The Berlin Wall across the world
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 […]
Location: Square An der Riviera, north of the old town 1 segment During the Wall’s sell off, the City of Ansbach purchased quickly a slab of the Wall for 2,000 or 3,000 DM, as mayor Ralf Felber remembered. It was set up in the little Franconian town in October 1990. In the course of the years, […]