The Berlin Wall across the world
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 […]
Location: Höf∂i house 1 segment from Potsdamer Platz On October 3rd 2015, the 25th anniversary of German reunification, a Berlin Wall segment was set up in Reykjavik on a historical important place – as a symbol of democracy and a change from totalitarianism to freedom: In Höf∂i house, guesthouse of Iceland’s government, US President Ronald […]
Location: Goethe Institute 1 segment As in other countries too, the Goethe Institute is involved in the building of a Berlin Wall monument in Greece, more exactly in Thessaloniki. In 2015 it was set up in the institute’s garden – as a sign of gaining freedom together. Before the segment of the Berlin Wall […]
Location: premises at the harbour 2 large pieces Remex, a Duesseldorf based recycling firm, was involved in the demolition of the Berlin Wall. Beside two other firms, they were contracted by the German Ministry of Denfense. To commemorate this historic task, Remex took some segments home and stored them in its headquarter in Recklinghausen. Out […]
Location: in the garden of Gentil House, artist’s villa 1 segment The Aschaffenburg painter Siegfried Rischar (1924-2009) worked and lived in this studio house in the Grünewaldstraße until his death. Siegfried Rischar, awarded with the Culture Prize of the City of Aschaffenburg, was a member of the Darmstadt Secession, an association founded by artists of […]