The Berlin Wall across the world
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 […]
Location: in front of the German Embassy 1 segment When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, Croatia belonged to the Yugoslav confederation. Since then, much has changed. In Germany, in Europe and around the world. A businessman from Berlin donated a Wall segment to the German Embassy in Zagreb to remind these fundamental shifts. In […]
Location: in the Parco dell’antica/Rangoni Castle, 4 segments (+ 3 stored segments) Carlo Accorsi, entrepreneur from Spilamberto, purchased seven segments of the Wall on an auction and brought them to northern Italy. He donated four of them his hometown. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Wall in November 2009, these […]
Location: Holcim premises1 segment Like many other companies since the 1990s, the Cementeria di Merone, located just north of Milan, was absorbed into a global building materials group. However, the acquisition of a Berlin Wall segment that stubbornly resisted change can be traced back to the managing director at the time. The Cementeria had its […]
Location: Renzo Pezzani elementary school 1 segment from Kreuzberg’s Adalbertstraße The story behind this Wall segment begins in World War II: The young Mario Crotti, amateur photographer and historian, experienced the war up close in his hometown Albinea, especially the German deserters to the Italian Resistance. His meticulous research and documentation influenced the local opinion and led […]