Brandenburg Gate underground station in East Berlin by Silva Wischeropp

About "Brandenburg Gate underground station in East Berlin"

by Silva Wischeropp

About the artwork

This photo was taken at the Berlin underground station Brandenburger Tor on 11 January 2015 in the late afternoon hours with the NIKON D90 (lens: 18.0-50.0 mm f/2.8).

The Brandenburg Gate Wall Memorial provides information on the history of the Berlin Wall and the division of Germany in a permanent exhibition at the Brandenburg Gate underground station.

No other place symbolises the division of Germany and the world like the Brandenburg Gate between walls, barbed wire and watchtowers in the middle of the death strip. At the same time, Berlin's most famous landmark symbolises the unbroken will of the people to overcome the division of the world.

To mark the opening of the U55 line between Pariser Platz and the main station on 8 August 2009, a permanent exhibition has been set up in the Brandenburg Gate underground station.
It deals with the history of the Berlin Wall and the Brandenburg Gate as a symbol of the division and unification of Germany.

The Wall Information Centre is located on the mezzanine floor of the Brandenburger Tor underground and suburban railway station. It is accessible at all times during the operating hours of the new U55 underground line, the so-called Kanzlerbahn, and offers free information.

Historical quotes about the Berlin Wall
Above an escalator, historical quotes about the Berlin Wall can be read in German and in the languages of the Allied victorious powers - English, French and Russian. Among them is the infamous statement made by the former head of state of the GDR, Walter Ulbricht, on 15 June 1961: "Nobody has the intention of building a wall here."