Berlin Wall to be torn down for luxury flats

March 01, 2013 09:45

Rumuors this week that a segment of the Wall would be torn down to make way for a block of flats were confirmed by Franz Schulz, mayor of the city's eastern district of Friedrichshain, daily Die Welt wrote.

Meanwhile, several petitions circulating online demanding an end to the project have collected thousands of signatures.

"The longest remaining part of the wall on the former death strip, along with the public river bank would be completely and permanently destroyed," read one petition, placing the blame squarely on developers of luxury flats.

The East Side Gallery, a 1.3-kilometre stretch of Berlin Wall marking the former border between East and West Berlin, which is now covered in murals by artists from around the world, is the second most popular visitor attraction in the German capital after the Brandenburg Gate.

Some estimates put the average number of visitors at 1,000 a day, while up to 10,000 people are thought to walk along the former death strip on the banks of the Spree River on sunny days in summer.

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