The Berlin Wall across the world
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 […]
Location: in front of the savings bank Vogtland 1 segment In 1997, one segment of the Berlin Wall came as a memorial to Reichenbach, Vogtland, to the former German-German frontier zone. Initiator was the managing board of the local savings bank, supported by the regional Vereinigung der Opfer des Stalinismus e.V. (group of victims of stalinism […]
Location: Leipzig, temporarilynew site: U.S. Diplomacy Center, Washington, DC via German Embassy, Washington, DC 1 Segment On occasion of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall, the Leipziger Verbundnetz AG, a natural gasoline supplier, has bought a segment of the Wall, which was signed by Helmut Kohl, Michail Gorbachev und George Bush sen., […]