The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center (prev. location: Suwanee) 1 Segment In 2013, Ray Stanjevich auctioned a segment of the Berlin Wall for $ 23,500. The Wall segment was part of the remaining assets of a convicted financial fraudster. Initially Stanjevich didn’t know where to display the stony witness until he loaned it to the […]
Location: Ronald Reagan Park 1 segment Central monument supplemented with further objects: In spring 2011, a Wall segment was erected in the Ronald Reagan Park in San Bernardino. The idea for the park and its implementation came from a local nonprofit organization, the Friends of the Reagan Park. They have purchased the Wall segment on an […]
Location: Europos Parkas 1 segment Europos Parkas is an open-air museum in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. Covering an area of 55 hectares, the sculpture park, founded by Gintaras Karosas in 1991, shows more than 90 works of artists from 30 countries. As host of international sculpture symposiums and exhibitions of modern sculpture, Europos Parkas is today, […]
Location: Downtown Miami, Miami Dade College 1 segment On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the German Consulate General in Miami donated a segment of the Berlin Wall to the City of Miami. As a sign of gratitude for the support of the United States during the contentious […]
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 […]