The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: close to the Stadtschule 1 segmentIn summer/autumn 1989, before the Wall came down, GDR citizens were allowed to travel into Czechoslovakia without having a visa. Thousands of them seized the opportunity and fled into the German Embassy in Prague. More and more arrived. Up to 4,000 people had to wait for weeks on the […]
Location: square at Holzhäuserstraße 2 segments Leipzig was in a sense the center; the peaceful revolution began with the Monday prayers in Leipzig’s Nikolai Church. Within a short time, from these Mondays arose a rebellion of an oppressed people that finally led to the fall of the Wall. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary […]
Location: close to the Anne-Frank-School 1 segment It was even before November 9th 1989 when the Council of the Westphalian municipality Havixbeck, located in the western Muensterland, intented to partner with a community in the other part of Germany. The opening of the Berlin Wall gave this desire a whole new dimension. By the Federation […]
Location: in front of the Museum in der Runden Ecke 1 segment On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall, the Axel Springer SE donated a segment of the Berlin Wall to each federal state. Saxony’s segment was erected in the city of Leipzig in front of the Museum in der […]
Location: Stiepel Monastery 1 segment from Potsdamer Platz Immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Bochum Cistercians from Stiepel Monastery established contacts to Berlin in order to secure a segment of the symbolic Wall. For many years their Wall segment was stored in Berlin. Finally it was set up and blessed in the […]