Inner German border

Border separating East and West Germany, 1949–1990

The inner German border (German: innerdeutsche Grenze or deutsch–deutsche Grenze; initially also Zonengrenze, lit. 'zonal boundary') was the border between the German Democratic Republic (GDR or East Germany) and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG or West Germany) from 1949 to 1990. It ran north–south in a 1,381-kilometre-long (858 mi) irregular L-shaped line from Dassow at the Baltic Sea to Eichigt at the border with Czechoslovakia. The better-known Berlin Wall was a physically separate, less elaborate, and much shorter border barrier surrounding West Berlin, more than 170 kilometres (110 mi) to the east of the inner German border.

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