The Berlin Wall across the world
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 […]
Location: Grenzdokumentations-Stätte 1 segment The Hanseatic City of Lübeck was the only city at the inner German border. In some cases, property borders were simultaneously borders to the SBZ (Soviet occupation zone) / GDR. Until the end of the 1940s, active contacts and border traffic were maintained, in the 1950s it declined. The district of […]
Location: BAV Aufbereitung GmbH, private property some hundred segments What is symbolic of the Berlin Wall today, originally had a different purpose: The T- and L-shaped concrete elements were developed as retaining wall elements for agriculture to fortifying landfills of all kinds. In the course of the expansion of the GDR border installations these […]
Location: Bahnhofstrasse 1 segment This segment was set up by a local firm. It was signed in Berlin by Mikhail Gorbatchev, Helmut Kohl und George W. Bush – the former leaders of the Soviet Union, Germany and the USA – on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Wall. Obviously, it […]
Location: at the Paseo Xunqueira 2 fragments of the outer Wall These two fragments of the Berlin Wall had been standing almost unnoticed beneath a viadact close to the station since the early 1990s. On occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Wall, the parts were carefully restaurated by the local […]
Location: private property 1 segment The Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles are an exclusive residential area, whose residents set value on their privacy. We respect that, renounce to publish the story behind this site and show views from outside only. In 2014, the removal of the segment from Teltow (near Berlin) was recorded: This […]
Location: warehouse 4 segments from Potsdamer Platz (plus 1 replica) Four segments from Potsdamer Platz (from which the very first section of the Wall was removed in 1989) are now in a warehouse in Fürstenberg/Havel, north of Berlin. Hans-Martin Fleischer, who was a student in Berlin then when the Wall came down, has acquired […]