The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Buechen-Dorf 1 segment The segment was donated in 1994 by the tank bataillon 164 of the Bundeswehr, when the tank brigade 16 from Lauenburg was dissolved. The bataillon was involved in the dismanteling of the Berlin Wall in 1990. The railway station Buechen was a border station to the GDR along the line Hamburg-Berlin […]
Location: Bahnhofsplatz 1 segment A segment of the Berlin Wall was set up in Hueckeswagen on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the fall of the Wall – as a memorial and symbol for the inhuman division of Germany. The idea to set up a memorial arose when a delegation from Hueckeswagen visited Koenigs-Wusterhausen, […]
Location: premises 2 segments from Potsdamer Platz (preserved and stored) The former Westphalien construction firm F. Probst GmbH (now: Probst Bauträger GmbH) has had a subsidiary in Berlin when the Wall came down. This firm wasn’t engaged in the dismanteling of the border facilities. But its owner, Probst sen., has bought two segments from Potsdamer […]
Location: Eternit plant 4 segments The Eternit AG, a manufacturer of construction materials, famous i.a. for its fiber cement panels, originally had a production site in Berlin from its beginning in the 1920s until 2001. When this Eternit plant was closed, which is under preservation order now, four Berlin Wall segments were found on […]
Location: Leopold Barracks 2 segments In autumn 1990, the command of the demolition of the inner-German border fortifications changed from National People’s Army to the Bundeswehr. As a result Wall memorials were erected at numerous military bases in Germany. So in Amberg. General Wittenberg, a former commander of the Panzerbrigade 12, was tasked with the […]