The Berlin Wall across the world
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 […]
Location: at the Petrikapelle 1 segment After the Fall of the Wall, social democrats from Freckenhorst got in contact with party collegues in Templin, Brandenburg. Due to this contacts a Berlin Wall segment came to the westphalian city in 1999. Originally the memorial against the neglect of the German division was set up next […]
Location: various 3 segments James Rizzi (1950 – 2011) was an international renown pop art artist. His works often focused on New York and its citizens. His paintings mostly are of naive simplicity, rich in colour, with a distinct air of cheerfulness, urban vitalty and optimism. Rizzi opposed the Vietnam War even as a student […]
Location: Offene Kirche Elisabethen, temporary in 2007 13 segments The Offene Kirche Elisabethen describes itself as a manifold, open minded and lively event location in the City of Basel. The Offene Kirche (Open Church) welcomes all people, regardless of their origin, faith, way of life, sexual and political orientation. It is a site for any […]