Berlin Flugttunneller mellem Øst- og Vestberlin

 

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Berlin - Escape Tunnels between East and West Berlin

Treptower Strasse in the early 1960s

Most escape tunnels were excavated shortly after the construction of the wall in the first half of the 60s, as it later became much more difficult. The district of Neuköln became the place where most people tried to dig under the wall, but the work was dangerous and not infrequently awaited "Stasi" on the other side.

This is how the border looked like from West Berlin on Heidelberger Straße, from where a famous tunnel went from.

After almost half a century, members of the association Berliner Unterwelten have rediscovered the failed flight tunnel. Peter Arndt, his brother Dieter and Jürgen Dill had dug the tunnel in June 1962 to bring seven friends and family from East Berlin to freedom. The three young men dug from the house in Heidelberger Straße 36 Neukölln.

 

Escape helper Peter Arndt revisits the descent to the tunnel

Address:

Heidelberger Str. 36, 12059 Berlin

Approx. 15 minutes' walk to Treptower Park S station

 

Wanted

Berlin is always worth a visit - summer or winter - but where to go? Here are some slightly unusual and very different suggestions for places I like to go.


Interesting places

A B C

"Boxhagener Platz" - Old military hospital

Bendlerblock" - Memorial and museum

"Berlin Untervelten" - Berlin's "Underworld"

"Bernauer Straße" - About the Berlin Wall etc.

"Bornholmer Straße - Former border crossing east/west

"Boxhagener Platz - Green area and flea market"

D E F

"Europacenter" - Shopping center etc.

Flakturm Humboldthain" - Bunker facility WW2

"Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg" - Busy airport

"Flughafen Berlin Tempelhof" - Recreational area.

"Escape tunnels between East and West Berlin - Kold krig

"Friedhof Invalidenhof - Soldiers Cemetery

G H I J K

"Old Danish Embassy"  - Tiergarten

Gedenkstätte Plötzensee" - Memorial

"Glienicker Brücke" - Dividing East/ West

- "Pallasstrasse bunker" Bunker i centrum

" Weissensee Jewish Cemetery - Jewish cemetery

Karlshorst - German-Russian Museum"

L M N O P Q R S

"Majakowskiring"
– GDR elite in Pankow

Prenzlauer Berg"

- Memorial

"Schöneberg town hall"  - JFK tale"

"Schwerbelastungs-
körper"
- Pressure gauge

" Friedhof Grunewald-Forst - Cemetery for suicides

SS residences – Zehlendorf

S T U V X Y Z

"Stasimuseum" - Stasimuseum

Teufelsberg" - NSA in Grunewald

"Tiergarten" - The Nordic Embassies"

"Tiergarten - Siegessäule" 67 meter tall victory column

"Villa Riefenstahl - Leni Riefenstahls House

"Zionskirche Prenzlauerberg - Where Bonhoeffer preached

 

Recreational areas:

"Grunewald"
- Berlins largest green areas

Strandbad Wannsee"
- Europe's largest lake bath

"Tempelhofer Park"
- Formerly Tempelhof Airport

"Tiergarten"
- Berlin's largest city park

"Volkspark Friedrichshein - Recreational area

"Volkspark Jungfernheide" - Recreational area

Food and drinks:

"Biergarden am Neuen See" in the Tiergarten.

Biergarden "Prater" - From 1837 and the oldest

Biergarden "Schleusenkrug", "Biergarden in Tiergarten".

"Mustafa’s Gemüse Kebap" - known all over Berlin

"Restaurant Zillemarkt" Unfortunately closed by now

"Zur letzten Instanz" - Oldest restaurant in Berlin