The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: private property in Lyford Clay (Nygård Cay)1 segment from Potsdamer Platz Auctioned in Monte Carlo in 1990, a segment of the Berlin Wall found a new home on the island of New Providence in the Bahamas. The buyer and installer was Peter J. Nygård, a Finnish-Canadian textile entrepreneur and philanthropist, who had the segment erected […]
Location: Garden of the Foreign Ministry, Palacio San Martin 1 segment Donated by Berlin Senate on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the fall of the Wall, expressing the German-Argentine frienship. Click to enlarge: Photo above and background:© Andres Snitcofsky/Twitter
Location: in the lobby of Editoria Perfil 8 segments Editoria Perfil is the largest Hispanic publishing house with numerous newspapers and magazine. Immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the publishing house wanted to get some parts of it as lasting witnesses of the historic event. Jorge Fontevecchia, CEO of the Perfil group, recalls: […]
Location: private garden of Allianz SE, Headquarters, Koeniginstraße at the English Garden 2 segments During the years before the Second World War, the Munich-based Allianz insurance had a good thriving location in Berlin like many other companies too. Through the turmoil of war and the Soviet occupation this location was lost. Insurance activities in East […]
Location: in front of the American Consulate, Koeniginstraße 1 segment “In memory of a memorable day” – In 1990, Johannes Singhammer, a then CSU (majority party in Bavaria) Member of Parliament, acquired a segment of the Berlin Wall and set it up in his garden. A few years later he gave it to the Free […]