The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Skate & BMX Park Kalijodo 4 segments Teguh Ostenrik was a student in West Berlin when the wall fell. Twenty-seven years later, he looks around Indonesia and still sees a lot of walls separating people from each other. “There are ‘walls’ among our pluralistic society that divide us into groups like race, religion, and […]
Location: Rudolf-Breitscheid-Straße 236, Potsdam-Babelsberg 1 segment This segment was set up exactly on the former border strip between the GDR territory and West-Berlin.The border here seperated Berlin from Potsdam and the famous UFA film studios in Babelsberg. The photos on the plaque give an impression of the situation of that time. The border facilities don’t […]
Location: at the village green, Heinersdorfer Straße 2 segments Two original segments of the Berlin Wall with several plaques were set up in Heinersdorf at the village green. They were set up on behalf of the former mayor to protect them from distruction. Before the Wall came down, Heinersdorf was located close to the border. […]
Location: on the former border to Berlin 1 segment Osdorf, located on GDR territory south of Berlin and within the restricted zone, was razed to the ground in the 1960s. The inhabitants were moved to the neighboring Heinersdorf and other places. Only a barn remained. Next to this “Osdorfer Scheune” (now full of life) there […]
Location: Hotel Martinez (temp. spring 1990) 2 segments Spring 1990: The whole world is electrified by the historical events in Germany and Europe. Even the film industry is impressed. On occasion of the 43rd International Cannes Film Festival two Berlin Wall segments were set up temporary at the Hotel Martinez, which usually host celebrities during […]
Location: Hans-Bradl-Platz/Erich-Kästner-Schule Parts of the Hinterlandmauer Shortly after the fall of the Wall Siegfried Dinkel brought along some parts of the Hinterlandmauer to his hometown Postbauer-Heng in the Oberpfalz. In 2006 these parts were set up in front of the local Deutschordensschloss. In 2017 the surrounding of the Erich-Kästner-Schule was redesigned with a gym […]
Location: Menzer Park 1 segment In 1990, after the fall of the Wall, students from Neckargemuend had set up an authentic piece of the Berlin Wall as a reminder of their school leaving. Later they gave it as a loan to the city of Neckargemuend. The city administration chose the Menzer Park to make it […]
Location: main entrance Berufsschule 1 segment On occasion of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall a segment was set at the Berufsschule Neumarkt (Oberpfalz/Upper Palatinate). The present generation of students, born after the fall of the Berlin Wall, knows the latest history from the stories of their parents, relatives and grandparents […]
Location: Platz der Städtepartnerschaft 1 segment A piece of history and a stony evidence of the town twinning since 1991: In the presence of the mayors of Teltow (Brandenburg), Diffenburg (Luxembourg), Penzberg (Bavaria) and Berlin-Schöneberg a Berlin Wall segment was inaugurated in July 2017. It is a present of Ahlen‘s twin town Teltow and was […]
Location: Museo de Historia Moderna (moved to: Museo Memoria y Tolerancia) 1 segment One of the very frist 300 Berlin Wall segments, which were auctioned off in 1990, was bought by Luis Alonso Sordo, director of the Museo de Historia Moderna in Mexico-City. This segment, which already arrived in Mexico-City in August 1990, reminds of […]