The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Park of German Unity2 segments Burghausen’s Park of German Unity has been commemorating the division and reunification of Germany since 2009 – with two original parts of the Berlin Wall, an expressive black and white photograph and a short documentary. Burghausen is located in the Bavarian district of Altötting on the Salzach river, on […]
Location: Friendship Park1 Segment On 13 August 2023, the 62nd anniversary of the construction of the Berlin Wall, 1 segment of the Berlin Wall was installed in Friendship Park in Tijuana.Marcos Cline-Marquez, an American-Mexican TV producer from Los Angeles, originally wanted to present this segment to the then US President Donald Trump a few years […]
Location: Museum of John Paul II and Primate Wyszynski 1 segment A segment of the Berlin Wall has stood in the museum of John Paul II and Primate Wyszynski in Warsaw since May 2020, where it is intended to commemorate the Polish Pope’s contribution to peaceful change in Europe and the world at the end […]
Location: Senfmühle Oldenburg2 segments Since 2020, two segments of the Berlin Wall have stood as a symbol of freedom of travel at the Oldenburg Senfmühle. They were set up by the travel entrepreneur Hans Höffmann, who had previously acquired and extensively renovated the mill. The mill, which is visible from afar, is the company’s headquarters […]
Location: Rond-point des Droits de l’Homme1 segment Expression of 30 years of city twinning: In 2022 – with a 1-year delay due to Corona – a segment of the Berlin Wall was set up in the municipality of Tavaux in the French Jura and unveiled in the presence of a delegation from the municipality of […]
Location: Av. de l’Europe/company site3 segments In 2011, these three segments were set up on the grounds of the Sika company, a supplier to the construction and automotive industries, northwest of Paris. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the segments were initially placed on the grounds of the Ciments Francais, a concrete plant, near […]
Location: Lensing Media, Westenhellweg 2 segments To mark its 150th anniversary, the publishing house Lensing Media (Ruhr Nachrichten) set up two segments of the Berlin Wall have on its premises on Dortmund’s Westenhellweg in September 2020. “We want to enable our visitors and employees to walk past these open pieces of the Wall and reflect […]
Location: Nothern Arizona University/Martin-Springer Institute fragment “In 2013, The Martin-Springer Institute had a leading role in creating an exhibit on the Berlin Wall that contextualized the 1961 building and 1989 dismantling of the wall that separated the two Germanies. A big piece of the original Berlin Wall had been donated to Nothern Arizona University by […]
Location: private property, NEW Wets Berlin Depot 18 segments On Joe Schönmoser’s property in Albershausen, Baden-Württemberg (Goeppingen district), there are 19 wall segments, all colourfully painted by artists. Schönmoser is a collector with an affinity for art and acquired the segments in 2016 through a contact with Patrice Lux. Some of the segments were previously […]
Location: company site1 segment The company premises of Karl Meyer Rohstoffverwertung were originally located in Köpeniker Straße in Berlin Kreuzberg, a stone’s throw from the Spree and the border to East Berlin. By now, however, the wholly owned subsidiary of Karl Meyer AG has moved. Immediately after the fall of the Wall, the then owner […]