The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: warehouse 4 segments from Potsdamer Platz (plus 1 replica) Four segments from Potsdamer Platz (from which the very first section of the Wall was removed in 1989) are now in a warehouse in Fürstenberg/Havel, north of Berlin. Hans-Martin Fleischer, who was a student in Berlin then when the Wall came down, has acquired […]
Location: Kurmark barracks 8 segments In autumn 1990, the command of the demolition of the inner-German border fortifications changed from National People’s Army (NVA) to the Bundeswehr. As a result Wall memorials were erected at numerous military bases in Germany. So in the Kurmark barracks, located in the Brandenburg garrison town Storkow. These Wall segments […]
Location: Stahnsdorf station 1 segment Stahnsdorf station, located in today’s administrative district Potsdam-Mittelmark, southwest of Berlin, started operations in 1913 as terminal of the Friedshofsbahn. Already at the end of the 19th century, Berlin recognized a lack of buriel grounds. Therefore, the economic administration of Berlin’s protestant church bought an 150 ha wide area at […]
Location: premises 2 segments from Potsdamer Platz (preserved and stored) The former Westphalien construction firm F. Probst GmbH (now: Probst Bauträger GmbH) has had a subsidiary in Berlin when the Wall came down. This firm wasn’t engaged in the dismanteling of the border facilities. But its owner, Probst sen., has bought two segments from Potsdamer […]
Location: Berliner Platz 1 segment from Potsdamer Platz A piece of Wall, a piece of hope – by this motto the citizens of Hamelin donated about 18,000 DM to purchase a Wall segment in autumn 1990. It were the council members Karla Lange Hein and Gerhard Paschwitz, who initiated this project, supported by the city […]
Location: Bahnhofstraße 1 segment from Potsdamer Platz The Bund der Berliner und Freunde Berlins Landshut came up with the idea, the Sparda-Bank Ostbayern provided active support: In 2011 they brought two Wall segments to lower bavaria. Thereby, Sparda-Bank, a cooperative society, expresses its solidarity with people and history. Furthermore, it matches its annual theme bridges […]
Location: Stiepel Monastery 1 segment from Potsdamer Platz Immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Bochum Cistercians from Stiepel Monastery established contacts to Berlin in order to secure a segment of the symbolic Wall. For many years their Wall segment was stored in Berlin. Finally it was set up and blessed in the […]
Location: Höf∂i house 1 segment from Potsdamer Platz On October 3rd 2015, the 25th anniversary of German reunification, a Berlin Wall segment was set up in Reykjavik on a historical important place – as a symbol of democracy and a change from totalitarianism to freedom: In Höf∂i house, guesthouse of Iceland’s government, US President Ronald […]
Location: Oberstedten, Apfelpark 1 segment from Potsdamer Platz In memory of the division and reunification of Germany, a Wall segment is standing in Oberstedten, a suburb of Oberursel in the Hochtaunuskreis, since end of 2014. The idea to build this memorial came from Willi Steffek, the longtime chairman of the Vereinsring Oberstedten, an alliance of […]
Standort: Museum of Occupations 1 segment from Potsdamer Platz (corner of Leipziger-/Stresemannstraße) The Estonian Museum of Occupations presents the event- and painful history of the country in the 20th century: In 1940 the Baltic country came under Soviet rule, from 1941 to 1944 Nazi Germany took over, thereafter the Soviets took over again until Estonia finally was released into sovereignty […]