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The site
The memorial on Bernauer Straße keeps 60 metres of the border as it was
The memorial was created in 1998 on Bernauer Straße. It 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.
60 mof the former border kept as it was when the Wall fell
The chapel
The chapel stands where a church was destroyed in 1985
The Chapel of Reconciliation is oval in shape, with a facade of wooden rods. It includes materials from the former Versöhnungskirche, the reconciliation church, which stood on the site until it was destroyed in 1985 because it was inside the border strip.
Four areas
The memorial is divided into four areas
The memorial was to be divided into four areas: the wall and the death strip, the destruction of the city, the building of the wall, and the section titled Es geschah an der Mauer, It happened at the wall. The documentation centre had over 220,000 visitors in 2006.
Day 2, morning
Next is Mauerpark.
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