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Former border control point Dreilinden

In 1940 the connection between the Berlin Avus and the Berlin Ring was completed. What many do not know today: The route of the autobahn from the city limits to shortly before Potsdam was  until 1969 a completely different one. After the wall was built, the GDR government  found that the autobahn runs parallel to the West Berlin border for too long and is therefore difficult to control.  The checkpoint "Albrechts Teerofen" was even  on West Berlin territory, then they drove back to GDR territory. The border line is drawn in purple on the map.

 

The wall was then even built to the south-east of the motorway many hundreds of meters from the actual border. Therefore, the approx. 3 km long section was relocated to the east by 1969 and a new, larger control point Dreilinden or Checkpoint Bravo was built, on the remains of which is the Europarc Dreilinden industrial park.

 

The old autobahn was no man's land until 1989. In the mid-1990s, many RTL episodes of Alarm für Cobra 11 were filmed on the still existing tarred route. With the 3-lane expansion of the A115 at the end of the 1990s, the line was renatured as a compensatory measure.

Today there are still the tarred bridge over the Teltow Canal  and preserve the increasingly decaying service station building. The site is a listed building.

 

A few hundred meters north of the bridge is the overpass of the main railway line over the motorway. The main line is the first Prussian railway line from Potsdam to Berlin, opened in 1838.

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