The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: National Museum of the Philippines (temp. from 2015) 1 segment from Potsdamer Platz The story about the Wall segment for Manila starts in Berlin, 1999: While the Philippine ambassador Jose Abdeto Zaide was visiting the exhibition monumental events leading to the next millenium, he missed some notes on the termination of Philippine dictatorship in 1986. At that time, Cory […]
Location: private property nearby Basel 2 segments According to a report in the german magazine Stern in the early 1990s, the Swiss businessman Pascal Märki has bought two Wall segments immediately after the fall and placed them on his Swiss property. A photo can be seen on the website of Peter Thomann, who has taken the […]
Location: private property 2 segments According to a report in the german magazine Stern in the early 1990s, the baker and patissier Thomas Steffen has bought two Wall segments immediately after the fall and placed them on his property in the south of the Black Forrest, as a reminder to his years of study in […]
Location: Muenster-Hiltrup, German Police Acadamy’s area 2 segments from Kreuzberg The two segments in Hiltrup were erected in February 1991. They are a present by the Berlin police, because Westberlin policemen were trained and retrained in the Police Acadamy in Hiltrup during the Cold War. Photo: No picture available. If you want to upload […]
Location: Münster-Nienberge, exact position unknown 1 segment from the border sector in Wedding In 2014 the professional sprayer Phillip Schabert discovered a Wall segment on an unused industrial area in Muenster. The owner was easily found, the purchase quickly done. Now the Wall is waiting to be erected on a public area for everyone’s interest. Originally the Nienberger […]