Convoy path

The Kolonnenweg at the triangular pile in the Harz Mountains

The Kolonnenweg is part of the inner German border installations on the side of the former GDR . It was made from uniform, very weather-resistant perforated plates (concrete road plates), which are mostly grown through with plants and are pretty much firmly attached to the ground. The Kolonnenweg was paved in the death strip of the Berlin Wall .

In contrast to the rest of the border system, the Kolonnenweg is still largely preserved decades after the end of the GDR and is now used as a hiking and cycling path along the former border, although getting around on the uneven surface due to the flushing of the concrete cavities is sometimes very difficult. In GDR times, it served the GDR border troops to reach every point of the border as quickly as possible with vehicles. Between the Kolonnenweg and the actual border there was still the control strip and the border fence or the border wall.

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  Column path in the border strip near Elend , December 1989

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  Berlin Wall on Heidelberger Strasse, paved Kolonnenweg in front of the hinterland wall , 1986

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  A transit train from Hamburg passes through the border installations at Berlin-Staaken station , in front of the train the level crossing of the Kolonnenweg, 1986

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  S-Bahn train of the BVG at the border at the Berlin Nordbahnhof , the Kolonnenweg crosses the railway line, 1987

Web links

Commons : Kolonnenweg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The raked death strip at: tagesspiegel.de, accessed on September 22, 2019
2. ↑ Grenzregime at: berlin.de, accessed on September 22, 2019