Editing Mitte (section)

==History==
[[File:Berlin - Checkpoint Charlie 1963.jpg|thumb|[[Checkpoint Charlie]],1963]]
The former Mitte district had been established by the 1920 [[Greater Berlin Act]] and comprised large parts of the historic city around [[Alt-Berlin]] and [[Cölln]]. Brandenburg Gate was the western exit at the Berlin city boundary until 1861.

Between 1961 and 1990, the area's East Berlin portion was surrounded by the [[Berlin Wall]] on the north, south and west. There were some border control points, the most notable of which was [[Checkpoint Charlie]] between [[Kreuzberg]] and Mitte, which was operated by the [[United States Army]] and was open to foreigners and diplomats.

Two other checkpoints were at Heinrich-Heine-Straße/[[Prinzenstraße (Berlin U-Bahn)|Prinzenstraße]] east of Checkpoint Charlie, open to citizens of West Germany and West Berlin and on [[Invalidenstraße]] in the north on the border with the West Berlin Tiergarten district (the present-day [[Moabit]] locality).