The Berlin Wall across the world
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 […]
Location: Square of German Unity (Platz der Deutschen Einheit) 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 Hesse the segment was erected on Wiesbaden’s Square of German Unity (Platz der Deutschen Einheit). It is supposed to bring […]
Location: Theodor-Heuss bridge 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. Rhineland-Palatinate’s segment was erected in Mainz in November 2009. The location was chosen in order to remind a visit by former US president George Bush sen., […]
Standort: Berliner Platz (Berlin Square), next to the town hall 3 segments from Potsdamer Platz In 1997, SONY handed three segments of the Berlin Wall to Kronberg in the Hochtaunuskreis. On their original location in Berlin, they had to give way to the new construction of the Sony center at the Potsdamer Platz. In Kronberg, initially they were placed […]
Location: in front of the shopping centre Berliner Freiheit (Freedom of Berlin) in Bremen-Vahr 2 segments The segments in front of the shopping centre Berliner Freiheit (Freedom of Berlin) in Bremen-Vahr came with several others to the Überseestadt. Initially it was standing in a mall’s shop windwow, finally in 2012, in the course of renovation works, it […]