Is the wall separation still visible in Berlin nowadays?

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kat1605nrw

As for the actual wall, there are some bits left standing, and there is a line of cobblestones running through the city's pavement showing the line where the wall used to stand.

As for the city, yes, it is true that Berlin still has two of many things that make a city - like the Tiergarten in the West and the Tierpark in the East (both zoos) - mirroring the time when it was divided. This also accounts for the several opera houses Berlin has etc.

fubar_09074

the german gov left some pieces for historical purposes.

Paris Hilton

Yep-- like a couple blocks of it. I was half asleep and staring out the window of a bus from Potsdamer Platz to the Gate and all of the sudden this ugly wall with gaffitti all over it pops up and it was kind of shocking..I had no idea what the it was at first...My first reaction was WHAT THE HELL IS UGLY THING DOING HERE....then you quickly figure it out....

ARRGH!!!

Yes it is still visible because they put a metal line through the citiy where the wall was. And some part of it is kept for touristic purposes. Otherwise the city is quite like any modern one.

Ravin

There are a few places left where the wall has been left standing, albeit somewhat mutilated, to stand as testimony to the fallacy of separating the city from itself. There are other places where more intact segments of the wall have been moved from their original locations and put on display, mostly for the artwork adorning them, such as in Potsdamer Platz. (A commonly-visited and intact stretch of the wall can be found between Checkpoint Charlie and Potsdamer Platz, actually). Other areas where the wall once stood but was removed, leaving only a narrow line of bricks inlaid into the street to show where it once stood, run in many places of the city--such as west of the Brandenburg Gate, and running farther north to the east side of the Reichstag to the Spree River. There are many places where the years of separation are still evident; but the evidence of the effects of unification are obvious throughout the city. Berlin, like many German cities, is steeped in so much history that it's impossible for any one person to know all of its secrets.

You can still buy little souvenir pieces of the wall in Berlin and other places; there are even locations around the world where entire segments and sections of the wall have been sent to and put on display. An entire segment of the wall is on display in Seattle Center, for example... and that segment has been there since a few years after the wall fell.

Alarka Chade

As said before, some parts of the wall are still standing.
You can still see and hear the difference between the two areas. And probably it will always be like that.

The East is still much poorer as the West.
I would say the city is divided by an invisible wall, only some places they're really fused together, like the streets.

almondia

Hey! I am from Germany and can help you ... they took down most of the wall but there are still visible parts along the old border. When you would visit Berlin for the first time you wouldn't even notice the difference between West and East! Officially, Germany is one nation now ... but we're not! In our heads the Wall has not fallen yet and it won't fall for a long time! I am from East Germany and I can say that the mentalities in the both parts are very different. The people from West Germany don't like the people from East Germany because they think they are better than we are what is not true. Well, and the people from East Germany don't like the people from West Germany because they are rude, they are lazy, they are not tolerant ... it has always been like that and it won't change if the government won't do anything about it! The government supports the Western part financially more than the Eastern part and because of that there is a higher unemployment rate in the Eastern part. The Eastern part is not poor ... the people just earn less money in the Eastern part. People in the Western part work less and get much more money for the same job! ...
I hope, I could help you!

It's a good question, but I don't know

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