The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Department of Trade and Industry Kiel, open-air area 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. Schleswig-Holstein’s segment was erected on the area of the Department of Trade and Industry in November 2009. Click to […]
Location: Ramstein Air Base 3 segments Due to the changed geopolitical condition as a result of the fall of the Wall, the Allies have been reorganizing their military contingences in Europe. Some bases were closed, troops pooled together in other bases. Personal and parts of the facilities of US Air Force’s Rhein Main Base were […]
Location: Rheindahlen, Joint Headquarters of British Forces and NATO (closed location) 1 segment Rheindahlen nearby Moenchengladbach has been a common base for troops of the British Forces and the NATO. After the fall of the Wall, a Wall segment was set up on the military compound. A few years Rheindahlen became home to the new […]
Location: residence of former chancellor Helmut Kohl, private property 1 segment In 2008, the Axel Springer SE has bought more than 30 segments of the Berlin Wall and donated them e.g. to each federal state of the FRG, to the then Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and his American counterpart George Bush sen. The last segment of this […]
Location: Deutsches Eck (German Edge) 3 segments The Deutsches Eck is an artificial headland in Koblenz, where the river Mosel flows into the Rhine. In 1871 an equestrian statue of emperor Wilhelm I was erected as a memorial on this land and to remind on the establishment of the German Empire. More than a century later, three segments […]
Location: Am Rosengarten, near city park//Ruhrfestspielhaus 1 segment Further details unknown. Additional information can be uploaded via comment on this side. To upload a photo, please follow this link.
Location: Charlottenburger Street 1 segment The idea of a CDU-affiliated organization (CDU = conservative political party) was to remind of the division of Germany and to preserve the memory. Supported by others, they erected a Wall segment in Recklinghausen’s Berlin estate. This residential area dates back to the early 1960s – when Berlin was divided by the Wall. The segment came […]
Location: private property 1 segment Joachim Hohlwein has bought a Wall segment in 1991. Before he set it up in his garden, it was standing on a different location for a long period . The original graffito faded over the years, so that Hohlwein repainted the Wall with an own motive. Photo: No picture available. If you want to […]
Location: in front of a doctor’s surgery, private property 1 segment Since 2010, a Wall segment is standing in the front garden of Thomas Gripp’s doctor’s surgery. A friend of him purchased it at an auction before. Gripp associates personal memories with it, which he wants to share with his children in this way: As a 17 year old boy, as it […]
Location: Hostel Basecamp 2 segments First of all, the Hostel Basecamp Bonn addresses school classes, that stay for a study visit in Bonn, the former federal capital and its political institutions and are willing to spend a night in a caravan or a pullmann coach. They also can find illustrative material on German history just in front of the door: […]