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Post card with special postmark to mark the opening of Brandenburg Gate

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

November 1989
Berlin, Brandenburg Gate
Created By: Christian Zeiler

License: Creative Commons License

From the Set

Hand made and D.I.Y.

Post card with special postmark to mark the opening of Brandenburg Gate on 22 December 1989 at 3pm. The celebratory opening ceremony was carried out by Helmut Kohl and the East German premier, Hans Modrow on December 22, 1989 and attracted more than 100,000 onlookers and hundreds of camera teams

Depicts

Berlin Wall (West), Berlin Wall graffiti (writing), border guard, flag of the GDR, graphic art, group of people, man, mural crown, photography, postcard, red flag, stamp, Wall graffiti

Context

opening of the border

Places

Brandenburg Gate

Text in image

Berlin 12 / by / 11.12.89-15 / 1000

Deutsche Bundespost / 30

All of this in the name of the people

[...] Berlin wall!

Related

Original Caption

"Gate opening: exact time: stamp"