JRO-Sonderkarte Berlin—divided city map, Berlin Wall & Checkpoint Charlie 1961
£320
SKU: P-6-112751
Berlin [JRO-Sonderkarte] // Verkehrsverbindungen von West-Berlin nach Westdeutschland [Traffic communications between West Berlin and West Germany] // Geteiltes Deutschland [Divided Germany]
A red-brick wall topped with barbed wire cuts through the heart of Berlin on this map, printed in the months after 13 August 1961, when the city was divided overnight. Its key lists the border crossings ‘authorized by Pankow’, the West’s shorthand for the East German regime, since 23 August: Friedrichstrasse at Zimmerstrasse, Checkpoint Charlie, for diplomats, Allied forces and foreigners, and Heinrich-Heine-Strasse and Bornholmer Strasse for West Germans. It explains how West Berlin’s U-Bahn trains now ran beneath the East without stopping, except at Friedrichstrasse. Around the division the city carries on, with its railways, parks, forests and twenty-two numbered landmarks, explained in four languages; the reverse adds maps of the corridors to West Germany and of a divided Germany. Issued by the West Berlin press office, it is among the earliest and most graphic maps of the Wall, and an early state: the later 1962 issues number twenty-one landmarks.
Size 61 x 84 cm | 24.0 x 33.0 inches
Date Published: 1961
Type: Vintage colour-printed folding city and transport plan with pictorial Wall
Author: Fochler-Hauke, Gustav
Publication: JRO-Sonderkarte Berlin
Condition: Good |
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