Allotment gardens and tower blocks in Alt-Treptow seen from the course of the former Berlin Wall. The route of the Wall, which stood from 1961-1989, has been developed into the 'Mauerweg,' a thoroughfare which traces most of the route of the Wall which encircled the city and divided it into East and West Berlin during the Cold War. In the years following the 1989 civil uprising in the German Democratic.Republic, most of the Wall was removed as part of the reunification strategy which united the pro-Soviet DDR and the Federal Republic of (West) Germany.
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