The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: in front of the Adam Opel building 1 segment After the Wende, GDR’s ailing automotive industry was divided between Western brand companies. Billions have been invested, to keep production sites alive and to raise them to the level of the West. Opel began its involvement in 1990 in Eisenach, Thuringia. To remind this historical […]
Location: Square of German Unity (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. In Hesse the segment was erected on Wiesbaden’s Square of German Unity (Platz der Deutschen Einheit). It is supposed to bring […]
Location: Theodor-Heuss bridge 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. Rhineland-Palatinate’s segment was erected in Mainz in November 2009. The location was chosen in order to remind a visit by former US president George Bush sen., […]
Standort: Berliner Platz (Berlin Square), next to the town hall 3 segments from Potsdamer Platz In 1997, SONY handed three segments of the Berlin Wall to Kronberg in the Hochtaunuskreis. On their original location in Berlin, they had to give way to the new construction of the Sony center at the Potsdamer Platz. In Kronberg, initially they were placed […]
Location: in front of the shopping centre Berliner Freiheit (Freedom of Berlin) in Bremen-Vahr 2 segments The segments in front of the shopping centre Berliner Freiheit (Freedom of Berlin) in Bremen-Vahr came with several others to the Überseestadt. Initially it was standing in a mall’s shop windwow, finally in 2012, in the course of renovation works, it […]
Location: Eduard-Schopf-Allee 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 Bremen the segment was erected in the Eduard-Schopf-Allee in November 2009. Click to enlarge: Photo above and background:© by nachholer. Licensed under CC […]
Location: Platz der Deutschen Einheit (Square of German Unity), in front of the central station and the Überseemuseum 1 segment In 2009, Bremen was host of the official ceremonities for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall. Appropriate for the occasion, the place in front of the central station and the Überseemuseum was renamed […]
Location: Berliner Platz (Berlin Square), Ringpark 1 segment from border sector Zehlendorf/Teltow Rudi May, entrepreneur from Wuerzburg, has got private and professional contacts into the GDR. After the fall of the Wall, he wanted to use these contacts to get a complete Wall segment – without being successful. In spring 2008, he heard about an auction […]
Location: Berliner Straße 2 segments In the beginning of 1990, Winfried Prem, demolition contractor from Weiden, received the contract of his life: the demolition and crushing of 200 kilometer Wall. Client: the National People’s Army of the GDR. It took three years to finish the job – with up to 20 excavators and ironically […]
Location: private property 1 segment Adequate with the controverse personality, there are a lot of rumours about this site, no precise information, no verification: Immediately after the fall of the Wall Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski, GDR’s head of supply with foreign currencies, became the scapegoat for millions of Germans in East and West. He settled at the Tegernsee in January […]