The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: in front of the IBM headquarter 1 segment When the Wall came down, Hans Olaf Henkel was director of IBM Germany, as well as chairman of the Federation of German Industries and government advisor during the transitional period. It was his initiative, to set up one segment each in front of IBM’s sites in Stuttgart and […]
Location: Campbell Barracks Parts of the Hinterlandmauer The barracks site in the south of Heidelberg covers an area of 43.4 hectares. It was founded in the late 1930s as Großdeutschland Barracks of the Wehrmacht. On March 30, 1945, US troops captured without fight the city of Heidelberg and the military facilities. 1948, the barracks were renamed Campbell […]
Location: in the Buergerpark in front of the State Parliament 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. North Rhine-Westfalia’s segment was erected in the Buergerpark at the Rhine in front of the State Parliament. […]
Standort: Museum of Occupations 1 segment from Potsdamer Platz (corner of Leipziger-/Stresemannstraße) The Estonian Museum of Occupations presents the event- and painful history of the country in the 20th century: In 1940 the Baltic country came under Soviet rule, from 1941 to 1944 Nazi Germany took over, thereafter the Soviets took over again until Estonia finally was released into sovereignty […]
Location: Cologne-Muehlheim/Schanzenviertel 1 Segment For more than 100 year cables and wires of all kinds were manufactured in the Carlswerk. As of 2007, the site was converted into a mixture of office, commercial and service area and is now the creative hotspot of the Rhine metropolis. At the core of the building area, the former […]