Stride StoriesRunning tour · Berlin
The Wall to the Spree
5.0 mi run
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The stories on this route
Mauerpark
Look up at the steep grassy bank beside the stadium. Along the top runs a stretch of graffiti-covered wall. It's what's left of the inner border wall. Mauerpark means 'Wall Park', and you're crossing the old death strip.
The Berlin Wall Memorial
Look at the rows of rusty steel rods along the street. They trace the line where the Wall stood.
The New Synagogue
Look up at the dome, with its gilded ribs. At its highest point it's just over 50 metres. This is the New Synagogue. When it opened in 1866, Otto von Bismarck, then Prussia's Minister President, was there. It was the largest synagogue in Germany at the time, with 3,000 seats.
The Hackesche Höfe
Look through the big arch at number 40. Inside is the first of eight linked courtyards, faced in glazed brick. Blue and white on one side, brown tones on the other. That's August Endell's work, in the Art Nouveau style. The courtyards opened in 1906, built as Germany's largest complex of homes and businesses.
The TV Tower
Look up at the TV Tower: the concrete shaft, and the silver ball near the top. It's 368 metres, antenna included.
The East Side Gallery
Here it starts: the painted wall, along the river. About 1,316 metres of it. This is the longest surviving section of the Berlin Wall.
The Oberbaum Bridge
This is the finish: the Oberbaum Bridge. A double-deck bridge, with two towers over its middle arch, each 34 metres high.
Stories researched October 2026 · every fact checked against a source
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