The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Bundeswehr-Dienstleistungszentrum 1 Segment The Bundes-Dienstleistungszentren (Bundeswehr service center) manage on-site staff and material issues of the armed forces. In autumn 1990, the command of the demolition of the inner-German border fortifications changed from the National People’s Army to the Bundeswehr. As a result, Wall memorials were set up at numerous military bases. So in […]
Location: Berliner Platz 1 segment from Potsdamer Platz A piece of Wall, a piece of hope – by this motto the citizens of Hamelin donated about 18,000 DM to purchase a Wall segment in autumn 1990. It were the council members Karla Lange Hein and Gerhard Paschwitz, who initiated this project, supported by the city […]
Location: Schäfer Barracks 3 segments Bueckeburg, located appr. 60 kilometers west of Hanover on the border to North Rhine-Westphalia, is a garrison town since the late 19th century. The Schäfer Barracks are named after the German fighter pilot Karl Emil Schäfer (1891-1917). After the Second World War, British troops took over. At the nearby Bad […]
Location: Vojna Memorial Lesetice 1 segment The authentically preserved Vojna prison area, near the Bohemian city Pribram, served as a forced labour camp from 1949 to 1951. Until 1961, the site was used as a prison for political prisoners of the communist regime. After the communist takeover in 1948 and the subsequent changes in the […]
Location: Militärhistorisches Museum 4 segments Both the architecture and the permanent exhibition of the Militärhistorisches Museum seek to avoid biased presentations and to challenge traditional perspectives. The exhibition confronts the visitor with his or her own potential for aggression and shows violence as a historical, cultural, and anthropological phenomenon. The exhibition area 1945 up to […]
Location: Eureka College, Ronald Reagan Peace Garden part of a segment In a May 9, 1982 speech at Eureka College, Illinois, the then U.S. President Ronald W. Reagan challenged the Soviet Union to a new era of negotiations to reduce nuclear arms – called START. The speech has been labeled “The Beginning of the End […]
Location: Miami Ironside (on the courtyard and on a parking lot) 6 segments On the occasion of the Art Basel Miami Beach 2013, a number of Berlin Wall segments were temporarily set up in Miami Beach and repainted by Thierry Noir. He became famous with his paintints on the Berlin Wall. Finally, four segments were […]
Location: Dorasan station, Unification Platform 1 segment Dorasan is the northernmost station of the South Korean railway company KORAIL, just a few kilometers away from the inner-Korean border. An ideological barrier runs right through a common history, tradition, culture and language since 1948. At some sites in South Korea parts of the Berlin Wall are […]
Location: Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! several parts of the Hinterlandmauer Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! is an 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 […]
Location: new town hall 3 segments The three wall segments are on permanent loan from Jülich building contractor and honorary citizen Heinrich August Schüssler. Initially, the segments stood somewhat apart and unnoticed on the edge of the Schlossplatz. At the beginning of 2015, they were placed in front of the new town hall of the […]