The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Berliner Straße 2 segments In the beginning of 1990, Winfried Prem, demolition contractor from Weiden, received the contract of his life: the demolition and crushing of 200 kilometer Wall. Client: the National People’s Army of the GDR. It took three years to finish the job – with up to 20 excavators and ironically […]
Location: private property 1 segment Adequate with the controverse personality, there are a lot of rumours about this site, no precise information, no verification: Immediately after the fall of the Wall Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski, GDR’s head of supply with foreign currencies, became the scapegoat for millions of Germans in East and West. He settled at the Tegernsee in January […]
Location: Hallplatz, pedestrian zone 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. Bavaria’s segment was erected in Nuremburg in December 2009. The set up site was chosen, because of its position between the Memorial of Flight and […]
Location: on a schoolyard 2 segments In November 1997 two segments of the Berlin Wall were set up on the schoolyard of the Gymnasium Grafing as historical artefact. The segments were a donation by Christian Kilger, who graduated from this school years before. After the Fall of the Wall, Kilger was involved in the dismanteling […]
Location: on a meadow 7 segments Shortly after the fall of the Wall, Matthias Marek, entrepreneur from Augsburg, had to work on a construction site in Köpenick. There, he was offered seven segments of the Wall for 2,000 Mark. Marek made it, without considering. But where to store? For 20 years they were standing in a […]