Lenné Triangle

English

Alternative forms

• Lenné-Triangle, Lenné triangle, Lenné-triangle

Etymology

Partial calque of German Lenné-Dreieck: Dreieck → triangle.

Proper noun

the Lenné Triangle

1. (history) The gore delineated by the Bellevue-, Ebert-, and Lennéstraßen which, between 1961 and 1988, was part of the German Democratic Republic de jure, but was separated from it by the Berlin Wall, which ran along the Ebertstraße.

Translations

East German gore cut off from the rest of the GDR by the Berlin Wall

• German: Lenné-Dreieck n
• Russian: треуго́льник Ленне́ m inan (treugólʹnik Lenné)