Using Google Earth technology, this application shows the former course of the Berlin Wall among 3D images of buildings in today’s Berlin. The border fortifications represented here consist of the outer wall (Vorderlandmauer) in red, the inner wall (Hinterlandmauer) in blue, and the border strip between the two, including watchtowers used by GDR border troops, as they looked in 1989. A yellow line marks the actual political border, which sometimes deviated from the course of the Wall. A 3D view of the buildings located there today, based on official data from the Senate Department for Urban Development from 2007 to 2009, is superimposed on the route of the former Wall.

You can call up the former checkpoints, Wall fragments, and other important sights in this 3D image by clicking on the boxes in the menu bar to the right. You can also “fly” up to the locations listed in the flyout menus behind these boxes.

Clicking on the “1989” tab will show you the Wall’s route through the section currently selected in aerial photos from 1989. This view shows the former buildings in the city center as stylized blocks.