The Tränenpalast: The Palace of Tears Museum, Berlin
The building with one of the most emotive names in Berlin, The Tränenpalast, or, The Palace of Tears, was built after the Berlin Wall was erected and was the main border crossing for West Berliners and West Germans entering and leaving East Berlin. The building received its name for the heart renching farewells as families said goodbye to their loved ones as they returned to West Berlin, unsure when they would see them again.
The original building, next to the Friedrichstraße S- and U-Bahn station in Berlin Mitte is now home to a fascinating exhibition on the former border and customs control as well as the effect that the travel restrictions had on the every day life of both East and West Berliners.
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My last video from Berlin. During the Cold War the Palace of Tears was the point at where East and West German family and loved ones would say their goodbyes before they would board the train never knowing when they would see each other again.
The harrowing experience earned the border point to be known as ‘Palace of Tears’ it is located just outside Friedrichstraße train station only available for west bound trains.
People going through ‘Palace of Tears’ and undergo rigorous checks before they could go through to the train station. Lots of tears, lots of heartache - all those people where are they now.
Places to see in ( Berlin - Germany ) Palace of Tears
Places to see in ( Berlin - Germany ) Palace of Tears
Parting tears. This is what the partition of Germany meant for many Berliners and their personal stories can be found in the Tränenpalast. Exiting the GDR. Checking in in the hall at Friedrichstraße railway station. Luggage and passport control. It sounds so rational and bureaucratic but means much more: leaving friends and family, tearful goodbyes – which is how the Tränenpalast acquired its nickname.
Immediately after the construction of the Berlin Wall, the GDR erected the check-in hall at Friedrichstraße railway station in 1962. It was used for passengers crossing from East to West Berlin. The glass and steel pavilion was very much in keeping with the architecture of the era.
Only passengers who wished to travel to West Berlin on the S-Bahn or U-Bahn could access the Tränenpalast. Policemen checked passports and visas, customs officers checked luggage and finally passports were checked thoroughly once more before onward travel was permitted.
The “Border Experiences. Everyday Living in Partitioned Germany” exhibition has documented the fates of travellers in the Tränenpalast since 2011. Interviews with witnesses, biographies and 570 original artefacts bring the history from 1962 to 1990 to life. Where customs officers once searched luggage, there are now empty suitcases with mementos of the travellers. The feeling in the narrow passageway for passport control is oppressive. A large number of signs have been preserved and show the instructions given at the border crossing point. The exhibition has had more than 1 million visitors since its opening.
The building is prestigious, deliberately designed in an impressive modern style, hiding its function as a strictly guarded check-in hall with border troops. Screens shield the eyes of passers-by. The infrastructure of the interior of the building is well-planned, with the route to the East appearing light and, by contrast, the route to the West being dark. In the station, a jumble of signs show the way. The routes taken by East and West Germans and overseas travellers are strictly separated. These days, on entering the building, you will first see the grand staircase in the bright hall. Visit the restored inspection rooms to experience the oppressive atmosphere.
The “Your Papers Please” trial allows teenagers between 14 and 17 to work their own way through the exhibition. A tour of the exhibition and opening a “West package” is suitable for small children. This allows children to learn about life in the GDR and relations between the two German states in a playful manner.
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Berlin: Der Tränenpalast – Glied zwischen Ost und West. Palace of Tears - link between East and west
Der „Tränenpalast“, eine ehemalige Ausreisehalle an der Grenze zwischen West- und Ostberlin im Bahnhof Friedrichstraße. DDR-Bürger hatten keine Reisefreiheit nach West-Berlin. Ihre westlichen Besucher mussten hier unter Tränen verabschiedet werden. Hier befanden sich Kontrollen und Abfertigungsschalter der Grenztruppen der DDR. Die Besucher wurden hier peinlichst befragt und kontrolliert.
Berlin: Der Tränenpalast – Bindeglied zwischen Ost und West. Palace of Tears - link between East and west.
The Palace of Tears, a former departure hall on the border between West and East Berlin in Friedrichstrasse station. GDR citizens had no right to travel to West Berlin. Your Western visitors had to be adopted in tears here. Here there were checks and check-in counter of the border troops of the GDR. The visitors were painstakingly interviewed here and controlled.
Berlin: The Palace of Tears - a link between East and West.
Tränenpalast (Palace of Tears) at Friedrichstraße railway station
The specially build border crossing that citizens of East Berlin had to pass through at Friedrichstraße railway station is now a fascinating free museum that tells the story of this special part of the old East-West border.
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Abschiedstränen und Sehnsucht, Wut und Verzweiflung – an keinem anderen
Ort konzentrieren sich Gefühle der Grenzerfahrung derart wie am Tränenpalast, jener Berliner Grenzübergangsstelle für die Ausreise von Ost nach West am Bahnhof Friedrichstraße. Hier erleben die Menschen unmittelbar, wie stark sich die deutsche Teilung auf ihr persönliches Leben auswirkt. Erst mit dem Fall der Mauer verliert der Tränenpalast diese Funktion.
Am historischen Ort des denkmalgeschützten Tränenpalasts zeigt die Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland die ständige Ausstellung Ort der deutschen Teilung. Mit biografischen Beispielen, Originalobjekten und Zeitzeugeninterviews veranschaulicht sie das Leben angesichts von Teilung und Grenze. Sie zeigt zudem die wichtigsten Stationen im Vereinigungsprozess.
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The Palace Of Tears, Der Tränenpalast, was the nickname the Berliners had for one of the crossing points in the Berlin wall. Berliners from the west were allowed through on a day pass to visit relatives, on the way back it was a place of goodbyes. raycooper.org
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Places to see in ( Berlin - Germany ) Friedrichstrasse
Places to see in ( Berlin - Germany ) Friedrichstrasse
The Tränenpalast, Checkpoint Charlie, the former entertainment district and shopping are all part of Friedrichstraße in Berlin. But there’s a lot more besides. Friedrichstraße is Berlin’s north-south axis and runs in a straight line through Mitte and Kreuzberg. It is 3.5 kilometres long and one of the city’s most important arterial roads. Today, you can stroll and shop here, visit the famous Checkpoint Charlie border crossing or one of the theatres.
Friedrichstraße is named after Elector Friedrich III, who ruled here from 1688 to 1713. In his day, the road was surrounded only by fields, pastures and farmland – until the royal estates were sold and work started on building Berlin’s suburbs with paved roads.
By the time of the Second World War, with music halls, theatres and the famous Wintergarten variety theatre, Friedrichstraße had become Berlin’s most famous – and notorious – amusement district.
When Berlin was partitioned, the wall cut through Friedrichstraße as well. Today at this exact spot – the Checkpoint Charlie border crossing – there is a replica of the guard house that you can visit. Another crossing point in GDR times was Friedrichstraße station. In the glass pavilion – known as the Tränenpalast, or palace of tears – there is an exhibition on the border crossing.
Building projects after reunification turned the section of Friedrichstraße between the station and Checkpoint Charlie into a popular shopping district. Today, there are many new buildings such as the Friedrichstadtpassagen with designer boutiques, offices and restaurants. Quartier 207 contains the department stores Les Galeries Lafayette with French fashion, lifestyle accessories and a delicatessen department with specialities from France. Designed by the architect Jean Nouvel, it has an impressive transparent glass façade and an atrium that narrows towards the ground. The neighbouring Quartier 206, where you can shop in elegant designer boutiques, is built in the extravagant Art Déco style. The entertainment district is still there, north of the station, where the Friedrichstadt-Palast and Admiralspalast still put on variety shows and spectacular revues. Only a few minutes’ walk away is the Berliner Ensemble – one of the most prominent theatres in Germany, famously established by Bertolt Brecht.
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March 5, 2018 - Heading west through from Museum Island is Unter den Linden, the Champs-Élysées of Berlin, connecting Museum Island and the east to the Brandenburg Gate in the west.
Along the way, this major thoroughfare passes by landmarks like Neue Wach (a memorial to the victims of war and tyranny, built in 1931) and the Bebelplatz, the site of the original Nazi book burning in 1933.
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