L’empreinte spatiale de l’ancienne frontière interallemande dans le Berlin d’aujourd’hui

Abstract

The fall of the Berlin Wall (1961-1989) suggests the question of the heritage of a very important geopolitical discontinuity in an urban space. The former border could be studied as a factor to strengthen economic discrepancies, to slow down territorial integration or to build collective representations. The central districts in Berlin, which knew the restructuration of areas formerly divided by the Wall are very interesting places to observe present traces of a lost border. By reusing the former East/West line for the architecture of the buildings dedicated to institutions linked the new capital city statute that Berlin acquired in 1999, the German State has made the border inerasable. Nevertheless, the spatial practices of those who daily work in the area show that this border became for them meaningless.

Keywords

• border
• Berlin Wall
• reunification
• power district
• Berlin
• Germany