The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Jeju April 3rd Peace Park 2 segments from Potsdamer Platz Jeju is a Southern barrier island of South Korea, on the edge to Japanese territory. As a result of the ideological struggles between the political left and right wings after the independence of Korea from the Japanese colonial reign, the population suffered from excessive massacres. In memory […]
Location: Isla Magica 2 segments (remaining parts of a 5-piece ensemble) from Potsdamer Platz The first EXPO (world exhibition) after the Fall of the Wall took place in Sevilla in 1992. Some parts of the Berlin Wall were exhibited in the German Pavillon. Visitors were invited to take photos through the gap in the Wall.Originally the […]
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: 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: 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: CIA parking lot 3 segments from Potsdamer Platz The history of the division of Germany and the Cold War is also a story of the intelligence services on both sides of the Iron Curtain. The Central Intelligence Agency, as the leading service in the West, owns itself three Wall segments, that were erected as a memorial […]
Location: Microsoft Corporation 1 segment from Potsdamer Platz Redmond is best known as home of the Microsoft Corporation but also of other reputable companies. Microsoft came to the Wall segments rather random. The story goes back to the 1970s, when the Daimler-Benz AG began buying up the area at Potsdamer Platz. After all, this was in the days […]
Location: besides the UN building 3 segments from Leipziger Platz A fragment of the Cold War hardly could be established more symbolic: to remind and to give hope on the grounds of the United Nations in New York. The ensemble with a graffito by Kani Alafi is a gift from the city of Berlin to Kofi Annan, on the occasion […]
Location: Van Andel Museum Center 1 segment from Potsdamer Platz Under the watchful eyes of the public several segments were lifted out of the Wall at Potsdamer Platz in November 1989. One of which was inscribed with “Meijer”. As Frederik C. H. Meijer, owner of a supermarket chain in Grand Rapids got aware, he got at once in […]
Location: private property in Lyford Clay (Nygård Cay)1 segment from Potsdamer Platz Auctioned in Monte Carlo in 1990, a segment of the Berlin Wall found a new home on the island of New Providence in the Bahamas. The buyer and installer was Peter J. Nygård, a Finnish-Canadian textile entrepreneur and philanthropist, who had the segment erected […]