The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: private property 3 segments At the time as the Berlin Wall came down, Oskar Pack, a management consultant from Kreuzweingarten near Euskirchen, stayed in Berlin. Facing the Mauerspechte, trophy hunters and profiteers, he quickly recognized the value of the Berlin Wall. End of November, back home Pack appealed in a letter to the […]
Location: Buergerpark/Ginkgopark 1 segment For more than 1,500 GDR refugees who managed to escape via Hungary to West Germany in September 1989, Vilshofen was the gateway to freedom. They were warmly welcomed in a tent city, where they could calm down and become familiar with the West. At the suggestion of the Vilshofen mayor Georg […]
Location: üstra Glocksee work yard 1 segment The Wall as a canvas for Pop Art: Already in 2012, the English pop artist Tim Davies, who is living in Hanover, painted the robots, a female and a male figure, who break through the wall in order to get together. Initially the segment was set up in […]
Location: Weißekreuzplatz 2 segments The Weißekreuzplatz is a small green area in the district Oststadt of the capital of Lower Saxony. It is unknown, when the Wall memorial was set up. Between 1961 and 1989, at least 139 people were killed at the Berlin Wall or died under circumstances directly connected with the GDR […]
Location: town center (before: former municipal jail) 1 segment from Waldemarstreet/Kreuzberg In January 1991, Jeannot Weißenberger and his wife bought two Wall segments from the German Ministry of Defence for 1,000 marks. One of the segments shows the graffito Fallen Angels (presumably by Kiddy Citny), which became famous by Wim Wender’s film Wings of […]