Berlin Wall Trail 2019 - a novel Walk

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And onto the forest

again there were a few run arounds to get past private fences gah....





FINALLY A SEAT !

and onto Dreilinden in the rain

 

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dampen my enthusiasm and the wall started to head into new suburbia so was not simple to follow, so I goofed off into the “town centre”


And this is the QR code link
www.world-qr.com
it has quite a number of the local sites eg Grenz = Border




back on the canal


the Carnivals in Tetlow



Or is it?

finally trundled into Tetlow S-Bahn station. It was the fast trip to Lichtenfelde Süd because I can't be bothered to walk in the dark in endless forest.... exhausted

 

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What a marathon!

 

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What a marathon!

That it is .... something like 3 marathons across a week....
all the way around the yellow, outer green and along the blue to around the boundary of Stieglitz and Tempelhof,
the remainder of blue to Schönefeld airport looks to be forest so that part is probably becoming unviable in the time left available ...



so 5 October 2019 was a REST DAY, although I’ll come back because I did find the Grenzturm in Potsdamer palace
BUT I will keep the sections in sequential order. Running out of time but at least getting time to see friends and just relax....




Running out of time but at least getting time to see friends and just sit and relax....

Not built for Comfort and reminds me of the cookie cutter high schools constructed In The 1960s

Old friends

 

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Gosh where has the time gone

Berlin Wall Trail - From Lichtenrade to Lichterfelde Süd - Berlin.de

www.berlin.de

I did a short backtrack from Lichterfelde Sud station towards Tetlow To visit the cherry blossoms.

it wax a short walk to the Lakec






here there was the original border fence, and damn it, walking in thongs on the heavily wooded riverbank inside the fence, I strayed onto a f...g piece of barbed wire! Fortunately, it didn’t pierce the bottom of my foot.... but sufficient to be wary...

so it was off to see both sides of the former wall zone

cobbles and community gardens

dead end street
Posh west





The cherry blossoms

 

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The riverbank border fence...



this is where I snagged a small piece of barbed wire from the former border fence.... fortunately minor, and besides I had had a tetanus injection less than a year before AS RESULT of a rooftop accident so all good.




cherry blossoms



The border strip and re-opened streets
a little bouncy here....




Back to the station



So since The route running from Lichtenrade to Lichterfelde had been touted as “one of the most scenic“ but with very few traces of the GDR’s border installations left, I departed after this short cameo and to continue to heal my sore feet and toes.

 

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7 October

Berlin Wall Trail - From Schönefeld to Lichtenrade - Berlin.de

www.berlin.de

so this section takes you along the undeveloped fringes of the city’s southern edge. It is 16 kilometers making it best suited for cyclists.

we’ll see the legs were still in average shape I toddled off by train to Lichtenrade.


boom Gates

Cobbled Platforms

buildings and new builds




at the other end
beware the Zone C, make sure you have an ABC or an add-on ticket...


glad I wasn’t walking this as the long detour sounded like no “shortcut” since the path planned for this section has not yet been completed

landed...

 

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So now there’s just 4 sections left, and two days so it’s likely only one will be attempted On the way to the airport

Berlin Wall Trail - City route - Berlin.de

www.berlin.de

However, across my time in berlin I did various parts of the 3 outstanding sections plus of course had done so on past trips. so to complete this trek tour trip report, I will post each leg separately in continuity so as if a full ring loop was completed. And as might bring said, “l left my best on the track” and “left something to look forward next time”
and learnt lots !






so many enchanting stations. Could be an entire trip of its own





same station - completely different interior designs

 

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8 October (2019)


dang this is how I felt now

(Markisches Museum and what was eventually banned as satire of communism)

so hey todays a lil artefact trip down Berlin “memory lane”







Dalism


Ku’damm and opulence vroom vroom



best artefaction
candle Apple strudel !!!

 

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http://holycoffeeberlin.de/

“a cute artefact - existential“

 

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9 October (2019)

Berlin Wall Trail - From Schöneweide to Schönefeld - Berlin.de

www.berlin.de

Well on my last legs this was my last leg so of course I stepped on glass on the grass. ....ahead of Norwegian to Stockholm....
unicorns might fly

so it was a 6.5km walk from Aldershof station to schonefeld... however I will keep the photos in the reverse order to keep the continuity going....









quite some former Wall sections on this part of the walking trail







Mercedes Benz Factory !




Audi Stack!

 

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back in the ‘burbs
this is Humboldt University




aldershof station

johannisthal


Schoneweide station

 

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And here’s the extras

3 to go

Berlin Wall Trail - From Warschauer Strasse to Schöneweide - Berlin.de

www.berlin.de

and the video (which I tagged earlier) covers this section in earnest

Treptower Park




This is the S-Bahn that was blocked off at Oberbaumbrücke while the Wall was up.


Warschaeur Strasse station

Yea there were protests on that day hence the Hippo.
And adjacent is this rather alt kinda locale


Bikes at the circus ?

this section also contains the East-Side Gallery and Wall Museum - neither of which I visited this time so here’s a couple of references

Mauermuseum Berlin - The Wall Museum - Direkt an der East Side Gallery

The Wall Museum ✓ Das Mauermuseum an der East Side Gallery ✓ Der Fall der Berliner Mauer ✓ Erlebe das Multimedia Spektakel

thewallmuseum.com

East Side Gallery Berlin

East Side Gallery Berlin - die offizielle Webseite

www.eastsidegallery-berlin.com

 

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Berlin Wall Trail - From Potsdamer Platz to Warschauer Strasse - Berlin.de

www.berlin.de

2 to go

 

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This section contains Checkpoint Charlie
photos are here

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After the East side Gallery, there’s piles of backstreet walls

 

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By checkpoint Charlie



by Topography of terror


the Grenzturm that’s hidden off the beaten track now but was once standing on its lonesome !







Inside the turret

 

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A couple of short checkpoint Charlie videos

 

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Well built up now
in 1992-95, Potsdamer Platz was still empty

potsdamer-platz.de – Berlin – Ihr Internetguide für den Potsdamer Platz und Umgebung in Berlin-Mitte

Shops, Shopping-Center, Hotels, Restaurants/Cafés/Bars und Dienstleister rund um den Potsdamer Platz in Berlin-Mitte – News, Aktuelle Angebote, Events, Neueröffnungen, Bildergalerien,Potsdamer Platz, Arkaden

www.potsdamer-platz.de

Potsdamer Platz

Potsdamer Platz has been redeveloped as the new centre of Berlin after the fall of the Wall. A bustling traffic intersection in the 1920s, it became desolate after WW II and part of the border strip.

www.berlin.de

 

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Lucky Last

Berlin Wall Trail - From Nordbahnhof to Potsdamer Platz - Berlin.de

www.berlin.de

a bit of fanfare !

Ta Daa!



Bahnhof Friedrich strasse

Former border crossing at the Friedrichstrasse station - Berlin.de

www.berlin.de

Visit the Tränenpalast (Palace of Tears) in Berlin

The Tränenpalast at the Friedrichstraße S-Bahn train station was the main Cold War departure point for travelers from East Germany to West Berlin.

www.european-traveler.com

 

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Brandenburg Gate


seems like a circus

in 1994, there were lots of street vendors selling off East German Border Guard caps in the open square. Now you can sit zen at Starbucks and admire the mighty Brandenburg tucked between corporate builds...














on the other side of the spree are the new Government buildings where the Wall once resided