It is located on Bernauer Straße at the corner of Ackerstraße and includes a Chapel of Reconciliation, the Berlin Wall Documentation Centre, a 60-metre (200 ft) section of the former border, a window of remembrance and a visitor center.
The memorial was to be divided into four areas:[2] At the corner of Gartenstraße and Bernauer Straße, a visitor centre was opened.
[6] The northern wall bears the inscription "In Erinnerung an die Teilung der Stadt vom 13.
[4] The Chapel of Reconciliation was designed by architects Rudolf Reitermann and Peter Sassenroth as a church and is oval in shape with a façade of wooden rods.
The chapel includes a prayer room and materials from the former Versöhnungskirche (reconciliation church), which stood on the site until it was destroyed in 1985 because it was inside the border strip.