The Berlin Wall across the world
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 […]
Location: Hallplatz, pedestrian zone 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. Bavaria’s segment was erected in Nuremburg in December 2009. The set up site was chosen, because of its position between the Memorial of Flight and […]
Location: on a schoolyard 2 segments In November 1997 two segments of the Berlin Wall were set up on the schoolyard of the Gymnasium Grafing as historical artefact. The segments were a donation by Christian Kilger, who graduated from this school years before. After the Fall of the Wall, Kilger was involved in the dismanteling […]
Location: on a meadow 7 segments Shortly after the fall of the Wall, Matthias Marek, entrepreneur from Augsburg, had to work on a construction site in Köpenick. There, he was offered seven segments of the Wall for 2,000 Mark. Marek made it, without considering. But where to store? For 20 years they were standing in a […]
Location: Square An der Riviera, north of the old town 1 segment During the Wall’s sell off, the City of Ansbach purchased quickly a slab of the Wall for 2,000 or 3,000 DM, as mayor Ralf Felber remembered. It was set up in the little Franconian town in October 1990. In the course of the years, […]