The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Berliner Platz (Berlin Square) 1 segment As a child, on his way to school, Oliver Schmidt always crossed the Berlin Square in Kassel and felt like living on the sunny side of live in contrast to GDR people. When the Wall came down, it was a drastic experience. In 2011 finally, he brought a […]
Location: at the Pfingstanger, next to the police station 1 segment from Spreebogen, Schiffbauerdamm/Reinhardstraße Bad Salzgitter is home of the Central Administration for Evidences and Documentations of the Land’s Judicial Administration, called Zentrale Erfassungsstelle. From November 1961 its function was to record government-perpetrated violent crimes that happened in the GDR. More than 40,000 investigation files of killings at […]
Location: Passenger Terminal Warnemünde 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. Mecklenburg West-Pomerania’s segment was erected at the dockside passenger terminal in Warnemünde in November 2009. Photo: No picture available. If you want to […]
Location: Square of German Union (Platz der Deutschen Einheit), in front of the Elbe Philharmonic Concert Hall 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. In the city-state Hamburg the segment was erected at Horner roundabout, next to […]
Location: in front of the Adam Opel building 1 segment After the Wende, GDR’s ailing automotive industry was divided between Western brand companies. Billions have been invested, to keep production sites alive and to raise them to the level of the West. Opel began its involvement in 1990 in Eisenach, Thuringia. To remind this historical […]