The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: National Museum of the Philippines (temp. from 2015) 1 segment from Potsdamer Platz The story about the Wall segment for Manila starts in Berlin, 1999: While the Philippine ambassador Jose Abdeto Zaide was visiting the exhibition monumental events leading to the next millenium, he missed some notes on the termination of Philippine dictatorship in 1986. At that time, Cory […]
Location: private property nearby Basel 2 segments According to a report in the german magazine Stern in the early 1990s, the Swiss businessman Pascal Märki has bought two Wall segments immediately after the fall and placed them on his Swiss property. A photo can be seen on the website of Peter Thomann, who has taken the […]
Location: private property 2 segments According to a report in the german magazine Stern in the early 1990s, the baker and patissier Thomas Steffen has bought two Wall segments immediately after the fall and placed them on his property in the south of the Black Forrest, as a reminder to his years of study in […]
Location: Muenster-Hiltrup, German Police Acadamy’s area 2 segments from Kreuzberg The two segments in Hiltrup were erected in February 1991. They are a present by the Berlin police, because Westberlin policemen were trained and retrained in the Police Acadamy in Hiltrup during the Cold War. Photo: No picture available. If you want to upload […]
Location: Münster-Nienberge, exact position unknown 1 segment from the border sector in Wedding In 2014 the professional sprayer Phillip Schabert discovered a Wall segment on an unused industrial area in Muenster. The owner was easily found, the purchase quickly done. Now the Wall is waiting to be erected on a public area for everyone’s interest. Originally the Nienberger […]
Location: Place du Luxembourg, in front of the European Parliament 16 segments (partly temp. in 2009) On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall the Place du Luxembourg was changed temporally into Checkpoint Charlie in November 2009: A replica of the border post was set up, also a photo exhibition […]
Location: Urban green space at the Rhumebrücke 1 segment of the border area Berlin Mitte Northeim, located in the south of Lower Saxony, was a garrison town until 1992 and home of the Scharnhorst Barracks. With the retreat of the Bundeswehr the almost 100 years of military history of the town came to an end. A […]
Location: German school 1 segment One segment of the Berlin Wall is standing on the area of the German school in Richmond, in the southwest of London. Further details unknown. Additional information can be uploaded via comment on this side. Ein Beitrag geteilt von Irina Horstmann (@sewandthecity) am Feb 21, 2018 um 11:14 PST Photo above […]
Location: German Embassy, temporarilynew site: U.S. Diplomacy Center 1 segment Erected in November 2014 close to the German Embassy in Washington, this segment of the Berlin Wall has an eventful past: It is signed by Helmut Kohl, George Bush sen., Michail Gorbachev and other political leaders and persons of influence, who played a part in the Cold War […]
Location: Freedom Park 2 segments The Freedom Park, opened in 1996, is a narrow, only two blocks long green area. Originally, it was planned as a trail for car traffic amongst office buildings. The Freedom Park was developed by a joint-venture between the Newseum and the Freedom Forum Journalists Memorial and is one the numerous historical places of the […]