Found a piece of the Wall?
Tell us what you found and where. Sources help us distinguish an interesting lead from a verified historical record. Every submission is reviewed before publication.
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If you have found a piece, please hold on to what you have — it will still be wanted. The list below is what makes a contribution usable.
What is worth sending
The catalogue holds several hundred inventory listings and publishes a page for each site that has been researched. Most of what is missing is not obscure: it is an address, a date, or a photograph nobody has taken.
- A photograph you took yourself. Your own picture is worth more than a better one you found online, because you can license it and a stranger cannot. Say whether we may publish it and under what terms.
- Where exactly. A street address or a dropped pin. Many records carry a position that is only accurate to the town.
- When you saw it. A date turns “this was here once” into “this was here on that day”. Several records in the atlas are things that have since moved or been taken away.
- Anything written on the spot. Plaques and information boards usually carry the donor, the year and sometimes the original street in Berlin — the three facts hardest to establish from a desk.
- Where you read it. A link or a book beats a recollection. Corrections are as welcome as additions, and a source that contradicts a record here is worth more than one that agrees.
Photographs of a painted segment have two rights holders — the photographer and the painter — so if the paint is someone’s known work, say whose. Read how records are verified and how the catalogue is built.
Questions about a submission, or something that does not fit the form? Email info@whereisthewall.com. How we handle what you send is set out in the privacy notice.