The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Department of Trade and Industry Kiel, open-air area 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. Schleswig-Holstein’s segment was erected on the area of the Department of Trade and Industry in November 2009. Click to […]
Location: Ramstein Air Base 3 segments Due to the changed geopolitical condition as a result of the fall of the Wall, the Allies have been reorganizing their military contingences in Europe. Some bases were closed, troops pooled together in other bases. Personal and parts of the facilities of US Air Force’s Rhein Main Base were […]
Location: Rheindahlen, Joint Headquarters of British Forces and NATO (closed location) 1 segment Rheindahlen nearby Moenchengladbach has been a common base for troops of the British Forces and the NATO. After the fall of the Wall, a Wall segment was set up on the military compound. A few years Rheindahlen became home to the new […]
Location: residence of former chancellor Helmut Kohl, private property 1 segment In 2008, the Axel Springer SE has bought more than 30 segments of the Berlin Wall and donated them e.g. to each federal state of the FRG, to the then Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and his American counterpart George Bush sen. The last segment of this […]
Location: Deutsches Eck (German Edge) 3 segments The Deutsches Eck is an artificial headland in Koblenz, where the river Mosel flows into the Rhine. In 1871 an equestrian statue of emperor Wilhelm I was erected as a memorial on this land and to remind on the establishment of the German Empire. More than a century later, three segments […]