The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Lismore Castle Gardens 2 segments Lismore Castle, in the south of Ireland, is well known for its magnificent 17th century gardens with a large collection of rhododendrons, camellias and magnolias. Lismore Castle Gardens are open to visitors daily. In March 2015 two segments of the Berlin Wall were added to the vast area. Lismore Castle […]
Location: Atlanta International School 1 segment From three-year-old kindergarten to grade 12: the Atlanta International School community comprises over 90 nationalities. Language acquisition starts with a preschool program in Spanish, French and German. A large number of German speakers and families are part of the community. Due to this close relationship to Germany, a Berlin Wall segment was set […]
Location: in front of the IBM headquarter 1 segment When the Wall came down, Hans Olaf Henkel was director of IBM Germany, as well as chairman of the Federation of German Industries and government advisor during the transitional period. It was his initiative, to set up one segment each in front of IBM’s sites in Stuttgart and […]
Location: Campbell Barracks Parts of the Hinterlandmauer The barracks site in the south of Heidelberg covers an area of 43.4 hectares. It was founded in the late 1930s as Großdeutschland Barracks of the Wehrmacht. On March 30, 1945, US troops captured without fight the city of Heidelberg and the military facilities. 1948, the barracks were renamed Campbell […]
Location: in the Buergerpark in front of the State Parliament 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. North Rhine-Westfalia’s segment was erected in the Buergerpark at the Rhine in front of the State Parliament. […]
Standort: Museum of Occupations 1 segment from Potsdamer Platz (corner of Leipziger-/Stresemannstraße) The Estonian Museum of Occupations presents the event- and painful history of the country in the 20th century: In 1940 the Baltic country came under Soviet rule, from 1941 to 1944 Nazi Germany took over, thereafter the Soviets took over again until Estonia finally was released into sovereignty […]
Location: Cologne-Muehlheim/Schanzenviertel 1 Segment For more than 100 year cables and wires of all kinds were manufactured in the Carlswerk. As of 2007, the site was converted into a mixture of office, commercial and service area and is now the creative hotspot of the Rhine metropolis. At the core of the building area, the former […]
Location: Bedok Reservoir Park/dismantled and removed to Charlottesville, Virginia 4 segments Robert Hefner III. is an art lover and patron of the arts, owner of the Hefner Galleries, but above all chairman of the GHK Company, a family-owned company that has made a fortune with the oil and gas reserves in Oklahoma and Kansas. Fascinated by the events, […]
Location: Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum Parts of the Hinterlandmauer From the first aircrafts of the Wright brothers to a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, flying with double the speed of sound: In the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, there is something for everyone, including fun and games for children. In the exhibition area Military […]
Location: Melkweg, Event Location (temporarily) 1 segment The Dutch artist initiative Wallbreakers/Muurbrekers demonstrates against the ever-new construction of border walls and expresses its hope for a world without walls. On the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall five segments of the Wall were picked up by cargo sailing ships in Berlin and were shipped to the […]