The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Cold War Museum 1 segment from Potsdamer Platz During the Cold War, the Danish Langelandsfort was an important outpost of the Western Allies in the Baltic Sea. The Fort was built in 1952-1953 as a part of the Danish Sea Defence in the south of the Island Langeland. The primary task of the base was […]
Location: beside the cultural center 1 segment In 2006 the city council of Sofia would have liked to have a Wall segment for the extension of the Memorial to the Victims of Communism. The German Federal Government followed to the wish and donated a segment. Click to enlarge: Photo above and background:© by Svetla Encheva. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA […]
Location: private property 1 segment In addition to his job for the Flanders Expo, Lode Anseel is an avid photographer and Berlin-traveler. This passion led him repeatedly to the German capital, where he witnessed the fall of the Wall almost live. In the mid-1990s he could persuade his employer to acquire a Wall segment. At the […]
Location: Flanders Expo, main entrance 1 segment from Potsdamer Platz Every year more than a million visitors come to the Flanders Expo, a trade fair and conference center on the outskirts of Ghent. Since 1998 there is a Wall segment standing close to the main entrance, clearly visible to all visitors. The Wall segment came here by initiative of the […]
Location: Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), Casteau near Mons 1 segment Mons originated from the founding of a monastery in the 7th century at the foot of a ruinb by the holy Waltrudis. Later, the city owed its prosperity especially the cloth industry and ultimately the coal mining industry. Since 1967, the Supreme […]
Location: Post-bllok/Bulevardi Dëshmorët e Kombit 1 segment from Potsdamer Platz The Dëshmorët e Kombit Boulevard (Albanian for Boulevard of the Martyrs of the Nation) is an avenue of the Albanian capital Tirana. Here are some ministries located, as well as the National Gallery, the Pyramid of Tirana, the University and smaller parks. At the southern end […]
Location: Canadian War Museum 1 segment During the Cold War, almost one million Canadian soldiers served in Western Europe, primarly in Germany. In 1991, the government of newly reunified Germany presented this section of the Berlin Wall to Canada. A year earlier, foreign ministers from France, East and West Germany, the Soviet Union, United States, and United […]
Location: Falkland Street, next to the historic Lunenburg Foundry 1 segment The historic old town Lunenbergs with its picturesque facades and streets is on the UNESCO list of world cultural heritage. On the edge of this neighborhood, beside the historical Lunenburg Industrial Foundry & Engineering, a section of the Berlin Wall has been standing since the […]
Location: Mennonite Heritage Village 1 segment Martin Bergen, originated from Germany, arrived in Canada indebted for his ship’s passage from Europe, after being prisoner of war during the Second World War. Soon he made his way from a painter to a real estate undertaker. The Bergen family has always been generous towards their hometown, the […]
Location: Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! several parts of the Hinterlandmauer Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! is an US based franchise company, including newspaper cartoons, comics, TV series and several museums, called oddities. In the latter, Ripley’s features in his own words game, fun, excitement, entertainment for the whole family. Berlin Wall included. After the fall […]