The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: open-air exhibition ground 1 segment Point Alpha, located in Hesse, was one of four American obeservation posts at the German-German frontier. After the reunification Point Alpha was rebuilt as a memorial, which provides deep insights into the period of confrontation between the Eastern and the Western bloc during the Cold War and into the painful period […]
Location: next to the shopping centre Atrium 2 segments Two segments of the Berlin Wall are standing next to the shopping and experience centre Atrium in Weimar since 2010. Further Details unknown. Additional information can be uploaded via comment on this side. Click to enlarge: Photo above and background:© „Berlin wall two pieces“ von Vitold Muratov – Eigenes Werk. […]
Location: government district, Werner-Seelenbinder-Straße 1 segment A segment of the Berlin Wall was set up on August 13 in 2009 in the government district of Erfurt. It was a donation by the Axel Springer AG. (..) The inauguration ceremony was held by the than Thuringian Prime Minister Dieter Althaus, BILD chief editor Kai Dieckmann, the […]
Location: village center 1 segment In April 1990, the master stonemason Michael Spitzenberg from Silberhausen has bought a segment of the Berlin Wall and chiselled on it some data from GDR border guards concerning the locking bolt around Westberlin. The monument was erected in the centre of Silberhausen. (quote from Wikipedia) Click to enlarge: Photo above […]
Location: close to the cathedral 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. Saxony-Anhalt’s segment was erected in November 2009 close to the cathedral of its capital Magedburg. Due to vandalism the segment had to be redesigned […]