The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: industrial area (before: former municipal jail) 1 segment 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 desire. Both […]
Location: Burda Media Park 1 segment Even before the Turn, the West German Burda publishing house was represented in the GDR with its own magazine, the Burda Moden. In fact, Burda Moden was the first western magazine ever that was sold in Russian in the Soviet Union since 1987. After the Turn, the Superillu from the […]
Location: National Military Museum 1 segment The former military airfield Soesterberg of the Netherlands Air Force is located near Utrecht/Amsterdam. During the Cold War the airfield was used by the United States Airforces in Europe under the name Soesterberg Air Base. Flight operations were discontinued in 2008. In autumn 2014 the new National Military Museum was […]
Location: Hoge Linthorst, Echten/De Wolden, private property 1 segment This Wall segment was acquired on an auction by a resident businessman with business relations to Germany. The segment is set up on a private estate in the countryside of Echten, a municipality in the province of Drenthe, in the northeast of the Netherlands at the […]
Location (since 2015): The Frontier in the Research Triangle Park (before: Marble’s Kids, Raleigh) 1 segment from Waldemarstraße, Kreuzberg In spring 2015, a Wall segment which was missing from Raleigh years before reappeared from a private collection and was set up in The Frontier in North Carolina. This segment of the Berlin Wall is a symbol […]