Der Eintrag
Ein bemaltes Element vor der Villa an der Glienicker Brücke – bestätigt durch das Verzeichnis erhaltener Spuren, das die Stiftung Berliner Mauer selbst führt, nachdem zwei andere Quellen es nicht erwähnt hatten.
Die ausführliche Geschichte, die Herkunft und die Quellenangaben dieses Eintrags liegen bislang nur auf Englisch vor.
A single wall element with coloured graffiti stands at the Villa Schöningen on the Schwanenallee, at the Potsdam end of the Glienicke Bridge. The Berlin Wall Foundation records it in MAUERSPUREN, its directory of surviving traces of the border, as MAU-704, photographed in 2018 and dated to the Grenzmauer 75 generation built from the mid-1970s.
The setting is one of the most concentrated pieces of Cold War geography anywhere. The bridge in front of the villa was the crossing where the superpowers exchanged captured agents; the sector boundary ran down the middle of it; and the villa itself, built by Ludwig Persius between 1843 and 1845, served as a children's home in GDR times before reopening as a private museum of the Cold War and a venue for art exhibitions.
This record is also a lesson in how not to rule a listing out. It was set aside earlier on the grounds that the Chronik der Mauer entry for the villa does not mention a wall element and the museum's own website now presents the building purely as an art space. Both of those remain true, and neither is evidence of absence. The institution that catalogues the remains of the Wall has it on the list.
Wie kam es hierher?
Not established. The Foundation's directory records the element and its position but not how it came to the villa.
Quellen
Gelistet vom Berlin Wall Archive als #333.
MAU-704 Villa Schöningen — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer ↗
A wall element with coloured graffiti at the Villa Schöningen on the Schwanenallee in Potsdam, catalogued as MAU-704 in the Berlin Wall Foundation's directory of surviving traces, classified as a Mauerelement, dated from 1980 and photographed in 2018.
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Villa Schöningen — Chronik der Mauer ↗
The villa's position directly at the Glienicke Bridge, its construction by Ludwig Persius between 1843 and 1845, its use as a children's home in GDR times, and its present role as a private Cold War museum and exhibition venue.
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 333
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