Victims of the Wall

Visit the places

Memorial columns, crosses, plaques and stones along the former border, in Berlin and around it, remember people who died at the Berlin Wall. This page brings together the memorials found in published sources: what each one is, where to find it and whom it remembers, grouped into routes along the line of the Wall.

67 memorials remembering 91 of the 140 people, on 15 routes.

Every entry was compiled from the published sources listed under it, among them the Berlin Wall Foundation's map of memorial sites, the biographies on Chronik der Mauer, the Gedenktafeln in Berlin database and the Berlin Wall Trail pages on berlin.de. Where a position on the map is only approximate, the entry says so. Under each memorial are the people the sources show it remembers; a memorial to all the victims, such as the Window of Remembrance, lists only those the sources name there individually.

Not every memorial has yet been visited to check it on site. Once one has, its entry shows “Checked on site” with the date of the visit. 15 further memorials mentioned in the sources are not listed yet, because they need to be checked on site first.

A memorial does not always stand exactly where someone died. Each profile describes the place of death, and the map on the home page shows where people were fatally injured.

The rust line shows the course of the Wall in 1989 on a present-day map. Each diamond is a memorial, not a place of death; a dashed outline means its position is approximate. Numbered circles group memorials that stand close together: zoom in or select one to see them.

Bernauer Straße and the Berlin Wall Memorial

Along Bernauer Straße the border ran along the fronts of the houses on the East Berlin side, while the pavement in front of them already belonged to the West. Today the Berlin Wall Memorial stretches for 1.4 kilometres through the former border strip, and markers on its grounds tell the stories of people who died trying to escape here.

Remembered here

Memorial site

Window of Remembrance (Fenster des Gedenkens)

Berlin Wall Memorial grounds, Bernauer Straße, Berlin-Mitte

A wall of rust-brown Corten steel, inaugurated on 21 May 2010 as part of the Berlin Wall Memorial, with a niche for each known victim of the Wall showing name, dates of birth and death and, where one exists, a photograph. Some niches have been left empty in case further victims are identified. The eight border soldiers killed on duty are not shown here; their names are on a column opposite. In August 2012 a granddaughter of Erna Kelm found her grandmother's name in the Window.

How to find it
In the grounds of the Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Straße; the Visitor Center is at Bernauer Straße 119 and the Documentation Center at Bernauer Straße 111. Open in OpenStreetMap
Sources (9)

Memorial column

Memorial column for Heinz Cyrus

Gartenstraße 85, Berlin-Mitte

A bilingual information column telling how Heinz Cyrus, fleeing border guards in November 1965, fell from a fourth-floor window of the house at Gartenstraße 85 and died the next day. Because no one in the West was sure anyone had died, his death had no individual memorial until 1989.

How to find it
At Gartenstraße 85, Berlin-Mitte. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Heinz Cyrus
Sources (3)

Memorial column

Memorial column for Otfried Reck

Bernauer Straße between Gartenstraße and Bergstraße, beside the line of the former Wall marked by steel rods

A bilingual information column telling how Otfried Reck was shot in November 1962 near the S-Bahn tunnel at Invalidenstraße; it shows a photograph of the memorial and white cross that West Berliners put up for him at the time on Gartenstraße.

How to find it
On Bernauer Straße between Gartenstraße and Bergstraße, next to the steel rods that mark the former course of the Wall. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Otfried Reck
Sources (3)

Plaque

Pavement plate and information column for Ernst Mundt

Bernauer Straße at the height of Bergstraße, near the bus stop by Nordbahnhof

An old pavement plate inscribed „Dem unbekannten Opfer der Schandmauer + 4.9.1962“ and, in front of it, a bilingual information column telling how Ernst Mundt was shot on the Sophien cemetery wall on 4 September 1962.

How to find it
At the southern end of Bernauer Straße, near the bus stop by Nordbahnhof, in front of the strip of the former Wall, at the height of Bergstraße. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Ernst Mundt
Sources (4)

Plaque

Brass plaque for Egon Schultz and Tunnel 57

Strelitzer Straße 55, Berlin-Mitte, to the right of the entrance

A brass plaque unveiled on 4 October 2004 at the house in whose yard Tunnel 57 ended. It records the 57 people who escaped on 3 and 4 October 1964, the betrayal to the Stasi and the exchange of fire in which the border NCO Egon Schultz died, and states that the fatal shots came from a comrade’s weapon, which GDR officials knew from the start. A Berlin Wall Foundation information panel on Tunnel 57 and Egon Schultz stands nearby.

How to find it
On the front of Strelitzer Straße 55, to the right of the entrance; Strelitzer Straße runs south from Bernauer Straße. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Egon Schultz
Sources (4)

Plaque

Granite plate for Olga Segler

Pavement of Bernauer Straße opposite the end of Wolgaster Straße (site of the former no. 34)

A granite plate inscribed „Dem Opfer der Schandmauer Olga Segler +26.9.1961 gewidmet“; the plate is a 2006 reproduction. Olga Segler, aged 80, jumped from her second-floor flat at the former no. 34 into the firemen’s net on 25 September 1961 and died in hospital the next day.

How to find it
In the pavement of Bernauer Straße opposite the mouth of Wolgaster Straße. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Olga Segler
Sources (1)

Memorial · approximate position

Berlin Wall History Mile panels on Bernauer Straße

Bernauer Straße between Schwedter Straße and Strelitzer Straße (four panels)

Four panels of the Geschichtsmeile Berliner Mauer on Bernauer Straße mark places where escape attempts took place; according to the Berlin Wall Foundation these include fatal ones such as Ida Siekmann's on 22 August 1961.

How to find it
Along Bernauer Straße between Schwedter and Strelitzer Straße: at the height of no. 48, at the height of no. 78, at the corner of Ruppiner Straße and at the corner of Strelitzer Straße. The map position is the Foundation's single pin for the series. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Ida Siekmann
Sources (2)

Plaque

Pavement plate and information column for Bernd Lünser

Bernauer Straße 44, at the corner of Wolliner Straße

A granite plate in the pavement („Dem Opfer der Schandmauer Bernd Lünser +4.10.1961 gewidmet“) and a bilingual information column telling the story of his rooftop escape attempt on 4 October 1961; the column shows a photograph of students putting up a memorial cross for him in October 1961.

How to find it
In front of Bernauer Straße 44, where the plate is set into the pavement right by Wolliner Straße. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Bernd Lünser
Sources (4)

Plaque

Granite plate for Ida Siekmann

Pavement of Bernauer Straße north-east of Wolliner Straße, in front of the site of no. 48

A granite plate set into the pavement, inscribed „Dem Opfer der Schandmauer Ida Siekmann † 22.8.1961 gewidmet“, near where she fell from her window at Bernauer Straße 48 on 22 August 1961.

How to find it
In the pavement of Bernauer Straße, just north-east of the corner with Wolliner Straße. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Ida Siekmann
Sources (4)

From the Kieler Eck to the Humboldthafen

Günter Litfin, the first person shot dead at the Wall, was killed in the Humboldthafen on 24 August 1961. A few hundred metres away, a former border-troop command tower by the Berlin-Spandau shipping canal is now a memorial to him, and a memorial stone stands on the bank near where he died.

Remembered here

Memorial site

Günter Litfin Memorial (former border watchtower)

Kieler Straße 2, Berlin-Mitte, by the Berlin-Spandau shipping canal

A former command tower of the GDR border troops at the Kieler Eck, preserved at the initiative of Günter Litfin’s brother Jürgen, listed in 2003 and opened as a memorial on 24 August 2003; part of the Berlin Wall Foundation since 24 August 2017. A granite plaque on the tower reads „Gedenkstätte Günter Litfin, Ersterschossener am 24.08.1961“.

How to find it
At Kieler Straße 2, near the Berlin-Spandau shipping canal between the Invalidenfriedhof and Boyenstraße. Check the Berlin Wall Foundation's visitor information for opening times. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Günter Litfin
Sources (4)

Memorial stone

Memorial stone for Günter Litfin (1962) and information panel

Alexanderufer, near the Humboldthafen bridge, close to Berlin Hauptbahnhof

A memorial stone – a granite slab with a brick wall on a cobblestone base – first put up in 1962 on the Friedrich-List-Ufer in Moabit and inscribed „Hier starb als erstes Opfer der Mauer Günter Litfin * 19.1.1937 † 24.8.1961 – Ihm und allen Opfern der Mauer zum Gedenken“. It disappeared during building work at the Lehrter Bahnhof, was handed in at the Haus am Checkpoint Charlie in 2000, was set up again at the Sandkrug Bridge in January 2001 and was later moved to the place where he was killed. A Berlin Wall Foundation panel on his escape attempt stands beside it.

How to find it
On the Alexanderufer near the Humboldthafen bridge, a short walk from Berlin Hauptbahnhof. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Günter Litfin
Sources (5)

The Reichstag, the Spree and Ebertstraße

Behind the east side of the Reichstag building the south bank of the Spree belonged to West Berlin, while the water was already East Berlin territory. Here, white crosses remember people who died at the Wall, many of them in the river.

Remembered here

Memorial cross

White Crosses (Gedenkort „Weiße Kreuze“) on the Spree

Railing on the south bank of the Spree below the Paul-Löbe-Haus, behind the east side of the Reichstag building (Reichstagufer / Friedrich-Ebert-Platz)

Seven white crosses, inscribed on both sides, fixed in the riverside railing since 17 June 2003. The memorial was first set up in 1971 by the private Berliner Bürger-Verein where the Wall met the river; the crosses originally stood where people had died and were later gathered here. Facing the land: Günter Litfin, Ingo Krüger, Hans Räwel, Klaus Schröter, Heinz Sokolowski, Marienetta Jirkowsky; facing the river: Udo Düllick, Werner Probst, Philipp Held, Axel Hannemann, Lutz Haberlandt, Wolf-Olaf Muszynski, Chris Gueffroy; the unknown victims are also honoured. The memorial cross put up for Marienetta Jirkowsky near the Reichstag building in the 1980s has been part of this memorial since 2003. A Geschichtsmeile panel on the Reichstagufer tells the memorial's history.

How to find it
On the Spree bank east of the Reichstag building, in the railing below the Paul-Löbe-Haus; the river-facing inscriptions can only be read from a boat. Open in OpenStreetMap
Sources (6)

Floor marking · approximate position

Marking for Dieter Beilig in the Akademie der Künste

Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz 4, Berlin-Mitte

When the Academy of Arts reopened on Pariser Platz, markings were placed in the building to show where the border troops’ command post stood in which Dieter Beilig was shot in 1971; Orte des Erinnerns describes a marking in the window area of the room where he was shot, on the new building inaugurated in 2005.

How to find it
At the Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz 4: the Chronik describes floor markings inside the building, Orte des Erinnerns a marking in the window area of the room where he was shot. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Dieter Beilig
Sources (3)

Zimmerstraße near Checkpoint Charlie

The Wall ran along Zimmerstraße between Mitte and Kreuzberg. Peter Fechter was shot here on 17 August 1962 and was left lying in the death strip without help; a little further east, the border soldier Reinhold Huhn was shot dead on 18 June 1962 during a tunnel escape.

Remembered here

Memorial column

Peter Fechter memorial column

Zimmerstraße 26–29, Berlin-Mitte, between Charlottenstraße and Markgrafenstraße

A metal column by the sculptor Karl Biedermann, paid for by the Axel Springer publishing house and unveiled on 13 August 1999, near the place where Peter Fechter was shot on 17 August 1962 and lay in the death strip calling for help for 50 minutes. Its inscriptions give his name and dates and record that the Wall ran along this street. For many years a simple memorial cross stood here; the wooden cross is now in the Mauermuseum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie.

How to find it
On Zimmerstraße at nos. 26–29, between Charlottenstraße and Markgrafenstraße. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Peter Fechter
Sources (5)

Memorial

Berlin Wall History Mile panel on Peter Fechter’s escape attempt

Zimmerstraße at the corner of Charlottenstraße

A Geschichtsmeile Berliner Mauer panel explaining the circumstances of Peter Fechter’s failed escape on Zimmerstraße.

How to find it
At Zimmerstraße / corner of Charlottenstraße, beside the memorial column. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Peter Fechter
Sources (3)

Plaque

Pavement plaque „Fluchttunnel“ (Reinhold Huhn) and History Mile panel

Zimmerstraße 54, Berlin-Mitte, near Jerusalemer Straße

A plaque set into the pavement at the kerb, unveiled on 18 September 2018. It says that an East Berlin family reached freedom through a tunnel under this street on 18 June 1962 and that, "owing to tragic circumstances", the border soldier Reinhold Paul Huhn was shot dead by an escape helper. A Geschichtsmeile panel at Zimmerstraße / Jerusalemer Straße also tells the story.

How to find it
In the pavement at the kerb outside Zimmerstraße 54, not far from Jerusalemer Straße; the panel stands at Zimmerstraße at the height of Jerusalemer Straße. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Reinhold Huhn
Sources (2)

Heinrich-Heine-Straße and the Luisenstädtischer Kanal

From the former Heinrich-Heine-Straße crossing, the line of the Wall leads east along Sebastianstraße across the filled-in Luisenstädtischer Kanal, which was part of the border installations until 1989. History Mile panels recall deaths on this stretch.

Remembered here

Memorial

History Mile panel at the former Heinrich-Heine-Straße crossing

West of Heinrich-Heine-Straße at the height of Sebastianstraße (Kreuzberg/Mitte boundary)

A Geschichtsmeile Berliner Mauer panel telling the escape attempts of Klaus Brueske (1962) and Heinz Schöneberger (1965), both shot at the Heinrich-Heine-Straße crossing. The memorial crosses once put up for them have long since disappeared.

How to find it
West of Heinrich-Heine-Straße at the height of Sebastianstraße; the ground of the former crossing west of the street is now used for car sales. Open in OpenStreetMap
Sources (4)

Memorial

History Mile panel „Luisenstädtischer Kanal“

Engeldamm at the corner of Melchiorstraße, Mitte/Kreuzberg

A Geschichtsmeile Berliner Mauer panel on the filled-in Luisenstädtischer Kanal, which became the border strip. It says that 18-year-old Paul Schultz was shot here at Christmas 1963 while trying to escape with a friend, and that in April 1969 Johannes Lange set off the alarm at Adalbertstraße / Engeldamm and was shot dead in front of the last wall.

How to find it
At the corner of Engeldamm and Melchiorstraße. Open in OpenStreetMap
Sources (2)

The Spree at the Oberbaumbrücke

Between Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain the Spree belonged to East Berlin across its whole width. People trying to swim to the West were shot or drowned here, and five West Berlin children drowned while playing on the Kreuzberg bank because no one could safely go to their rescue.

Remembered here

Memorial stone

Memorial stone „Dem unbekannten Flüchtling“ (Udo Düllick)

May-Ayim-Ufer, opposite the end of Bevernstraße, Kreuzberg

A memorial stone inscribed „Dem unbekannten Flüchtling“ (to the unknown fugitive), standing since November 1961 on the former Gröbenufer for the then unidentified man who drowned under fire on 5 October 1961, later identified as Udo Düllick. The wooden cross of 1961 and the memorial to eleven victims built here in the 1980s no longer exist.

How to find it
On the May-Ayim-Ufer opposite the end of Bevernstraße, near the Oberbaumbrücke. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Udo Düllick
Sources (4)

Plaque

Information plaque in the Çetin-Mert-Park

Çetin-Mert-Park, corner of Skalitzer Straße and Mariannenstraße, Kreuzberg

A bilingual information plaque unveiled on 11 May 2024, when the small park was named after Çetin Mert, a Kreuzberg boy who drowned in the Spree at the Gröbenufer on his fifth birthday, 11 May 1975. The naming was a cooperation of the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district office and the Berlin Wall Foundation.

How to find it
In the Çetin-Mert-Park at the corner of Skalitzer Straße and Mariannenstraße. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Çetin Mert
Sources (1)

Treptow and Neukölln: Heidelberger Straße to the Britzer Zweigkanal

A concrete wall about 13 kilometres long separated Treptow from Neukölln. Heidelberger Straße was the most tunnelled street in Berlin while the Wall stood. Further south, memorials on Kiefholzstraße and on the Britzer Zweigkanal remember people shot on this stretch, among them two children and Chris Gueffroy, the last fugitive shot dead.

Remembered here

Plaque

Bronze plaque for Heinz Jercha

Heidelberger Straße 35, Neukölln, to the right of the entrance

A bronze plaque given by the Berliner Unterwelten association and unveiled on 27 March 2012, fifty years after his death, in the presence of one of his fellow escape helpers. It tells how a tunnel was dug in March 1962 from this West Berlin cellar to no. 75 opposite, how about 50 people escaped through it, and how Heinz Jercha was shot after the tunnel was betrayed. An earlier district plaque of 2001, at the corner of Heidelberger Straße and Elsenstraße, had disappeared by 21 April 2012.

How to find it
On the house at Heidelberger Straße 35, to the right of the entrance. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Heinz Jercha
Sources (4)

Memorial column

History Mile panels for René Gross, Manfred Mäder, Heinz Jercha, Gerald Thiem, Erich Kühn and Walter Hayn

Kiefholzstraße at Karpfenteichstraße, Plänterwald (Treptow)

Two panels of the Geschichtsmeile Berliner Mauer, unveiled on 21 November 2011 following a decision of the district assembly, with photographs, dates and short accounts of six people who died on this stretch of the border between Treptow and Neukölln.

How to find it
On Kiefholzstraße at the corner of Karpfenteichstraße. Open in OpenStreetMap
Sources (4)

Memorial site

Memorial to the Wall victims in Treptow (Jörg Hartmann and Lothar Schleusener)

Kiefholzstraße near Dammweg, where the Heidekampgraben turns south-west, behind the Kuckucksheim allotments, Plänterwald

A memorial by Jan Skuin and Rüdiger Roehl, unveiled on 9 November 1999 after a unanimous decision of the Treptow district assembly in November 1997: a wall with the cut-out outline of a child among bullet holes, beside a Wall segment whose plaque says that fifteen people died at the Wall in Treptow, among them two children, Jörg Hartmann (10) and Lothar Schleusener (13), shot on 14 March 1966.

How to find it
Beside Kiefholzstraße near Dammweg, in the former border strip where the Heidekampgraben bends south-west, behind the Kuckucksheim allotment colony. Open in OpenStreetMap
Sources (5)

Memorial

History Mile panel for Wolfgang Glöde, Jörg Hartmann, Lothar Schleusener and Christian-Peter Friese

Kiefholzstraße near Dammweg, directly beside the Treptow memorial

A panel of the Geschichtsmeile Berliner Mauer unveiled on 9 November 2014, with texts in four languages, portraits and short accounts of Wolfgang Glöde (killed in 1962 in the Sorgenfrei allotments when a shot went off as border policemen showed their submachine gun to children playing there), Jörg Hartmann and Lothar Schleusener (shot in 1966) and Christian-Peter Friese (shot in 1970).

How to find it
Directly beside the Treptow memorial on Kiefholzstraße near Dammweg. Open in OpenStreetMap
Sources (4)

Memorial

History Mile panels for Hans-Joachim Wolf, Werner Kühl and Chris Gueffroy

Chris-Gueffroy-Allee beside the Britzer-Allee-Brücke, south-west of the canal

Two acrylic-glass panels of the Geschichtsmeile Berliner Mauer, set up on 9 November 2014, the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Wall, replacing an earlier panel for Chris Gueffroy. With portraits and texts in four languages they remember Hans-Joachim Wolf (shot in the canal in 1964), Werner Kühl (shot in 1971 as he crossed the border strip from West Berlin, mistaken for a fugitive) and Chris Gueffroy (1989).

How to find it
Beside the Britzer-Allee-Brücke on Chris-Gueffroy-Allee, on the south-west side of the canal; the texts face away from the road. Open in OpenStreetMap
Sources (4)

Memorial column

Memorial column for Chris Gueffroy

Bank of the Britzer Zweigkanal (Britzer Verbindungskanal) about 200 m west of Chris-Gueffroy-Allee, Baumschulenweg

A 2.60-metre column by Karl Biedermann, set up by the Senate on 21 June 2003, what would have been Chris Gueffroy’s 35th birthday, in the former death strip on the canal bank. Its inscription says that he was killed here on 5 February 1989 and was the last fugitive shot while trying to overcome the GDR border installations.

How to find it
On the canal bank about 200 metres west of Chris-Gueffroy-Allee (opposite Nobelstraße according to Orte des Erinnerns). Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Chris Gueffroy
Sources (5)

The Teltow Canal, Adlershof and Altglienicke

In Johannisthal and Adlershof the border ran along the Teltow Canal. Berlin Wall Memorial information sites with memorial panels stand close to the places where people died, each dedicated to the victims who died nearby; further sites stand in Altglienicke.

Remembered here

Memorial column

Memorial site for Georg Feldhahn and Siegfried Widera (Massantebrücke)

Stubenrauchstraße at the Massantebrücke, on the bank of the Teltow Canal, Johannisthal

A Berlin Wall Memorial information and remembrance site directly on the Teltow Canal: an information column on the Wall and its victims and two memorial panels, one for Georg Feldhahn, a border policeman who, according to the panel, apparently fell into the canal and drowned while trying to flee in December 1961, and one for the border soldier Siegfried Widera, struck down by fleeing men at the bridge in August 1963, who died of his injuries.

How to find it
At Stubenrauchstraße by the Massantebrücke, on the canal bank. Open in OpenStreetMap
Sources (3)

Memorial column

Memorial site for Dieter Berger, Michael Kollender and Max Sahmland

Ernst-Ruska-Ufer at Hermann-Dorner-Allee, Adlershof, on the Teltow Canal

A Berlin Wall Memorial information and remembrance site with an information column and three memorial panels for people who died close by on the Teltow Canal: Dieter Berger (shot 1963), Michael Kollender (shot 1966) and Max Sahmland (shot and drowned 1967).

How to find it
At Ernst-Ruska-Ufer / Hermann-Dorner-Allee on the Teltow Canal. Open in OpenStreetMap
Sources (3)

Memorial column

Memorial site for Horst Kutscher and Johannes Sprenger

Near Hornkleepfad, Altglienicke, on the Berlin Wall Trail

A Berlin Wall Memorial information and remembrance site with an information column and two memorial panels for Horst Kutscher (shot in January 1963 near Rudower Straße) and Johannes Sprenger (shot in May 1974 in the border strip between Altglienicke and West Berlin).

How to find it
Near Hornkleepfad in Altglienicke, on the former border strip. Open in OpenStreetMap
Sources (3)

Plaque

Memorial plaque for Lutz Schmidt

Corner of Schönefelder Chaussee and Lutz-Schmidt-Straße, Rehpfuhl estate, Altglienicke

A stainless-steel plate on a light concrete base, designed by Ulrich Stulpe and unveiled on 9 November 2008: at this place two young men tried to escape over the Wall on 12 February 1987; Lutz Schmidt, 24, died under the border guards’ fire and his companion escaped. The street (formerly Straße 174 / Rheingoldstraße) was renamed after him in 2009.

How to find it
At the corner of Schönefelder Chaussee and Lutz-Schmidt-Straße in the Rehpfuhl estate. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Lutz Schmidt
Sources (3)

Memorial column

Memorial site for Lutz Schmidt and Christel and Eckhard Wehage

Berlin Wall Trail between Waltersdorfer Chaussee and Friedensstraße

A Berlin Wall Memorial information and remembrance site with an information column and two memorial panels: one for Lutz Schmidt, shot on 12 February 1987, and one for Christel and Eckhard Wehage.

How to find it
On the Berlin Wall Trail between Waltersdorfer Chaussee and Friedensstraße; berlin.de describes this stretch of the trail as running through the Landschaftspark Rudow/Altglienicke. Open in OpenStreetMap
Sources (5)

Klemkestraße on the Reinickendorf–Pankow boundary

On Klemkestraße, at the railway embankment on the boundary between Reinickendorf and Pankow, stands a memorial cross for Horst Frank.

Remembered here

Memorial cross

Memorial cross and plaque for Horst Frank

Klemkestraße, by the railway embankment directly on the district boundary („Sieben Brücken“), Reinickendorf

A solid wooden cross put up on 13 August 2008 (replacing one of 1998 destroyed earlier that year, both on the initiative of the local CDU), with a plate commemorating all Wall victims and recording that Horst Frank died here at the „Sieben Brücken“ on 29 April 1962 trying to reach freedom. A plaque on the brick wall behind tells his story. In August 2013 a bridge on Klemkestraße was named after him.

How to find it
On Klemkestraße at the railway embankment right on the Reinickendorf–Pankow boundary. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Horst Frank
Sources (5)

Hohen Neuendorf, Bergfelde and Frohnau

North of Berlin the border ran from the northern end of the Frohnau Invalidensiedlung through the woods parallel to Utestraße; this stretch was already closed in 1952 and built up into deep border fortifications from 1961. A former GDR watchtower survives near Utestraße. Memorial columns stand on Florastraße, near the tower and on Oranienburger Chaussee.

Remembered here

Memorial column

Memorial column for Marienetta Jirkowsky

Florastraße, Hohen Neuendorf, near the place of her escape attempt and a few hundred metres from the former border watchtower at Bergfelde

A memorial column erected at the end of 2006 near the place on Florastraße where she tried to escape, on the initiative of the German Forest Youth (Deutsche Waldjugend). The town of Hohen Neuendorf has held its annual commemoration of the building of the Wall there since 2008.

How to find it
On Florastraße in Hohen Neuendorf, on the route of the Berlin Wall Trail, close to the place of the escape attempt. Open in OpenStreetMap
Sources (5)

Memorial column

Memorial columns for Rolf-Dieter Kabelitz, Willi Born and Joachim Mehr

Beside the Berlin Wall Trail near the former GDR border watchtower close to Utestraße, between Hohen Neuendorf (Bergfelde) and Berlin-Frohnau

Memorial columns near the preserved former GDR border watchtower tell the stories of Rolf-Dieter Kabelitz, Willi Born and Joachim Mehr.

How to find it
Follow the Berlin Wall Trail from Utestraße to the former watchtower; the columns stand near the tower. Open in OpenStreetMap
Sources (5)

Memorial column

Memorial column for Friedhelm Ehrlich and Michael Bittner

Corner of Oranienburger Chaussee and Nohlstraße, Berlin-Frohnau

A memorial column with information on Friedhelm Ehrlich and Michael Bittner.

How to find it
At the corner of Oranienburger Chaussee and Nohlstraße, on the Berlin Wall Trail. Open in OpenStreetMap
Sources (4)

Memorial site

Memorial site for Herbert Bauer and Michael Bittner

Oranienburger Chaussee at the corner of Edelhofdamm, Berlin-Frohnau

A memorial site for Michael Bittner and for Herbert Bauer, a West Berlin policeman killed in 1952. Representatives of Reinickendorf and Glienicke/Nordbahn meet here on the anniversary of the building of the Wall.

How to find it
On Oranienburger Chaussee where it meets Edelhofdamm, beside the Berlin Wall Trail. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Michael Bittner
Sources (4)

Hennigsdorf, Spandauer Forst and Staaken

Between Hennigsdorf and Staaken the Berlin Wall Trail follows the north-western edge of Spandau through the Spandauer Forst and past the former West Berlin exclave of Eiskeller, which was linked to Spandau only by an access road four metres wide and 800 metres long. Information columns along this stretch remember people who died at the border here.

Remembered here

Memorial column

Memorial columns for Peter Kreitlow and Franciszek Piesik

West bank of the Nieder Neuendorfer See / Oder-Havel canal, Hennigsdorf

Memorial columns telling the stories of Peter Kreitlow, shot by a Soviet patrol in the woods near Nieder Neuendorf in January 1963, and Franciszek Piesik, who drowned in the Nieder Neuendorfer See in October 1967.

How to find it
On the Berlin Wall Trail along the western bank of the water at Hennigsdorf, north of the former border tower at Nieder Neuendorf. Open in OpenStreetMap
Sources (5)

Memorial column

Memorial column for Dietmar Schwietzer

Schönwalder Allee, on the Berlin Wall Trail (Staaken–Hennigsdorf stage)

An information column on the Berlin Wall Trail remembering Dietmar Schwietzer.

How to find it
On the Berlin Wall Trail at Schönwalder Allee, on the Staaken–Hennigsdorf stage. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Dietmar Schwietzer
Sources (3)

Memorial column

Memorial column for Ulrich Steinhauer

Eiskeller, Berlin-Spandau: where Eiskellerweg meets the Nieder Neuendorfer Kanal

A memorial column on the Berlin Wall Trail at Eiskeller remembering Ulrich Steinhauer, a border soldier shot in November 1980 during another soldier's escape.

How to find it
On the Berlin Wall Trail at Eiskeller, where Eiskellerweg reaches the Nieder Neuendorfer Kanal. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Ulrich Steinhauer
Sources (4)

Memorial column

Memorial column for Adolf Philipp

Former West Berlin patrol path on the city boundary with Falkensee, between Eiskeller and Falkenhöh

An information column about Adolf Philipp's death, set up at a different place from his memorial cross on Oberjägerweg.

How to find it
On the Berlin Wall Trail between Eiskeller and Falkenhöh; Gedenktafeln in Berlin puts it about 250 to 300 metres south of the point near Eiskeller where the boundary turns west. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Adolf Philipp
Sources (4)

Memorial column

Memorial column for Klaus Schulze and Helmut Kliem

Martin-Luther-Straße (Falkenhöh), on the Berlin Wall Trail (Staaken–Hennigsdorf stage)

An information column on the Berlin Wall Trail for Klaus Schulze and Helmut Kliem.

How to find it
On the Berlin Wall Trail near Martin-Luther-Straße, Falkenhöh, on the Staaken–Hennigsdorf stage. Open in OpenStreetMap
Sources (3)

Memorial cross

Memorial cross and column for Willi Block

End of Finkenkruger Weg, Berlin-Staaken: in front of Finkenkruger Weg 118, opposite the junction with Albrechtshofer Weg (berlin.de: "Ecke Straße 347")

A wooden memorial cross for Willi Block, with an additional information column about his life since 2011. A cross for him was already standing on the West Berlin side in August 1978, when the Stasi photographed it.

How to find it
At the northern end of Finkenkruger Weg in Staaken, in front of no. 118 and opposite the end of Albrechtshofer Weg. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Willi Block
Sources (5)

Staaken, Seeburg, Sacrow and Kladow

Between Wannsee and Staaken the trail runs past Sacrow, west of the Groß Glienicker See, along Potsdamer Chaussee and on past the former Staaken crossing; between Glienicke and Kladow the border ran through the middle of the Havel. In the Potsdam section of the trail, information columns remember Lothar Hennig, Rainer Liebeke, Erna Kelm and Lothar Lehmann.

Remembered here

Memorial cross

Memorial cross for Dieter Wohlfahrt

Bergstraße at the corner of Hauptstraße, opposite Bergstraße 38, Berlin-Staaken

A wooden cross with his photograph and, at its foot, a metal plate with his name and dates. After he was shot in 1961 the place of his death was marked with a wooden cross; whether the present cross is the original is not recorded. An information column was added beside it in 2011.

How to find it
On Bergstraße in Staaken, just before the left-hand bend, opposite house no. 38; the memorial column stands beside it. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Dieter Wohlfahrt
Sources (5)

Memorial column

Memorial column for Dieter Wohlfahrt

Bergstraße at the corner of Hauptstraße, Berlin-Staaken, beside his memorial cross

An information column put up in 2011 beside the memorial cross.

How to find it
Beside the wooden cross on Bergstraße in Staaken (see the memorial cross). Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Dieter Wohlfahrt
Sources (4)

Memorial column

Memorial column for Lothar Hennig

Corner of Weinmeisterweg and Kladower Straße, Potsdam-Sacrow

A memorial column in the Potsdam section of the Berlin Wall Trail remembering Lothar Hennig.

How to find it
At the corner of Weinmeisterweg and Kladower Straße in Sacrow. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Lothar Hennig
Sources (4)

Memorial column

Memorial column for Rainer Liebeke

Kladower Straße between Sacrow and Kladow, Potsdam

A memorial column in the Potsdam section of the Berlin Wall Trail remembering Rainer Liebeke.

How to find it
On Kladower Straße between Sacrow and Kladow. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Rainer Liebeke
Sources (4)

Memorial column

Memorial columns for Erna Kelm and Lothar Lehmann

At the ferry landing in Sacrow (Fährstraße), Potsdam

Memorial columns for Erna Kelm and Lothar Lehmann, who both drowned in the Havel between Sacrow and Berlin-Zehlendorf.

How to find it
At the ferry landing on Fährstraße in Sacrow. Open in OpenStreetMap
Sources (5)

Glienicke Bridge, Klein Glienicke and Griebnitzsee

The border ran through the middle of the Griebnitzsee, and the GDR exclave of Klein Glienicke, enclosed by the Wall, could be reached from Babelsberg only by the Parkbrücke. A surviving section of the Wall stands on the bank of the Griebnitzsee. Memorial columns stand by the Villa Schöningen, on the Griebnitzsee and towards Steinstücken.

Remembered here

Memorial column

Memorial columns for Herbert Mende and Horst Plischke

Schwanenallee, Potsdam, west of the Glienicke Bridge, opposite / just past the Villa Schöningen

Memorial columns for Horst Plischke, who drowned trying to escape in November 1962, and Herbert Mende, shot in the border area without any intention to escape, who died of his injuries in March 1968.

How to find it
On the Potsdam side of the Glienicke Bridge, on Schwanenallee just beyond the Villa Schöningen. Open in OpenStreetMap
Sources (5)

Memorial column

Memorial columns for Willi Marzahn, Peter Böhme and Jörgen Schmidtchen

Bank of the Griebnitzsee at the end of Stubenrauchstraße / Späthstraße, near the Wall monument, Potsdam-Babelsberg

Information columns for Willi Marzahn, Peter Böhme and Jörgen Schmidtchen near the Wall monument on the bank of the Griebnitzsee, where a remnant of the Wall survives.

How to find it
On the bank of the Griebnitzsee in the continuation of Stubenrauchstraße, on the Berlin Wall Trail. Open in OpenStreetMap
Sources (5)

Memorial column

Memorial column for Peter Hauptmann

Bernhard-Beyer-Straße, towards Steinstücken, Potsdam-Babelsberg

An information column for Peter Hauptmann, who was shot outside his home in the border area on Stahnsdorfer Straße without any intention to escape.

How to find it
On Bernhard-Beyer-Straße in the direction of Steinstücken. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Peter Hauptmann
Sources (4)

Dreilinden, Kleinmachnow and the Teltow Canal

Between the former Drewitz-Dreilinden checkpoint, where a preserved command post now houses a place of remembrance, and Lichterfelde the trail passes Kleinmachnow and reaches the Teltow Canal, following the water to the Knesebeck Bridge. Information columns were set up as close as possible to the places of the escape attempts.

Remembered here

Memorial column

Memorial column for Hermann Döbler

Kleinmachnow section of the Berlin Wall Trail, near the Teltow Canal by the former Dreilinden crossing

An information column for Hermann Döbler, a West Berliner shot in 1965 when his motor boat strayed into East German waters on the Teltow Canal near the former Dreilinden checkpoint.

How to find it
In the Kleinmachnow section of the Berlin Wall Trail; use the SBM map position. The street is not given in the sources consulted. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Hermann Döbler
Sources (3)

Memorial column

Memorial column for Holger H.

Stahnsdorfer Damm / Europapark, Kleinmachnow, near the memorial site at the former Drewitz-Dreilinden checkpoint

A memorial column for Holger H., a small child born in 1971 who suffocated during his parents' escape at the Drewitz crossing on 22 January 1973.

How to find it
On Stahnsdorfer Damm near the Erinnerungsstätte Grenzkontrollpunkt Drewitz-Dreilinden (the former command tower). Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Holger H.
Sources (4)

Memorial column

Memorial column for Christian Buttkus

Beside the cycle path of the Berlin Wall Trail (berlin.de: "Abschnitt Teltow / Steglitz-Zehlendorf")

An information column beside the cycle path remembering Christian Buttkus.

How to find it
Beside the cycle path of the Berlin Wall Trail; the sources give no street, so use the Berlin Wall Foundation's map position. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Christian Buttkus
Sources (3)

Memorial column

Memorial column for Walter Kittel

Corner of Karl-Marx-Straße and Berlepschstraße

A memorial column for Walter Kittel at the corner of Karl-Marx-Straße and Berlepschstraße.

How to find it
At the corner of Karl-Marx-Straße and Berlepschstraße, on the Berlin Wall Trail. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Walter Kittel
Sources (4)

Memorial stone

Memorial stone to the victims of the division of Germany, Kleinmachnow

Adam-Kuckhoff-Platz, Kleinmachnow, at the former border with Berlin-Zehlendorf (berlin.de: at Benschallee)

A memorial stone set up in 1999 to the victims of the division of Germany, recalling in particular those who, like Walter Kittel and Peter Mädler, died at the border in Kleinmachnow. Commemorations are held here every year.

How to find it
At Adam-Kuckhoff-Platz in Kleinmachnow (Chronik der Mauer); berlin.de gives "An der Benschallee". Open in OpenStreetMap
Sources (6)

Memorial cross

Memorial cross for Karl-Heinz Kube

Edge of Berlepschstraße, Berlin-Zehlendorf (Düppel)

An inconspicuous wooden cross at the edge of Berlepschstraße, first put up by his relatives (photographed in the early 1990s) and later renewed (photographed 2004).

How to find it
At the edge of Berlepschstraße in Düppel (Berlin-Zehlendorf). Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Karl-Heinz Kube
Sources (3)

Memorial column

Memorial columns for Peter Mädler and Karl-Heinz Kube, Teltow

Zehlendorfer Straße at the Knesebeck Bridge, bank of the Teltow Canal, Teltow

The first of the new memorial columns for the victims of the Wall, unveiled in Teltow on 8 August 2011 by the heads of government of Brandenburg and Berlin near the place on the Teltow Canal where Peter Mädler (1963) and Karl-Heinz Kube (1966) were shot. Councillors, town staff, relatives and friends lay wreaths here every 13 August.

How to find it
On the Teltow side of the Knesebeck Bridge, at Zehlendorfer Straße, on the canal bank. Open in OpenStreetMap
Sources (5)

Memorial stone

Memorial stone "to the unknown victim" (Roland Hoff), Knesebeck Bridge

Teltower Damm at the Knesebeck Bridge over the Teltow Canal, Berlin-Zehlendorf/Lichterfelde (West Berlin bank)

A shell-limestone block unveiled on the West Berlin bank one year after his death, when his name was still unknown in the West; it is still there. Its inscription commemorates "the unknown victim of terror" shot on 29.8.1961. The stone stands at the Knesebeck Bridge, not at the place where he was shot (in the canal level with Wupperstraße).

How to find it
At the Knesebeck Bridge on Teltower Damm; the inscription faces the road. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Roland Hoff
Sources (5)

Memorial column

Memorial column for Roland Hoff and Günter Seling

South bank of the Teltow Canal, Teltow, between Zehlendorfer Damm / Zehlendorfer Straße and Paul-Gerhardt-Straße / Max-Sabersky-Allee

An information column on the south bank of the Teltow Canal for Roland Hoff and Günter Seling, placed as close as possible to where they died.

How to find it
On the Berlin Wall Trail along the south (Teltow) bank of the Teltow Canal. Open in OpenStreetMap
Sources (4)

Memorial column

Memorial column for Klaus Garten

Bank of the Teltow Canal at Paul-Gerhardt-Straße

A memorial column on the bank of the Teltow Canal remembering Klaus Garten.

How to find it
On the canal bank at Paul-Gerhardt-Straße in Teltow. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Klaus Garten
Sources (4)

Memorial column

Memorial column for Hans-Jürgen Starrost

Gudrunstraße, between Teltow-Seehof and Berlin-Lichterfelde (Steglitz), beside the cherry-tree avenue on the Berlin Wall Trail

An information column about the escape attempt of Hans-Jürgen Starrost, who was shot on 14 April 1981 on Gudrunstraße in Sigridshorst and died of his wounds on 16 May 1981.

How to find it
On the Berlin Wall Trail level with Gudrunstraße, on the stretch of the cherry-tree avenue (Kirschbaumallee). Open in OpenStreetMap
Sources (4)

Mahlow, Lichtenrade, Großziethen and Rudow

Along Berlin's southern edge the trail runs for long stretches through open country on the former patrol road of the GDR border troops, past the former Mahlow crossing on Kirchhainer Damm and on to the Landschaftspark Rudow-Altglienicke. Memorial columns along the way remember people who died at the border here.

Remembered here

Memorial column

Memorial column for Eduard Wroblewski

Berlin Wall Trail at the Mahlower Grenzgraben, level with Paplitzer Straße (Lichtenrade / Mahlow)

A memorial site for Eduard Wroblewski, set up in 2009 at the Mahlower Grenzgraben near Paplitzer Straße.

How to find it
On the Berlin Wall Trail level with Paplitzer Straße, by the Mahlower Grenzgraben. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Eduard Wroblewski
Sources (4)

Memorial column

Memorial column for Herbert Kiebler

Berlin Wall Trail west of Kirchhainer Damm (B96), Blankenfelde-Mahlow, near the former Mahlow crossing

A memorial column erected in 2012 near the place where he died. For some years the district of Teltow-Fläming, the Berlin borough of Tempelhof-Schöneberg and the municipality of Blankenfelde-Mahlow have remembered him there on anniversaries.

How to find it
On the Berlin Wall Trail just west of Kirchhainer Damm (B96). Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Herbert Kiebler
Sources (4)

Memorial cross

Memorial cross for Horst Kullack

Wittelsbacher Straße 92, Berlin-Lichtenrade (former West Berlin side)

A wooden cross with a small inscription plate, put up on the West Berlin side long before the fall of the Wall; it has stood for decades. The inscription dates the shooting to 1 January 1972; the border troops' report puts it on the evening of 31 December 1971.

How to find it
At Wittelsbacher Straße 92 in Lichtenrade, on the western side of the former border. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Horst Kullack
Sources (5)

Memorial column

Memorial column for Horst Kullack

Former border strip between Großziethen and Berlin-Lichtenrade, reached via Groß Ziethener Straße

Information columns for Horst Kullack on the former border strip.

How to find it
On the Berlin Wall Trail on the former border strip, after returning to it along Groß Ziethener Straße; his West Berlin memorial cross is further on, level with Wittelsbacher Straße. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Horst Kullack
Sources (3)

Memorial column

Memorial column for Eberhard Schulz

Kölner Damm, between Großziethen and Berlin-Neukölln (Rudow)

A memorial column near Kölner Damm for Eberhard Schulz, shot here in 1966 at the age of 20.

How to find it
On the Berlin Wall Trail near Kölner Damm. Open in OpenStreetMap
Remembers
Eberhard Schulz
Sources (4)

Other places

Memorials that are not on one of the routes above.

Remembered here

Memorial column

Memorial column for Winfried Freudenberg

Corner of Erdmann-Graeser-Weg and Goethestraße, Zehlendorf

A red information column headed „Ballonflucht mit tödlichem Ausgang“, unveiled by the district on Monday 26 November 2012 near the place where Winfried Freudenberg fell to his death on 8 March 1989 after escaping from East Berlin in a home-made gas balloon. It stands where a wooden cross put up in 1991 stood until it was taken down around 2000 because it had rotted at the base.

How to find it
At the corner of Erdmann-Graeser-Weg and Goethestraße in Zehlendorf. Open in OpenStreetMap
Sources (2)

Corrections and additions

If you find a memorial that is missing, damaged or different from its description here, or know of one that is not listed, please email info@berlinexperiences.com. Corrections to the site are recorded in the corrections log.

Base map © OpenStreetMap contributors; course of the Wall in 1989 from Geoportal Berlin (dl-de/zero-2.0).