The Berlin Wall across the world
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 […]
Location: Am Rosengarten, near city park//Ruhrfestspielhaus 1 segment Further details unknown. Additional information can be uploaded via comment on this side. To upload a photo, please follow this link.
Location: Charlottenburger Street 1 segment The idea of a CDU-affiliated organization (CDU = conservative political party) was to remind of the division of Germany and to preserve the memory. Supported by others, they erected a Wall segment in Recklinghausen’s Berlin estate. This residential area dates back to the early 1960s – when Berlin was divided by the Wall. The segment came […]