The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Stolwerk Sloopwerken, premises (in 2023 the segments were moved to the Museum Befrijdende Vleugels in Best)5 segments Die Mauer muss weg – the people of East Germany urged. But how should this work practically? Hammer and chisel wouldn’t settle the matter. Heavy, special equipment was needed to tear down the Wall. The search for […]
Location: Bundeswehr, Lager Heuberg 2 segments In autumn 1990, the command of the demolition of the inner-German border fortifications changed from the National People’s Army to the Bundeswehr. As a result, Wall memorials were erected at numerous military bases in Germany. So in 1991 on the military training area Camp Heuberg, which was also used by […]
Location: Olympic Museum 1 segment On suggestion of Juan Antonio Samaranch, the then president of the International Olympic Committee, the Olympic Museum was established and opened in Lausanne in 1993. Already since 1915, artifacts have been collected which are representing the olympic idea from antiquity to modernity. Numerous gifts are continuously expanding the extensive collection. It […]
Location: district Wartberg 1 segment Already since the first anniversary of the German reunification, on October 3rd, 1991, a Berlin Wall memorial is standing in Wartberg, a district of Wertheim. The Wall segment was donated to the city of Wertheim by Ivo Tützler, a former local contractor. On the occasion of the inauguration, the then […]
Location: Oberstedten, Apfelpark 1 segment from Potsdamer Platz In memory of the division and reunification of Germany, a Wall segment is standing in Oberstedten, a suburb of Oberursel in the Hochtaunuskreis, since end of 2014. The idea to build this memorial came from Willi Steffek, the longtime chairman of the Vereinsring Oberstedten, an alliance of […]