The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Schoenstatt-Marienberg 1 segment The Marienberg was a widely blocked NATO missile site during the Cold War. After the fall of the Wall and the collaps of the Soviet Union this site was closed. Marienberg was turned into a meeting place for the Schoenstatt movement, an apostolic faith community. A plaque declares the rededication:This original […]
Location: close to the Stadtschule 1 segmentIn summer/autumn 1989, before the Wall came down, GDR citizens were allowed to travel into Czechoslovakia without having a visa. Thousands of them seized the opportunity and fled into the German Embassy in Prague. More and more arrived. Up to 4,000 people had to wait for weeks on the […]
Location: square at Holzhäuserstraße 2 segments Leipzig was in a sense the center; the peaceful revolution began with the Monday prayers in Leipzig’s Nikolai Church. Within a short time, from these Mondays arose a rebellion of an oppressed people that finally led to the fall of the Wall. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary […]
Location: close to the Anne-Frank-School 1 segment It was even before November 9th 1989 when the Council of the Westphalian municipality Havixbeck, located in the western Muensterland, intented to partner with a community in the other part of Germany. The opening of the Berlin Wall gave this desire a whole new dimension. By the Federation […]
Location: in front of the Museum in der Runden Ecke 1 segment On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall, the Axel Springer SE donated a segment of the Berlin Wall to each federal state. Saxony’s segment was erected in the city of Leipzig in front of the Museum in der […]
Location: Stiepel Monastery 1 segment from Potsdamer Platz Immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Bochum Cistercians from Stiepel Monastery established contacts to Berlin in order to secure a segment of the symbolic Wall. For many years their Wall segment was stored in Berlin. Finally it was set up and blessed in the […]
Location: Centre mondial de la PaixThe original graffito Can I stay? by Wee Flowers covers three segments. The other parts are now in Schengen (Luxembourg) and Kiev (Ukraine). 1 segment In Verdun, located in the northeast of France, World War I showed its ugliest grimace hitherto: In a ten month lasting battle between German and […]
Location: United States Diplomacy Center (scheduled to open in 2017) 1 segment Widely travelled and frequently displayed with signatures of the main protagonists – George H.W. Bush, Mikhail Gortbachev, Helmut Kohl, Francois Mitterrand, James Baker, Angela Merkel, Lech Walesa and many others: the Signature Segment has found an honorable home in the Museum of […]
Location: Park Drogowskazow 1 segmentSignpost Park is a theme park about 110 kilometers east of Berlin. In the 18th century a European connecting road from Aachen via Magdeburg and Berlin to Gdansk and Königsberg led through Witnica.The award-winning park was created in 1995 and is structured into four thematic areas, so called paths, who see […]
Location: Leica Gallery, Am Salzhaus (temp. in 2015) 1 segment On October 3rd official ceremonies, commemorating the German reunification, take place each year in another federal state. In the anniversary year 2015 it was up to Hesse – in the bank metropolis Frankfurt/Main. Not least for this reason, the Leica Gallery set up a segment […]