Rathaus Schöneberg (Schöneberg Town Hall). Most of the Berlin boroughs have magnificent town halls, dating from when they were independent towns. Schöneberg Town Hall was the seat of the West Berlin government until reunification. It was from its balcony that President John F Kennedy made his celebrated speech declaring himself to be a doughnut! ("Ich bin ein Berliner.")

The longest surviving stretch of the Berlin Wall runs along the Mühlenstraße, next to the River Spree, for several hundred yards. It is now the "East Side Gallery" -- given over to artists from all over the world. Unfortunately, the occasional tourist still tries to chip away at it!

 
Another, although shorter, stratch of the Wall has been preserved alongside Bernauer Straße. There is also a visitors' and documentation centre, with a viewing tower! Above: The Wall can be seen by the (former western) side of the street. Behind it is the raked sand "death strip" and further barriers.

The Kapelle der Versoehnung (Chapel of the Reconciliation) was recently built in the "no-man's land" behind the former Wall. The Chapel is built of loam and wood, and stands on the site of the Church of the Reconciliation. This was demolished in 1985 because of its exposed position on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. The cross embedded in the ground to the bottom left of the Chapel is the cross, from the top of the church steeple, which fell there when the tower was blown up.
(See also The New Berlin.)

The St Michaelkirche -- still partially ruined from Allied bombing. The Berlin Wall ran just to the right of where this photo was taken.

Blocks of flats along Leipziger Straße, built in the late 1960's. The former Berlin Wall ran close to here. The story is that when publisher Axel Springer built a tall office-block next to the Wall on the West Berlin side, the DDR government built these flats (four blocks in all) in order to hide Springer's tower from East Berliners!

A detail of the concrete exterior wall at pavement level of one the blocks.

The photos above and below show the "Parliament of the Trees" by Ben Wargin. Situated on the north bank of the River Spree close to Friedrichstraße station, this installation uses parts of the former Berlin wall, and gives a good idea of what it was like.

The Glienicker Brücke (Glienicke Bridge) on the main road linking Berlin with Potsdam. The bridge was closed to traffic during the time of the Berlin Wall. The checkpoint there was the scene of several spy exchanges between West and East.

Many of the leaders of the German Democratic Republic lived in the Maiakowskiring in Pankow, north Berlin, near Niederschönhausen Palace, which was the residence of the President, Wilhelm Pieck. This is the house where the DDR's first Prime Minister, Otto Grotewohl (1894-1964) lived.