The Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer (Berlin Wall Memorial) commemorates the division of Berlin by the Berlin Wall and the deaths that occurred there. The monument was created in 1998 by the Federal Republic of Germany and the Federal State of Berlin. It is located on Bernauer Straße at the corner of Ackerstraße and includes a Chapel of Reconciliation, the Berlin Wall Documentation Centre, a 60-metre section of the former border, a window of remembrance and a visitor centre.
The memorial is divided into four areas:
- The wall and the Todesstreifen (death strip)
- Destruction of the city
- Building of the wall
- “Es geschah an der Mauer” (It happened at the wall)
