Gedenk- und Bildungsstätte Andreasstraße
Gedenk- und Bildungsstätte Andreasstraße stands in Erfurt as a museum inside a former prison used by the East German Stasi. Its neo-Gothic walls opened in 1878, and the building held political prisoners under several regimes until its closure in 2002.
From 1952 to 1989, more than 5,000 people awaited interrogation there under the GDR dictatorship. Permanent exhibitions trace inmates’ experiences, Stasi operations, daily life under dictatorship, and the Peaceful Revolution that led to German reunification. On 4 December 1989, local citizens occupied the prison and the neighbouring Stasi district headquarters to prevent the destruction of files.
That occupation became the first of many across East Germany and helped preserve records that later revealed Stasi crimes. The museum is wheelchair accessible, and its setting keeps the prison’s architecture alongside the stories of repression, resistance, and freedom.
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