Berlin - Turistic Guide

 The Berlin wall (in German: Berliner Mauer) was along wall, part of the German inner frontier, that it separated to Berlin the West from East Berlin and the surrounding territory of the East Germany. The wall has existed from 13 August 1961 until 9 November 1989.
 In 1945, to the term of the second world war, in the course of the conference of Yalta it came decided the division of the Germany and therefore also of Berlin in four fields it controls to you and it trains to you from Soviet Union, United States, United Kingdom and France. The Soviet field of the city by far was extended and occupied the greater part of the half orients them of Berlin -- Friedrichshain, Köpenick, Lichtenberg, Mitte, Pankow, Prenzlauer Berg, Treptow, and Weissensee.

 In 1948, the "Block of Berlin" from part of the Soviet Union carried to the performance of the aerial Bridge for Berlin from part of Allies to you.
 From the 1949 the three fields control to you from USA, France and Great Britain (Berlin the West), even if nominally independent, they were in effects a part of Germany the West completely encircled from the East Germany.
 Initially to the citizens of Berlin it was allowed to circular liberations between all the fields, but with the development of the Cold War the movements came limit to you; the border between East Germany and the West came closed in 1952 and the attraction of the western fields of Berlin for the citizens of the East Germany increased. Approximately 2,5 million Germans of the east they passed to the west between 1949 and 1961.

In order to stop the emigration, the construction of a wall around the three western fields in the night between the 12 was began and 13 August 1961 to East Berlin. In 15 August started being uses the elements prefabricate you of concrete and stone assigns to you to form the first generation of true and just a wall. The wall divided the city physically; when it encircled Berlin completely the West, it transformed in practical the western fields in a island to the inside of the territories orients them.

A lot is not remained today of the Berlin wall. The official discouragement of the Berlin wall was begun the 13 june 1990 in the Bernauer Strasse from 300 guards of frontier of the DDR, then was finished from 600 soldiers of the German army using 13 bulldozer, 55 ruspe, 65 crane and 175 truck. To November of the same year the entire wall to the inside of the city had been pulled down with the exception of 6 points that were maintained like monument. The successive year disappeared the remaining part definitively. The concrete blocks were destroyed and use you for the construction of roads. 250 of these blocks were puttinges to the auction to oscillating prices between 10.000 and 250.000 mark Germans. The wall has been physically destroyed nearly , with the exception of some points. The Berlin wall obviously had a strong emotional, social and cultural impact, not only on the citizens of Berlin or the Germany, but also in the rest of the world. At the moment of its erection the wall separated, apparently in order always, families and friendships, leaving both the halves of the city.

The wall divided 192 roads (97 between the two parts of city and the 95 between Berlin the West and the DDR), 32 lines of tram, 8 lines of metropolitan of surface (S-Bahn), 3 lines of metropolitan basement (U-Bahn), 3 freeways and numerous rivers. The fall of the wall considerable changed the flows of traffic of the city.