Bernauer Straße, Berlin

E683006

Bernauer Straße in Berlin is a historically significant street that once straddled the Berlin Wall and now hosts major memorial sites commemorating the city’s division and the Cold War.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Bernauer Straße, Berlin canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf historic site
street
cityQuarterBorder Gesundbrunnen
Mitte
Prenzlauer Berg
coordinateSystem uses Berlin street numbering system
country Germany
event construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961
death of Ida Siekmann
death of border guard Conrad Schumann’s escape nearby
demolition of border houses along the street
escape tunnels from East to West Berlin
jumping escapes from apartment windows into West Berlin
hasLanguage English‑language information panels
German‑language information panels
hasNearbyLandmark Brunnenstraße
Invalidenstraße
Mauerpark
Nordbahnhof
hasPublicTransport Bernauer Straße U-Bahn station
M10 tram line
M8 tram line
hasSite Berlin Wall Memorial Visitor Center
Chapel of Reconciliation
Documentation Center Berlin Wall
Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer
Window of Remembrance
former border strip
open‑air Berlin Wall exhibition
preserved section of the Berlin Wall
watchtower remains
heritageStatus protected historic ensemble in Berlin
historicalPeriod Cold War
knownFor Berlin Wall memorial sites
dramatic escape attempts from East to West Berlin
proximity to the Berlin Wall
locatedIn Berlin
borough of Mitte
district of Mitte
former district of Wedding
memorialTheme division of Berlin
escape attempts from the GDR
lives lost at the Berlin Wall
namedAfter Bernau bei Berlin
partOf former border between East Berlin and West Berlin
former sector border between French sector and Soviet sector
tourism popular destination for Cold War history tourism

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Stiftung Berliner Mauer locatedIn Bernauer Straße, Berlin