Neuendorf, Picture: Stadtarchiv Hennigsdorf/Frank Liebke Border tower in Nieder Neuendorf, Picture: Stadtarchiv Hennigsdorf/Frank Liebke

    Places of remembrance

    The architectural testimonies from the time of National Socialism, the GDR and the former German division are of outstanding importance for the recent history of Germany and can still be seen in numerous places today.
    Places of remembrance

GDR architecture: time travelling through Brandenburg's socialist architecture

Eisenhüttenstadt was born in 1950 with the construction of Eisenhüttenkombinat Ost. The town near the Polish boarder is still a novelty in urban development in Germany today: the "first model socialist city on German soil" was created as a planned city on the drawing board and was placed under a preservation order just 40 years after construction began. In 2017 actor Tom Hanks visited the city during a break from filming, everyone has been talking about "Iron Hut City", as he freely translated it. But there are still buildings elsewhere in the country that were built during the GDR era.

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Filmland Brandenburg

 "And action!" - this sentence is uttered in Brandenburg along with the famous clapperboard on more than 5,000 shooting days a year on average. Films such as “Enemy at the gates”, “Inglourious Basterds” and “Bridge of Spies” were filmed here. The famous film studios in Potsdam-Babelsberg also have a chequered history behind them.

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