The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Alfredstreet, in front of an office building 1 segment In summer 2009, three segments from the inventory of LPG Pflanzenproduktion Breesen were auctioned at the Hilton Hotel Cologne. Thereby, one of the segments came to Essen-Rüttenscheid and was set up in the front garden of a Jugendstil house. It was bought by a local […]
Location: Airlift Memorial 2 segments from Potsdamer Platz Berlin, post-war summer 1948: In the night from June 23 to 24 the lights went off in West-Berlin. The Soviets had cut off the power supply. The morning after, roads, water and rail connections were interrupted. West-Berlin was enclosed. More than two million people were left to […]
Location: Generalfeldmarschall-Rommel-Barracks, in front of the stuff building 1 segment Since 1892, the heathlands at the southend of theTeutoburger Forrest had been a military training ground. In 1961, the barracks were named after the controversial Generalfeldmaschall Erwin Rommel. Up to 5,000 soldiers are temporarily stationed there. Particularly, the Generalfeldmarschall-Rommel Barracks are home to the Armoured Brigade 21 […]
Location: European school, Hammersteinpark 1 segment from Potsdamer Platz The recent history of Wesendorf is inseparably combined with the Hammerstein Barracks and the Panzergrenadierbataillon 332, which was last stationed here. For 70 years, Wesendorf has been a garrison city. Due to the reorganization of the Bundeswehr, the Hammerstein Barracks were closed, the area was converted into a business park. One of […]
Location: Square of German Union (Platz der Deutschen Einheit) 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 of the FRG. Lower-Saxony has erected its segment in Braunschweig on the Platz der Deutschen Einheit (German Reunification […]
Location: Museum of sepulchral culture, Weinbergstraße 1 segment from Checkpoint Charlie In 1990, Hans-Kurt Boehlke, founder of the museum of sepulchral culture, wanted to bring a Wall segment to Kassel. Initially, it was more difficult than expected, a course through administration. When finally the Wall segment arrived in Kassel, the estimated construction costs for the […]
Location: Berliner Platz (Berlin Square) 1 segment As a child, on his way to school, Oliver Schmidt always crossed the Berlin Square in Kassel and felt like living on the sunny side of live in contrast to GDR people. When the Wall came down, it was a drastic experience. In 2011 finally, he brought a […]
Location: at the Pfingstanger, next to the police station 1 segment from Spreebogen, Schiffbauerdamm/Reinhardstraße Bad Salzgitter is home of the Central Administration for Evidences and Documentations of the Land’s Judicial Administration, called Zentrale Erfassungsstelle. From November 1961 its function was to record government-perpetrated violent crimes that happened in the GDR. More than 40,000 investigation files of killings at […]
Location: Passenger Terminal Warnemünde 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. Mecklenburg West-Pomerania’s segment was erected at the dockside passenger terminal in Warnemünde in November 2009. Photo: No picture available. If you want to […]
Location: Square of German Union (Platz der Deutschen Einheit), in front of the Elbe Philharmonic Concert Hall 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. In the city-state Hamburg the segment was erected at Horner roundabout, next to […]