Der Eintrag
Ein Segment, per Kran in den Garten des Museums für den Kanzler gehoben, der Regierender Bürgermeister von Berlin war, als die Mauer gebaut wurde – in der einzigen Großstadt an der innerdeutschen Grenze.
Die ausführliche Geschichte, die Herkunft und die Quellenangaben dieses Eintrags liegen bislang nur auf Englisch vor.
The Willy-Brandt-Haus in Lübeck is the museum to the man who was governing mayor of West Berlin on 13 August 1961, when the border was closed, and chancellor when the Ostpolitik that followed from it began. It opened in December 2007 as the Lübeck arm of the Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation, in the city where Brandt was born.
A piece of the Berlin Wall stands in the garden. The founding director, the historian Jürgen Lillteicher, has described how it got there: the idea of showing a wall segment came up while the house was still being planned, and the piece was eventually lifted into the garden by crane. He is careful about its status in a museum that otherwise deals in photographs and documents — it is, in his words, one of the few originals there.
The siting argues something the exhibition makes explicitly. Lübeck was the only large city on the inner-German border, forty kilometres of which ran past it, and Brandt remained closely tied to the city as an honorary citizen. A segment of the Berlin Wall in a Lübeck garden puts the two borders in the same frame: the one that divided a city and the one that divided the country, which most accounts keep separate.
Wie kam es hierher?
Acquired while the museum was being planned and craned into the garden; the museum opened in December 2007.
Quellen
Gelistet vom Berlin Wall Archive als #236.
Mein Lieblingsstück: Berliner Mauer — Lübeck verliebt ↗
The wall segment in the garden of the Willy-Brandt-Haus, the founding director Jürgen Lillteicher's account of the idea arising during the planning of the house, the piece being lifted in by crane, and his description of it as one of the few originals in the museum.
Allgemeine ReferenzQuelle abgerufen am 2026-09-17
Willy-Brandt-Haus Lübeck — Bundeskanzler Willy Brandt Stiftung ↗
The museum as the Lübeck branch of the Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation, opened in December 2007, and the themes of the permanent exhibition.
Institutionelle QuelleQuelle 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 236
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