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© Stéphane Compoint
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Mirador de la Erna-Berger Strasse. It is one of three remaining in Berlin. The octagonal viewing platform, which gives the whole a mushroom-shaped cap a column of small diameter housing a boarding ladder iron. This type of viewpoint was used from 1961 by border guards along the border intra-Berlin and along the border between the two Germanies. Like other elements of the border, the towers were modified and perfected over 28 years of the wall. This first generation of "panoramic observation towers", unstable and poorly adapted to the rapid intervention of border guards because of his narrow column and its narrow access, was quickly replaced by watchtowers larger square. This watchtower, which now stands in Erna-Berger Strasse phase of complete redevelopment, once stood outside the border strip and allowed the observation of the security perimeter around da border area. Its specific mission was to control the area between the old House of Ministries (now the Ministry of Finance) and the GDR Academy of Sciences (now the Bundesrat, the chamber of deputies of Berlin today). Moved eight meters to the east because of the development work around, this viewpoint was a historical monument in 2001.
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