The Berlin Wall across the world
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, […]
Location: open-air exhibition ground 1 segment Point Alpha, located in Hesse, was one of four American obeservation posts at the German-German frontier. After the reunification Point Alpha was rebuilt as a memorial, which provides deep insights into the period of confrontation between the Eastern and the Western bloc during the Cold War and into the painful period […]
Location: next to the shopping centre Atrium 2 segments Two segments of the Berlin Wall are standing next to the shopping and experience centre Atrium in Weimar since 2010. Further Details unknown. Additional information can be uploaded via comment on this side. Click to enlarge: Photo above and background:© „Berlin wall two pieces“ von Vitold Muratov – Eigenes Werk. […]
Location: government district, Werner-Seelenbinder-Straße 1 segment A segment of the Berlin Wall was set up on August 13 in 2009 in the government district of Erfurt. It was a donation by the Axel Springer AG. (..) The inauguration ceremony was held by the than Thuringian Prime Minister Dieter Althaus, BILD chief editor Kai Dieckmann, the […]
Location: village center 1 segment In April 1990, the master stonemason Michael Spitzenberg from Silberhausen has bought a segment of the Berlin Wall and chiselled on it some data from GDR border guards concerning the locking bolt around Westberlin. The monument was erected in the centre of Silberhausen. (quote from Wikipedia) Click to enlarge: Photo above […]
Location: close to the cathedral 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. Saxony-Anhalt’s segment was erected in November 2009 close to the cathedral of its capital Magedburg. Due to vandalism the segment had to be redesigned […]
Location: in front of the savings bank Vogtland 1 segment In 1997, one segment of the Berlin Wall came as a memorial to Reichenbach, Vogtland, to the former German-German frontier zone. Initiator was the managing board of the local savings bank, supported by the regional Vereinigung der Opfer des Stalinismus e.V. (group of victims of stalinism […]