View across the Wall
OBJECT INFORMATION
Info
May 1 1990
Berlin, Steinstraße/Rote-Kreuz-Straße
Duration: ca 12 Min min.
Created By:
Christine KrügerLicense: Not Creative Commons
From the Set
View onto cyclists near the opened Wall in Berlin-Steinstücken (
Wikipedia article, retrieved on January 6, 2010), one of the ten West-Berliner exclaves while the Wall was up; the inner Eastern wall in the background to the right
Depicts
bicycle,
border strip,
group of people,
inner-Eastern Wall,
May Day,
watchtowerbicycle,
construction of the Wall,
fall of the Berlin Wall,
hope,
houses,
leisure time,
luckiness,
May Day,
savings bank,
sorrowPlaces
Berlin-SteinstückenRelated
Original Caption
"On 13 August 1961, the erection of the Wall separated the residential area of Babelsberg in Potsdam from the Steinstücken exclave which belonged to the district of Zehlendorf. The double wall meant that the Stein Straße and Rote-Kreuz Straße could no longer be used. When the Wall fell in 1989, one-time neighbours, friends and acquaintances on the other side of the street hardly knew one another anymore. Biking tourists, be they 'Ossies' or 'Wessies', explored the unusual situation in spring 1990."
