The Berlin Wall across the world
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 […]
Location: Place du Luxembourg, in front of the European Parliament 16 segments (partly temp. in 2009) On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall the Place du Luxembourg was changed temporally into Checkpoint Charlie in November 2009: A replica of the border post was set up, also a photo exhibition […]
Location: Urban green space at the Rhumebrücke 1 segment of the border area Berlin Mitte Northeim, located in the south of Lower Saxony, was a garrison town until 1992 and home of the Scharnhorst Barracks. With the retreat of the Bundeswehr the almost 100 years of military history of the town came to an end. A […]