Der Eintrag
Ein Segment vor dem unterirdischen Luftverteidigungsbunker, den Westeuropa in den 1950er-Jahren baute, heute ein Museum zum Kalten Krieg.
Die ausführliche Geschichte, die Herkunft und die Quellenangaben dieses Eintrags liegen bislang nur auf Englisch vor.
A segment stands outside the command bunker dug into the southern flank of the Kemmelberg between 1952 and 1956, when Belgium, France, Britain, Luxembourg and the Netherlands built a coordination post for Western European air defence under the Brussels Pact. From 1963 the Belgian armed forces kept it as a wartime headquarters; it was abandoned in 1995 and opened as a Cold War museum in 2010. The pairing is exact in a way few records here manage: the object that divided the continent, standing on top of the hole the other side dug in case it went wrong.
The panel was bought, not given. In October 2019 the coordinator of Heuvelland's thirtieth-anniversary exhibition told the regional broadcaster Focus-WTV that „last year we bought a piece of the Berlin Wall and placed it on the grounds of the command bunker“, which puts its arrival in 2018; the exhibition on the fall of the Wall opened in the bunker on 3 November 2019 with a 1959 Trabant lent by the Zwevezele collector Lode Anseel. Who sold the panel, and where in Berlin it stood, is not stated.
Wie kam es hierher?
Bought in 2018 and placed on the bunker grounds, by the account of the coordinator of Heuvelland's 2019 exhibition; the seller and the segment's origin in Berlin are not stated.
Quellen
Gelistet vom Berlin Wall Archive als #196.
Kemmel, B — The Wall Net ↗
A segment outside the former NATO command bunker.
Allgemeine ReferenzQuelle abgerufen am 2026-09-17
Command Bunker Kemmel — Toerisme Heuvelland ↗
The bunker's construction between 1952 and 1956, its Belgian headquarters role from 1963, abandonment in 1995 and reopening as a museum in 2010.
Allgemeine ReferenzQuelle abgerufen am 2026-09-17
Heuvelland herdenkt de val van de Berlijnse muur — Focus-WTV ↗
The coordinator of Heuvelland's 2019 exhibition at the Kemmel command bunker said a piece of the Berlin Wall had been bought the year before and placed on the bunker grounds.
PresseberichtQuelle abgerufen am 2026-09-17
Stuk Berlijnse muur in Heuvelland — Focus-WTV ↗
A panel of the Berlin Wall had stood in Heuvelland since 2018, and an exhibition on the fall of the Wall opened in the Kemmel command bunker on 3 November 2019.
PresseberichtQuelle abgerufen am 2026-09-17
Berlin Wall Archive ↗
The source lists this place as a Berlin Wall location. Coordinates, where supplied, are source-reported and may represent a general area. This is not independent verification of authenticity, current presence, or public access.
VerzeichniseintragQuelle abgerufen am 2026-09-17 · Quelleneintrag 196
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