The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Grenzdokumentations-Stätte 1 segment The Hanseatic City of Lübeck was the only city at the inner German border. In some cases, property borders were simultaneously borders to the SBZ (Soviet occupation zone) / GDR. Until the end of the 1940s, active contacts and border traffic were maintained, in the 1950s it declined. The district of […]
Location: BAV Aufbereitung GmbH, private property some hundred segments What is symbolic of the Berlin Wall today, originally had a different purpose: The T- and L-shaped concrete elements were developed as retaining wall elements for agriculture to fortifying landfills of all kinds. In the course of the expansion of the GDR border installations these […]
Location: Bahnhofstrasse 1 segment This segment was set up by a local firm. It was signed in Berlin by Mikhail Gorbatchev, Helmut Kohl und George W. Bush – the former leaders of the Soviet Union, Germany and the USA – on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Wall. Obviously, it […]
Location: at the Paseo Xunqueira 2 fragments of the outer Wall These two fragments of the Berlin Wall had been standing almost unnoticed beneath a viadact close to the station since the early 1990s. On occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Wall, the parts were carefully restaurated by the local […]
Location: private property 1 segment The Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles are an exclusive residential area, whose residents set value on their privacy. We respect that, renounce to publish the story behind this site and show views from outside only. In 2014, the removal of the segment from Teltow (near Berlin) was recorded: This […]