Wolfgang Schwanke wrote:
"I decided the Berlin files are of interest to everyone :). (...)"

A good decision.

"(...)(Incidentally, the text in
http://www.dieberlinermauer.de/diemauer/mauer18/mauer18.html contains
an error. It says that that bit was also called "Entenschnabel". That's

> not true. "Entenschnabel" exists, but it's somewhere else.) (...)"

That must be "Am Sandkrug". A picture can be found at the nice photo
site at http://www.brianrose.com/lostborder.htm (top right picture,
also at http://www.brianrose.com/wall.htm ).

Another funny little border adjustment is the Koelner Damm one (at the
"Waeldchen" in Rudow). Here a little piece of the
Neukoelln-Mittenwalder Eisenbahn (a private railway company) track
crossed the border into the GDR and back again to West Berlin. At
first, there were two gates across the track in the fence. The train
had to be announced first, the first gate opened, the train entered the
GDR,the legitimation of the train personnel was checked, the the second
gate opened, and the train entered West Berlin again.

In 1963 they wisely decided to build a small by-pass track around the
wall. This is still the track that is used, so the 1988 change in the
border was not really necessary anymore.

See
http://www.simonboe.de/nme/Geschichte/Unternehmensgeschichte_3__Teil/hauptteil_unternehmensgeschichte_3__teil.html

Peter S.

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