Checkpoint Charlie
Facts
12 propertiesIdentity
- Instance of
- Berlin border crossing
- Inception
- 1961[7]
- Native label
- Checkpoint Charlie[11]
Location
- Location
- Friedrichstadt, Kreuzberg[4][5]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 52.508°, 13.390°
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg[2]
More facts +5
- Part of
- Berlin Wall[6]
- Date of official closure
- June 22, 1990[12]
- Dissolved, abolished or demolished
- June 30, 1990[8]
- Has characteristic
- tourist attraction[10]
- Located on street
- Friedrichstraße[9]
- VIAF cluster ID
- 126280480
- Library of Congress Authorities ID
- sh2009002411
- GND ID
- 4131455-4
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Checkpoint Charlie Berlin.jpg ↗
- Apple Maps "auid" identifier
- 9924864674131451458
- BBC Things ID
- 2e932eee-48b1-4b48-897e-288b98808c89
- BabelNet ID
- 01284307n
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
- checkpoint
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- topic/Checkpoint-Charlie
- FAST ID
- 1755648
- Fandom article ID
- memory-beta:Checkpoint_Charlie
- Freebase ID
- /m/01ck3b
Show all 29 identifiers +17
- GeoNames ID
- 6944057
- Google Maps Customer ID
- 2568459447151987144
- Hikr waypoint ID
- 93243
- J9U entity ID
- 987007540788605171
- Lex ID
- Checkpoint_Charlie
- Museum-digital place ID
- 15001
- NE.se ID
- checkpoint-charlie
- NL CR AUT ID
- ph928078
- OpenStreetMap node ID
- 417346627
- Oxford Reference overview ID
- 20110803095604851
- Quora topic ID
- Checkpoint-Charlie
- Reddit topic ID (obsolete)
- checkpoint_charlie
- SVKKL authority ID
- 0411061-Checkpoint-Charlie-19611989-Berlin-Nemecko
- Süddeutsche Zeitung topic ID
- Checkpoint_Charlie
- Topic's main category
- Category:Checkpoint Charlie
- WikiKids ID
- Checkpoint_Charlie
- Yale LUX ID
- group/506a759a-577a-4f10-8750-f19101a51a8d
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- Source
- GeoNames
- Edition
- 20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
- CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
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Summary
Checkpoint Charlie is a Berlin border crossing[1].
Body
Cultural Significance
Things named for Checkpoint Charlie include Wall Museum[13], a military museum[14], in Germany[15], founded in 1963[16] and Kochstraße[17], a Berlin U-Bahn station[18], in Germany[19].
Why It Matters
Entities named for it include Wall Museum[13], a military museum[14], in Germany[15], founded in 1963[16] and Kochstraße[17], a Berlin U-Bahn station[18], in Germany[19].