The Berlin Wall across the world
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 […]
Location: Rosenthal vineyard 2 segments These two segments on the Rosenthal vineyard in Malibu were likely to be the first ones, which were shipped to the US. Further details unknown. Additional information can be uploaded via comment on this side. With a video project called Freedom Rocks, the everyday life of the Berlin Wall […]
Location: temporary in 2013 1 segment In May 2013 an auction took place with assets of a person, convicted for financial fraud. Years before he paid 40,000 US Dollars for the Wall segment, now it was auctioned for 23,500 US Dollars. The new owner, a Serbian emigrant and restaurant owner, wanted to erect the […]
Location: Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center 4 segments A museum for American history wouldn’t be complete, if there wasn’t a discussion of military conflicts. With the exhibition The Price of Freedom Americans at War the Smithonian tries to fulfil its obligation to display military history. A part of this extensive exhibition is dedicated […]
Location: Rhein Main Base 1 segment The Airlift Memorial in Frankfurt/Main was opened on June 26, 1985, the thirty-seventh anniversary of the beginning of the Airlift to Berlin. In 2008, after the complete withdrawal of U.S. Air Force, the entire area was redesigned and the aircrafts were restored by the Fraport AG. The center […]
Location: MueGa Park 2 segments In 1992, a 65 hectare wide landscape at the banks of the river Ruhr was transformed into a park landscape as part of the North Rhine Westfalia’s flower show. In the MueGa Park twin towns of Muehlheim presented themselves with subject areas. One of Muelheim twin towns at that time was […]
Location: Berliner Platz in front of the town hall 2 segments In March 1995, the Bocholt citizens Bernd Roßmöller and Christoph Schares brought two Wall segments to their hometown on their own initiative and unloaded them without permission in front of the town hall. However, the two segment were officially accepted as a major symbol for West German’s […]
Location: Museum of Technology 1 segment The Museum of Technology in Speyer is not only interested in political aspects but also in technical details of the frontier fortifications, as you can see on a display next to the Wall segment. Further details unknown. Additional information can be uploaded via comment on this side. To upload a photo, […]
Location: Berlin Street 1 segment from the sector close to Brandenburg Gate As many other West German cities and municipalities, also Osterode kept intensive contact with Berlin during the division. Children from Berlin spent their holidays in this small town in the Harz. Due to the 30th anniversary of the building of the Wall, the Armoured Infantry Battalion 12, […]