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Press Center of the GDR

On 9 November 1989, Günter Schabowski announced in the Press Centre of the GDR that new travel regulations for people from the GDR would apply immediately.

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Checkpoint Charlie

Checkpoint Charlie was a symbol of the Cold War until 1989. Today tourists come here and search for traces of the division. Urban development meets the memory of the Cold War and the division of…

Tresor

In 1991, Berlin's first Techno club - the Tresor - was opened. Young people from East and West celebrated together to the new music after reunification.

Sites of Unity

In 1989, people fought for freedom at these sites, reunification was achieved in 1990 and German unity has been realised ever since. Listen online and on the go to how the division of Germany became…

About the Project

The web project "Sites of Unity" makes the successes and challenges of German reunification an audio-visual experience by conveying historical-political content, including its relevance to the…

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IMPRINT IMPRINTSites of Unity The owner of this website as per section 5 of the German Telemedia Act (TMG) and responsible for the content as per section 55 para. 2 of the Interstate Broadcasting…

Alexanderplatz

On November 4, 1989, hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated on Alexanderplatz in East Berlin for freedom of the press and freedom of expression in the GDR.

Cherry Trees Along the Berlin Wall Trail

In the springtime, thousands of cherry trees bloom at a strip of the former Wall in Berlin. They were a present from a Japanese television channel in honour of the German Unity.

Samariterkirche

In 1989, China struck down the democracy movement on Tiananmen Square in Beijing. In response, a peaceful protest was held in the Samariterkirche in Berlin.

Brandenburg Gate

On November 9, 1989, people climbed onto the Wall at the Brandenburg Gate. They celebrated the opening of the border and conquered the place that had been inaccessible during the division.

Mauerpark

Until 1989, GDR soldiers patrolled the area along the Berlin Wall of what is today the Mauerpark. The use of the area as a park has been controversial for a long time.

Palace of the Republic

On March 18, 1990, the People's Chamber was the first freely elected parliament in the GDR. It convened in the Palace of the Republic in East Berlin.

Schönhausen Palace

From autumn 1989 the opposition and the old leaders talked at the Round Table about the GDR's future. From December on, they met at Schoenhausen Palace.

Permanent Representation

In August 1989, more than one hundred East Germans camped in the Federal Republic's permanent representation. They desperately wanted to leave the country.

Umweltbibliothek

In the Umweltbibliothek critics of the regime collected information about grievances in the GDR. In 1987 the secret police took action against them.

Treuhandanstalt

The Treuhand transfers the GDR's nationally owned assets into private ownership, thereby integrating the GDR economy into the market economy of the Federal Republic.

Superillu Editorial Office

In 1990, a West German publishing house founded a magazine aimed specifically at East Germans. It helps people from the GDR to arrive in the new society.

Federal Chancellery

Between 1997 and 2001, the new Federal Chancellery is built in Berlin's government district. Later colloquially known as the Federal Washing Machine, the building is one of the largest government…

Berlin Wall Memorial

The Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Strasse commemorates the division of Germany and the deaths at the Wall at the historic site.

Kulturbrauerei

Creative people occupy the former Schultheiß brewery in Prenzlauer Berg in 1990. Today, the Haus der Geschichte Foundation shows the history of everyday life in the GDR in the museum in the…

Potsdamer Platz

During the division Potsdamer Platz was a wasteland between the sectors. After reunification large corporations and the entertainment industry are settling.

Cuvry-Brache

A wasteland in Kreuzberg becomes an important symbol in the fight against gentrification. Homeless people and creative people design their own living space on the Spree until the site is cleared in…

East Side Gallery

Painted in the early 1990s, the East Side Gallery is the longest remaining piece of the Wall. But the site is in a disputed building location on the Spree. Soon debates began about questions of urban…

Bornholmer Straße

On the night the Wall came down, crowds of people from the GDR flocked to the Bornholmer Straße border crossing. They use their new freedom to travel to discover West Berlin from here.

House of the Teacher

On the 40th anniversary of the founding of the GDR, thousands of people demonstrated in Berlin against election fraud and for freedom. The brutal police operation against them was directed from the…

Gethsemanekirche

In autumn 1989, the Gethsemanekirche was the meeting place for the opposition in the GDR. Despite brutal police operations, the protests remained peaceful.

Rathaus Schöneberg

Chancellor Helmut Kohl met resistance at a rally after the fall of the Wall on November 9, 1989 in front of Rathaus Schöneberg.

Ministry for State Security

In January 1990, protesters occupied the Ministry for State Security, the headquarters of the Secret Police of the GDR.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR

In 1990, a new GDR government negotiated German Unity under Foreign Minister Markus Meckel.

Tränenpalast

In the Tränenpalast, the former border crossing hall at Friedrichstraße train station, an exhibition at the historic site commemorates the German division.

Underground Station Samariterstraße

In Friedrichshain at the end of 1992, a neo-Nazi stabbed the left-wing activist Silvio Meier at the Subway station Samariterstraße.

Reichstag

Berlin and the Reichstag building waited for forty years to be home of parliament again. After the fall of the Wall, Berlin narrowly beat Bonn in the question regarding Germany's capital.

House of Parliamentarians

For decades, the GDR's state party SED resided in the Haus am Werderschen Markt. Later this was the site where the freely elected People's Chamber laid the foundation for German Unity.

Crown Prince’s Palace

On August 31, 1990, Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble for the Federal Republic of Germany and State Secretary Günther Krause for the GDR signed the Unification Treaty in the Crown Prince's Palace.

Bülowstraße Station

From 1980 until 1993 the disused Bülowstraße Station was the meeting point for the Turkish community in Berlin. Today, trains are operating here again.

Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

In 2005, the Holocaust Memorial was opened near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The memorial to the Jewish victims of National Socialism attracts millions of visitors every year.

Deutschlandhalle

On November 12, 1989, bands from East and West play a free concert together in West Berlin's Deutschlandhalle for audiences from all over Berlin.

Dong Xuan Centre

Until 1989, thousands of contract workers from Vietnam came to the GDR. Today they characterize the image of Berlin, among others in the Dong Xuan Centre in Lichtenberg.

Kosmos Cinema

In early 1990, international stars celebrated their films in the GDR. For the first time, the Berlinale took place in West and East Berlin.

KaDeWe

After the fall of the Wall in 1989, the KaDeWe attracted people from the GDR. The department store carried goods that were not available in the GDR.

Marienfelde Refugee Centre

In 1989, more and more people left the GDR. The Marienfelde Refugee Centre is for many refugees the place of shelter in West Berlin.

Olympic Stadium

In January 1990, football fans from East and West march to the Olympic Stadium for the first Berlin derby after the fall of the Wall. They celebrated the unity derby between Hertha and Union in…

Karlshorst Theatre

In 1994, the last Russian soldiers left Berlin. What remained was a theatre in the former restricted area in Karlshorst.

List of Sites

Here you can select and filter the historical sites. Red are the places where the peaceful revolution took place. Blue stands for the places where the unity of Germany was implemented. Purple are the…
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