The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Parque de Berlin 3 segments That cities sometimes have a life of their own, shows up again and again: Years ago in Berlin a unknown metro station was found during construction work. It was not recorded in any of the existing plans. In Madrid, no one can’t remember when the Wall segments came to […]
Location: Bay of Vedella (private property) 1 segment from Waldemarstraße, Kreuzberg Olaf Stölt is one of several German-Russians who settled down permanently on the Balearic island. To bring the recent German history to life, especially for his children born there, he bought a Wall segment with a graffito by Kiddy Citny. The segment is from a pool […]
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Location: Trelleborg Museum 1 segment As a child, Carsten Bredlau from Berlin often spent his school holidays in Sweden with the children’s airlift. The children’s airlift was an institution of the US Air Force supported by the International Red Cross to allow children from West Berlin outdoor holidays in the postwar period. The British and the […]
Location: Santuário de Fátima 1 segment The history of the pilgrimage site Fátima goes back to a Marian apparition in 1917. In one of the prophecies, which were recorded many years later, the end of the communist regime was prophesied. When the Wall came down, many Catholics recognize the truth of the prophecy. Small stones from […]
Location: pasture 50 segments Ludwik Wasecki, who emigrated from Poland to Sweden and is now practicing as a dentist in Berlin, is both artist and collector of art, especially of Wall segments. Immediately after the fall of the Wall, he started his installations with replicas of Wall segments in a pasture near Breslau and was met […]
Location: on a cycle path in Miedzyrec Podlaski and Kobylany 1 segment from the Hinterlandmauer The district Biala Podlaska is the Eastern border of the European Union. Beyond the border is Belarus, the last dictatorship in Europe. As a sign of European integration and as a tourist attraction a Wall segment was erected in Miedzyrec Podlaski and in […]
Location: Monaco station – Monte Carlo 1 segment In 1990 Monte Carlo was the scene of a first auction of Wall segments by Southeby’s on behalf of Limex and LeLé Berlin. 81 segments were available and were partly auctioned off for exorbitant sums. The segment which is at the SNCF train station in Monte Carlo was a […]
Location: European Information Center 1 segment Schengen has become a synonym for the border-free travel in Europe. The cancellation of inter-state borders and passport controls was initially agreed upon by five European countries on a Mosel ship near Schengen in June 1985. As a symbol of the opening and the removal of borders in Europe […]
Location: Park Kronvalda, in front of Parliament’s building 1 segment The Singing Revolution from 1987 to 1991 was a nationale independence movement of the Baltic Republics. In 1990, the Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie from Berlin and its exhibition History of the Cold War was invited to Riga by some members of the parliament. The segment of […]