Border crossing Kohlhasenbrück (Berlin-Steinstücken)
OBJECT INFORMATION
Info
May 1 1990
Berlin-Steinstücken
Duration: ca 12 Min min.
Created By:
Christine KrügerLicense: Not Creative Commons
From the Set
Passersby and officers of the People's Police at a provisional border crossing 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
Depicts
barrier grid,
border fence,
child,
child's pushchair,
cleared border strip,
group of people,
guard room,
inner-Eastern Wall,
May Day,
member of the People's Police,
pavementbicycle,
construction of the Wall,
fall of the Berlin Wall,
hope,
houses,
leisure time,
luckiness,
May Day,
savings bank,
sorrowPlaces
Berlin-Steinstücken,
Brandenburger Tor border crossing,
Kohlhasenbrück (Berlin-Steinstücken) border crossingRelated
Original Caption
"After 9 November 1989, these provisional containers, such as this one near Steinstücken, were used as border controls and put up at several of the newly opened border crossings. Although officially, Modrow's transitional government was dismantling the Wall, it had put up a fence all around West Berlin. But it was impossible to count all the holes..."
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