The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: NATO headquarters 2 segments When the new NATO headquarters were given to the heads of state and/or government of all NATO member state also two memorials were inaugurated, set up vis a vis at the entrance. The Berlin Wall and the 9/11-Article 5 memorial remind of significant caesuras in NATO’s history. The memorials were […]
Location: Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! several parts of the Hinterlandmauer Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! is a US based franchise company, including newspaper cartoons, comics, TV series and several museums, called oddities. In the latter, Ripley’s features in his own words game, fun, excitement, entertainment for the whole family. Berlin Wall included. After the fall of […]
Location: Arlberg Hospiz Hotel 5 segmente (loan) The Arlberg Hospiz Hotel with its tradition of more than 100 years is well known far beyond the surrounding summits. This also applies to the 1,400 squaremetes Hotel gallery, which was opened in 2008 by the hotelier and artist Florian Werner. An excellent envirenment to present the Berlin […]
Location: in front of the district administration 1 segment The district administration Potsdam-Mittelmark was given a Berlin Wall segment in 2015. It was donated by Klösters Baustoffwerke from the nearby Teltow. The segment was setup in front of the historical building of the district administration in the midst of the historical city of Bad Belzig. […]
Location: Market Square (temp. in 1999, 2004) about 1 dozen Segments Wroclaw (Breslau) with its checkered German/Polish history is the fourth-largest city of Poland today and the capitol of the voivodship Lower Silesia. In the 1980s Wroclaw became the centre of Solidarnosc, a Polish trade union which resulted from a stike movement. By the leadership […]
Location: private property 1 segment Early 2015 a subsequent designed Segment was set up on a private property in Pressath by Christian Winkler. Click to enlarge: Photo above and background:© Christian Winkler
Location: Weitra castle 1 segment Schauplatz Eiserner Vorhang is a permanent exhibition of the Weitra Democracy Forum which was opend in 2003 (and revised in 2012). It is located at the Lower Austrian-Czech border and covers a wide range of historical, political, social and economical issues from both sides of the Iron Curtain. Not only […]
Location: Kelley Barracks, AFRICOM parts of the Hinterlandmauer The former Helenen Kaserne was etablished in 1938 for the German Luftwaffe. In 1945 the Helenen Kaserne became an American Installation. In 1949 it was renamed to Kelley Barracks in honor of Staff Sergeant Jonah E. Kelley, who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for actions […]
Location: US Army Artillery Museum parts of the Hinterlandmauer 9 November represents the 25th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the symbolic end of the Cold War and the collapse of one of the most repressive regimes in modern history. The Field Artillery Museum has 3 full size panels of the Berlin Wall, […]
Location: Berliner Platz 1 segment The story of this segment originated in the strong ties between Fritzlar and Berlin since World War II: In the post-war years only a few airports in Germany were intact. Fritzlar Airport was one of them and had been used for emergency cases for the airlift to Berlin during the […]