The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Hans-Bradl-Platz/Erich-Kästner-Schule Parts of the Hinterlandmauer Shortly after the fall of the Wall Siegfried Dinkel brought along some parts of the Hinterlandmauer to his hometown Postbauer-Heng in the Oberpfalz. In 2006 these parts were set up in front of the local Deutschordensschloss. In 2017 the surrounding of the Erich-Kästner-Schule was redesigned with a gym […]
Location: Menzer Park 1 segment In 1990, after the fall of the Wall, students from Neckargemuend had set up an authentic piece of the Berlin Wall as a reminder of their school leaving. Later they gave it as a loan to the city of Neckargemuend. The city administration chose the Menzer Park to make it […]
Location: main entrance Berufsschule 1 segment On occasion of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall a segment was set at the Berufsschule Neumarkt (Oberpfalz/Upper Palatinate). The present generation of students, born after the fall of the Berlin Wall, knows the latest history from the stories of their parents, relatives and grandparents […]
Location: Platz der Städtepartnerschaft 1 segment A piece of history and a stony evidence of the town twinning since 1991: In the presence of the mayors of Teltow (Brandenburg), Diffenburg (Luxembourg), Penzberg (Bavaria) and Berlin-Schöneberg a Berlin Wall segment was inaugurated in July 2017. It is a present of Ahlen‘s twin town Teltow and was […]
Location: Museo de Historia Moderna (moved to: Museo Memoria y Tolerancia) 1 segment One of the very frist 300 Berlin Wall segments, which were auctioned off in 1990, was bought by Luis Alonso Sordo, director of the Museo de Historia Moderna in Mexico-City. This segment, which already arrived in Mexico-City in August 1990, reminds of […]