# Where Is The Wall > An independent, source-linked atlas of where the Berlin Wall went after 1989: 381 researched sites — surviving sections, relocated segments, fragments, memorials and artworks — in 295 places across 60 countries. Published by Berlin Experiences. How to read and cite it: - Every site has one page, and the page carries the sources it was written from, listed with what each source supports. Cite the page and, for any specific claim, the source it names. - Every site carries an evidence level saying what it rests on: Listed (inventory listings and general references only), Documented (an institutional source or a press report), Corroborated (an institutional source, an independent second source and a checked position) or Confirmed (the holder's confirmation or a recorded site visit). Publication means a site was researched and sourced, not that anyone has confirmed the object is still standing; only Confirmed says that. Say so when it matters. - The 381 sites rest on 510 published listings: 466 from the two source inventories and 44 created by the atlas's own research, for places the inventories missed. Where the two inventories list the same place, the atlas serves one page and names both listings on it; the other listing's address redirects there. A site may hold several segments, so counts of sites are not counts of physical pieces of Wall. - 120 further listings are held unpublished until they are researched; the atlas does not describe them. - Where sources disagree the page says so and keeps both readings rather than choosing one. ## Germany ### Aachen, NW - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/aachen/aachen-nw-a2 - Place: Rotter Bruch, Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Listed - Position: 50.776351, 6.083862 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #2. Parts of the Wall outside the Johanniter building at Rotter Bruch, in Germany's westernmost city. The city is Aachen, which sits on the Belgian and Dutch borders at the far west of Germany — the opposite corner of the country from the line these pieces came from, and about as far as a German town can be from Berlin without leaving the state. Sources: - [Berliner Mauer Aachen.JPG — Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABerliner_Mauer_Aachen.JPG): Parts of the Berlin Wall at Rotter Bruch in Aachen, in front of the Johanniter building. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Aachen%2C%20NW): 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. ### Ahrweiler, RP - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/ahrweiler/ahrweiler-rp-a4 - Place: Landrat-Joachim-Weiler-Platz, in front of Ahrweiler station, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 50.4365274, 7.0050227 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #4. Given by the refugees themselves: East Germans who arrived from the Prague embassy on 5 October 1989 later sent the district a piece of the Wall in thanks. A section of the Wall and a memorial plaque stand on the square in front of Ahrweiler station. On 5 October 1989 the first of the sealed special trains carrying East Germans out of the West German embassy in Prague reached this platform, having crossed GDR territory and changed at Hof. Around 800 people got off here. The minister-president of Rhineland-Palatinate, Carl-Ludwig Wagner, met the train in person and handed out new identity cards and 100 D-Mark of welcome money, and the town turned out on balconies and at level crossings to wave the train in. Of every record in this catalogue, this is the one with the most unusual provenance. Almost all the rest were given by a government, bought by a collector or acquired by a museum. This one was sent by the people who came through — a gift from the refugees to the district that received them. Provenance: Given to the Ahrweiler district by the former GDR citizens who arrived on the Prague trains, as thanks for their reception. Sources: - [Am 5. Oktober 1989 kommen 1000 DDR-Übersiedler auf dem Bahnhof Ahrweiler an — AW-Wiki](https://www.aw-wiki.de/index.php/Am_5._Oktober_1989_kommen_1000_DDR-%C3%9Cbersiedler_auf_dem_Bahnhof_Ahrweiler_an): The arrival of the Prague embassy train on 5 October 1989, the reception, and the later gift of a wall section with a plaque on Landrat-Joachim-Weiler-Platz. - [Die Mauer steht in Ahrweiler für Dankbarkeit — Rhein-Zeitung](https://www.rhein-zeitung.de/lokales/kreis-ahrweiler/geschichte-die-mauer-steht-in-ahrweiler-fuer-dankbarkeit_arid-1230865.html): The memorial as an expression of gratitude by the arrivals. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Ahrweiler%2C%20RP): 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. ### Alsfeld, HE - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/alsfeld/alsfeld-he-a7 - Place: Volkmarstraße 6, Alsfeld, Hesse, Germany - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (Photographed in place); evidence: Listed - Position: 50.7523545, 9.268355 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #7. A wall element at a street address in a Hessian market town, photographed but otherwise undocumented. The address is Volkmarstraße 6 in Alsfeld. The photograph establishes that it is there; nothing else about it is established — not how it arrived, not when, not who holds it. That is the ordinary condition of most of this catalogue away from the museums and the capitals, and saying so is more useful than leaving the record blank. Sources: - [Alsfeld, Volkmarstraße 6, Berliner Mauer.JPG — Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AAlsfeld%2C_Volkmarstra%C3%9Fe_6%2C_Berliner_Mauer.JPG): A photograph of the Berlin Wall at Volkmarstraße 6, Alsfeld. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Alsfeld%2C%20HE): 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. ### Ansbach, BY - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/ansbach/ansbach-by-a14 - Place: An der Riviera, Ansbach, Bavaria, Germany - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (Photographed in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 49.2888745, 10.5597693 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #14. An original segment unveiled on the square An der Riviera on 3 October 1990, where the city has held its Unity Day ceremony ever since. The piece stands on the square An der Riviera, a riverside stretch on the Rezat north of the old town, in front of the former Durchgangsschulhaus — once the royal agricultural winter school, now flats and businesses — and near the beer garden, the playground and the Bay-City bridge. The Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung's memorials database records it as an original segment unveiled during the first German Unity Day celebrations on 3 October 1990, as a „Mahnmal gegen Unterdrückung“, with an inscription on the former eastern face written by the deputy mayor of the day, Wolfgang Wechsler; the inscription had faded by 2009 and was restored for the twentieth anniversary of the opening. The city has gathered here on 3 October ever since. The mayor's 2021 speech, on the city's own site, opens with the tradition of meeting „am Berliner Mauerstück an der Riviera“ and admits the piece has become an often-overlooked part of the townscape; the Fränkische Landeszeitung reported the 2024 ceremony in the same place, and ran a feature that August on how Ansbach came by its piece, which is behind its paywall. Photographed in 2025, so this is among the more recently confirmed records in the catalogue — useful, because a listing tells you an object was somewhere once and a dated photograph tells you it was still there on a particular day. Provenance: An original segment, unveiled by the city on 3 October 1990 with an inscription by the deputy mayor Wolfgang Wechsler; the Fränkische Landeszeitung's 2024 account of how Ansbach acquired it has not been read here. Sources: - [Berliner Mauer in Ansbach 20250430 125229.jpg — Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABerliner_Mauer_in_Ansbach_20250430_125229.jpg): A piece of the Berlin Wall at the Riviera in Ansbach, photographed on 30 April 2025. - [Rede von Oberbürgermeister Thomas Deffner zur Gedenkfeier zum Tag der Deutschen Einheit — Stadt Ansbach](https://ansbach.de/media/custom/2595_4355_1.PDF): The mayor's speech of 3 October 2021, published by the city: it is an established tradition to meet on Unity Day „am Berliner Mauerstück an der Riviera“, and the piece of the Wall has found a permanent place at the Riviera as a lasting warning. - [Denkmal „Berliner Mauer“ — Orte des Erinnerns](https://www.orte-des-erinnerns.de/igof_memorials/denkmal-berliner-mauer-37/): An original segment unveiled on 3 October 1990 during the Unity Day celebrations on the square An der Riviera, north of the old town, in front of the former Durchgangsschulhaus; the inscription by the deputy mayor Wolfgang Wechsler faded and was restored in 2009 for the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall. - [Gedenkstunde in Ansbach vor einem Stück der Berliner Mauer — Fränkische Landeszeitung](https://www.flz.de/gedenkstunde-in-ansbach-vor-einem-stueck-der-berliner-mauer/cnt-id-ps-42fd33d1-54f0-4370-8184-d84913f89fdd): On 3 October 2024 the city of Ansbach held its Unity Day ceremony at the piece of the Wall at the Riviera, where the mayor Thomas Deffner spoke. - [Als „Schandmal“: Wie Ansbach zu seinem eigenen Stück Berliner Mauer kam — Fränkische Landeszeitung](https://www.flz.de/als-schandmal-wie-ansbach-zu-seinem-eigenen-stueck-berliner-mauer-kam/cnt-id-ps-24dbfcc9-8265-475b-9380-425a068f0636): A feature of 13 August 2024 placing the piece near the beer garden, the playground and the Bay-City bridge at the Riviera; the historian Wolfgang F. Reddig calls it a stone witness to German history. Its account of how the piece came to Ansbach is behind the paywall and is not relied on here. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Ansbach%2C%20BY): 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. ### Aschaffenburg, BY - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/aschaffenburg/aschaffenburg-by-a19 - Place: Studio house, Grünewaldstraße 20a, beside the Gentil-Haus, 63739 Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, Germany - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 49.9753, 9.15994 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #19. A segment the Museum am Checkpoint Charlie gave the painter Siegfried Rischar in 1991, painted with a rose in 2009 and given to the city by his children in 2017. The Aschaffenburg painter Siegfried Rischar (1924–2009) lived and worked until his death in the studio house on Grünewaldstraße beside the Gentil-Haus, the city's museum of the collector Anton Gentil. The city archive's register of public art records that in 1991 the Museum am Checkpoint Charlie gave him a segment of the Wall, as thanks for his years of cooperation with the museum and his long connection with the city, and that it was set up in the yard of his studio. In 1986 he had entered a competition to overcome the Wall by design and won a third prize for a design called „der Rosengruß“, which was never carried out; in 2009 he painted a variant of it on the segment. The Wall Net describes the result as a rose blooming out of the barbed wire on the grey concrete. After his death his children gave the work to the city in 2017, which the archive says had been his express wish. The Wall Net's entry gives a different account of the gift — the museum's founder, Rainer Hildebrandt, as donor, and 2009 for the heirs' transfer to the city — and the archive's register is followed here. The register files the address as Grünewaldstraße 2; a comment on the entry gives it as Grünewaldstraße 20a, the studio house, and the Wall Net places the piece in front of the studio on Grünewaldstraße. The studio has been used by the sculptor Konrad Franz since March 2012. Provenance: Given to Siegfried Rischar by the Museum am Checkpoint Charlie in 1991 and set up in the yard of his studio on Grünewaldstraße; painted by him in 2009; given to the city of Aschaffenburg by his children in 2017. Sources: - [Segment Berliner Mauer — Aschaffenburg 2.0, Stadt- und Stiftsarchiv Aschaffenburg](https://aschaffenburgzweinull.stadtarchiv-digital.de/teilstueck-berliner-mauer/): The city archive's public-art register: Siegfried Rischar received the segment from the Museum am Checkpoint Charlie in 1991 as thanks for his cooperation with the museum and his connection with the city, and set it up in the yard of his studio; his 1986 competition entry „der Rosengruß“ won a third prize but was not executed, and in 2009 he painted a variant of it on the segment; after his death his children gave the work to the city in 2017 at his express wish. Dated 1991–2009, steel concrete and paint; address given as Grünewaldstraße 2, corrected in a comment on the entry to Grünewaldstraße 20a. - [Aschaffenburg, BY — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/aschaffenburg/): One segment in the garden of the Gentil-Haus artists' villa: a fragment painted by Rischar has stood since 1991 as a memorial in front of the studio on Grünewaldstraße, a rose painted on the grey concrete blooming out of the barbed wire; the studio has been used by the sculptor Konrad Franz since March 2012; the Wall Net credits the gift to Rainer Hildebrandt, founder of the Mauermuseum, and dates the heirs' transfer to the city to 2009. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Aschaffenburg%2C%20BY): 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. ### Bad Salzgitter, NI - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/bad-salzgitter/bad-salzgitter-ni-a26 - Place: Police building, Am Pfingstanger, Salzgitter-Bad, Salzgitter, Lower Saxony, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 52.0462988, 10.3721997 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #26. A segment from the Spreebogen, bought at auction by the city and unveiled on 9 November 2009 outside the building where West Germany kept its register of crimes committed by the East German state. From 24 November 1961 until 1992 the Zentrale Erfassungsstelle der Landesjustizverwaltungen, the central registry of the West German state justice administrations, worked from a building in Salzgitter-Bad. Willy Brandt, then governing mayor of West Berlin, had proposed it. It recorded killings and attempted killings at the border, political sentences, abuse in prisons, abductions and persecution in the GDR, so that they could be prosecuted one day, and by 1992 it had registered more than 42,000 acts of violence. Its files were evidence in the trials of the border guards and are now in the Federal Archives at Koblenz. The building is now a police station. In November 2007 the city's administrative committee, on a motion from the CDU group, asked for a visible sign of what had been done there. The city's cultural services bought a segment at auction early in 2009 — a property company from Lünen in Westphalia had acquired it from the federal government — and it arrived in June. It is 3.70 metres high, a metre wide and weighs 2.7 tonnes, and it stood in Berlin on the Spreebogen, at the corner of Schiffbauerdamm and Reinhardtstraße. It was unveiled with a stele on 9 November 2009, after a ceremony at the local grammar school with the mayors of Salzgitter and of its partner town Gotha, Frank Klingebiel and Knut Kreuch, and the registry's former spokesman Hans-Jürgen Grasemann, before young people from both towns. A metal plate on the segment, with a strand of barbed wire shown in a round recess beside the inscription, dedicates it to the victims of division and dictatorship and says of the registry: „Sie war eine Hoffnung für viele“ — it was a hope for many. Provenance: Bought at auction early in 2009 by the city's cultural services from a property company in Lünen, which had acquired it from the federal government; from the Spreebogen in Berlin, at the corner of Schiffbauerdamm and Reinhardtstraße. Unveiled on 9 November 2009. Sources: - [Zentrale Erfassungsstelle — Stadt Salzgitter](https://www.salzgitter.de/kultur/stadtgeschichte/erfassungsstelle.php): The registry began work on 24 November 1961 on Willy Brandt's proposal, registered over 42,000 acts of violence between 1961 and 1992, its files served in the border-guard trials and are now in the Federal Archives at Koblenz; since 9 November 2009 a stele and a section of the Berlin Wall in front of the former building in Salzgitter-Bad, now the police, commemorate it, with a plaque dedicated to the victims of division and dictatorship reading „Sie war eine Hoffnung für viele“. - [Gedenkstätte Erfassungsstelle — Stadt Salzgitter](https://www.salzgitter.de/pressemeldungen/gedenkstaette-erfassungsstelle.php): The city's account of the inauguration on 9 November of the memorial, a section of the Berlin Wall, with the mayors Frank Klingebiel and Knut Kreuch (Gotha) and the former spokesman Hans-Jürgen Grasemann; the piece was bought at auction early in the year by the city's cultural services, arrived in June, had been acquired from the federal government by a property company from Lünen, stood at the Spreebogen at the corner of Schiffbauerdamm and Reinhardtstraße, and is 2.7 tonnes, one metre wide and 370 cm high. - [Denkmal „Berliner Mauer“ — Orte des Erinnerns](https://www.orte-des-erinnerns.de/igof_memorials/denkmal-berliner-mauer-45/): The administrative committee's commission of November 2007 on a CDU motion; on 9 November 2009 a stele, an original segment and a memorial plaque were inaugurated outside the police building at the Pfingstanger in Salzgitter, after a ceremony at the local grammar school; the 2.7-tonne, 3.70-metre segment from the Spreebogen carries a metal plate with a strand of barbed wire and the dedication to the victims of division and dictatorship. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Bad%20Salzgitter%2C%20NI): 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. ### Ballrechten-Dottingen, BW - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/ballrechten-dottingen/ballrechten-dottingen-bw-a27 - Place: Castellbergstraße, Ballrechten-Dottingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Listed - Position: 47.85413, 7.70905 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #27. Parts of the Wall from the Berliner Sonnenallee, standing on a village street in the Markgräflerland. Parts of the Wall stand on the Castellbergstraße in Ballrechten-Dottingen, a wine village of about two and a half thousand people in the Markgräflerland, with the Fohrenberg behind them. The photograph's own record names their origin: the Berliner Sonnenallee, the street in Neukölln where the Wall cut the road in half and which became a crossing point in November 1989. Named origin streets are uncommon in this catalogue, and a village this size holding one is rarer still. Provenance: Recorded as coming from the Berliner Sonnenallee in Neukölln. Sources: - [Teile der Mauer von der Berliner Sonnenallee an der Castellbergstraße in Ballrechten-Dottingen 1.jpg — Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ATeile_der_Mauer_von_der_Berliner_Sonnenallee_an_der_Castellbergstra%C3%9Fe_in_Ballrechten-Dottingen_1.jpg): Parts of the wall from the Berliner Sonnenallee, at the Castellbergstraße in Ballrechten-Dottingen, with the Fohrenberg behind. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Ballrechten-Dottingen%2C%20BW): 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. ### AlliiertenMuseum, Clayallee - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/berlin/berlin-allied-museum - Place: AlliiertenMuseum, Clayallee 135, 14195 Berlin, Germany - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display in the open-air exhibition); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 52.45546, 13.27258 Four segments and a watchtower on Clayallee, beside the last genuine Checkpoint Charlie guardhouse — the one the replica downtown stands in for. The Allied Museum in Dahlem keeps its largest objects outdoors, along Clayallee where drivers and pedestrians can see them: a section of the Berlin Wall with a watchtower, the British Hastings TG 503 that flew in the airlift, a carriage from the French military train, and the last guardhouse from Checkpoint Charlie. Admission to the museum is free; the large objects can be entered for a euro. The Berlin Wall Foundation lists the wall section in its directory of surviving traces as MAU-716: four elements, painted after they arrived by Thierry Noir. The guardhouse is the reason this record matters to the rest of the catalogue. Checkpoint Charlie is the most visited Cold War address in Berlin and nothing original survives there — the hut on Friedrichstraße is a replica. The genuine one is here, seven kilometres south-west, in a museum most visitors to the checkpoint never hear about. It is the neatest illustration in the atlas of the gap between where an object is and where its fame is. The museum also holds a version of Veryl Goodnight's sculpture The Day the Wall Came Down — five horses breaking through wall rubble — made in 1998 and given by the United States to Germany. Its twin stands at the George Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas, which this catalogue records separately. This record exists because the catalogue's single generic Berlin listing had a lead attached to it describing the museum's open-air exhibition, seven kilometres from where that listing is positioned. Rather than move a record whose name says only Berlin, the museum has been given its own. Provenance: Held by the AlliiertenMuseum. The Checkpoint Charlie guardhouse was removed here from Friedrichstraße; the Goodnight sculpture was a gift from the United States to Germany in 1998. Sources: - [AlliiertenMuseum — museum home page](https://www.alliiertenmuseum.de/en/): The museum's address at Clayallee 135, free admission, the outdoor exhibition of large objects and the one-euro charge to enter them, and the presence of the French military railcar and the last Checkpoint Charlie guardhouse. - [Collection — AlliiertenMuseum](https://www.alliiertenmuseum.de/en/collection/): The outdoor exhibits comprising a section of the Berlin Wall with a watchtower, the Hastings TG 503 airlift aircraft, the French military railcar and the last Checkpoint Charlie guardhouse, visible from Clayallee. - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A section of four segments displayed with the Allied Museum's external exhibits along with a border guard tower and the Checkpoint Charlie guard house, and the 1998 Veryl Goodnight sculpture at the museum given by the United States to Germany. - [MAU-716 Vier Mauerelemente am AlliiertenMuseum — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.mauerspuren.de/de/13214/alliiertenmuseum/#mau-716): Four wall elements in the open-air grounds of the AlliiertenMuseum on Clayallee, painted subsequently by Thierry Noir, catalogued as MAU-716 and photographed in 2021. ### Berlin Wall Memorial, Bernauer Straße - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/berlin/berlin-memorial-bernauer-strasse - Place: Bernauer Straße 119, 13355 Berlin, Germany - Classification: Original Position; can it be seen today: On display (Preserved as a memorial); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 52.5354, 13.3899 The only place where the border strip survives in depth — wall, ground, obstacles and tower positions in one preserved cross-section. About 1.4 km of memorial grounds along Bernauer Straße, of which roughly 60 m is preserved as a complete cross-section of the border: the wall itself, the raked ground behind it, the obstacles and the positions of the towers. Nowhere else survives in that depth. Bernauer Straße is where the buildings stood on the eastern side and the pavement on the western, so people jumped from windows in August 1961 while the doors below were bricked up — which is why this street, of the 43 km that cut through the city, is the one that was argued for and kept. Provenance: Original position. Almost nothing in Berlin survives because anyone decided to keep it: demolition ran through 1990 and was close to total, and the preserved sections are the ones fought for afterwards. Sources: - [Sites — Stiftung Berliner Mauer (Berlin Wall Foundation)](https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/en/visit/sites): The Foundation's own listing of the sites it runs and documents, with addresses and what survives at each. - [The Berlin Wall — Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/en/topics/berlin-wall): The border ran 155 km around West Berlin, of which roughly 43 km cut through the city. ### Berlin Wall segments, Potsdamer Platz - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/berlin/berlin-potsdamer-platz - Place: Potsdamer Platz, 10785 Berlin, Germany - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 52.5096, 13.376 A short row of elements by the station, on the square that supplied a great many of the segments in this atlas. A short row of elements stands in the pedestrian area by the station, with plaques. The square matters to this catalogue out of all proportion to what is left on it: Potsdamer Platz is the origin named again and again on records elsewhere in the world — Tallinn, Langeland, Canberra, Seattle, the Paris esplanade, the Battery Park slabs. It was a wide, cleared, heavily built stretch of border in the centre of the city, and when the elements were sold and given away after 1990 this is disproportionately where they came from. The Berlin Wall Foundation's MAUERSPUREN directory lists the row as a memorial of six connected elements with information panels, and notes what every visitor sees: the elements are almost entirely covered in chewing gum. The state heritage office's page on Leipziger Platz records several segments on the north and south sides of that square as surviving remains of the hinterland wall — built here, at the regime's showpiece, with Grenzmauer 75 elements so that it looked orderly from the viewing platform — and under protection since 2001. Whether this row is among them, and whether its elements stand where they were built or were set back here, the page does not settle, so both readings are kept. Provenance: Elements on the square that supplied so many exports. This record reads them as a relocated display rather than a preserved position; the heritage office's account of the Leipziger Platz remains leaves open whether they stand where they were built. Sources: - [Berlin Wall: where it still stands — Berlin.de](https://www.berlin.de/en/tourism/insider-tips/1757657-5766508-wall-in-berlin-where-it-still-stands.en.html): The surviving elements displayed at Potsdamer Platz. - [Mauerdenkmal Potsdamer Platz — MAUERSPUREN](https://www.mauerspuren.de/de/13265/mauerdenkmal-potsdamer-platz/): The Berlin Wall Foundation's directory entry MAU-732: a memorial of six connected Wall elements with information panels on Potsdamer Platz, the elements almost entirely covered in chewing-gum residue. - [Leipziger Platz — Landesdenkmalamt Berlin](https://www.berlin.de/landesdenkmalamt/denkmale/highlight-berliner-mauer/mauer-denkmale/leipziger-platz-648152.php): The heritage office's page: several Wall segments stand on the north and south sides of Leipziger Platz, all surviving remains of the hinterland wall, which was built here with Grenzmauer 75 elements for the sake of its appearance from the viewing platform; the few remains at this prominent site have been protected monuments since 2001. It does not name the six-element row by the station. ### Berlin Wall, Liesenstraße and Invalidenfriedhof - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/berlin/berlin-liesenstrasse - Place: Liesenstraße, 10115 Berlin, Germany - Classification: Original Position; can it be seen today: On display (Standing; protected since 1990, concrete restored and repainted in 2003); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 52.5372, 13.3823 Wall through an eighteenth-century military cemetery, where graves were cleared for the death strip and the gravestones were used to pave a street. The Invalidenfriedhof was founded in 1748 on the orders of Friedrich II for the soldiers' hospital next to it, and its western boundary runs along the bank of the Spandau ship canal. When the Allies drew the sector boundary after the war they ran it down the middle of that canal, and from 13 August 1961 the cemetery was progressively eaten by the border installations. Whole sections of it — E, F and G — were cleared for the strip, most thoroughly in 1973 and 1975, and the gravestones standing in the restricted area in front of the hinterland wall went with them. As at the cemeteries on Bernauer Straße, graves by the border were razed and the stones used to pave a street. It was not cleared completely, and the reason is a small study in whose memory counts. The cemetery holds the graves of Gerhard von Scharnhorst, whose monument was designed by Schinkel, and of Friedrich Friesen of the Wars of Liberation — figures the GDR revered as much as anyone else did. That is what saved the rest of it. The cemetery's own western wall, brick, built along the canal bank in 1902, was reinforced with a fence and pressed into service as the border wall; the same absorption of an older wall happened at the Nordbahnhof and along the Ulbricht curve. About 180 metres of hinterland wall sections survive, with a somewhat longer run of the patrol track that had cut through the cemetery since 1975. They were given protected status in 1990, and in 2003 the Landesdenkmalamt restored the concrete and repainted it in the pattern used on the eastern face — long white rectangles framed in grey. Along Liesenstraße itself fifteen metres of the border wall proper, a Grenzmauer 75 run badly chewed by souvenir hunters, stands on the cemetery ground, with two further hinterland segments near the entrance. Because the Invalidenfriedhof is also an important historic garden, preserving the border strip and restoring the cemetery had to be reconciled; the former no man's land is now part of the riverside promenade from the Sandkrugbrücke to the Nordhafen. Provenance: In place. Protected since 1990; the concrete was restored and repainted by the Landesdenkmalamt in 2003. Sources: - [Berlin Wall: where it still stands — Berlin.de](https://www.berlin.de/en/tourism/insider-tips/1757657-5766508-wall-in-berlin-where-it-still-stands.en.html): Surviving wall along Liesenstraße and through the Invalidenfriedhof. - [Der Invalidenfriedhof — Landesdenkmalamt Berlin, Wall monuments](https://www.berlin.de/landesdenkmalamt/denkmale/highlight-berliner-mauer/mauer-denkmale/invalidenfriedhof-649727.en.php): The cemetery's founding in 1748 for the Invalidenhaus, the sector boundary down the middle of the Spandau ship canal, the clearing of sections E, F and G in 1973 and 1975 and the destruction of gravestones in the restricted area, the 1902 brick boundary wall reinforced as a border wall, the graves of Scharnhorst and Friesen that saved the cemetery from complete clearance, the roughly 180 metres of hinterland wall and the longer stretch of patrol track protected in 1990, the 2003 restoration and repainting in the eastern colour scheme, and the riverside promenade along the former no man's land. - [Rund um den Nordbahnhof — Landesdenkmalamt Berlin, Wall monuments](https://www.berlin.de/landesdenkmalamt/denkmale/highlight-berliner-mauer/mauer-denkmale/rund-um-den-nordbahnhof-649705.en.php): Fifteen metres of the Grenzmauer 75 border wall on the cemetery grounds along Liesenstraße, mutilated by souvenir-seekers, two hinterland wall segments near the cemetery entrance, and the razing of graves by the border with the gravestones used to pave a street. ### Berlin Wall, Niederkirchnerstraße - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/berlin/berlin-niederkirchnerstrasse - Place: Niederkirchnerstraße, alongside the Topography of Terror, 10963 Berlin, Germany - Classification: Original Position; can it be seen today: On display (Standing, heavily damaged); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 52.5065, 13.3829 About 200 m of border wall left rough and chewed by the Mauerspechte — and the clearest description anywhere of what the object in this catalogue actually is. Roughly 200 metres of original border wall runs along the southern side of Niederkirchnerstraße, past the Topography of Terror, on the line the installations took from Stresemannstraße towards Checkpoint Charlie. It has been left rough rather than restored, and it is the best surviving evidence of what the Mauerspechte — the wall-peckers — did to the structure: the concrete is hollowed out in patches, the reinforcing bars exposed, the top edge broken away. Most preserved sections elsewhere have been tidied. This one records the months in 1990 when the Wall was being taken apart by hand, with hammers, by anyone who wanted a piece — which is where a large share of the fragments in this catalogue came from. It is also the plainest example of the object itself. This is the Grenzmauer 75, the fourth generation of the Wall, which began replacing its predecessors in the mid-1970s after a large development and testing programme. Each element is an L-shaped section of precast concrete of a kind farmers used to build open silos, 3.60 metres high and 1.20 metres wide, finished with a smooth asbestos-concrete pipe 40 centimetres across along the top. Its advantages over what came before were the base, which could stand on any firm soil without a foundation; a construction robust enough to resist almost any attempt to drive a vehicle through it; and the clean, uniform face it turned to the west. That last advantage is worth holding on to while reading the rest of this catalogue. The thing that was exported, auctioned, painted and given away all over the world is a mass-produced agricultural component, chosen partly because it looked tidy from the other side. Provenance: Original position, listed as an architectural monument. The damage is part of what is preserved. Sources: - [Berlin Wall: where it still stands — Berlin.de](https://www.berlin.de/en/tourism/insider-tips/1757657-5766508-wall-in-berlin-where-it-still-stands.en.html): The surviving stretch along Niederkirchnerstraße beside the Topography of Terror. - [Niederkirchnerstraße — Landesdenkmalamt Berlin, Wall monuments](https://www.berlin.de/landesdenkmalamt/denkmale/highlight-berliner-mauer/mauer-denkmale/niederkirchnerstrasse-649750.en.php): The roughly 200-metre run of Grenzmauer 75 border wall on the southern side of Niederkirchnerstraße, damaged by souvenir-seekers and standing at its original location, and the description of the Grenzmauer 75 as the fourth generation introduced in the mid-1970s: L-shaped precast sections of the type used for open silos, 3.60 metres high and 1.20 metres wide, topped by a 40-centimetre asbestos-concrete pipe, needing no foundation, resistant to vehicles, and presenting clean uniform lines to the west. ### Berliner Mauerweg, the former border route - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/berlin/berlin-mauerweg - Place: Signed route around the former West Berlin, Berlin and Brandenburg, Germany - Classification: Former Location; can it be seen today: Gone (Signed route, marked in the road surface); evidence: Documented The 160 km signed route along the whole former border — a record with no pin, because the object is a line rather than a place. The Mauerweg is a signed walking and cycling route of about 160 km following the whole course of the border around West Berlin, with a double row of cobblestones marking the line through the city centre where nothing survives. It is the only record in this catalogue that is a route rather than a place, and it carries no map pin for that reason. It is also the best answer to the arithmetic: 155 km of border, of which roughly 3 km of wall survives — under two per cent — so for the overwhelming majority of its length the Wall is now a mark in the paving and a sign. Provenance: Not an object. The route marks the course of the border; the cobblestone line is a later marking, not preserved fabric. Sources: - [The Berlin Wall — Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/en/topics/berlin-wall): The 155 km border around West Berlin and roughly 43 km through the city. - [Berlin Wall: where it still stands — Berlin.de](https://www.berlin.de/en/tourism/insider-tips/1757657-5766508-wall-in-berlin-where-it-still-stands.en.html): The Mauerweg route and the cobblestone marking through the centre. ### Bösebrücke and Platz des 9. November 1989, Bornholmer Straße - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/berlin/berlin-bornholmer-strasse - Place: Bösebrücke and Platz des 9. November 1989, Bornholmer Straße 70, 10439 Berlin, Germany - Classification: Original Position; can it be seen today: On display (Preserved; open-air exhibition since 2011); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 52.5546, 13.399 The place the Wall actually opened: the first barrier raised on 9 November 1989, with a section of the hinterland wall and the guard tower's foundation left standing. Of the seven crossing points inside the city this was the furthest north, officially designated for West German citizens entering East Berlin. It is also where the Wall opened. After West German television carried Günter Schabowski's announcement of new travel rules on the evening of 9 November 1989, East Berliners gathered at the checkpoints; the pressure here broke first, the guards raised the barrier, and in the following hour roughly twenty thousand people crossed the Bösebrücke without anyone checking a document. That makes this the single most consequential address in the entire catalogue, and it is worth noticing how little of it is left. What survives in place is a section of the hinterland wall that enclosed the crossing, and the foundation of the guard tower — no more. The rest of the story is told by the Platz des 9. November 1989, laid out at the eastern bridgehead and opened to the public on 9 November 2011: an open-air exhibition on the crossing and its history, metal reliefs set into the ground running the events of that night from Schabowski's press conference to the first barrier going up, three rotating illuminated panels, the Mind the Gap installation, and plaques on the bridge itself. An ecumenical service is held here every 9 November. The Landesdenkmalamt lists the surviving hinterland wall on Bornholmer Straße as a protected monument and describes it simply as a witness to the events of 9 November 1989. Its page for the site quotes a resident interviewed by Der Spiegel two weeks afterwards, who had already gone to bed when his wife came back from walking the dog and told him everyone was going over to the west. Provenance: In place. The surviving hinterland wall and the guard tower foundation are protected as a listed monument; the memorial square was opened on 9 November 2011. Sources: - [Border Crossing Bornholmer Straße — Berlin Wall Foundation](https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/en/node/1859): Bornholmer Straße as the northernmost of seven city crossings and its designation for West German citizens, the events of 9 November 1989 and the roughly 20,000 people who crossed the Bösebrücke unchecked within the hour, the preserved section of the inner security wall, the Platz des 9. November 1989 and its outdoor exhibition, the timeline set into the ground, the Mind the Gap installation and the plaques on the bridge, and the annual ecumenical service. - [Bornholmer Straße — Landesdenkmalamt Berlin, Wall monuments](https://www.berlin.de/landesdenkmalamt/denkmale/highlight-berliner-mauer/mauer-denkmale/bornholmer-strasse-649637.en.php): The hinterland wall on Bornholmer Straße as a listed monument and witness to the events of 9 November 1989, with the Der Spiegel resident's account. - [Der Platz des 9. November 1989 — Bezirksamt Pankow](https://www.berlin.de/ba-pankow/politik-und-verwaltung/aemter/strassen-und-gruenflaechenamt/gruenflaechen/ausstellung/artikel.1513039.php): The square opened to the public on 9 November 2011 at the eastern bridgehead, the topics of the open-air exhibition, the metal reliefs in the ground, the three rotating illuminated panels, and the preserved section of hinterland wall and guard tower foundation. ### Checkpoint Charlie, Friedrichstraße - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/berlin/berlin-checkpoint-charlie - Place: Friedrichstraße / Zimmerstraße, 10117 Berlin, Germany - Classification: Former Location; can it be seen today: Gone (Nothing original in place; original objects displayed nearby); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 52.5075, 13.3904 The most visited Cold War address in Berlin, where nothing original survives in place — the genuine guardhouse is seven kilometres away. The Allied crossing point between the American and Soviet sectors, and the place where American and Soviet tanks faced each other across the line in October 1961. Nothing original survives on the site itself: the guardhouse now standing is a replica, and the last genuine one is in the Allied Museum on Clayallee, which this catalogue records separately. The Berlin Wall Foundation is developing an education centre here. The record is kept precisely because the site is empty — it is the clearest case in the catalogue of a place whose fame and whose surviving fabric have nothing to do with each other. That is a claim about the crossing point, not about the street: a small piece of original wall and an original border post are displayed about forty metres south, in front of the Mauermuseum on Friedrichstraße, and they are original. They were brought there. The distinction this record is making is between fabric that is where it was and fabric that has been put where the visitors are, and Friedrichstraße shows both within a minute's walk. Provenance: No original fabric in place. The authentic guardhouse was removed to the Allied Museum. Sources: - [Sites — Stiftung Berliner Mauer (Berlin Wall Foundation)](https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/en/visit/sites): The Foundation's own listing of the sites it runs and documents, with addresses and what survives at each. - [Berlin Wall: where it still stands — Berlin.de](https://www.berlin.de/en/tourism/insider-tips/1757657-5766508-wall-in-berlin-where-it-still-stands.en.html): The checkpoint building is a replica, and a small piece of original wall and an original border post are displayed in front of the Mauermuseum nearby. ### East Side Gallery, Mühlenstraße - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/berlin/berlin-east-side-gallery - Place: Mühlenstraße 47–80, 10243 Berlin, Germany - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: On display (Standing; listed since November 1991, repainted 2009); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 52.505, 13.4394 The longest surviving run at 1.3 km — and the inner wall, built to the outer wall's specification because state visitors drove past it. The longest section of the Berlin Wall still standing runs 1.3 kilometres along Mühlenstraße, north of the Oberbaumbrücke. Artists from twenty-one countries painted 106 large murals on it in the spring of 1990 — among them Birgit Kinder's Trabant breaking through the concrete and Dmitri Vrubel's painting of Honecker and Brezhnev kissing — and the ensemble opened officially as the East Side Gallery in September 1990. The original plan was to send the pictures around the world as a travelling exhibition and then auction them; it never happened, and the wall and its images have been listed as a monument since November 1991. What almost no visitor is told is which wall this is. Between the Schillingbrücke and the Osthafen the whole width of the Spree was East Berlin territory, with the sector boundary running along the Kreuzberg bank, so the usual arrangement of outer wall, death strip and inner wall did not apply: there was a hinterland wall and a security fence, and no border wall to the west at all, because the river did that work and patrol boats watched it. The East Side Gallery is the hinterland wall — the side that faced East Berliners. It does not look like one, and that is deliberate. Because of the bank's topography and because this stretch lay on the protocol route that state visitors took from Schönefeld airport into the city, the inner wall here was built from Grenzmauer 75 elements, the pattern used elsewhere only for the wall facing west. The contrast is visible a few metres away: immediately to the north-west stands an adjoining listed fragment of 1960s hinterland wall, a brick wall from a neighbouring industrial site that predates the border and was reinforced with hollow blocks. Pieced-together brick where nobody important would see it, smooth uniform concrete where they would. Provenance: Original position, painted from 1990. A great many travelling segments in this catalogue are hinterland elements like these rather than pieces of the outer border wall. Sources: - [Sites — Stiftung Berliner Mauer (Berlin Wall Foundation)](https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/en/visit/sites): The Foundation's own listing of the sites it runs and documents, with addresses and what survives at each. - [Berlin Wall: where it still stands — Berlin.de](https://www.berlin.de/en/tourism/insider-tips/1757657-5766508-wall-in-berlin-where-it-still-stands.en.html): The surviving lengths across the city, and the East Side Gallery as the longest run. - [East Side Gallery — Landesdenkmalamt Berlin, Wall monuments](https://www.berlin.de/landesdenkmalamt/denkmale/highlight-berliner-mauer/mauer-denkmale/east-side-gallery-649761.en.php): The 1.3-kilometre run north of the Oberbaumbrücke, the 106 murals painted in spring 1990 by artists from twenty-one countries including Birgit Kinder's Trabant and Dmitri Vrubel's Honecker and Brezhnev, the official opening in September 1990, the abandoned plan to tour and auction the pictures, the listing in November 1991, the absence of an outer wall because the Spree and patrol boats served that purpose, the identification of the East Side Gallery as hinterland wall, its construction from Grenzmauer 75 elements because of the topography and the protocol route from Schönefeld, and the adjoining listed 1960s fragment of pre-existing industrial brick wall reinforced with hollow blocks. ### George Wyllie's Berlin Burd, Wilhelmsruher Damm - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/berlin/berlin-wilhelmsruh-berlin-burd - Place: Wilhelmsruher Damm 49, 13439 Berlin, Germany - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: On display (Standing beside a wall element); evidence: Documented - Position: 52.5971, 13.36776 A five-metre steel bird a Scottish artist put up in December 1988 to look over the Wall into the East, still standing beside a single segment in Reinickendorf. The bird is nearly five metres tall, and stands on the Wilhelmsruher Damm. It is the Berlin Burd, by the Scottish sculptor George Wyllie, commissioned by Glasgow District Council for the Glasgow–Berlin 88 exchange and put up in December 1988, eleven months before the border opened. The height was the point. The Wall was four metres; the bird was five, so it could see over, and Wyllie set it looking east. Getting permission was not easy — Berlin's politicians were, in his word, cagey about it. School children in Glasgow and Berlin made five hundred small birds of their own to go with it. After the Wall came down, Wyllie took a call from Berlin: "Zat you Georg? — a bird is not a stone." Ein Vogel ist kein Stein. He kept the phrase, and later used it to discourage stone-throwing protesters at IMF demonstrations. The Berlin Wall Foundation lists the element and sculpture together in its directory of surviving traces as MAU-726. Wyllie's estate says the bird still stands at number 49. One public comment says it could not stay on the Wall and was set up in its present spot only in 2009; the district's press release about that has gone from the web, so the record gives the 1988 installation and leaves the date of the present siting open. Provenance: Commissioned by Glasgow District Council for Glasgow–Berlin 88 and installed in December 1988 looking over the Wall to the east; now beside a single wall element at Wilhelmsruher Damm 49. Sources: - [Zat you Georg? — a bird is not a stone — George Wyllie](https://georgewyllie.com/zat-you-georg-a-bird-is-not-a-stone): The steel Berlin Burd, nearly five metres tall, commissioned by Glasgow District Council for Glasgow–Berlin 88 and set up in December 1988 to overlook the four-metre Wall looking east; permission was hard to get; children in Glasgow and Berlin made 500 birds; the call from Berlin after the fall of the Wall; the bird still stands by a piece of the Wall at 49 Wilhelmsruher Damm. - [MAU-726 Wall Bird Wilhelmsruh — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.mauerspuren.de/de/13245/wall-bird-wilhelmsruh/#mau-726): A wall element of type QT1.1 on the Wilhelmsruher Damm, where George Wyllie erected the steel sculpture Berlin-Bird in December 1988; catalogued as MAU-726. ### Günter Litfin Memorial, Kieler Straße - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/berlin/berlin-guenter-litfin-memorial - Place: Kieler Straße 2, 10115 Berlin, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (Preserved as a memorial); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 52.53374, 13.36919 A surviving GDR command tower on the Spandau ship canal, for one of the first people shot at the border. A former GDR border command tower standing by the Spandau ship canal, kept as a memorial to Günter Litfin, shot in the Humboldthafen on 24 August 1961 — eleven days after the border was closed, and among the first people killed trying to cross. The tower is one of very few left: the watchtowers were demolished faster and more completely than the wall itself, which is why a piece of concrete is easy to find in this catalogue and a tower is not. After reunification Günter Litfin's brother Jürgen turned the tower into a memorial to him, and in 2017 the Berlin Wall Foundation took it over. The Foundation lists the building in its directory of surviving traces as MAU-002, the command post on the Spandau ship canal. Two elements of the hinterland wall survive around the corner on Kieler Straße, kept when the street was rebuilt and now overgrown as a garden wall (MAU-038). Provenance: Original structure in place. The memorial was established by Litfin's brother Jürgen and is now run by the Berlin Wall Foundation. Sources: - [Sites — Stiftung Berliner Mauer (Berlin Wall Foundation)](https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/en/visit/sites): The Foundation's own listing of the sites it runs and documents, with addresses and what survives at each. - [MAU-002 Führungsstelle Kieler Eck — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.mauerspuren.de/de/12663/fuhrungsstelle-kieler-eck/#mau-002): The command post on the Spandau ship canal at Kieler Straße, converted after reunification by Jürgen Litfin, brother of the first person shot at the Wall, into the Günter Litfin memorial, and taken over by the Berlin Wall Foundation in 2017; catalogued as MAU-002. - [MAU-038 Hinterlandmauer Kieler Straße — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.mauerspuren.de/de/12818/hinterlandmauer-kieler-strasse/#mau-038): Two concrete elements of the hinterland wall kept during the rebuilding of Kieler Straße, now forming an overgrown property wall; catalogued as MAU-038. ### Hinterland wall at Rudower Höhe - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/berlin/berlin-rudower-hoehe - Place: North of Rudower Höhe, between Rudow and Altglienicke, 12355 Berlin, Germany - Classification: Original Position; can it be seen today: On display (Standing, with gaps; listed in 2001); evidence: Documented - Position: 52.4209003, 13.5214233 450 metres of third-generation inner wall at the southern edge of the city, losing segments to the motorway and to whoever takes them. The southernmost of Berlin's listed Wall monuments lies between Rudow and Altglienicke, north of Rudower Höhe — a 28-metre artificial hill made of wartime rubble that also served as a tip until 1958. What stands there is hinterland wall of the third generation, introduced in the mid-1960s: concrete slabs held between H-shaped reinforced concrete supports. Out at the edge of the city there was room, and the border strip here was much wider than in the centre. Around 450 metres of it was listed in 2001. It is the clearest case in this catalogue of preservation losing. Large parts of the strip have already been cleared for the A113 motorway from Neukölln to Waltersdorf. The surviving run stands in the scrub that has taken over the old death strip, almost entirely under graffiti, with the white paint typical of the inner wall showing through in patches — and some of the concrete panels have simply been taken out, leaving holes in the line. Provenance: In place. Third-generation hinterland wall introduced in the mid-1960s; roughly 450 metres listed as a monument in 2001. Sources: - [Hinterlandmauer an der Rudower Höhe — Landesdenkmalamt Berlin, Wall monuments](https://www.berlin.de/landesdenkmalamt/denkmale/highlight-berliner-mauer/mauer-denkmale/rudower-strasse-649771.en.php): The site as the southernmost Berlin Wall monument, Rudower Höhe as a 28-metre rubble hill used as a tip until 1958, the third-generation hinterland wall of concrete slabs between H-shaped supports, the unusually wide border strip at the city edge, the clearance of large parts of the strip for the A113 motorway, the graffiti cover with the white inner-wall paint showing through, the removed segments leaving holes, and the listing of roughly 450 metres in 2001. ### Hinterland wall at the Schillingbrücke, Stralauer Platz - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/berlin/berlin-schillingbruecke - Place: Corner of Stralauer Platz and An der Schillingbrücke, 10243 Berlin, Germany - Classification: Original Position; can it be seen today: On display (Standing; listed in 2001); evidence: Documented - Position: 52.5106, 13.4268 Where the border ran through the river: the whole width of the Spree was East Berlin, secured with patrol boats and nail-studded underwater mats. South-west of the Ostbahnhof the border crossed the Spree, and water was the hardest thing the border troops had to close. At the Spree, the Spandau ship canal and the Flutgraben the strip was made especially wide and given extra barriers, patrol boats, and mats of steel studded with nails laid under the surface. Between the Schillingbrücke and the Osthafen the entire width of the river was East Berlin territory. The hinterland wall ran along the Friedrichshain bank — that run is now the East Side Gallery, which is why the most photographed wall in the world is the inner one — while on the Kreuzberg side the sector boundary needed no wall at all, because the water did the work. About eighty metres of that hinterland wall survive on the corner plot between Stralauer Platz and An der Schillingbrücke, listed in 2001. A second, shorter piece stands on the southern bank west of the bridge, behind the Verdi headquarters: roughly eighteen metres, protected since 2005, which had the specific job of screening the border patrol boats' moorings from view. South of the river the Wall took over the strip of green along the old Luisenstädtischer Kanal between Mitte and Kreuzberg as far as the Engelbecken. The canal, laid out in the mid-nineteenth century by Peter Joseph Lenné, was filled in in 1926 after it became polluted, and the parks director Erwin Barth made a garden of the bed. The border strip buried it in 1961; the design has been restored since reunification. Provenance: In place. The eighty-metre section at Stralauer Platz was listed in 2001, the eighteen-metre section behind the Verdi building in 2005. Sources: - [An der Schillingbrücke — Landesdenkmalamt Berlin, Wall monuments](https://www.berlin.de/landesdenkmalamt/denkmale/highlight-berliner-mauer/mauer-denkmale/an-der-schillingbruecke-649756.en.php): The border crossing the Spree south-west of the Ostbahnhof, the wide strips, patrol boats and nail-encrusted underwater mats used at waterways, the whole width of the Spree between Schillingbrücke and Osthafen being East Berlin territory, the hinterland wall on the Friedrichshain bank now known as the East Side Gallery and the unwalled Kreuzberg bank, the roughly eighty metres listed in 2001 at Stralauer Platz, the eighteen-metre section behind the Verdi headquarters listed in 2005 and its purpose of screening the patrol boat moorings, and the history of the Luisenstädtischer Kanal green strip. ### Hinterland wall, Leipziger Platz and Stresemannstraße - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/berlin/berlin-leipziger-platz - Place: Corner of Stresemannstraße and Erna-Berger-Straße, Leipziger Platz, 10117 Berlin, Germany - Classification: Original Position; can it be seen today: On display (Standing at its original location; listed since 2001); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 52.5087, 13.3792 The inner wall built to look like the outer one, because the GDR wanted the view from the Western viewing platforms to look tidy. Potsdamer Platz and Leipziger Platz were one of the great urban centres of Europe, and the Wall turned them into no man's land. Everything that had survived the war was pulled down for the border strip apart from the Grandhotel Esplanade and the Weinhaus Huth, and the lost Potsdamer Platz became an attraction in its own right, familiar from Wim Wenders's Wings of Desire. After 1990 the area was rebuilt in a few years as Europe's largest building site, and nearly every trace of the border went with it. One piece survives at its original location, on the corner of Stresemannstraße and Erna-Berger-Straße: a section of hinterland wall with the knee-high red and white barrier piping still in front of it. It stood against the fire wall of the neoclassical extension built for the Prussian agriculture ministry between 1913 and 1919, and ran from there diagonally across the octagonal Leipziger Platz towards the Brandenburg Gate. The interesting thing about it is that it is the wrong shape. The hinterland wall — the inner wall, facing East Berlin — was normally a cruder structure than the outer one. Here it was built in the Grenzmauer 75 form otherwise reserved for the border wall facing west, and the reason is recorded: the GDR wanted a more orderly view for the tourists looking over from the West Berlin side, and its leadership welcomed the new wall on the grounds that it would further enhance the political appeal of the capital at the sightseeing attractions of the Brandenburg Gate and Leipziger Platz. The inner wall at the most photographed point on the border was dressed to be photographed. What little remains has been listed since 2001, and the plans for the federal environment ministry's Berlin building include taking the Stresemannstraße section into the foyer. Provenance: In place. Listed as a monument since 2001. Built in the Grenzmauer 75 form normally used only for the outer wall. Sources: - [Leipziger Platz — Landesdenkmalamt Berlin, Wall monuments](https://www.berlin.de/landesdenkmalamt/denkmale/highlight-berliner-mauer/mauer-denkmale/leipziger-platz-649740.en.php): The transformation of Potsdamer Platz and Leipziger Platz into no man's land and the demolition of all but the Grandhotel Esplanade and Weinhaus Huth, the post-1990 rebuilding, the surviving hinterland wall with its barrier piping at the corner of Stresemannstraße and Erna-Berger-Straße and its line across Leipziger Platz, its construction in the Grenzmauer 75 form and the GDR's stated reason of presenting an orderly view to Western tourists, the 2001 listing, and the plan to integrate the section into the environment ministry's foyer. ### Hinterland wall, Mauerpark and Schwedter Straße - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/berlin/berlin-mauerpark - Place: Mauerpark, Schwedter Straße, 10437 Berlin, Germany - Classification: Original Position; can it be seen today: On display (Standing; about 300 metres listed since 2001); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 52.5417, 13.4025 Hinterland wall built high and unusually smooth because a football crowd gathered beside it — now a park and a legal graffiti surface repainted continuously. Around 300 metres of hinterland wall survive in three sections along the Friedrich-Jahn-Stadion at the edge of the Mauerpark, which occupies the old death strip between Prenzlauer Berg and Wedding. They were listed as monuments in 2001 and built into the park by the Hamburg landscape architect Gustav Lange, whose design was realised by Grün Berlin in 1993 and whose phrase for the work was turning border space into free space. That the park exists at all is a consequence of what the ground was before. Other parcels of former no man's land were tied up in restitution claims or sold off; this one was open because it had never been built on. From 1820 it was a military parade ground called The Lone Poplar, and in 1848 it saw fighting in the March Revolution; the Stettin freight depot's tracks went in to the west of it in 1872; after 1914 it held allotments, makeshift housing and sports grounds. In GDR times it was the home ground of Dynamo Berlin, and a crowd gathered regularly beside the border — which is why the hinterland wall here was built especially high, with an unusually smooth surface, and set further back from the death strip than usual. The stadium explains the wall. The wall is now a working graffiti surface, repainted constantly and legally. It raises the question the rest of this catalogue mostly avoids: whether a preserved object whose surface is replaced every few weeks is still evidence, or has become a support for something else. Christchurch answers it one way by commissioning repaints; Fort Knox and Portland answer it by accident. Provenance: In place. Listed as a monument in 2001 and integrated into Gustav Lange's 1993 design for the park. Sources: - [Berlin Wall: where it still stands — Berlin.de](https://www.berlin.de/en/tourism/insider-tips/1757657-5766508-wall-in-berlin-where-it-still-stands.en.html): The surviving hinterland wall at Mauerpark and Schwedter Straße. - [Mauerpark — Landesdenkmalamt Berlin, Wall monuments](https://www.berlin.de/landesdenkmalamt/denkmale/highlight-berliner-mauer/mauer-denkmale/mauerpark-649681.en.php): The park's extent and its design by Gustav Lange realised by Grün Berlin in 1993, the phrase about turning border space into free space, the site's history as the Lone Poplar parade ground from 1820 and its part in the March Revolution of 1848, the Stettin freight depot tracks of 1872 and the later allotments and sports grounds, Dynamo Berlin's ground beside the border and the consequently higher, smoother hinterland wall set further from the death strip, and the roughly 300 metres in three sections along the Friedrich-Jahn-Stadion listed in 2001. ### Marienfelde Refugee Centre Museum - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/berlin/berlin-marienfelde-refugee-centre - Place: Marienfelder Allee 66–80, 12277 Berlin, Germany - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (Open as a museum); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 52.42055, 13.36875 The 1953 reception centre where 1.35 million people arrived from the East, with a wall element and plaque outside on Marienfelder Allee. The site at Marienfelde was opened as an emergency centre to process people arriving from the East, and is now a museum run by the Berlin Wall Foundation. Around 1.35 million people passed through Marienfelde between 1953 and 1990. This record used to say there was no wall here. That was wrong. A wall element with a commemorative plaque stands in front of the museum on Marienfelder Allee, and the Foundation, which runs the site, lists it in its own directory of surviving traces as MAU-746, photographed in 2022. The record's pin had also been placed about half a kilometre south of the building; it now stands where the Foundation puts the element. The element is still the smaller reason to keep the record. This catalogue is otherwise a list of concrete, and the concrete only means anything because of the movement it was built to stop. Marienfelde is where that movement arrived. Provenance: Not established. The Foundation's directory records the element and its plaque without giving where it came from. Sources: - [Sites — Stiftung Berliner Mauer (Berlin Wall Foundation)](https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/en/visit/sites): The Foundation's own listing of the sites it runs and documents, with addresses and what survives at each. - [MAU-746 Mauerelement vor der Erinnerungsstätte Notaufnahmelager Marienfelde — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.mauerspuren.de/de/13351/erinnerungsstatte-notaufnahmelager-marienfelde/#mau-746): A wall element with a commemorative plaque in front of the Erinnerungsstätte Notaufnahmelager Marienfelde on Marienfelder Allee, catalogued as MAU-746 and photographed in 2022. ### Mauerelement am Rathaus Treptow - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/berlin/berlin-rathaus-treptow - Place: Rathaus Treptow, Berlin, Germany - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 52.48411, 13.48008 An element at the town hall of the borough whose western edge was the border for thirty years. A wall element stands at the Rathaus Treptow, catalogued by the Berlin Wall Foundation as MAU-748 and photographed in 2022. It is the second element the Foundation records in the borough, alongside the one outside the district museum at Johannisthal. A town hall is a particular kind of address for one of these. Most of the Berlin records in this catalogue are places where the Wall still stands on its own line, or museums that collected it. This is neither: an administrative building that was, for twenty-eight years, the seat of local government for a district with a sealed western edge, and which now keeps a piece of that edge outside its door. Provenance: Not established. Sources: - [MAU-748 Mauerelement am Rathaus Treptow — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.mauerspuren.de/de/13398/mauerelement-treptow/#mau-748): A wall element at the Rathaus Treptow, catalogued as MAU-748, classified as a Mauerelement, dated from 1980 and photographed in 2022. ### Mauerelement vor dem Museum Treptow - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/berlin/berlin-museum-treptow - Place: Museum Treptow, Berlin, Germany - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display outside the museum); evidence: Documented - Position: 52.44342, 13.50233 A Grenzmauer 75 element with a graffito outside the district museum, in the borough the border ran through twice. The Berlin Wall Foundation catalogues the element, which stands outside the Museum Treptow, the district museum for Treptow-Köpenick, as MAU-744, photographed in 2020. Treptow is a good borough for a district museum to keep one. The border ran along its western edge against Kreuzberg and Neukölln, crossed the Spree at the Schlesischer Busch, and turned south through the fields towards Rudow — three of this catalogue's Berlin records are on that line, including the command post at Schlesischer Busch that survived because an art museum started working to save it before the border regime had even been wound up. Treptow also supplied the segment that went to Albinea in northern Italy: the district's mayor supported the photographer Mario Crotti's request, and Crotti drove up from Emilia-Romagna with a low-loader in September 1999 to collect it. Provenance: Not established. Sources: - [MAU-744 Mauerelement vor dem Museum Treptow — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.mauerspuren.de/de/13329/mauerelement-treptow/#mau-744): A Grenzmauer 75 element with a graffito in front of the Museum Treptow, catalogued as MAU-744, dated from 1980 and photographed in 2020. ### Mauerelement, John F. Kennedy School - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/berlin/berlin-jfk-school - Place: John F. Kennedy School, Berlin, Germany - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display outside the school); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 52.42459, 13.26241 A painted element outside the German-American school named for the president who said he was a Berliner — and the last of three sites the catalogue's old generic Berlin row was pointing at. A wall element with coloured graffiti stands in front of the John F. Kennedy School, the German-American school in the south-west of Berlin. The Berlin Wall Foundation catalogues it in its directory of surviving traces as MAU-765, photographed in 2022 and dated to the Grenzmauer 75 generation. The siting needs no explanation beyond the name over the door. Kennedy went to West Berlin in June 1963, two years after the border closed, and told the crowd at the Rathaus Schöneberg that he too was a Berliner; the school that carries his name teaches German and American children together, which is the same argument made slowly. This record closes one of three loose ends. The catalogue's single generic row for Berlin had a lead attached to it describing five separate sites, and three of them could not be sourced when the Berlin batch was written: a segment in the courtyard of the United States embassy, a collection at Stralauer Allee 3, and two segments at this school. The Foundation's directory settles this one. The two accounts do not quite agree, and both are kept. The lead reported two segments here, cemented back to back with the short foot extensions cut off, so that one side shows colourful graffiti and the other the plain whitewash of the east face. The Foundation records a single element. Those readings are not necessarily in conflict — two slabs joined back to back present as one object from either side — but nothing read here settles it, and the number is left open rather than chosen. Provenance: Not established. The Foundation's directory records the element and its position but not how it came to the school. Sources: - [MAU-765 Mauerelement vor der John-F.-Kennedy-Schule — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.mauerspuren.de/de/13431/mauerelement-in-berlin-wilmersdorf/#mau-765): A wall element with coloured graffiti standing in front of the John F. Kennedy School in Berlin, catalogued as MAU-765, classified as a Mauerelement, dated from 1980 and photographed in 2022. - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): The report that two segments were set up at the John F. Kennedy School for the twentieth anniversary in November 2009, cemented back to back with the base extensions cut off, one face graffitied and the other left plain white. ### Mauerelemente, Europa-Center - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/berlin/berlin-europa-center - Place: Europa-Center, Breitscheidplatz, Berlin, Germany - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display in a vitrine in the entrance area); evidence: Documented - Position: 52.50417, 13.33743 Two painted elements in a display case in a shopping centre entrance — the Wall as a fixture of West Berlin's commercial heart. The Europa-Center is on Breitscheidplatz. The Berlin Wall Foundation catalogues the elements as MAU-713, photographed in 2021. The address is the point. Breitscheidplatz was the centre of West Berlin — the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, the Kurfürstendamm running west from it, and the Europa-Center standing over the square as the shopping centre of the walled-in half city. A visitor who wanted to see the Wall went east to a viewing platform; the commercial heart of the enclave was several kilometres from the border. Now two pieces of that border stand in a vitrine by the doors, among the shops. Of all the ways this catalogue records the Wall being absorbed — museums, embassies, memorial gardens, a casino, a cement works — a glass case in a shopping centre lobby is among the plainest. Provenance: Not established. Sources: - [MAU-713 Zwei Mauerelemente im Europa-Center — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.mauerspuren.de/de/13204/europa-center/#mau-713): Two painted wall elements in a vitrine in the entrance area of the Europa-Center at Breitscheidplatz, catalogued as MAU-713, classified as Mauerelemente, dated from 1980 and photographed in 2021. ### Mauerelemente, Militärhistorisches Museum Flugplatz Gatow - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/berlin/berlin-gatow-airfield - Place: Militärhistorisches Museum Flugplatz Berlin-Gatow, Berlin, Germany - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display in the museum's open-air area); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 52.47331, 13.14492 Two elements outside Hangar 3 at the airfield where the British garrison was handed its own piece of the Wall before leaving Berlin in 1994. Two wall elements stand in front of Hangar 3, in the open-air part of the Bundeswehr's military history museum at the former airfield of Gatow, on the western edge of Berlin. The Berlin Wall Foundation catalogues them as MAU-740, photographed in 2022. Gatow matters to this catalogue for something that left rather than something that stayed. It was the Royal Air Force's airfield in the British sector, and before the British garrison withdrew from Berlin in September 1994, after forty-nine years, a wall segment was handed over to them here. That piece went to the Royal Air Force Museum in England, where it is now built into a reconstructed border scene at Cosford and recorded separately in this atlas. So the two elements at Gatow stand on the ground from which one of the catalogue's British records departed. The airfield itself changed hands rather than closing: the RAF left, and the site became a German museum of military history. Provenance: Not established. The Foundation's directory records the two elements at the museum without giving their origin. Sources: - [MAU-740 Zwei Mauerelemente auf dem Flughafen Gatow — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.mauerspuren.de/de/13348/flughafen-gatow/#mau-740): Two wall elements in front of Hangar 3 in the open-air grounds of the Militärhistorisches Museum at Gatow, catalogued as MAU-740, classified as Mauerelemente, dated from 1980 and photographed in 2022. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, Cosford site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-cosford/): A wall segment was handed to the British garrison at their military airfield at Berlin-Gatow before they left Berlin in September 1994 after forty-nine years, and was then donated to the Royal Air Force Museum. ### Panorama observation tower, Erna-Berger-Straße - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/berlin/berlin-erna-berger-tower - Place: Erna-Berger-Straße, near Potsdamer Platz, 10117 Berlin, Germany - Classification: Original Position; can it be seen today: On display (Standing; listed since 2001, moved about eight metres east after reunification); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 52.5081, 13.3799 The last mushroom-shaped panorama tower in Berlin, abandoned by the border troops because its shaft was too narrow to get out of quickly. Three of the border's watchtowers still stand on Berlin territory, out of 302 watchtowers and observation towers built. One is the command post at Kieler Eck, now the Günter Litfin Memorial; one is the command post at Schlesischer Busch; this is the third, and the only survivor of its type. It is a panorama observation tower: a slender round shaft with an iron ladder inside leading to an octagonal perch on top, which gives it the look of a concrete mushroom. The model was introduced in 1969 along the Berlin and inner-German borders. The border installations were continually revised across the Wall's twenty-eight years, and this design did not last — the narrow shaft was not especially stable, and it made it hard for guards to get out in a hurry, so the panorama towers were replaced by roomier square ones. This tower stood outside the no man's land and watched the ground in front of the border: the dips and uneven terrain between the former House of Ministries, now the finance ministry, the GDR Academy of Sciences, now the Berlin House of Representatives, and the hinterland wall along Stresemannstraße. Other surviving panorama towers were used to watch high-security institutions — the Stasi prison at Hohenschönhausen, the Stasi office in Weissensee. It has been a listed monument since 2001. Building work on the site after reunification meant the tower had to be shifted about eight metres east, which is a small thing and worth saying anyway: this catalogue is careful about the difference between an object in place and an object moved, and eight metres is still a move. Provenance: In place, shifted about eight metres east after reunification for new construction. Built around 1971 to a design introduced in 1969; listed as a monument since 2001. Sources: - [Wachturm Erna-Berger-Straße — Landesdenkmalamt Berlin, Wall monuments](https://www.berlin.de/landesdenkmalamt/denkmale/highlight-berliner-mauer/mauer-denkmale/wachturm-erna-berger-strasse-649745.en.php): The tower as one of the last of its kind, its mushroom-shaped panorama design with round shaft, iron ladder and octagonal perch, the model's introduction in 1969, its replacement by square towers because the narrow shaft was unstable and slow to exit, its position outside the no man's land watching the ground between the House of Ministries, the Academy of Sciences and the Stresemannstraße hinterland wall, the other surviving panorama towers at Hohenschönhausen and Weissensee, the listing in 2001, and the eight-metre move after reunification. - [Watchtower at Potsdamer Platz — Berlin.de](https://www.berlin.de/en/attractions-and-sights/5859392-3104052-watchtower-potsdamer-platz.en.html): The tower as a BT-6 type built around 1971, and the count of 302 watchtowers and observation towers of which five survive, three of them on Berlin territory. ### Parliament of Trees, Schiffbauerdamm - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/berlin/berlin-parliament-of-trees - Place: Schiffbauerdamm, 10117 Berlin, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (Standing, partly built over); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 52.5203, 13.3782 Ben Wagin's living memorial of 1990, with original wall elements set among trees on the old border line by the Spree. Ben Wagin laid out the Parlament der Bäume on the former border strip by the Spree in 1990, planting trees among original wall elements and painting the slabs with the names of the dead and the years of the division. It is the earliest artist-made memorial in this catalogue and the only one where the wall is one material among several — the work is as much about what grew on the line as about what stood on it. Part of the site was built over when the parliamentary quarter went up, which is its own comment. Provenance: Original elements, rearranged in place by the artist in 1990 rather than moved to a new site — a fourth relationship to the original, alongside preserved, reassembled and marked. Sources: - [Sites — Stiftung Berliner Mauer (Berlin Wall Foundation)](https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/en/visit/sites): The Foundation's own listing of the sites it runs and documents, with addresses and what survives at each. - [Denkmal Schiffbauerdamm — Mauerstück von Ben Wagin, Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Denkmal_Schiffbauerdamm_(Mitte)_Mauerst%C3%BCck%26Ben_Wagin%26.jpg): Photographic documentation of Wagin's wall pieces at Schiffbauerdamm. ### Schlesischer Busch command post, Puschkinallee - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/berlin/berlin-schlesischer-busch - Place: Schlesischer Park, Puschkinallee, 12435 Berlin, Germany - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (Standing; restored in 2004, exhibitions inside); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 52.495, 13.4478 A command post that ran eighteen watchtowers, saved by an art museum before the border regime was even wound up, and restored in 2004 to look its age rather than new. The tower in the Schlesischer Park on Puschkinallee, between Kreuzberg and Treptow, looks like a viewing platform put up for visitors. Only the rifle hatches and the searchlight on the roof, worked from below, say otherwise. It was a command post: about ten metres high, 4.2 metres square, four floors of precast concrete, responsible for eighteen watchtowers and the electronic security along this section of the border. The base was underground and held the equipment and the telephone cables running to the surrounding observation towers. The ground floor had the entrance, a lavatory and a holding cell; above it the staff room for the commanding officer and three guards; on top the observation post, with panorama windows on all four sides, an electrical control panel for monitoring the border and the lever that swung the roof searchlight. Trapdoors and steep iron stairs joined the floors. The hatches in the middle floor are the detail that repays attention. That floor was only a staff room, so they had no function at all. One explanation is that these command posts followed a design worked out for towers on the Soviet-Chinese border; another is that they were there to make the tower look well defended. Either way the tower was partly a costume. It survives because the Museum der Verbotenen Kunst began working to preserve it before the border regime was formally wound up on 1 July 1990. It was listed in 1992 and restored in 2004, and the aim of that restoration is worth recording: not to return it to the condition of a new building but to keep what decades had made of it and stop further decay. Vandalism and graffiti damage were repaired, exposed structure renovated, cracks filled, the machine-applied plaster touched up with authentic material, and the interior repainted in the colour it had before 1989. The Flutgraben association next door now runs a permanent exhibition on the site and changing art shows in the tower. North of Puschkinallee a slab wall from the border also survives, concrete panels between H-shaped supports, used as a perimeter defence in front of the border installations proper. It has been listed since 2005 and still does duty marking the boundary of the industrial premises beside it. Provenance: In place. Preserved through the efforts of the Museum der Verbotenen Kunst from before 1 July 1990, listed as a monument in 1992 and restored in 2004 with funding from the Federal Employment Agency, the state of Berlin and the Treptow-Köpenick borough. Sources: - [Führungsstelle Schlesischer Busch — Landesdenkmalamt Berlin, Wall monuments](https://www.berlin.de/landesdenkmalamt/denkmale/highlight-berliner-mauer/mauer-denkmale/fuehrungsstelle-schlesischer-busch-649766.en.php): The tower's position in Schlesischer Park, its rifle hatches and roof searchlight, its dimensions and four floors, its responsibility for eighteen watchtowers and the electronic security of the section, the layout of each floor including the holding cell, staff room and observation post with control panel and searchlight lever, the functionless hatches and the two explanations offered for them, its preservation by the Museum der Verbotenen Kunst before 1 July 1990, the 1992 listing and the 2004 restoration with its stated conservation aims and funders, the Flutgraben association's exhibitions, and the slab wall north of Puschkinallee listed in 2005. ### Seven wall segments, Märkisches Museum - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/berlin/berlin-maerkisches-museum - Place: Märkisches Museum, Am Köllnischen Park 5, 10179 Berlin, Germany - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display outdoors; the museum building is closed for renovation); evidence: Documented - Position: 52.51356, 13.41444 Seven original segments outside the city museum, two with Kiddy Citny's king's heads from the Waldemarstraße frieze and one with a door the border troops used. Seven original segments stand in front of the Märkisches Museum, the Stadtmuseum Berlin's main house, with a listening station beside them. They are part of the museum's outdoor exhibition and open free every day of the year — which matters, because the building behind them closed at the end of December 2022 for a renovation expected to last years. Two of the seven carry original paint. One shows a king's head by Kiddy Citny, painted in 1985 as part of a long frieze on Waldemarstraße in Kreuzberg; the museum points out that the pieces now stand about a kilometre north of where they stood in the Wall. Another has a flap built into it: a door that let the GDR border troops through to the western side. The museum credits the segments to the generous gift of a private citizen and does not name him. The Berlin Wall Foundation's directory of surviving traces, which lists them as MAU-703, names the buyer as Detlef Gallinge and says he acquired them at the wall auction of 1990 before giving them to the Stadtmuseum. There was more than one sale of painted segments that year, including the one at Monte Carlo in June, and neither source says which. Citny's heads turn up elsewhere in this catalogue, carried off in single slabs to other countries. Here two of them have come home to the city museum, a kilometre from the street they were painted on. Provenance: Bought at a 1990 wall auction by Detlef Gallinge, according to the Berlin Wall Foundation, and given by him to the Stadtmuseum Berlin; the museum credits a private citizen's gift. Originally part of the Wall around Waldemarstraße in Kreuzberg. Sources: - [Mauerstücke — Stadtmuseum Berlin](https://www.berlin.museum/ausstellung/mauerstuecke): Seven original wall segments and a listening station in front of the Märkisches Museum, free to visit every day all year; two with original paint, one showing the king's head Kiddy Citny painted in 1985 as part of a long frieze on Waldemarstraße; another with a flap giving the GDR border troops access to the West; standing about a kilometre north of their original position; the gift of a private citizen. - [Märkisches Museum schließt 2023 für mehrjährige Erneuerung — Stadtmuseum Berlin](https://www.berlin.museum/pm/maerkisches-museum-schliesst-2023-fuer-mehrjaehrige-erneuerung-freier-eintritt-im-dezember): The Märkisches Museum remained open to the public until 30 December 2022 before closing for a renovation lasting several years. - [MAU-703 Märkisches Museum — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.mauerspuren.de/de/13174/markisches-museum/#mau-703): Seven wall elements acquired by Detlef Gallinge at the wall auction of 1990 and given by him to the Stadtmuseum Berlin; two painted by Kiddy Citny, and one of the other five containing an original maintenance door of the Grenzmauer 75; catalogued as MAU-703. - [Chronik der Mauer — June 1990](https://www.chronik-der-mauer.de/chronik/_year1990/_month6/?month=6&year=1990&opennid=172238&moc=1): A further auction of painted wall segments held at the Metropole Palace Hotel in Monte Carlo on 23 June 1990. ### Statue of Liberty by Elmgreen & Dragset, Hamburger Bahnhof - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/berlin/berlin-hamburger-bahnhof-statue-of-liberty - Place: Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Invalidenstraße 50–51, 10557 Berlin, Germany - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: On display (On permanent display in the museum courtyard); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 52.52821, 13.37197 An original wall segment with a cash machine set into it, by Elmgreen & Dragset, in the courtyard of Berlin's national museum of contemporary art. The museum is the Hamburger Bahnhof. The work is Statue of Liberty, made in 2018 by the artists Elmgreen & Dragset: an original piece of the Wall, an ATM and stainless steel, just under three metres tall. It has been on permanent display since 21 June 2019. The museum describes it as two objects standing for two systems, the communist East and the capitalist West, and as three things at once: a memorial to the division, a monument to the brief moment of open possibility after the Wall fell, and a warning about the selling off of history and of the city. The machine is real and does not work. According to the donor, the artists found it particularly hard to get hold of a piece of the Wall without graffiti on it — which says something about how thoroughly the surviving concrete has been turned into the painted object people expect. The collector Heiner Wemhöner of Herford saw the work at Art Basel, bought it, and gave it to the Friends of the Nationalgalerie so it could stand here. The Berlin Wall Foundation's directory of surviving traces lists it as MAU-757; its entry spells the donor's name Wernhöfer, which is a slip. Most of this catalogue is the Wall as souvenir, gift or trophy. This is one of very few records in it where the concrete has been made to argue with its own afterlife. Provenance: Made by Elmgreen & Dragset in 2018; bought by the collector Heiner Wemhöner and given to the Friends of the Nationalgalerie, on display at the Hamburger Bahnhof since 21 June 2019. Sources: - [Donation: “Statue of Liberty” by Elmgreen & Dragset from 21 June 2019 in the courtyard of Hamburger Bahnhof — Staatliche Museen zu Berlin](https://www.smb.museum/en/whats-new/detail/donation-statue-of-liberty-by-elmgreen-dragset-from-21-june-2019-in-the-courtyard-of-hamburger-bahnhof/): Statue of Liberty, 2018, a segment of the Berlin Wall with an ATM, stainless steel, 298 × 149 × 148 cm, donated by the collector Heiner Wemhöner of Herford and on permanent display in the courtyard from 21 June 2019; described as two objects for two systems, and as a memorial to division, a monument to the time after the fall of the Wall, and a warning about the selling off of history and the city. - [Heiner Wemhöner schenkt Museum Kunstwerk — Westfalen-Blatt](https://www.westfalen-blatt.de/owl/kreis-herford/herford/geldautomat-in-berliner-mauer-1110627): Wemhöner saw the work at Art Basel, bought it and gave it to the Friends of the Nationalgalerie for display at the Hamburger Bahnhof; the cash machine does not work; the artists found it especially hard to find a piece of the Wall without graffiti. - [MAU-757 Mauerelement mit Geldautomat — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.mauerspuren.de/de/13449/mauerelement-mit-geldautomat/#mau-757): A wall element with an art installation in the form of a cash machine at the Hamburger Bahnhof, made by Elmgreen & Dragset in 2018 and given to the museum in 2019; catalogued as MAU-757, with the donor's name given as Wernhöfer. ### Three wall elements painted as a goal wall, Olympiagelände - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/berlin/berlin-olympiagelaende-torwand - Place: Olympiagelände, Hanns-Braun-Straße, 14053 Berlin, Germany - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: On display (Standing at the entrance to the Olympic grounds); evidence: Documented - Position: 52.51958, 13.24415 Three elements in Hertha BSC's blue and white with two holes cut through for shooting practice, at the gate by the club's offices. Three wall elements stand at the entrance gate to the Olympic grounds beside the offices of Hertha BSC, painted in the club's colours and pierced with two holes, so that the Wall has become a Torwand — the goal wall German fairground and television football uses for shooting practice. The Berlin Wall Foundation lists them in its directory of surviving traces as MAU-737, photographed in 2020. Hertha made a goal wall from original pieces of the Wall for the thirtieth anniversary of its fall. The club unveiled it at the East Side Gallery on 11 October 2019, with players and the coach Ante Čović, as a project with artists from its own fan scene, and set it up at the stadium for the home match on 9 November 2019, where supporters could test their aim. Neither the club nor the Foundation says in so many words that the 2019 goal wall and the three elements at the gate are the same object, although they almost certainly are, and the record keeps the two facts side by side rather than joining them. Of all the uses the Wall has been put to in this catalogue, being kicked at is one of the more cheerful. Provenance: Made by Hertha BSC with artists from its fan scene from original wall elements for the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall in 2019; recorded at the Olympiagelände entrance in 2020. Sources: - [MAU-737 Olympiagelände — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.mauerspuren.de/de/13281/olympiagelande/#mau-737): Three wall elements painted in the colours of Hertha BSC and pierced with two holes as a goal wall, at the entrance gate to the Olympic grounds next to Hertha BSC's offices; catalogued as MAU-737 and photographed in 2020. - [Hertha Exklusiv 2019/20, Hertha BSC v TSG Hoffenheim — Hertha BSC](https://content.herthabsc.com/site/binaries/content/assets/publikationen/hertha-exklusiv/04_herthaexklusiv-bsctsf-1920_01.pdf): On 11 October 2019 at the East Side Gallery, launching the club's campaign for the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall, players and coach unveiled a goal wall made from original parts of the Wall, a Hertha BSC project with artists from its own fan scene. - [Rin ins Wohnzimmer: Heimspiel gegen Leipzig — Hertha BSC](https://www.herthabsc.com/de/nachrichten/2019/11/16711-rin-ins-wohnzimmer_x003a_-heimspiel-gegen-leipzig): At the home match against Leipzig on 9 November 2019, the fan-designed wall goal was set up at the stadium for supporters to test their shooting. ### Three wall elements, Bergmann-Borsig works entrance - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/berlin/berlin-bergmann-borsig - Place: PankowPark (former Bergmann-Borsig works), Wilhelmsruh, 13158 Berlin, Germany - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (Standing at the works entrance); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 52.58958, 13.35817 Three elements at the gate of the East Berlin engineering works whose own factory wall became part of the border. Three relocated elements stand at the entrance to the former Bergmann-Borsig works in Wilhelmsruh, now PankowPark. The Berlin Wall Foundation lists them as MAU-717 and records that they once enclosed the works grounds. That is less strange than it sounds, because at Bergmann-Borsig the factory and the border were the same line. VEB Bergmann-Borsig made products the GDR regarded as of state importance, and when the border was closed on 13 August 1961 it became a border works: some two kilometres of its factory wall became part of the division itself, with Reinickendorf on the other side. About 150 metres of the later wall along the site, reinforced-concrete posts with slabs slid in between, is a listed monument, and the Senate's culture department says plainly what it was for — not only to stop people crossing, but to protect the plant and prevent industrial espionage. Most records in this catalogue are the Wall moved somewhere to mean something. These three have hardly moved at all; they stand at the gate of the works they were built to close. The Foundation's entry for three elements on the north bank of the Moabit Spree bend, MAU-724, carries word for word the same description as this one. No independent source puts Bergmann-Borsig elements in Moabit, and it is almost certainly a copying slip in the directory, so that entry is not attached to anything here. Provenance: Relocated elements that formerly enclosed the Bergmann-Borsig works grounds, now at the site entrance. Sources: - [MAU-717 Bergmann-Borsig — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.mauerspuren.de/de/13217/bergmann-borsig/#mau-717): Three relocated wall elements at the entrance to the Bergmann-Borsig works in Pankow, which formerly enclosed the works grounds; catalogued as MAU-717. - [Pressemitteilung vom 02.08.2021 — Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa, Berlin](https://www.berlin.de/sen/kultgz/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/pressemitteilung.1111860.php): A listed wall about 150 metres long along the industrial site in Wilhelmsruh, of narrow reinforced-concrete posts with broad concrete slabs slid between them, which was meant not only to prevent border crossings but to protect the installations of VEB Bergmann-Borsig, a maker of products of state importance, and prevent industrial espionage; the site is now PankowPark. - [Tunnel Bergmann-Borsig-Werke — tunnelfluchten.de](https://www.tunnelfluchten.de/bergman/berg.html): With the building of the Wall on 13 August 1961 VEB Bergmann-Borsig became a border works, and 2,008 metres of its factory wall became directly part of the German-German border between Reinickendorf and Wilhelmsruh. ### Wall element and memorial cross, Oranienburger Chaussee, Frohnau - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/berlin/berlin-frohnau-oranienburger-chaussee - Place: Edelhofdamm / Oranienburger Chaussee, 13465 Berlin-Frohnau, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (Standing as a memorial); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 52.63711, 13.30572 An unpainted segment and a wooden cross on the city boundary for two men killed thirty-four years apart — only one of them at the Wall. An unpainted wall element and a wooden cross stand at the corner of Edelhofdamm and Oranienburger Chaussee, on the northern edge of Berlin where Frohnau meets Glienicke/Nordbahn. They were put up on 27 July 1991. The inscription dedicates them to the victims of the Berlin Wall, 13 August 1961 to 9 November 1989, and names two men. Michael Bittner, from Rosenthal, was twenty-five. His applications to leave the GDR had been refused, and on 24 November 1986 he tried to climb the last wall near Nohlstraße, between Glienicke and Reinickendorf, with a wooden ladder. The border guards fired on him deliberately, and he fell back with two bullets in his back at about ten to two in the morning. Herbert Bauer died on 25 December 1952, nine years before the Wall existed. He was a twenty-seven-year-old West Berlin police officer who answered a call on Oranienburger Straße, in the French sector, where Soviet soldiers were taking visitors into the East, and was shot; the exchange of fire that followed kept anyone from reaching him, and he bled to death. Hundreds of thousands came to his funeral. So the memorial's own dates do not fit one of its two names, and it is worth being exact about. The Berlin Wall Foundation's directory of traces, which lists the element as MAU-728, has the years the wrong way round, giving Bittner 1952 and Bauer 1986. The plaque itself has them right, and the Chronik der Mauer's biography confirms Bittner's date. What the place commemorates is a border that killed people before it was a wall and went on doing so after. Provenance: Set up with the wooden cross on 27 July 1991. Where the element came from is not recorded. Sources: - [Opfer der Mauer — Gedenktafeln in Berlin](https://www.gedenktafeln-in-berlin.de/gedenktafeln/detail/opfer-der-mauer/2458): A wall segment and wooden cross at Edelhofdamm corner Oranienburger Chaussee, set up on 27 July 1991, inscribed to the victims of the Berlin Wall 13.8.1961–9.11.1989, Herbert Bauer †25.12.52 and Michael Bittner †24.11.86; Bauer a 27-year-old police officer shot answering a call about Soviet soldiers taking visitors into the East, who bled to death, with hundreds of thousands at his funeral; Bittner a 25-year-old from Rosenthal whose applications to leave had been refused. - [Michael Bittner — Chronik der Mauer, Todesopfer](https://www.chronik-der-mauer.de/todesopfer/171320/bittner-michael): Born 31 August 1961, shot on 24 November 1986 near Nohlstraße between Glienicke/Nordbahn and Berlin-Reinickendorf while climbing the last wall with a wooden ladder; hit by two bullets in the back at about 1.50 am. - [MAU-728 Gedenkort Oranienburger Chaussee — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.mauerspuren.de/de/13252/gedenkort-oranienburger-chaussee/#mau-728): An unpainted wall element standing as a memorial to the victims of the Berlin Wall beside the memorial cross for Michael Bittner and Herbert Bauer, catalogued as MAU-728; the entry gives Bittner's death as 1952 and Bauer's as 1986. ### Wall element, courtyard of the Mitte Museum - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/berlin/berlin-mitte-museum - Place: Mitte Museum, Pankstraße 47, 13357 Berlin, Germany - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (Standing in the museum courtyard); evidence: Documented - Position: 52.55092, 13.38003 An element brought straight from the planned crossing at Bernauer Straße in May 1990 to the courtyard of the Wedding local history museum. A wall element stands in the courtyard of the Mitte Museum on Pankstraße in Gesundbrunnen. It was set up there on 8 May 1990 as a gift to what was then the Heimatmuseum Wedding, and it came straight from the Wall: from the corner of Brunnenstraße and Bernauer Straße, where a new border crossing was being opened, to the museum under two kilometres to the north-west. The museum itself was barely a year old. It had opened in 1989 in a parish school built in 1865–66, one of the oldest surviving school buildings in Berlin, and it has been the Mitte Museum since 2004. So a local history museum founded in the last year of the division took a piece of it, within six months of the border opening, from a street in its own district. The Berlin Wall Foundation lists it in its directory of surviving traces as MAU-760. Nothing read here names the donor. Provenance: Taken from the site of the planned crossing at Brunnenstraße and Bernauer Straße and set up on 8 May 1990 as a gift to the Heimatmuseum Wedding, now the Mitte Museum. Sources: - [MAU-760 Mauerelement im Hof des Mitte Museums — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.mauerspuren.de/de/13493/mauerelement-im-hof-des-mitte-museums/#mau-760): A wall element set up on 8 May 1990 as a gift to the Heimatmuseum Wedding in the courtyard of today's Mitte Museum at Pankstraße 47, brought directly from the planned border crossing at Brunnenstraße and Bernauer Straße; catalogued as MAU-760. - [History — Mitte Museum](https://www.mittemuseum.de/en/infos/history): Opened in 1989 at Pankstraße 47 as the Heimatmuseum Wedding, in a parish school built in 1865–66 and restored as a listed building; the Mitte Museum since 2004. ### Wall monuments along the Ulbricht curve, Norweger Straße and Behmstraße - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/berlin/berlin-ulbricht-curve - Place: Norweger Straße and Behmstraße, 13357 Berlin, Germany - Classification: Original Position; can it be seen today: On display (Standing; listed as monuments in 2005); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 52.5513, 13.3958 A railway wall from 1900 that was absorbed into the border in 1961, and a curved slab wall built to protect a railway line the Wall itself had made necessary. South of the Bornholmer Straße crossing, around the Nordkreuz railway junction, the border was awkward to secure because of the tracks, so the fortifications enclosed a wide area. Sections of the walls built here still stand on Norweger Straße and Behmstraße and were listed as monuments in 2005. The stretch along Norweger Straße, from Finnländische Straße to Behmstraße, was not built as a border at all. It went up in 1900 to protect the railway installations, and in 1961 it was simply absorbed into the Wall. That is a pattern worth naming, because it recurs: at the Nordbahnhof a station wall of 1895 was taken over the same way, and at the Invalidenfriedhof a cemetery wall of 1902. The Wall was not built from nothing. Where something already stood in the right line, the GDR used it. The curved slab wall that follows the S-Bahn tracks between Behmstraße and Malmöer Straße records a second-order consequence. The sector boundary here ran along the railway embankment, and the Wall of 13 August 1961 cut the line between Gesundbrunnen in the west and Bornholmer Straße and Pankow in the east. Bornholmer Straße station was closed and a two-metre fence put up between the tracks. In the same month the transport ministry approved a new stretch of S-Bahn between Pankow and Schönhauser Allee running entirely on East Berlin territory; it opened on 10 December 1961 and was known colloquially as the Ulbricht curve. Because the new line ran so close to the border, further barriers had to be built in front of the border fortifications proper — and the curved concrete slab wall that resulted still flanks the S-Bahn today. Provenance: In place. Listed as monuments in 2005. The Norweger Straße wall was built in 1900 to protect railway installations and absorbed into the border fortifications in 1961. Sources: - [Norweger Straße und Behmstraße — Landesdenkmalamt Berlin, Wall monuments](https://www.berlin.de/landesdenkmalamt/denkmale/highlight-berliner-mauer/mauer-denkmale/norweger-strasse-und-behmstrasse-649660.en.php): The difficulty of securing the border around Nordkreuz and the resulting wide fortifications, the surviving wall sections on Norweger Straße and Behmstraße listed in 2005, the 1900 railway wall absorbed into the border in 1961, the severing of the railway connections on 13 August 1961 and the closure of Bornholmer Straße station, the two-metre fence between the tracks, the approval and opening of the Ulbricht curve on 10 December 1961, and the additional slab wall built in front of the border fortifications. ### Wall remains around the Nordbahnhof, Gartenstraße - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/berlin/berlin-nordbahnhof - Place: Gartenstraße and Pflugstraße, around S-Bahnhof Nordbahnhof, 10115 Berlin, Germany - Classification: Original Position; can it be seen today: On display (Standing; listed as monuments since 2001); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 52.5322, 13.3878 A ghost station whose trains never stopped, and 900 metres of a brick station wall from 1895 that the GDR bricked up and topped with barbed wire. Berlin stopped being a railway hub when it was divided, and no station shows it better. The Nordbahnhof — the Stettiner Fernbahnhof until 1950 — had its grounds cleared into the border strip and its main building demolished in the 1960s; only the entrance hall of the suburban station survives. The S-Bahn station below was closed after the Wall went up, and trains from West Berlin ran past its underground platforms without stopping. It reopened after 1989 and is now served by the S1, S2 and S25. The longest surviving piece here is 900 metres along Gartenstraße, on the eastern side of the railway property, and like the Ulbricht curve it was not built as a border. It is a brick station wall of 1895, put up to secure the railway land, which after 1961 became the wall between East Berlin and the West Berlin borough of Wedding: the existing passageways were bricked up and Y-shaped supports for barbed wire fixed along the top. When a new border wall went up behind it in the mid-1960s, the old station wall was kept as an extra barrier. The border strip was unusually wide here, and in 1984 a second hinterland wall was built between the S-Bahn station and Pflugstraße, leaving the older one further west to secure the uneven railway ground. Remains of that second hinterland wall survive with the colour scheme used on its eastern face — long white rectangles framed in grey, the pattern the GDR painted for the benefit of the people it was keeping in — along with a 100-metre run between the houses on Pflugstraße, and a 200-metre security wall of concrete slabs between steel supports separating the railway land from the St Hedwig cemetery to the west. The remains have been protected since 2001, and the ground around them is being turned into a public park with sports facilities, with a section of the patrol track built into the plan. Provenance: In place. Listed as monuments since 2001. The Gartenstraße wall was built in 1895 to secure the railway property and taken into the border fortifications after 1961. Sources: - [Rund um den Nordbahnhof — Landesdenkmalamt Berlin, Wall monuments](https://www.berlin.de/landesdenkmalamt/denkmale/highlight-berliner-mauer/mauer-denkmale/rund-um-den-nordbahnhof-649705.en.php): The Nordbahnhof's history as the Stettiner Fernbahnhof, the clearing of the grounds into the border strip and demolition of the station building, the closed S-Bahn ghost station and its reopening on the S1, S2 and S25, the 900-metre brick station wall of 1895 on Gartenstraße with its bricked-up passageways and Y-shaped barbed wire supports, its retention behind the new border wall, the 1984 second hinterland wall and the preserved eastern colour scheme of white rectangles framed in grey, the 100-metre run on Pflugstraße, the 200-metre security wall beside the St Hedwig cemetery, the 2001 monument protection, and the planned park with the patrol track. ### Bernau, BB - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/bernau/bernau-bb-a32 - Place: Außenstelle der Kreisverwaltung, Jahnstraße 45, 16321 Bernau bei Berlin, Brandenburg, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 52.6787254, 13.5881114 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #32. Three segments set up on 2 November 2009 outside the district administration's Bernau office, one of them painted by Thierry Noir for the tenth anniversary of the fall of the Wall. The town's news of 4 November 2009 reports that on the Monday before, 2 November, three segments of the Berlin Wall were set up in front of the district administration's Bernau office at Jahnstraße 45, in the presence of the mayor, Hubert Handke, the member of the Bundestag Dagmar Enkelmann, town councillors and staff of the administration. They are to recall 9 November 1989 and to build a bridge between Berlin and Bernau. The town assembly had resolved the installation in May 2009, on a motion that began with the SPD group. One of the three was painted by Thierry Noir with the head in profile whose style he made his own, in a project for the tenth anniversary of the fall of the Wall; the artist came to Bernau for the unveiling and met pupils of the Tobias-Seiler-Oberschule, its head Ottmar Nickel and the mayor at the town hall beforehand, telling them he had moved from France to West Berlin in 1982 and only thought of painting the Wall after living beside it. The Wall Net adds that the commission for that painting came from a firm involved in demolishing the border installations and long based in nearby Ladeburg, and that the memorial is meant to encourage future generations to take part in democracy. Provenance: Three segments set up by the town on 2 November 2009 for the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall; one painted by Thierry Noir for the tenth anniversary, on the commission of a firm that had worked on the demolition of the border. Sources: - [Aus Frankreich stammender Künstler Thierry Noir weilte in Bernau bei Berlin — Stadt Bernau bei Berlin, 4 November 2009](https://www.bernau.de/de/rathaus-service/aktuelles/stadtnachrichten/archiv/artikel-aus_frankreich_stammender_kuenstler_thierry_noir_weilte_in_bernau_bei_berlin.html): The town's own report: on the Monday, in the presence of Mayor Hubert Handke, the Bundestag member Dagmar Enkelmann, councillors and staff, three segments of the Berlin Wall were set up in front of the Bernau office of the district administration, Jahnstraße 45, to recall 9 November 1989 and build a bridge between Berlin and Bernau; one was painted by Thierry Noir with his characteristic head in a project for the tenth anniversary of the fall; the basis was a resolution of the town assembly of May 2009 initiated by the SPD group; Noir met pupils of the Tobias-Seiler-Oberschule, its head Ottmar Nickel and the mayor at the town hall beforehand. - [Bernau, BB — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/bernau-bb/): Three segments at the Kreisverwaltung on Jahnstraße, set up for the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall as a bridge from Brandenburg into Berlin and an encouragement to future generations; one painted ten years earlier by Thierry Noir on the commission of a firm involved in demolishing the border installations and long based in Ladeburg. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Bernau%2C%20BB): 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. ### Bocholt, NW - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/bocholt/bocholt-nw-a38 - Place: Berliner Platz, in front of the Neues Rathaus, Bocholt, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 51.8369, 6.61186 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #38. Two segments that two Bocholt residents fetched from Berlin and set down in front of the town hall in 1995; the city accepted them and marked them with an information sign in 2014. The city's press office announced on 13 November 2014 that the two original segments on the Berliner Platz had stood in front of the town hall for nineteen years and now carried a new information sign, which names them a memorial to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and carries a QR code leading to more on the city's website. It credits Bernd Roßmöller and Christoph Schares with bringing the elements "from the Spree to the Aa" in 1995 and then giving them to the city, and its photograph shows the two with the former deputy head of cultural affairs, Reinhold Sprinz, at the new sign. The Wall Net, a general reference, fills in the beginning: in March 1995 the two Bocholt men brought the segments on their own initiative and unloaded them in front of the town hall without permission, and they were soon accepted officially as a symbol of contemporary history. It adds that the badly weathered pair was given conservation treatment before the twenty-fifth anniversary of the fall of the Wall in 2014. Where in Berlin the two stood is not said by either source. Provenance: Brought from Berlin to Bocholt in March 1995 by Bernd Roßmöller and Christoph Schares, who gave the two segments to the city; conserved before the 2014 anniversary, by The Wall Net's account. Sources: - [Stadt Bocholt, Presse- und Informationsdienst: new information sign for the Berlin Wall segments, 13 November 2014 — presse-service.de](http://www.presse-service.de/data.aspx/static/894439.html): The city's press release of 13 November 2014: two original segments of the Berlin Wall have stood in front of the town hall on the Berliner Platz for nineteen years; a new information sign names them a memorial to the fall of the Wall in 1989 and carries a QR code to the city's website; Bernd Roßmöller and Christoph Schares transported the elements from the Spree to the Aa in 1995 and gave them to the city; the photograph shows the two with Reinhold Sprinz at the sign. - [Bocholt, NW — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/bocholt/): Two segments on the Berliner Platz in front of the town hall; in March 1995 Bernd Roßmöller and Christoph Schares brought them to Bocholt on their own initiative and unloaded them in front of the town hall without permission; soon accepted officially as a symbol of contemporary history; badly weathered and given conservation treatment before the twenty-fifth anniversary of the fall of the Wall. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Bocholt%2C%20NW): 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. ### Bochum, NW - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/bochum/bochum-nw-a39 - Place: Zisterzienserkloster Bochum-Stiepel, Am Varenholt, Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display in the monastery garden); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 51.431767, 7.228675 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #39. A 3.5-metre segment set up in the garden of the Cistercian monastery and consecrated on 13 September 2015 as a memorial for peace and justice, within an ensemble of glass stelae. The Diocese of Essen announced on 2 September 2015 that a 3.5-metre piece of concrete weighing over three tonnes and painted with graffiti, a piece of the Berlin Wall, was to be consecrated on Sunday 13 September at 11.30 beside the pilgrimage church of St Marien in Bochum-Stiepel, at the Cistercian monastery on the Varenholt, after a festive service; Abbot Dr Maximilian Heim OCist, local politicians and the craft guilds were expected. The piece is set into an overall artistic concept in glass and is meant both as an artwork and as a memorial for peace and justice, to show that the walls and conflicts of today can be overcome. The monastery's own news pages record the segment standing by the beginning of September 2015, with the workmen still finishing before the consecration, and from March 2016 say that visitors have been able to look at a piece of the Berlin Wall there since September 2015. A separate site, stiepeler-mauer.de, was set up for it; it could not be reached in October 2026. The Wall Net, a general reference, adds what the institutional pages do not: that the segment came from the Potsdamer Platz, that the Bochum Cistercians sought one immediately after the fall of the Wall and that it lay in store in Berlin for many years, that it was given by the entrepreneurs Anneliese and Werner Deschauer — Deschauer fled the GDR in the 1950s and built a chain of food shops in Dortmund — and that the three glass stelae of equal height around it recall present-day crises, the whole headed with the psalm "Mit meinem Gott überwinde ich Mauern". It gives the weight as 2.5 tonnes where the diocese says over three. Provenance: From the Potsdamer Platz and given by Anneliese and Werner Deschauer, by The Wall Net's account; set up in the monastery garden in September 2015 and consecrated on 13 September 2015. Sources: - [Mahnmal für Frieden und Gerechtigkeit — Bistum Essen, 2 September 2015](https://www.bistum-essen.de/pressemenue/artikel/mahnmal-fuer-frieden-und-gerechtigkeit/): The diocese's announcement: a 3.5-metre, more than three-tonne concrete piece of the Berlin Wall painted with graffiti, set into an artistic concept in glass, to be consecrated on 13 September 2015 at 11.30 beside the Wallfahrtskirche St. Marien at the Cistercian monastery on the Varenholt in Bochum-Stiepel, with Abbot Dr Maximilian Heim OCist, local politicians and craft guilds expected; an artwork and a memorial for peace and justice. - [Das Segment der Berliner Mauer steht — Vorfreude auf Einweihung — Kloster Stiepel](https://www.kloster-stiepel.de/2015/08/29/das-segment-der-berliner-mauer-steht-vorfeude-auf-einweihung/): The monastery's own note that the segment was standing by 2 September 2015 with work still to finish, and that Abbot Maximilian Heim would consecrate the memorial on Sunday 13 September 2015 at 11.30, meant as a warning against misguided ideologies of every kind. - [Neue Homepage über unsere Stiepeler Mauer — Kloster Stiepel, 2 March 2016](https://www.kloster-stiepel.de/2016/03/02/neue-homepage-%C3%BCber-unsere-stiepeler-mauer): Since September 2015 every visitor to the monastery can look at a piece of the Berlin Wall there; a dedicated site, stiepeler-mauer.de, was launched for it. - [Bochum, NW — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/bochum/): One segment from the Potsdamer Platz at Kloster Stiepel: the Bochum Cistercians sought a segment immediately after the fall of the Wall, it lay in store in Berlin for many years and was set up and blessed in the monastery garden in September 2015, framed by three glass stelae recalling present crises under the psalm "Mit meinem Gott überwinde ich Mauern"; given by Anneliese and Werner Deschauer, who fled the GDR in the 1950s and built a food-shop chain in Dortmund; photograph credited to Kloster Stiepel. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Bochum%2C%20NW): 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. ### Bonn, NW – Deutsche Welle - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/bonn/bonn-nw-deutsche-welle-a40 - Place: Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 3, Schürmann-Bau, Bonn, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 50.7171478, 7.1282554 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #40. A Ben Wagin memorial unveiled outside Deutsche Welle on 21 December 2009, on the initiative of two restaurateurs who lent it to the broadcaster. The site is the Schürmann-Bau, the seat of Deutsche Welle. Bonn was the capital of the Federal Republic for the whole life of the Wall, and has less of it in public space than a good many small towns in this catalogue. Wagin is the artist behind the Parliament of Trees on the former border strip in Berlin, which makes this the second of his works here. It was initiated not by the city or the state but by two restaurateurs, Friedel Drautzburg and Harald Grunert, who founded the Ständige Vertretung — a Bonn establishment named after the permanent mission that stood in for an embassy between two German states that did not recognise each other — and who started the wall project together with Wagin. The date was chosen. The segment was unveiled on Monday 21 December 2009, twenty years to the day after the GDR's defence minister formally lifted the order to shoot at the border. It is an original element 3.60 m high, and carries Wagin's lettering TODES MAUER KRIEG in black on white. The restaurateurs' own page says it was the first piece of their project and that they lent it to Deutsche Welle; the Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung's memorials database records it as a permanent loan to the broadcaster. The photographer who recorded it in 2020 called it the only wall element in public space in Bonn. Provenance: An original segment designed by Ben Wagin for a project he started with Friedel Drautzburg and Harald Grunert, founders of the Ständige Vertretung; unveiled on 21 December 2009 and lent by the two restaurateurs to Deutsche Welle. Sources: - [2020-03-15-bonn-kurt-schumacher-strasse-3-deutsche-welle-berliner-mauer-02.jpg — Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3A2020-03-15-bonn-kurt-schumacher-strasse-3-deutsche-welle-berliner-mauer-02.jpg): The photographer's record of the memorial: made in 2009 by Ben Wagin for Drautzburg and Grunert, at the Schürmann-Bau, and the only wall element in public space in Bonn. - [Denkmal „Berliner Mauer“ — Orte des Erinnerns](https://www.orte-des-erinnerns.de/igof_memorials/denkmal-berliner-mauer-40/): An original 3.60 m segment unveiled in front of Deutsche Welle's headquarters on 21 December 2009, twenty years to the day after the GDR lifted the order to shoot; given by the restaurateurs Friedel Drautzburg and Harald Grunert, designed by Ben Wagin with the lettering TODES MAUER KRIEG, and a permanent loan to Deutsche Welle. - [Mauerprojekt von Ben Wagin — Ständige Vertretung](https://www.staev.de/mauerprojekt.html): The donors' own page: the StäV founders Drautzburg and Grunert started the wall project with Ben Wagin, the first piece was unveiled in front of the Schürmann-Bau, Deutsche Welle's building in Bonn, on Monday 21 December 2009 at 10.30, and it was lent to Deutsche Welle. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Bonn%2C%20NW%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Deutsche%20Welle): 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. ### Bonn, NW – Haus der Geschichte - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/bonn/bonn-nw-haus-der-geschichte-a41 - Place: Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Willy-Brandt-Allee, Bonn, Germany - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 50.7175644, 7.118593 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #41. Two concrete pieces of the Wall in the permanent exhibition of the federal museum of post-war German history, on Bonn's Museum Mile. The museum is the Haus der Geschichte, covering German history since 1945. Of all the institutional holders in this catalogue it has the strongest claim to the object by subject matter: its permanent exhibition is the history the Wall belongs to, told by the state that was on the western side of it. The museum's own description of its new permanent exhibition puts two concrete pieces of the Wall in a room where scenes from the night of 9 November 1989 play on large monitors behind them. The photograph here is from 2009 and the earlier exhibition; how many pieces the museum holds, and where they came from, the page does not say. Sources: - [Haus der Geschichte 2009a.jpg — Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AHaus_der_Geschichte_2009a.jpg): A photograph of the Berlin Wall at the Haus der Geschichte in Bonn. - [Die neue Dauerausstellung – „Du bist Teil der Geschichte“ — Haus der Geschichte](https://www.hdg.de/haus-der-geschichte/ausstellungen/dauerausstellung): The museum's own account of its new permanent exhibition in Bonn: in one room, scenes from the night of the fall of the Wall play on large monitors behind two concrete pieces of the Berlin Wall. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Bonn%2C%20NW%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Haus%20der%20Geschichte): 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. ### Bonn, NW – Ministry of Defense - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/bonn/bonn-nw-ministry-of-defense-a44 - Place: Bundesministerium der Verteidigung, Hardthöhe, Bonn-Hardtberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: Restricted access (On display inside the security perimeter); evidence: Documented - Position: 50.701228, 7.04593 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #44. Three segments reported standing opposite the visitor centre of the Defence Ministry's Bonn seat since 1990, inside the Hardthöhe perimeter. The General-Anzeiger walked the Hardthöhe in September 2018 for a feature on the "city within the city" where more than 5,000 people work, and among the things it passes between the medical centre, the art on the buildings, the central printing works and the Bundeswehr's computing centre is "ein Stück der Berliner Mauer", near the visitor centre that receives school and student groups. That is the only mention this atlas has found in a source independent of the general references, and it says nothing of how many pieces there are or how they came. The Wall Net, a general reference, says three segments have stood opposite the ministry's visitor centre since 1990, and that the ministry kept its first seat on the Hardthöhe when most of the government moved to Berlin, with a second seat at the Bendlerblock. Its photograph is credited to the Bundeswehr. The Hardthöhe is a closed federal site: the pieces stand on the ministry's grounds and are not open to the public. Provenance: Set up on the ministry's Bonn site in 1990, by The Wall Net's account; the donor and the segments' origin in Berlin are not recorded in anything read here. Sources: - [Verteidigungsministerium: Die Hardthöhe ist eine Stadt in der Stadt — General-Anzeiger Bonn, 9 September 2018](https://ga.de/bonn/hardtberg/Die-Hardth%C3%B6he-ist-eine-Stadt-in-der-Stadt-article3937012.html): A walk across the ministry's Bonn site, where more than 5,000 people work, passes the medical centre, "ein Stück der Berliner Mauer", art on the buildings, the central printing works and computing centre, and the visitor centre that receives school and student groups. - [Bonn, NW – Hardthöhe — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/bonn/): Three segments have stood opposite the visitor centre of the Federal Ministry of Defence on the Hardthöhe since 1990; the ministry kept its Bonn seat after the move to Berlin, with a second seat at the Bendlerblock; photograph credited to Bundeswehr/Bartsch. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Bonn%2C%20NW%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Ministry%20of%20Defense): 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. ### Braunschweig, NI - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/braunschweig/braunschweig-ni-a47 - Place: Platz der Deutschen Einheit, Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 52.2646577, 10.5236066 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #47. A wall memorial on the Platz der Deutschen Einheit, by the town hall, where the city lays its wreath for the victims of the Wall each August. The city lies about forty kilometres from where the inner-German border ran, close enough that the frontier was a fact of local life rather than a distant one — and it took in a large share of the people who came across it. The memorial stands on the Platz der Deutschen Einheit, the square at the town hall. The city's own press office recorded the mayor, Gert Hoffmann, laying a wreath „am Mauerdenkmal auf dem Platz der Deutschen Einheit“ on 13 August 2012, the anniversary of the building of the Wall, for the dead of the former inner-German border. When the element was set up and who gave it has not yet been read from a source that qualifies here. Sources: - [Braunschweig Mauer-Denkmal (2010).JPG — Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABraunschweig_Mauer-Denkmal_(2010).JPG): The wall memorial with its commemorative plate at Braunschweig, photographed in 2010. - [OB legt Kranz für Maueropfer nieder — Stadt Braunschweig, Pressestelle](https://www.presse-service.de/data.aspx/static/832621.html): The city's press release of 13 August 2012: the mayor Gert Hoffmann laid a wreath at the Mauerdenkmal on the Platz der Deutschen Einheit on the anniversary of the building of the Wall, in memory of the dead at the former inner-German border. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Braunschweig%2C%20NI): 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. ### Bremen, HB – Central Station - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/bremen/bremen-hb-central-station-a49 - Place: Bahnhofsplatz, Bremen, Germany - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 53.082523, 8.81176 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #49. A segment on the station square by the Übersee-Museum, where arriving passengers meet it first. A segment stands on the Bahnhofsplatz near the Übersee-Museum, immediately outside the main station. Bremen holds three documented sites; this is the one most people see, because it is the first thing on the square when you come off a train. The Berlin Wall Foundation also records an element in Bremen, about two hundred metres from this one, and names the square differently: its directory places it on the Platz der Deutschen Einheit, while the listing this record was written from puts it on the Bahnhofsplatz by the Übersee-Museum. Both are immediately outside the main station, and the two names may describe adjoining parts of the same forecourt. Nothing read here settles whether that is one element or two, so both descriptions are kept and neither is treated as a second site. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A segment near the Übersee-Museum in front of Bremen's main station. - [MAU-783 Mauerelement auf dem Platz der Deutschen Einheit — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.mauerspuren.de/de/13723/platz-der-deutschen-einheit/#mau-783): A wall element on the Platz der Deutschen Einheit in Bremen, catalogued as MAU-783, dated from 1980 and recorded in 2026. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Bremen%2C%20HB%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Central%20Station): 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. ### Bremen, HB – Eduard-Schopf-Alley - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/bremen/bremen-hb-eduard-schopf-alley-a50 - Place: Entrance to the Hilde-Adolf-Park, Kaffee-Quartier, Überseestadt, Bremen, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 53.0828261, 8.7895132 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #50. Bremen's segment from the Bild distribution to the sixteen federal states, standing since 2010 at the entrance to a park in the Überseestadt, where the city hosted that year's German Unity Day. The segment is painted, more than 3.50 metres high, 1.20 metres wide and almost three tonnes in weight. It has stood since 2010 in the Kaffee-Quartier of the Überseestadt, at the entrance to the Hilde-Adolf-Park. The Überseestadt's development agency explains it as a gift from Bild, which gave one to each of the sixteen federal states for the twentieth anniversary of German unity, and says the place was chosen because Bremen hosted the national celebrations of that anniversary there in October 2010. The Wall Net describes the same distribution, by Axel Springer AG, as marking twenty years since the fall of the Wall — the reading the Stuttgart and Hamburg records follow — and dates Bremen's segment to German Unity Day 2010. It has not been an easy memorial. In November 2023 the Weser-Kurier reported that Bremen's governing coalition considered none of the city's Wall fragments a fitting place to remember the dead of the Wall: none has an explanatory panel, and the pieces are so hemmed in that they hardly read as monuments. The coalition wanted the Senate to find them a new site. In October 2026 Radio Bremen still counted one of the city's four pieces of the Wall at the Hilde-Adolf-Park. The listing names the Eduard-Schopf-Allee, the avenue into the Überseestadt that meets the Lloydstraße beside the park; no other piece in Bremen stands near it. Provenance: A gift from Bild (Axel Springer AG) to the state of Bremen, one of sixteen given to the federal states; set up in 2010. Sources: - [Des Rätsels Lösung – Part II: Warum ein Stück Berliner Mauer in der Überseestadt Bremen steht — Überseestadt Bremen, WFB Wirtschaftsförderung Bremen](https://www.ueberseestadt-bremen.de/de/page/artikel/des-raetsels-loesung-2): A painted piece of the Berlin Wall, over 3.50 m high, 1.20 m wide and almost three tonnes, has stood since 2010 in the Kaffee-Quartier in the Überseestadt at the entrance to the Hilde-Adolf-Park; Europe's largest tabloid gave each of the sixteen federal states such a piece for the twentieth anniversary of German unity, and the site was chosen because Bremen hosted the anniversary celebrations there in October 2010. - [Wo man in Bremen noch Spuren des geteilten Deutschlands findet — buten un binnen, Radio Bremen](https://www.butenunbinnen.de/nachrichten/mauerreste-teilung-bremen-100.html): A report of 3 October 2026: four pieces of the Wall in Bremen recall the division; one stands at the Hilde-Adolf-Platz in the Überseestadt, one at the Berliner Freiheit in the Vahr, one at the Sander-Center in Oslebshausen, and the best known at the main station. - [Berliner Mauer-Fragmente in Bremen: Pläne für würdigeres Gedenken — Weser-Kurier](https://www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/politik/berliner-mauer-fragmente-in-bremen-plaene-fuer-wuerdigeres-gedenken-doc7sr52kv74f7w7aubfi7): A report of 9 November 2023: fragments of the Wall stand in the Überseestadt, at the Platz der Deutschen Einheit by the main station and in the Vahr; the governing coalition holds that none allows fitting remembrance, since there is no explanatory panel and the pieces are too hemmed in to be perceived as monuments, and asks the Senate to find a new site. - [Bremen, HB – Hilde-Adolf-Park — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/bremen-2/): One segment at Lloydstraße/Am Kaffee Quartier, Axel Springer AG's gift to the city-state of Bremen for the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall, set up at the Hilde-Adolf-Park in 2010 for the twentieth anniversary of German unity. - [Eduard-Schopf-Allee — Wikipedia](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard-Schopf-Allee): The Eduard-Schopf-Allee, laid out in 2006, opens up the Überseestadt from the city centre; the Lloydstraße is among its cross streets. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Bremen%2C%20HB%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Eduard-Schopf-Alley): 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. ### Bremen, HB – Shopping Center Vahr - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/bremen/bremen-hb-shopping-center-vahr-a51 - Place: Einkaufszentrum Berliner Freiheit, Bremen-Vahr, Germany - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 53.0797, 8.89278 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #51. A piece of the Wall beside the Berliner Freiheit shopping centre in the Vahr — by one account two segments, moved outside in 2012 after years in a shop window. Radio Bremen's survey of the traces of the division in the city, published on German Unity Day 2026, counts four pieces of the Wall in Bremen and puts one of them at the Berliner Freiheit in the Vahr. The Weser-Kurier, reporting in November 2023 on the governing coalition's wish for a more fitting memorial, likewise mentions a fragment in the Vahr. Neither says more, and the rest rests on The Wall Net, a general reference: two segments, which came to Bremen with several others through the Überseestadt, stood for some years in a shop window inside the centre and were set up beside the building in 2012 during alterations. Whether one piece stands there or two, and who owns them, the sources do not settle. Sources: - [Wo man in Bremen noch Spuren des geteilten Deutschlands findet — buten un binnen, Radio Bremen](https://www.butenunbinnen.de/nachrichten/mauerreste-teilung-bremen-100.html): A report of 3 October 2026: four pieces of the Wall in Bremen recall the division; one stands at the Berliner Freiheit in the Vahr. - [Berliner Mauer-Fragmente in Bremen: Pläne für würdigeres Gedenken — Weser-Kurier](https://www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/politik/berliner-mauer-fragmente-in-bremen-plaene-fuer-wuerdigeres-gedenken-doc7sr52kv74f7w7aubfi7): A report of 9 November 2023: fragments of the Wall stand in Bremen in the Überseestadt, at the main station and in the Vahr. - [Bremen, HB – Einkaufszentrum Vahr — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/bremen-3/): Two segments in front of the Berliner Freiheit shopping centre in Bremen-Vahr, which arrived with several others in the Überseestadt, stood for several years in a shop window in the centre and were set up beside the building in 2012 during alterations. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Bremen%2C%20HB%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Shopping%20Center%20Vahr): 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. ### Buechen, SH - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/buechen/buechen-sh-a63 - Place: Priesterkate, Gudower Straße 1, 21514 Büchen, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display outside the museum); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 53.4804512, 10.637997 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #63. A segment beside a border buoy and border posts outside the old parsonage of Büchen-Dorf, which houses the village's exhibition on the inner-German border. The Priesterkate is the old parsonage of Büchen, finished in 1649 and the oldest listed farm building in the Duchy of Lauenburg. The church sold it to the municipality in 1987, and since 1991 it has been a cultural centre with a permanent exhibition on the history of the border around Büchen: an SM-70 spring-gun of the kind fitted to the border fence, a model of the Horst–Lauenburg crossing on the B 5, and panels on the case of Michael Gartenschläger, who was shot at the border near Büchen in 1976 while trying to dismantle one. In front of the house stand a border buoy from the Schaalsee, border posts and a segment of the Berlin Wall. The Wall Net, quoting a text by Heinz Bohlmann, gives the segment's origin: it was put up in 1994 by Panzerbataillon 164 when the Panzergrenadierbrigade 16 stationed in the district was disbanded, the battalion having taken part in pulling down the Wall in 1990, and the former mayor Günter Mund, the retired lieutenant colonel Michael Güntner and Bohlmann himself had pressed for it. That account rests on the one general reference. Provenance: According to The Wall Net, put up in 1994 by Panzerbataillon 164, which had taken part in demolishing the Wall in 1990, when Panzergrenadierbrigade 16 was disbanded. Sources: - [Priesterkate Dorf Büchen — Orte des Erinnerns](https://www.orte-des-erinnerns.de/igof_memorials/priesterkate-dorf-buechen/): The Priesterkate, the old parsonage of Büchen completed in 1649, sold by the church to the municipality in 1987 and a cultural centre since 1991, houses a permanent exhibition on the history of the border around Büchen (an SM 70 spring-gun, a model of the Horst-Lauenburg crossing on the B 5, panels on Michael Gartenschläger); in front of it a border buoy from the Schaalsee, border posts and a segment of the Berlin Wall can be seen; Gudower Straße 1, 21514 Büchen. - [Büchen, SH — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/buechen-sh/): One segment in Büchen-Dorf, put up in 1994 by Panzerbataillon 164 on the disbanding of Panzergrenadierbrigade 16, the battalion having taken part in demolishing the Wall in 1990; it serves with the small permanent exhibition in the Priesterkate as a reminder; Michael Gartenschläger was shot near Büchen in 1976 trying to dismantle an SM 70; the former mayor Günter Mund, Lt Col (retd) Michael Güntner and Dr Heinz Bohlmann worked for its installation (text: Bohlmann). - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Buechen%2C%20SH): 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. ### Burghausen, BY - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/burghausen/burghausen-by-a67 - Place: Park der Deutschen Einheit, between Berchtesgadener Straße and Unghauser Straße, 84489 Burghausen, Bavaria, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 48.1588645, 12.8329419 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #67. Two original segments unveiled on 8 November 2009 in the park between Berchtesgadener Straße and Unghauser Straße, with a photograph and a short documentation. The green space between Berchtesgadener Straße and Unghauser Straße in the town centre was laid out for the Bavarian state garden show of 2004 and has carried its present name since 2009, the year of the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall. The town's page on the memorial describes what stands there: two original parts of the Berlin Wall, an expressive black-and-white photograph and a short documentation, which it says recall the Cold War, divided families and the people who risked their lives for freedom, and also the day the Wall came down. Its photograph of the pieces is dated 22 May 2012. The date of the unveiling comes from a private writer's project on Germany's squares of unity. Burghausen had named a small square at the edge of the old town Platz der Deutschen Einheit on 3 October 1990 and planted a lime tree there; in May 2009 the council renamed that square after Wilhelm Hoegner, and after several debates gave the name to this park instead. At the inauguration on 8 November 2009, the eve of the anniversary, the mayor, Hans Steindl, unveiled the two original pieces as a surprise, with the mayor of the Saxon partner town Hohenstein-Ernstthal present. The Wall Net also counts two. Nothing read says where in Berlin the segments stood or how the town acquired them. Provenance: Two original segments unveiled by the town on 8 November 2009; their origin in Berlin and their route to Burghausen are not stated by the sources read. Sources: - [Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer — Stadt Burghausen](https://www.burghausen.de/stadt/orte-des-gedenkens/gedenkstaette-berliner-mauer/): The town's page: two original parts of the Berlin Wall, an expressive black-and-white photograph and a short documentation in the Park der Deutschen Einheit between Berchtesgadener and Unghauser Straße recall the division and reunification of Germany; the photograph is credited to Gerhard Nixdorf and dated 22 May 2012. - [Park der Deutschen Einheit — Stadt Burghausen](https://www.burghausen.de/umwelt/parks-und-gruenflaechen/park-der-deutschen-einheit/): The park dates from the state garden show of 2004 and has borne the name Park der Deutschen Einheit since 2009; it lies between Berchtesgadener Straße and Unghauser Straße and holds two original parts of the Berlin Wall with documentation. - [Burghausen und die Deutsche Einheit — Die Plätze der Deutschen Einheit](http://www.platz-der-deutschen-einheit.de/die-orte/burghausen-und-die-deutsche-einheit): A private project on Germany's squares of unity, 31 March 2015: the town's first Platz der Deutschen Einheit was named on 3 October 1990 and renamed after Wilhelm Hoegner on 22 May 2009; the council then gave the name to the park known as the Grünzug, and at the inauguration on 8 November 2009, the eve of the twentieth anniversary, Mayor Hans Steindl unveiled two original pieces of the Berlin Wall as a surprise, with the mayor of the partner town Hohenstein-Ernstthal present. - [Burghausen, BY — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/burghausen-by/): Two segments in the Park der Deutschen Einheit since 2009, with a photograph and a short documentation, quoting the town's description. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Burghausen%2C%20BY): 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. ### Cologne/Bonn, NW - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/cologne-bonn/cologne-bonn-nw-a83 - Place: Terminal 1, Cologne Bonn Airport, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - Classification: Former Location; can it be seen today: Moved (Reported moved in October 2024 to the garden of the Rheinhotel Dreesen, Bad Godesberg); evidence: Documented - Position: 50.8677817, 7.138961 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #83. A Ben Wagin segment the founders of the Ständige Vertretung gave the airport when they opened a branch in Terminal 1 in 2010; reported moved to a Bad Godesberg hotel garden in 2024. The Ständige Vertretung's own page on its wall project says the two founders, Friedel Drautzburg and Harald Grunert, started it with the Berlin artist Ben Wagin, who painted several original pieces, and lists where they are to be found: on the terrace of the Berlin StäV, in front of Deutsche Welle in Bonn, on the Platz der Deutschen Einheit in Bremen, "vor dem Eingang zur StäV auf dem Köln Bonn Airport" and in Wittlich, Drautzburg's birthplace. The Bonn piece has its own page in this atlas. The Wall Net, a general reference, dates the airport branch to October 2010, in Terminal 1, with the segment given to the airport and set up near the restaurant by the security control, and in 2026 added that it moved in October 2024 to the garden of the Rheinhotel Dreesen in Bad Godesberg: after the airport restaurant closed, the owners handed the piece to Fritz Georg Dreesen, judging the hotel, opened in 1894 and a venue of German politics and diplomacy, a fitting place. The restaurateurs' site now lists branches in Berlin, Bremen, Hanover and at Berlin's airport, and none at Cologne Bonn. The airport's own news item on the opening could not be read, and no report of the move was found beyond the general reference, so the move rests on that alone; the hotel has no record in this catalogue. Provenance: Painted by Ben Wagin for the Ständige Vertretung's wall project and given to the airport by Friedel Drautzburg and Harald Grunert, in October 2010 by The Wall Net's account; reported handed to the Rheinhotel Dreesen in October 2024. Sources: - [Mauerprojekt von Ben Wagin — Ständige Vertretung](https://www.staev.de/mauerprojekt.html): The restaurateurs' own page: the StäV founders Drautzburg and Grunert initiated the wall project with Ben Wagin, who painted several original pieces; they are to be found on the terrace of the Berlin StäV, in front of Deutsche Welle in Bonn, on the Platz der Deutschen Einheit in Bremen, in front of the entrance to the StäV at Cologne Bonn Airport and in Wittlich; the site's footer lists current branches in Berlin, Bremen, Hanover and at the Berlin airport BER. - [Köln/Bonn, NW – Flughafen — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/koelnbonn/): Drautzburg and Grunert opened a Ständige Vertretung in Terminal 1 of Cologne Bonn Airport in October 2010 and gave the airport a segment painted by Ben Wagin, set up near their restaurant by the security control; in October 2024 the segment moved to the garden of the Rheinhotel Dreesen in Bonn-Bad Godesberg. - [Bonn, NW – Rheinhotel Dreesen — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/bonn-nw-rheinhotel-dreesen/): Since October 2024 a Wagin segment stands in the garden of the Rheinhotel Dreesen; it stood before at Cologne Bonn Airport in front of the Ständige Vertretung, and after the restaurant closed its owners handed it to Fritz Georg Dreesen; the hotel opened in 1894. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Cologne%2FBonn%2C%20NW): 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. ### Cottbus, BB - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/cottbus/cottbus-bb-a87 - Place: Informations-, Kommunikations- und Medienzentrum, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Cottbus, Brandenburg, Germany - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 51.7567447, 14.3357307 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #87. Four elements arranged outside the university library at BTU Cottbus — and the rare case where the two inventories agree on a number. Four wall elements are arranged in front of the Information, Communication and Media Centre of the Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus — the IKMZ. The Berlin Wall Foundation catalogues them in MAUERSPUREN as MAU-780, describing an arrangement of four displaced elements, photographed in October 2025 by the Foundation's director Axel Klausmeier. The number is worth pausing on. The Berlin Wall Archive listing that put Cottbus in this catalogue in the first place reports four segments, and it was compiled independently of the Foundation. Most of the time the two inventories disagree about counts, because a piece of the Berlin Wall means anything from a 2.6 tonne element to a chip in a bag. Here they agree exactly, which is about as close to corroboration as this catalogue gets without somebody going to look. How the four came to Cottbus is not recorded by either source. Provenance: Not established. Both the Berlin Wall Archive listing and the Foundation's directory record four elements; neither says where they came from or when they arrived. Sources: - [MAU-780 Mauerelemente IKMZ Cottbus — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.mauerspuren.de/de/13691/mauerelemente-ikmz-cottbus/#mau-780): An arrangement of four displaced wall elements in front of the Information, Communication and Media Centre of BTU Cottbus, catalogued as MAU-780, classified as Mauerelemente of the Grenzmauer 75 type, photographed in October 2025 by Axel Klausmeier. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Cottbus%2C%20BB): 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. ### Diedorf, BY - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/diedorf/diedorf-by-a97 - Place: Rathausplatz, near the Schmuttertalhalle, Diedorf, Bavaria, Germany - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 48.3542454, 10.7839603 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #97. Seven segments bought privately after the Wall came down, stored for twenty years in a gravel works, and set up as a memorial on the village square in 2009. Seven segments stand on the Rathausplatz in Diedorf, a village of a few thousand people nine kilometres west of Augsburg, near the hall the Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung calls the Schmuttertalhalle and the Wikipedia list the Schmutterhalle. The federal foundation's memorials database tells how they got there: Matthias Maresch, an Augsburg businessman originally from Thuringia, bought the graffitied segments shortly after the Peaceful Revolution and kept them for almost twenty years in a gravel works in Diedorf. On the initiative of the deputy district administrator Max Strehle they were made into a memorial with information boards and unveiled on 9 November 2009, the twentieth anniversary of the opening. Seven elements is a larger run than most national capitals in this catalogue hold, which is a good illustration of how little the distribution had to do with significance: the segments went where someone turned up with money and a lorry, and then sat in a gravel pit for two decades. Provenance: Bought by Matthias Maresch shortly after the Peaceful Revolution — for 2,000 Deutsche Marks, by the Wikipedia list's account, which also records them as still his — stored in a Diedorf gravel works for almost twenty years, and set up as a memorial on 9 November 2009. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): Seven segments near the Schmutterhalle, owned by Mathias Maresch, bought for DM 2,000. - [Denkmal „Berliner Mauer“ — Orte des Erinnerns](https://www.orte-des-erinnerns.de/igof_memorials/denkmal-berliner-mauer-65/): Seven original graffitied segments on the Rathausplatz near the Schmuttertalhalle, bought shortly after the Peaceful Revolution by the Augsburg businessman Matthias Maresch, originally from Thuringia, stored for almost twenty years in a Diedorf gravel works, and set up as a memorial with information boards on 9 November 2009 on the initiative of the deputy district administrator Max Strehle. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Diedorf%2C%20BY): 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. ### Dinslaken-Lohberg, NW - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/dinslaken-lohberg/dinslaken-lohberg-nw-a98 - Place: Platz der Vielfalt, Kreativ.Quartier Lohberg (former Zeche Lohberg), Dinslaken, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 51.5825, 6.76278 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #98. A segment painted on one side by Lohberg kindergarten children and on the other by refugee children, set up on the Platz der Vielfalt on the former colliery site in April 2018. RAG Montan Immobilien, the mining company's property arm that is redeveloping the Lohberg colliery as the Kreativ.Quartier, announced on 19 March 2018 that a painted piece of the Berlin Wall would be set up on the Platz der Vielfalt there on 20 April, during a children's festival. The two sides had been designed by children of the Lohberg kindergarten Sankt Marien and by refugee children from the transitional home An der Fliehburg, and the two designs were chosen by the auxiliary bishop of Xanten, Rolf Lohmann, and the North Rhine-Westphalian social minister Karl-Josef Laumann. The company initiated the project and ran it with the Caritasverband Dinslaken-Wesel and the Berlin association my Theo e.V.; it describes the piece as an image of understanding and union rather than a historical monument. The Wall Net, a general reference writing in May 2018, records the segment in place on the square from April 2018, with a photograph credited to the Diocese of Münster, and reads the square as a meeting place for the different cultures of the former mining settlement. Where the segment came from in Berlin, and who owns it, is not said by either. Provenance: A project of RAG Montan Immobilien with the Caritasverband Dinslaken-Wesel and my Theo e.V.; painted by children of the Kindergarten Sankt Marien and the Übergangsheim An der Fliehburg; set up on 20 April 2018 by the company's announcement. Sources: - [Berliner Mauer im Kreativ.Quartier Lohberg — RAG Montan Immobilien, 19 March 2018](https://www.rag-montan-immobilien.de/aktuelles/detail/t2_news/berliner-mauer-im-kreativquartier-lohberg/): On 20 April a painted piece of the Berlin Wall was to be set up on the Platz der Vielfalt in the Kreativ.Quartier Lohberg during a children's festival; its sides were designed by children of the Lohberg Kindergarten Sankt Marien and refugee children of the Übergangsheim An der Fliehburg, the designs chosen by Auxiliary Bishop Rolf Lohmann and Minister Karl-Josef Laumann; initiated by RAG Montan Immobilien with the Caritasverband Dinslaken Wesel and my Theo e.V.; meant as an image of understanding and union. - [Dinslaken-Lohberg, NW — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/dinslaken-lohberg-nw/): A segment set up in April 2018 on the Platz der Vielfalt on the former colliery site in Dinslaken-Lohberg, painted by children of the Kindergarten St. Marien and refugee children from An der Fliehburg; the project initiated by RAG Montan Immobilien with the Caritasverband Dinslaken Wesel and my Theo e.V.; photograph credited to the Diocese of Münster. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Dinslaken-Lohberg%2C%20NW): 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. ### Dortmund, NW - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/dortmund/dortmund-nw-a101 - Place: Lensing-Carrée, Westenhellweg, Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 51.5142273, 7.4652789 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #101. Two painted elements that stood three years in a Lünen beer garden and were moved on 1 September 2020 to the courtyard of the Ruhr Nachrichten press house for the publisher's 150th anniversary. The Ruhr Nachrichten reported on 1 September 2020 that two original pieces of the Berlin Wall had arrived that day in the courtyard of its own press house on the Westenhellweg, set up for the 150th anniversary of its publisher, Lensing Media, under the jubilee motto "Freiheit durch Wissen". The artist is Michael Nolte of Cappenberg, who was born in Lünen and works as miNo. The publisher Lambert Lensing-Wolff is quoted wanting visitors and staff to walk past the opened wall pieces and think about the value of peace and freedom, adding that the democratic state was and is not a given and cannot be kept without a free press and local journalism. The same paper's Lünen edition reported the other end of the move: three elements, 2.8 tonnes each, had stood in the beer garden of the restaurant Westermann's, and two of them left for the Lensing-Carrée. The Lünen beer garden has its own page in this atlas, and what became of the third element is not said. The Wall Net, a general reference, repeats the 2020 move and the publisher's words, and adds that the pair was painted by miNo while in Lünen. Where the two stood in Berlin is not given by any page read in full. Provenance: From the stock that stood at Westermann's in Lünen, painted by miNo (Michael Nolte); moved to Lensing Media's Lensing-Carrée on 1 September 2020. Sources: - [Berliner Mauer in Dortmund: Originalstücke stehen bei Lensing Media — Ruhr Nachrichten, 1 September 2020](https://www.ruhrnachrichten.de/dortmund/stuecke-der-berliner-mauer-stehen-bei-lensing-media-w1551231-2000086139/): Two original segments arrived on 1 September 2020 in the courtyard of the Ruhr Nachrichten press house on the Westenhellweg, for the publisher's 150th anniversary and its motto "Freiheit durch Wissen"; they had stood before at Westermann's restaurant in Lünen; designed by the Cappenberg artist Michael Nolte, born in Lünen; Lambert Lensing-Wolff on visitors and staff walking past them and on peace, freedom and a free press. - [Mauerstücke aus Lünen ziehen vom „Westermann's“ ins Lensing-Carré — Ruhr Nachrichten, 1 September 2020](https://www.ruhrnachrichten.de/luenen/mauerstuecke-aus-luenen-ziehen-vom-westermanns-ins-lensing-carree-w1551341-2000086153/): Two of the three Berlin Wall elements in the beer garden of Westermann's in Lünen moved to the Lensing-Carrée in Dortmund; each element weighs 2.8 tonnes. - [Dortmund, NW — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/dortmund-nw/): Two segments set up in September 2020 on Lensing Media's premises on the Westenhellweg for the publisher's 150th anniversary, quoting Lambert Lensing-Wolff; the pair had stood in Lünen, where miNo painted them. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Dortmund%2C%20NW): 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. ### Duelmen, NW - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/duelmen/duelmen-nw-a104 - Place: Charleville-Mézières-Platz, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 51.831354, 7.280856 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #104. One of two painted elements that Philipp Scharbert of the Münster agency Lackaffen gave his home town in 2019; the second stands in the von-Galen-Park at Merfeld. The town's own release, carried by the Coesfeld district news site lookat-online, describes the day the two 2.7-tonne pieces were lifted off a lorry by crane: one onto the Charleville-Mézières-Platz in Dülmen, the other into the von-Galen-Park at Merfeld, five kilometres to the west. The donor is Philipp Scharbert, owner of the design agency Lackaffen, who grew up in Dülmen; he had been able to buy the pieces in 2015 and did not want to give "bare" wall pieces but artworks that carry something positive. At the suggestion of the town's cultural committee he worked out ideas with pupils of the Annette-von-Droste-Hülshoff-Gymnasium and the Merfeld primary school, and his staff painted both elements, with a dove and a peace sign on each in the manner of the graffiti on the Wall's western face. Klaus Ricker, the town's head of education, and the Merfeld village head Helmut Temming received them; information boards and an official ceremony were still to come. The release is undated; a photograph on Wikimedia Commons shows the Charleville-Mézières-Platz piece in place on 19 July 2019, and a second, of December 2020, is geotagged on it. Lackaffen's own page says simply that pieces of the real Berlin Wall have found their place in Dülmen and Merfeld and that the agency gave the artworks to the towns in 2019. The Wall Net, a general reference, tells the same story with the donor's name misspelt, dates the installation to autumn 2019 and runs the two places together as one. The Berlin Wall Archive's count of two covers both pieces; this page is pinned on the Dülmen one. Where the elements stood in Berlin is not said by any source read. Provenance: Bought in 2015 by Philipp Scharbert and painted by his agency Lackaffen; given to the town of Dülmen and set up in 2019, one piece here and one in the von-Galen-Park at Merfeld. Sources: - [Gewichtige Zeitzeugen haben Platz in Dülmen gefunden — lookat-online.de, from a Stadt Dülmen release](https://lookat-online.de/news/5166/73/Gewichtige-Zeitzeugen-haben-Platz-in-D%C3%BClmen-gefunden&loc=coe): The town's release: two 2.7-tonne pieces of the Berlin Wall set up by crane on a Wednesday on the Charleville-Mézières-Platz and in the Merfeld von-Galen-Park; given by Philipp Scharbert of Lackaffen, who bought them in 2015 and grew up in Dülmen; designs worked out with pupils of the Annette-von-Droste-Hülshoff-Gymnasium and the Grundschule Merfeld at the cultural committee's suggestion, a dove and a peace sign on both; received by Klaus Ricker and Helmut Temming; information boards and an official ceremony to follow. - [Aktionen — Lackaffen.de](https://www.lackaffen.de/de/aktionen/): The agency's own page: pieces of the real Berlin Wall have found their place in Dülmen and Merfeld; in 2019 it gave the artworks to those places. - [Dülmen, Charleville-Mézières-Platz, Berliner Mauer -- 2019 -- 7463.jpg — Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:D%C3%BClmen,_Charleville-M%C3%A9zi%C3%A8res-Platz,_Berliner_Mauer_--_2019_--_7463.jpg): Dietmar Rabich's photograph of 19 July 2019 of the piece designed by lackaffen.de on the Charleville-Mézières-Platz in Dülmen. - [Dülmen, Charleville-Mézières-Platz, Berliner Mauer -- 2020 -- 3994.jpg — Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:D%C3%BClmen,_Charleville-M%C3%A9zi%C3%A8res-Platz,_Berliner_Mauer_--_2020_--_3994.jpg): Dietmar Rabich's photograph of 13 December 2020 of the segment on the Charleville-Mézières-Platz, with the object location geotagged at 51.831354, 7.280856. - [Dülmen, NW — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/duelmen-nw/): Two segments set up by the town of Dülmen in autumn 2019, given by Philipp Schabert (sic), who grew up in Dülmen and lives in Münster and had bought them some years before; designs worked out by his firm Lackaffen.de with pupils at the cultural committee's suggestion; the place given as the Charleville-Mézières-Platz in the Merfeld von-Galen-Park. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Duelmen%2C%20NW): 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. ### Duesseldorf, NW – Buergerpark - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/duesseldorf/duesseldorf-nw-buergerpark-a105 - Place: Bürgerpark, between the Landtag and the Haus der Geschichte, Düsseldorf, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 51.21781, 6.76338 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #105. The North Rhine-Westphalia segment from the Axel Springer distribution, on the meadow between the Landtag and the House of History. A segment stands on the green between the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Haus der Geschichte, with the city gate in view. Two large information boards were added in 2023 explaining the division and the Wall. It belongs to the distribution this catalogue has been tracking: for the twentieth anniversary in 2009 Axel Springer AG gave an original element to every German federal state. The full figure is larger than the sixteen states — the company acquired and gave away 33 elements in all, to states and to cities. Stuttgart and Hamburg hold two more of them, and Kiel almost certainly holds a fourth. A political monthly, writing in March 2010, placed the piece prominently in front of the Landtag and noted the plaque with the Bild logo and the criticism the campaign drew from the Greens in Lower Saxony, who thought a publisher's advertisement a poor memorial to the autumn of 1989. Provenance: A gift from Axel Springer AG in 2009, one of 33 elements the company acquired and distributed to German states and cities. Sources: - [Ein Stück Berliner Mauer beim Landtag — Düsseldorf entdecken](https://www.duesseldorf-entdecken.de/berliner-mauer-am-landtag/): The segment between the Haus der Geschichte and the Landtag, the Axel Springer donation to every federal state, the total of 33 elements, and the information boards added in 2023. - [Die Mauer als Werbegeschenk](https://www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2010/maerz/die-mauer-als-werbegeschenk): Michael Carlo Klepsch in Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, March 2010: Axel Springer AG's gift of an original piece of the Wall to every Land for the twentieth anniversary, set up at prominent places in the state capitals, in Düsseldorf in front of the Landtag, with a plaque carrying the Bild logo; Jürgen Rüttgers among the minister-presidents who took part, and the Green criticism of the campaign. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Duesseldorf%2C%20NW%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Buergerpark): 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. ### Duesseldorf, NW – harbour - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/duesseldorf/duesseldorf-nw-harbour-a106 - Place: Remex GmbH, Am Fallhammer 1, Düsseldorf harbour, Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: On display (Standing at the works entrance); evidence: Documented - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #106. Two elements a recycling firm kept back from shredding the Wall in Berlin, made into the sculpture "Aufbruch" by Reimund Franke at the entrance to its harbour offices in 2008. Remex, a disposal and recycling company based in the Düsseldorf harbour, was one of the firms that broke up the dismantled Wall in Berlin. The Westdeutsche Zeitung, writing on the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall in November 2019, had the story from two of its staff: the company won the disposal contract in 1991, built two purpose-made impact crushers that could take a whole element and reduce it to rubble in 25 seconds, and crushed something like a hundred of the Wall's 155 kilometres, most of the several hundred thousand tonnes going under Berlin's road paving. A few elements were kept. Two of them stand at the firm's offices at Am Fallhammer 1 as an artwork. The paper's earlier report of 8 May 2008 says the sculptor Reimund Franke of Strümp had been commissioned to design the entrance of the administration building, that the managing director Michael Stoll, who had preserved seven pieces, initiated it, and that Franke chose two of the seven and watched them craned into place on the Hamburger Straße about a month before; an excavator with hydraulic shears cut one along a charcoal line he had drawn, exposing the reinforcing steel. He laid loose lumps before the left piece, for the crushing the firm had done, and set small green-patinated bronze figures climbing the right one, keeping them small so that the Wall and the division it stood for remained the point; the three terraces around them are gravelled in different colours and planted. He called the work "Aufbruch". In 2019 the company's authorised officer Berthold Heuser said passers-by still stop in front of it, which he can see from his office. The Wall Net, a general reference, says the kept elements had been stored at the company's Recklinghausen headquarters and that two came to Düsseldorf in 2008. Provenance: Kept by Remex from the elements it crushed in Berlin under its 1991 contract; two chosen by Reimund Franke from seven preserved pieces and installed as "Aufbruch" at the firm's harbour offices in spring 2008. Sources: - [Warum Teile der Berliner Mauer in Düsseldorf stehen — Westdeutsche Zeitung, 9 November 2019](https://www.wz.de/nrw/duesseldorf/warum-teile-der-berliner-mauer-in-duesseldorf-stehen_aid-47066431): Two pieces made into an artwork stand at Remex in the harbour at Am Fallhammer 1; the company helped shred the dismantled elements in Berlin in a consortium, won the disposal contract in 1991, built two impact crushers that reduced an element in 25 seconds and crushed around a hundred of the Wall's 155 kilometres, mostly reused under Berlin paving; Berthold Heuser on honouring the firm's history; Reimund Franke commissioned in 2008 and made three bronze figures climbing the wall; the work is called "Aufbruch" and passers-by stop before it. - [„Ich habe Respekt vor dieser Mauer“ — Westdeutsche Zeitung, 8 May 2008](https://www.wz.de/nrw/rhein-kreis-neuss/meerbusch/ich-habe-respekt-vor-dieser-mauer_aid-31448403): The Strümp artist Reimund Franke on "Aufbruch", set up in Düsseldorf about a month earlier at the entrance of Remex's administration building in the harbour; the firm had crushed parts of the Wall to ballast after 1989; initiated by managing director Michael Stoll, who had kept seven pieces; Franke chose two, which were craned in on the Hamburger Straße and cut with hydraulic shears along his charcoal line; rubble before the left piece, green-patinated bronze figures climbing the right; three planted terraces of coloured gravel. - [Düsseldorf, NW – am Hafen — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/duesseldorf-am-hafen/): Remex, one of the firms contracted by the Defence Ministry to demolish the Wall, kept some segments at its Recklinghausen headquarters; two came to Düsseldorf in 2008 and Reimund Franke made them into a monument in the entrance to the company site at the harbour. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Duesseldorf%2C%20NW%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20harbour): 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. ### Duesseldorf, NW – IBM Headquarter - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/duesseldorf/duesseldorf-nw-ibm-headquarter-a107 - Place: Former IBM site between Kennedydamm and Karl-Arnold-Platz, Düsseldorf-Golzheim, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: Restricted access (On a fenced building site, wrapped for protection since 2023); evidence: Documented - Position: 51.246146, 6.771457 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #107. One of two segments IBM set up outside its Karl-Arnold-Platz offices in 1992; in 2023 it stood wrapped on the building site of the former IBM grounds, barely visible from a footbridge. The Düsseldorf news site VierNull went looking for the piece in May 2023 and found it on the building site of the former IBM grounds between the Kennedydamm and the Karl-Arnold-Platz in Golzheim: a lump of concrete sprayed with red graffiti and a pair of wide eyes, with a plaque at its foot reading "Denkmal", at 51°14'46.1"N 6°46'17.2"E, about 250 metres north of where the Kennedydamm meets the Kaiserswerther Straße. The writer had first come across it in spring 2021, when the site was not yet fenced; by 2023 it could just be made out from the footbridge over the Kennedydamm at the end of the Hans-Böckler-Straße, and had lately been wrapped for protection, which the site reads as a sign that it is to be shown properly again. The city archive supplied the origin: the Westdeutsche Zeitung of 1 December 1992 printed a photograph of two segments of the Berlin Wall that IBM had set up the day before in front of its Düsseldorf branch on the Karl-Arnold-Platz, the company and its then manager Hans-Olaf Henkel wanting to recall the fall of the Wall and the end of Germany's division and to express a bond with Berlin. The Wall Net, a general reference, says Henkel, who ran IBM Germany at the time of the fall of the Wall, had a segment set up at the Stuttgart and Düsseldorf sites and keeps another at his country house in France, and that the Düsseldorf pieces were "reportedly dismantled". VierNull found one of the two still there; what became of the other is not said. Provenance: Set up by IBM Deutschland on 30 November 1992 in front of its branch on the Karl-Arnold-Platz on Hans-Olaf Henkel's initiative; left on the site after IBM's departure. Sources: - [Warum ein Stück Berliner Mauer auf einer Baustelle in Düsseldorf steht — VierNull, 15 May 2023](https://www.viernull.de/stadt-mit-ue/warum-ein-stueck-berliner-mauer-auf-einer-baustelle-in-duesseldorf-steht/): A piece of the Berlin Wall with red graffiti and a "Denkmal" plaque on the building site of the former IBM grounds between Kennedydamm and Karl-Arnold-Platz in Golzheim, at 51°14'46.125"N 6°46'17.244"E, barely visible from the footbridge over the Kennedydamm, lately wrapped for protection; the Westdeutsche Zeitung of 1 December 1992 reported IBM setting up two segments the day before in front of its branch on the Karl-Arnold-Platz, IBM and Hans-Olaf Henkel recalling the fall of the Wall and the end of division. These facts are in the freely readable part of the article; the rest is behind a paywall. - [Düsseldorf, NW – IBM Zentrale — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/duesseldorf-ibm-zentrale/): On Hans-Olaf Henkel's initiative a segment was set up in front of IBM's Stuttgart and Düsseldorf sites and another stands at his country house in France; the Stuttgart campus was given up in 2009 and the Düsseldorf segments were reportedly dismantled; photograph by courtesy of Thierry Noir. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Duesseldorf%2C%20NW%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20IBM%20Headquarter): 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. ### Duesseldorf, NW – Meerbusch - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/duesseldorf/duesseldorf-nw-meerbusch-a108 - Place: Städtisches Meerbusch-Gymnasium, Mönkesweg 58, Meerbusch-Strümp, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: On display (On the school grounds); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 51.2789, 6.65028 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #108. Two Thierry Noir elements from the Potsdamer Platz, bought by a Düsseldorf eye doctor and given to the town of Meerbusch, inaugurated at the public edge of the schoolyard on 23 May 2011. The Federal Foundation's essay on the Wall in Germany tells the story: the Düsseldorf ophthalmologist Dr Joachim Zeitz bought three segments in the early 1990s that had been part of the border at the Potsdamer Platz, because the painting on them by Thierry Noir appealed to him. One stands in his garden; the other two he later gave to the town of Meerbusch. The head of the Meerbusch-Gymnasium had shown interest and proposed the schoolyard, and the choice fell on its publicly accessible edge in Strümp, where the two were inaugurated on 23 May 2011, the sixty-second anniversary of the Basic Law. The Wall Net, a general reference, has the purchase in 1990 from NVA stocks, almost twenty years on a company car park, and the gift to the school in 2009, which fits the Foundation's account of the gift but not its date for the inauguration; both are given here. The Berlin Wall Archive lists the site under Düsseldorf with one segment; the Foundation and The Wall Net both say two. Provenance: Bought by Dr Joachim Zeitz in the early 1990s (1990, by The Wall Net's account) from the Potsdamer Platz stretch, painted by Thierry Noir; given to the town of Meerbusch and inaugurated at the Gymnasium on 23 May 2011. Sources: - [Die Berliner Mauer in Deutschland — Die Berliner Mauer in der Welt, Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/sachtexte/die-berliner-mauer-in-deutschland/): The Foundation's own essay, not a listing: Dr Joachim Zeitz, a Düsseldorf ophthalmologist, bought three segments from the Potsdamer Platz border in the early 1990s for their Thierry Noir painting; one stands in his garden, two he gave to the town of Meerbusch; the school head proposed the schoolyard and the publicly accessible edge of the Meerbusch-Gymnasium's yard in Strümp was chosen; the two segments were inaugurated there on 23 May 2011, the sixty-second anniversary of the Basic Law. - [Düsseldorf, NW – Meerbusch — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/duesseldorf/): In 1990 the Düsseldorf ophthalmologist Joachim Zeitz bought two segments with Thierry Noir graffiti from NVA stocks; they stood almost twenty years on a company car park; in 2009 he gave them to the Städtisches Meerbusch-Gymnasium, where they stand on the schoolyard; two segments from the Potsdamer Platz. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Duesseldorf%2C%20NW%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Meerbusch): 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. ### Erfurt, TH - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/erfurt/erfurt-th-a116 - Place: Werner-Seelenbinder-Straße 5–8, government quarter, Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 50.9575321, 11.0400009 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #116. Thuringia's segment from the Bild distribution of 2009, unveiled in the government quarter on the anniversary of the building of the Wall, with a plaque crediting the newspaper's founder. A segment 1.20 metres wide and 3.60 metres high, weighing 2.7 tonnes, was set up in Erfurt's government quarter on 13 August 2009, the forty-eighth anniversary of the day the Wall went up, as a gift from Axel Springer AG. The opening was led by the minister-president Dieter Althaus, Bild's editor-in-chief Kai Diekmann, Berthold Dücker — a former refugee from the East and the initiator of the Point Alpha memorial — and the songwriter and former dissident Stephan Krawczyk. Its plaque calls the concrete the instrument and sign of twenty-eight years of oppression, overcome by the peaceful revolution of 9 November 1989, and is explicit about whose gift it is: from BILD to the Land of Thuringia for the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall, „in memory of the newspaper's founder Axel Springer (1912–1985), who held on against all resistance to his dream of German unity“. It belongs to the same distribution as the segments beside the Landtag in Stuttgart and on the Platz der Deutschen Einheit in Hamburg. Provenance: A gift from Axel Springer AG (Bild) to the Land of Thuringia, unveiled on 13 August 2009. Sources: - [Denkmal „Berliner Mauer“ — Orte des Erinnerns](https://www.orte-des-erinnerns.de/igof_memorials/denkmal-berliner-mauer-20/): On 13 August 2009 a segment of the Berlin Wall, a gift of Axel Springer AG, 1.20 m wide, 3.60 m high and 2.7 tonnes, was set up in Erfurt's government quarter at Werner-Seelenbinder-Straße 5–8; the opening was led by the minister-president Dieter Althaus, the Bild editor-in-chief Kai Diekmann, Berthold Dücker (former refugee and initiator of the Point Alpha memorial) and the songwriter and dissident Stephan Krawczyk; the full text of the plaque, a gift from BILD to the Land of Thuringia for the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall in memory of Axel Springer. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Erfurt%2C%20TH): 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. ### Essen, NW – Kreuzeskirche - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/essen/essen-nw-kreuzeskirche-a117 - Place: Between the Kreuzeskirche and the Kastanienhöfe, Essen city centre, Germany - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 51.4594907, 7.0111473 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #117. Two painted segments a parish pastor brought from Berlin in 1999, kept by the congregation for eighteen years and finally set out in public in 2017. Two original segments stand between the Kreuzeskirche and the Kastanienhöfe in the north of Essen city centre. One carries a Thierry Noir head in profile — the nose, the lips, the round skull; the other is the work of the Berlin photographer and wall artist Heinz J. Kuzdas. They were brought from Berlin in 1999 by Steffen Hunder, pastor of the Protestant parish of Essen-Altstadt, and they belonged to the congregation for eighteen years before the public ever got a clear look at them. The site in the shadow of the church was handed over on 26 September 2017, with the mayor Thomas Kufen, the Allbau supervisory board chairman Thomas Rotter, and the Berlin pastor and former GDR civil rights campaigner Rainer Eppelmann present. The delay is the interesting part. A great many of the records here describe an object arriving and being unveiled within months. This one sat in the keeping of a city parish for the better part of two decades, and only became a public monument when a housing development gave it somewhere to stand. Provenance: Brought from Berlin in 1999 by Steffen Hunder, pastor of the Protestant parish of Essen-Altstadt, held by the congregation and publicly dedicated on 26 September 2017. Painted by Thierry Noir and Heinz J. Kuzdas. Sources: - [Berliner Mauer-Teile in der Nord-City — Stadt Essen](https://www.essen.de/meldungen/pressemeldung_1110992.de.html): The two original segments painted by Thierry Noir and Heinz J. Kuzdas placed between the Kreuzeskirche and the Kastanienhöfe, Pastor Steffen Hunder bringing them from Berlin in 1999, their eighteen years with the Protestant parish of Essen-Altstadt, and the dedication on 26 September 2017 with Thomas Kufen, Thomas Rotter and Rainer Eppelmann present. - [Original-Fragmente der Berliner Mauer am Fuße der Kreuzeskirche Essen — Kreuzeskirche Essen](https://www.kreuzeskirche-essen.de/aktuelles/original-fragmente-der-berliner-mauer-am-fusse-der-kreuzeskirche-essen): The congregation's own account of the two original wall fragments at the foot of the Kreuzeskirche. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Essen%2C%20NW%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Kreuzeskirche): 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. ### Fassberg, NI - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/fassberg/fassberg-ni-a121 - Place: Erinnerungsstätte Luftbrücke Berlin, Fliegerhorst Faßberg, entrance Waldweg, 29328 Faßberg, Lower Saxony, Germany - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display on the museum grounds); evidence: Documented - Position: 52.8989323, 10.1667763 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #121. Two segments in the open-air grounds of the airlift memorial at the Faßberg air base, which handled the largest tonnage of the Berlin airlift. Faßberg was one of the airfields brought into the Berlin airlift from August 1948 to shorten the route from Frankfurt and Wiesbaden. It handled the largest tonnage of the operation, about 540,000 tonnes of coal, and the airlift's farewell parade was held there on 29 July 1949. The Erinnerungsstätte Luftbrücke Berlin was founded there on 2 March 1990 under the patronage of Walter Momper, governing mayor of Berlin, with the support of the defence minister Gerhard Stoltenberg; the idea came from Bundeswehr soldiers when American airlift pilots visited for the fortieth anniversary in 1989. It belongs to the Bundeswehr, occupies four Nissen huts of the airlift period, and its largest exhibit is a Douglas C-47 „Rosinenbomber“. On its open-air ground, the Federal Foundation's memorial database records, stand two segments of the Berlin Wall. The Wall Net adds that they were a gift of the Berlin Senate, and quotes the plaque: segments from Potsdamer Platz, with a line that ties them to the place — one of the consequences of the blockade and the airlift was the building of the Wall by the GDR in 1961. Provenance: A gift of the Berlin Senate, according to The Wall Net; the plaque gives Potsdamer Platz as their origin. Sources: - [Erinnerungsstätte Luftbrücke Berlin — Orte des Erinnerns](https://www.orte-des-erinnerns.de/igof_memorials/erinnerungsstaette-luftbruecke-berlin/): Faßberg's role in the airlift from August 1948 (about 540,000 tonnes of coal, the farewell parade on 29 July 1949); the memorial founded on 2 March 1990 under Walter Momper's patronage with Gerhard Stoltenberg's support, belonging to the Bundeswehr, housed in four Nissen huts with a DC-3/C-47 as its largest exhibit; two segments of the Berlin Wall stand on its open-air ground; location Fliegerhorst Faßberg, entrance Waldweg. - [Faßberg, NI — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/fassberg/): Two segments from Potsdamer Platz at the Erinnerungsstätte Luftbrücke, a gift of the Berlin Senate; the plaque reads that among the consequences of the blockade and the airlift was the building of the Wall by the GDR in 1961. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Fassberg%2C%20NI): 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. ### Freckenhorst, NW - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/freckenhorst/freckenhorst-nw-a132 - Place: Green behind the Petrikapelle, Stiftsbleiche, Freckenhorst, Warendorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 51.9208811, 7.967874 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #132. A segment that stood at the former Hauptschule from 1999 and was moved by the town of Warendorf to the green behind the Petrikapelle in 2015. Die Glocke reported on 1 July 2015 that the original piece of the Berlin Wall which had stood on the grounds of the former Freckenhorst Hauptschule had been moved that week with a wheel loader from the firm Nüßing. A crane had failed at the first attempt the week before: the piece weighs more than 1.5 tonnes, being heavily reinforced with iron. Helmut Helmich righted it, loaded it onto the forks and clamped it, and Josef Tertilt of the town of Warendorf's green-space team escorted it along the Nordfeld and the Westkirchener Straße and over the cobbles of the Stiftsbleiche to the chapel, where the town's staff had laid a base of grey basalt over six square metres on a gravel foundation. The paper calls it the memorial that recalls Germany's division, and the chairwoman of the Heimatverein, Wilma Richter, was content with a place in the heart of the old abbey town. The Wall Net, a general reference, explains how it came: after the fall of the Wall, Freckenhorst Social Democrats made contact with the SPD in Templin in Brandenburg, and through that link a segment reached the town; it stood at the Hauptschule from 1999. It dates the move to 2016 where the newspaper has 2015. Provenance: Obtained through contacts between Freckenhorst Social Democrats and the SPD in Templin, by The Wall Net's account; at the Hauptschule from 1999; moved by the town of Warendorf to the Petrikapelle in the week reported on 1 July 2015. Sources: - [Stück der Berliner Mauer umgesetzt — Die Glocke, 1 July 2015](https://www.die-glocke.de/lokalnachrichten/stueck-der-berliner-mauer-umgesetzt-1623419690): The original piece of the Berlin Wall from the grounds of the former Freckenhorst Hauptschule was moved that week with a Nüßing wheel loader after a crane had failed; it weighs over 1.5 tonnes and is heavily reinforced; Helmut Helmich and Josef Tertilt of the town's green-space team took it over Nordfeld, Westkirchener Straße and the Stiftsbleiche to the green behind the Petrikapelle, where the town had laid a grey basalt base of over six square metres; the memorial recalls Germany's division; Wilma Richter of the Heimatverein called it a good solution. - [Freckenhorst, NW — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/freckenhorst-nw/): A segment reached Freckenhorst through contacts between local Social Democrats and the SPD in Templin after the fall of the Wall; from 1999 it stood at the former Hauptschule as a memorial against forgetting the division; moved in 2016 to a green behind the Petrikapelle. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Freckenhorst%2C%20NW): 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. ### Fuerstenfeldbruck, BY - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/fuerstenfeldbruck/fuerstenfeldbruck-by-a135 - Place: Haeusler-Villa, Dachauer Straße 61, 82256 Fürstenfeldbruck, Bavaria, Germany - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: Unknown (Unveiled in the foundation's garden in 2020); evidence: Documented - Position: 48.1794705, 11.2547202 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #135. A segment painted by Thierry Noir in 2007, bought by the foundation in Berlin in December 2019 and unveiled in the garden of the Haeusler-Villa on 30 September 2020. The Kester-Haeusler-Stiftung is a public foundation under civil law in Fürstenfeldbruck that funds science, research and culture from the Haeusler-Villa on Dachauer Straße. Its own pages give the piece's history in an interview with the artist from October 2021: Thierry Noir painted the segment on 17 June 2007 together with six other artists of the East Side Gallery; the seven pieces had stood on Späthstraße in Berlin and were dismantled there in 1989, and after their painting the 2.6-tonne elements stood as a tourist attraction at the Hi-Flyer balloon on Zimmerstraße, near Checkpoint Charlie, until they were auctioned. The foundation bought this one in Berlin in December 2019 and unveiled it at a ceremony in the garden of the villa on 30 September 2020. The Wall Net adds that the unveiling, in the year of the thirtieth anniversary of unification, was addressed among others by Manfred Walther, the last acting justice minister of the GDR, and that the foundation has run talks and witness projects on the GDR since 1989. Whether the garden can be visited is not stated by the pages read. Provenance: Painted by Thierry Noir with six other East Side Gallery artists on 17 June 2007; from Späthstraße, Berlin; shown at the Hi-Flyer on Zimmerstraße until auction; bought by the foundation in December 2019 and unveiled on 30 September 2020. Sources: - [Thierry Noir — Kester-Haeusler-Stiftung](https://www.kester-haeusler-stiftung.de/thierry-noir/): The foundation bought the segment painted by Thierry Noir in Berlin in December 2019 and unveiled it at a ceremony in the garden of the Haeusler-Villa on 30 September 2020; in an interview of October 2021 the artist says he painted it on 17 June 2007 with six other East Side Gallery artists, that the pieces originally stood on Späthstraße and were dismantled in 1989, and that after their painting the 2.6-tonne pieces stood at the Hi-Flyer on Zimmerstraße near Checkpoint Charlie until their auction. - [Mauerkunst — Kester-Haeusler-Stiftung](https://www.kester-haeusler-stiftung.de/mauerkunst/): The foundation acquired the Wall piece with Thierry Noir's painting as part of its cultural funding and unveiled it at a ceremony in the Haeusler-Garten on 30 September 2020. - [Impressum — Kester-Haeusler-Stiftung](https://www.kester-haeusler-stiftung.de/impressum/): The foundation's address, Haeusler-Villa, Dachauer Straße 61, 82256 Fürstenfeldbruck, and its status as a public foundation under civil law funding science, research and culture. - [Fürstenfeldbruck, BY — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/fuerstenfeldbruck-by/): One segment with a mural by Thierry Noir set up and inaugurated by the Kester-Haeusler-Stiftung in September 2020 for the anniversary of reunification, to stand in the foundation's garden as a document of contemporary history; Manfred Walther, the last acting justice minister of the GDR, spoke at the inauguration; the foundation has worked on GDR history since 1989. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Fuerstenfeldbruck%2C%20BY): 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. ### Giessen, HE - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/giessen/giessen-he-a143 - Place: Bahnhofsvorplatz, Gießen, Hesse, Germany - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: On display (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 50.5862066, 8.6742306 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #143. Segments on the station forecourt that the Gießen street-art collective 3Steps has used as a canvas since 2015, repainted in 2022 with a message about the war in Ukraine. In the summer and autumn of 2015 three segments of the Berlin Wall stood on the Bahnhofsplatz in Gießen as the canvas for a temporary installation and performances by 3Steps, a collective of Gießen artists, about the walls between nations, peoples and cultures and in people's heads. The Wall Net, which records them, explains the choice of place: since the Second World War Gießen has been a transit point and destination for refugees, and from the 1960s it was the first stop for people allowed to leave East Germany. The collective's own list of work gives the performance REFLEXION on the Bahnhofsvorplatz in 2015 and a second, The Earth, The Nations, The People, on the Berlin Wall segments there in 2016. The installation outlasted its season. In March 2022 the Gießener Zeitung reported that 3Steps had repainted the piece of the Berlin Wall on the station forecourt with their message on the war in Ukraine: peace, hope and love for the people of Russia, Ukraine and the whole world. Whether three segments stand there now or one, and who owns them, the sources do not say. Sources: - [Neues Werk der 3Steps — Gießener Zeitung](https://www.giessener-zeitung.de/2022/03/20/neues-werk-der-3steps/): A report of 20 March 2022: the artists of 3Steps have painted the piece of the Berlin Wall on the station forecourt in Gießen with their message on the Ukraine war — peace, hope and love for the people in Russia, Ukraine and the whole world. - [3STEPS urban art collective: Vita and references, 2018 — 3Steps](https://3steps.de/wp-content/uploads/3Steps-CV-DE_2018-02-Vita-References.pdf): The collective's list of public performances: 2016 'The Earth, The Nations, The People', Berliner Mauersegmente, Bahnhofsvorplatz, Gießen; 2015 'REFLEXION', Bahnhofsvorplatz, Gießen. - [Giessen, HE — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/giessen/): Three segments on the Bahnhofsplatz in summer and autumn 2015 as the canvas for a temporary installation and performances by the Gießen collective 3Steps; Gießen as a destination for refugees since 1946 and the first stop for those leaving the GDR from the 1960s. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Giessen%2C%20HE): 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. ### Grafing, BY - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/grafing/grafing-by-a150 - Place: Max-Mannheimer-Gymnasium (formerly Gymnasium Grafing), Grafing bei München, Bavaria, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: Restricted access (On the school grounds); evidence: Documented - Position: 48.04454, 11.96048 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #150. Two segments given by a former pupil who worked on demolishing the border, set up in the schoolyard in November 1997 and made a memorial with a sculpture in 2012. The Wall Net's entry records how the pieces came to the school: in November 1997 two segments of the Berlin Wall were set up in the schoolyard of the Gymnasium Grafing as witnesses of contemporary history, a gift of Christian Kilger, a former pupil who after the fall of the Wall had worked for a construction firm on the demolition of the border installations; the school association paid for transporting the pieces, which weigh tonnes. The local paper reported on 26 November 2012 how they became a memorial. The pieces had arrived some twenty years earlier by a roundabout route and had lain about the schoolyard, and the pupils, born after the Wall fell, knew nothing of their history. Teachers, pupils, parents, historians, architects and artists drew designs, collected material and pictures, wrote texts and argued them over, and with sponsors — the Kreissparkasse, the Raiffeisen-Volksbank and the district office — the wall remains were set in a prominent place with an information board and a sculpture mounted above them showing a group of young people helping one another over the wall to freedom. Pupils marked the unveiling with a short play in which citizens of the GDR tore down a wall of cardboard boxes, and the head, Harald Parigger, said that memorials sharpen historical awareness. The Wall Net puts the completion in 2012 with the help of local firms. Provenance: Given to the school by a former pupil, Christian Kilger, who had taken part in the demolition of the border installations; transported at the school association's expense and set up in November 1997. Sources: - [Enthüllung und Mauerfall — Meine Anzeigenzeitung (Ebersberg), 26 November 2012](https://www.meine-anzeigenzeitung.de/lokales/ebersberg/enthuellung-mauerfall-2638017.html): The Gymnasium Grafing set a tonnes-heavy piece of Wall remains in the schoolyard in a prominent place with an information board, to recall the fall of the Wall in November 1989; the pieces had come to the school from Berlin by a roundabout route about twenty years earlier and lain about the yard; teachers, pupils, parents, historians, architects and artists designed the memorial, sponsored by the Kreissparkasse, the Raiffeisen-Volksbank and the Landratsamt; a sculpture above the wall remains shows young people helping each other over the wall; pupils performed a play tearing down a cardboard wall; the head, Harald Parigger, spoke. - [Grafing, BY — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/grafing/): Two segments set up in the schoolyard of the Gymnasium Grafing in November 1997, a gift of the former pupil Christian Kilger, who had worked for a construction firm on the demolition of the border installations, the transport paid by the Grafing school association; in 2012 the segments were completed with a sculpture and an information board with the support of local firms. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Grafing%2C%20BY): 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. ### Grossbeeren-Heinersdorf - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/grossbeeren-heinersdorf/grossbeeren-heinersdorf-a154 - Place: Dorfaue, Heinersdorfer Straße 8, Heinersdorf, 14979 Großbeeren, Brandenburg, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 52.3868333, 13.3270303 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #154. Two original segments brought to the village green after 1989 on the village mayor's initiative, where the state of Brandenburg held its commemoration of the Wall's building in 2024. Heinersdorf lay hard against the border ring around West Berlin, and its neighbour Osdorf fell to the Wall in the most literal sense: the village of about 150 people was demolished for the border strip, only a barn survived, and its people were resettled, partly in Heinersdorf. Two original pieces of the Wall now stand in the centre of Heinersdorf by the village green, carrying several memorial plaques. The Wall Net, quoting the municipality, says they were brought here after the Wende at the instigation of the village mayor of the time and so saved from destruction. The municipality lays wreaths at them each 13 August. Its account of the sixtieth anniversary in 2021 has the mayor, Tobias Borstel, saying it is right to meet every year at this piece of wall in Heinersdorf, which once stood in Osdorf. On 13 August 2024 the state of Brandenburg held its central commemoration of the building of the Wall here, at the segments at Heinersdorfer Straße 8: the minister-president, Dietmar Woidke, the president of the Landtag, Ulrike Liedtke, the deputy commissioner for the consequences of the communist dictatorship, Susanne Kschenka, the mayor and the witness Michael Valentin spoke, and the state chancellery's release recalled that at least 140 people died at the Berlin Wall. A second original piece stands a short way north on the Berlin boundary at Osdorfer Straße, re-erected in April 2010, and has its own page. Provenance: Two original segments brought to Heinersdorf after the fall of the Wall on the initiative of the village mayor of the time; the municipality says the piece once stood in Osdorf. Sources: - [Land Brandenburg erinnert gemeinsam mit der Gemeinde Großbeeren an den Bau der Mauer vor 63 Jahren — Staatskanzlei Brandenburg, 9 August 2024](https://www.brandenburg.de/cms/detail.php/brandenburg_06.c.846405.de): The state chancellery's announcement of the commemoration on 13 August 2024 at 4 pm at the wall segments at Heinersdorfer Straße 8, 14979 Großbeeren, with Minister-President Dietmar Woidke, Landtag president Ulrike Liedtke, deputy commissioner Susanne Kschenka, Mayor Tobias Borstel and the witness Michael Valentin; Osdorf was demolished, only a barn remained, about 150 residents were resettled to Heinersdorf, where original wall segments recall the division; at least 140 people died at the Berlin Wall. - [Brandenburg erinnert an Mauerbau vor 63 Jahren — Staatskanzlei Brandenburg, 13 August 2024](https://brandenburg.de/cms/detail.php/brandenburg_06.c.846550.de): The state's central commemoration in Heinersdorf, where two original wall segments stand; the speeches of Woidke, Liedtke, Kschenka and Borstel; Osdorf's roughly 150 residents and its demolition for the border. - [Kranzniederlegung zum 60. Jahrestag des Mauerbaus — Gemeinde Großbeeren, 13 August 2021](https://www.grossbeeren.de/seite/de/gemeinde/1588/-/Kranzniederlegung_zum_60_Jahrestag_des_Mauerbaus.html): Wreaths and flowers laid at the wall remains in Heinersdorf on 13 August 2021 by the state representative Helmut Barthel, Mayor Tobias Borstel, councillors and others; the mayor on meeting every year at this piece of wall in Heinersdorf, which once stood in Osdorf, and on the resettlement of Osdorf's residents to Heinersdorf. - [Großbeeren-Heinersdorf — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/grossbeeren-heinersdorf/): Two original wall parts in the centre of Heinersdorf by the Dorfaue on Heinersdorfer Straße, brought there after the Wende at the instigation of the then village mayor and so saved from destruction, with several memorial plaques; Heinersdorf lay in the immediate vicinity of the border; an annual commemoration by the local CDU on the day of the Wall's building. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Grossbeeren-Heinersdorf): 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. ### Grossbeeren-Osdorf - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/grossbeeren-osdorf/grossbeeren-osdorf-a155 - Place: Osdorfer Straße, on the Berlin city boundary at Osdorf, Großbeeren, Brandenburg, Germany - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 52.4015413, 13.3313078 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #155. A painted element on the line of the outer ring where Berlin meets Brandenburg, recorded twice by the Foundation six years apart. A painted wall element stands on the Berlin city boundary at the Osdorfer Straße, where the built-up edge of Lichterfelde gives way to the fields of Brandenburg. The Berlin Wall Foundation's directory of surviving traces holds two entries for the spot: MAU-706, recorded as a wall element at the Berlin city boundary on the Osdorfer Straße and photographed in 2016, and MAU-761, photographed in 2022 about the same distance from this record. Whether those are two elements or one element catalogued twice is not something the directory settles, and it is not settled here either. Both entries are cited, and the record says what it can: at least one original element carrying a graffito stands on this stretch of the former outer ring. The outer ring is the part of the border that almost nothing in this catalogue represents. Of the 155 kilometres of border around West Berlin, roughly 43 cut through the city itself and the remaining 112 ran through fields, lakes and village edges. That longer part was neither photographed nor sold in any quantity. Records on that line are rare, which is why a single element at a suburban road junction is worth keeping. Provenance: Not established. The Foundation's directory records the elements and their position but not their origin. Sources: - [MAU-706 Osdorfer Straße — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.mauerspuren.de/de/13183/osdorfer-strasse/#mau-706): A wall element with a graffito at the Berlin city boundary on the Osdorfer Straße, catalogued as MAU-706, classified as a Mauerelement, dated from 1980 and photographed in 2016. - [MAU-761 Mauerelement Osdorfer Straße — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.mauerspuren.de/de/13520/mauerelement-osdorfer-strasse/#mau-761): A second directory entry for a Grenzmauer 75 element with a graffito at the Osdorfer Straße, catalogued as MAU-761 and photographed in 2022. - [The Berlin Wall — Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/en/topics/berlin-wall): The border ran 155 km around West Berlin, of which roughly 43 km cut through the city itself. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Grossbeeren-Osdorf): 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. ### Hamburg, HH – Elbphilharmonie - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/hamburg/hamburg-hh-elbphilharmonie-a160 - Place: Platz der Deutschen Einheit, HafenCity, Hamburg, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 53.5412916, 9.9842058 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #160. Hamburg's Axel Springer segment, first put beside the motorway exit for Berlin and moved to the Elbphilharmonie square in 2012. A segment stands on the Platz der Deutschen Einheit in front of the Elbphilharmonie. It is one of the 33 elements Axel Springer AG gave to the German federal states and cities for the twentieth anniversary — the same distribution as the Stuttgart record — and it has already moved once: it was installed in November 2009 at the Horner Kreisel, beside the motorway exit towards Berlin, and brought to HafenCity in November 2012 when the square was finished. The first siting was a joke about direction; the second is a piece of city-marketing. Provenance: A gift from Axel Springer AG in 2009, marking twenty years since the Wall opened. Relocated within Hamburg in November 2012. Sources: - [Hamburg, HH – Elbphilharmonie — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/hamburg/): The Axel Springer gift to each German state, the 2009 installation at the Horner Kreisel and the 2012 move to HafenCity. - [MAU-747 Mauerelement vor der Elphi — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.mauerspuren.de/de/13316/mauerelement-vor-der-elphi/#mau-747): A wall element standing in front of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, catalogued as MAU-747 and photographed in 2022. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Hamburg%2C%20HH%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Elbphilharmonie): 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. ### Hamm, NW - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/hamm/hamm-nw-a163 - Place: Harringholzstraße 37, Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - Classification: Private / Limited Access; can it be seen today: Restricted access (Reported in place); evidence: Listed - Position: 51.6804093, 7.815197 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #163. A segment at a residential address in Westphalia. A segment recorded at a street address in Hamm. Germany holds more catalogue records than any other country by a wide margin, and a large share of them are like this one: a private address, no institution, no plaque, and no reason recorded. The Wall did not only go to museums and capitals; a good deal of it went home with people. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A segment of the wall at Harringholzstraße 37 in Hamm. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Hamm%2C%20NW): 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. ### Hanover, NI – Glocksee - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/hanover/hanover-ni-glocksee-a165 - Place: ÜSTRA Betriebshof Glocksee, Königsworther Straße, 30167 Hanover, Germany - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: Restricted access (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 52.3734625, 9.7183812 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #165. A section painted with a pair of pop-art robots by Tim Davies, an English artist living in Hanover, and photographed by him in 2015 on the light-rail depot of the city's transport company at Glocksee. Tim Davies, a British pop artist who has lived in Hanover for many years, painted two robot figures on an original section of the inner-city wall, which he describes on his own site as a fourth-generation element weighing 3.8 tonnes. His photographs of it are captioned by place and year — Berlin 2012 and 2014, Hanover 2014 — and the last of them, Hanover 2015, by an address: the Üstra depot at Glocksee on the Königsworther Straße, the yard of the city's transport company. The artist's pages do not say how the section came from Berlin or on what terms it stands at the depot. The Wall Net supplies the rest: painted in 2012, shown first near Checkpoint Charlie, and on loan to the Hannoversche Verkehrsbetriebe since the end of April 2015, fenced in on the depot but easy to see from a busy road. Wikipedia's article on the artist places the robot-painted section on the Glocksee depot and cites a Hannoversche Allgemeine report of 30 April 2015 on its arrival, which could not be read for this record. Who lent it is not recorded, and the most recent account of it in place read here is the artist's own, from 2015. Provenance: Painted by Tim Davies in 2012 and shown near Checkpoint Charlie, then lent to ÜSTRA from the end of April 2015, by The Wall Net's account; the artist's own pages place it at the Glocksee depot in 2015. The lender is not named. Sources: - [Hannover 2015 — Tim Davies](https://timpdavies.com/news/berlin-wall/hannover-2015/): The artist's photograph captioned Hannover 2015, Üstra-Betriebshof Glocksee, Königsworther Straße, 30167 Hannover, filed under his Berlin Wall art. - [Berliner Mauer Kunst / Berlin Wall Art — Tim Davies](https://timpdavies.com/category/news/berlin-wall/): The artist's Berlin Wall work: an original section of the inner-city border wall of 1961–89, fourth generation, weighing 3.8 tonnes, with photographs captioned Berlin 2012, Berlin 2014, Hannover 2014 and Hannover 2015. - [Tim Davies (Künstler, 1959) — Wikipedia](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Davies_(K%C3%BCnstler,_1959)): Davies presented two robot figures on an original piece of the Berlin Wall near Checkpoint Charlie in 2012; a piece of the Wall painted with robots stands on the Üstra's Glocksee depot in Hanover, citing a HAZ report of 30 April 2015, Berliner Mauerstück in Hannover angekommen. - [Hannover, NI – Glocksee — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/hannover-2/): One segment painted in 2012 by Tim Davies with two robots breaking through the Wall, shown first at Checkpoint Charlie and since the end of April 2015 on loan on the Glocksee depot of the Hannoversche Verkehrsbetriebe, fenced but visible from a busy road. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Hanover%2C%20NI%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Glocksee): 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. ### Havixbeck, NW - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/havixbeck/havixbeck-nw-a167 - Place: In front of the Anne-Frank-Gesamtschule and the Schul- und Gemeindebibliothek, Havixbeck, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display outside the school); evidence: Documented - Position: 51.9750878, 7.4135736 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #167. A segment the village's Bundeswehr partner battery gave in 1991 as a token of its partnership with Bestensee, now in front of the school and municipal library with a stele added in 2016. A report to Havixbeck's committee for youth, social affairs, schools and sport on 12 April 2016 describes the welcome for exchange students from Glen Lake Community Schools in Michigan, the school's partner since 1999: in front of the building of the school and municipal library, where a section of the former Berlin Wall stands, the history course of the sixth form unveiled a small stele that explains the Wall and the events of 1961, with a sentence of John F. Kennedy's from that year chosen by the pupils, "Eine Mauer ist verdammt noch mal besser als ein Krieg". The Wall Net, a general reference, has the earlier history: the council had thought of a partnership with a community in the other Germany even before November 1989, and through the association of towns and municipalities found Bestensee in Brandenburg. As a sign of that bond a segment has stood in Havixbeck since 1991, for years beside the fire station and later at the edge of the new school site; it was a gift of the village's Bundeswehr partner unit, the 3rd Battery of Panzerartilleriebataillon 195 at Handorf, units of which helped dismantle the border works after reunification. The quotation on the stele comes from a letter from Kennedy to Willy Brandt, and the spot was formally inaugurated in March 2016 during the American students' visit. Provenance: Given in 1991 by the 3rd Battery of Panzerartilleriebataillon 195, Handorf, the village's partner unit, by The Wall Net's account; first beside the fire station, later moved to the school; stele added in 2016. Sources: - [USA-Austausch — Ausschuss für Jugend, Soziales, Schule und Sport, Gemeinde Havixbeck, 12 April 2016](https://www.ris-havixbeck.de/bi/to0050.php?__ktonr=23462): The committee report: at the welcome for exchange students from Glen Lake Community Schools, partner since 1999, the history course of the sixth form unveiled a small stele in front of the school and municipal library building, where a section of the former Berlin Wall stands, explaining the Wall and 1961 and quoting Kennedy's "Eine Mauer ist verdammt noch mal besser als ein Krieg". - [Havixbeck, NW — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/havixbeck/): A segment in front of the Anne-Frank-Gesamtschule: the council's idea of a partnership with a community in the other Germany before November 1989, the partnership with Bestensee; a segment standing in Havixbeck since 1991, for years beside the fire station and later moved to the edge of the new school site; a gift of the 3rd Battery of Panzerartilleriebataillon 195 from Handorf; the Kennedy quotation on the stele from a 1961 letter to Willy Brandt, chosen by a history course; officially inaugurated in March 2016 during a visit of exchange students from the USA. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Havixbeck%2C%20NW): 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. ### Hemer, NW - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/hemer/hemer-nw-a171 - Place: Friedenspark, town centre, Hemer, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #171. A section of the Wall that the garrison commander had set up at the Blücher-Kaserne in 1990, now in the town's Friedenspark since its renovation in 2022. The town of Hemer's page on the Friedenspark, which it thoroughly renovated in 2022 with a new inclusive playground costing about 220,000 euros and a six-lane disc golf course, lists among the park's features a section of the Berlin Wall that was brought to the then Blücher-Kaserne in 1990. The commander of Panzerbataillon 203 and barracks commandant, Oberstleutnant Gero Herrlinger, had it set up there; the barracks are now the Sauerlandpark. The page adds the usual sentence on the Wall as the border that cut West Berlin off from 1961 and fell on 9 November 1989. The Wall Net, a general reference, says the segment passed to the town in 2004 when the Bundeswehr gave up the garrison, and that it has stood in the park since 2022 as a reminder. Provenance: Set up at the Blücher-Kaserne in 1990 on the orders of Oberstleutnant Gero Herrlinger; in the town's hands since the garrison closed in 2004, by The Wall Net's account; moved to the Friedenspark with its renovation in 2022. Sources: - [Friedenspark — Stadt Hemer](https://www.hemer.de/leben-wohnen/friedenspark): The town's page: the Friedenspark in the town centre, renovated in 2022 with a new playground for about 220,000 euros and a disc golf course, holds a section of the Berlin Wall that was transported to the then Blücher-Kaserne in 1990, where the commander of PzBtl 203 and barracks commandant Oberstleutnant Gero Herrlinger had it set up; the barracks are today the Sauerlandpark. - [Hemer, NW — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/hemer-nw/): A segment has stood in the Friedenspark since 2022; it was first set up at the Blücher-Kaserne and passed to the town of Hemer in 2004 when the Bundeswehr location closed. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Hemer%2C%20NW): 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. ### Herford, NW - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/herford/herford-nw-a172 - Place: Berliner Straße, Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #172. A four-tonne section from the Brandenburg Gate stretch, given to the town by a Berlin businessman and set up beside the Normaluhr on Berliner Straße in November 2009. The section stands on a low plinth beside the Normaluhr on Berliner Straße, at the edge of the Holland and not far from the last surviving piece of Herford's own medieval town wall. The Neue Westfälische reported it being craned onto its base on 4 November 2009: a piece of concrete about a metre wide, three metres high and around four tonnes, from the stretch at the Brandenburg Gate, still carrying paint from the days after 9 November 1989. It was handed over to the public that Saturday, 7 November, in front of about fifty people. The donor was Peter Koch, a Berlin businessman who runs a light-metal foundry there and had built several housing estates in Herford, with his wife Evelin. The mayor, Bruno Wollbrink, acknowledged at the handover that the site had been argued over. Whether the street name was the reason for choosing it, the reports do not say. It is the same pairing that Madrid, Seoul and Guatemala City arranged deliberately — a piece of the Wall on a street that carries Berlin's name. This record has no pin: the listing came without coordinates, and no checked coordinate for the Normaluhr on Berliner Straße was found. Provenance: A gift to the city of Herford from the Berlin businessman Peter Koch and his wife Evelin, set on its plinth on 4 November 2009 and handed over on 7 November; reported as having stood at the Brandenburg Gate. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A segment of the wall located on Berliner Straße in Herford. - [Berliner Mauer Herford 2022.jpg — Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABerliner_Mauer_Herford_2022.jpg): The Berlin Wall at Herford, photographed in 2022. - [Das Mauer-Denkmal steht — Neue Westfälische](https://www.nw.de/lokal/kreis_herford/herford/herford/3222730_Das-Mauer-Denkmal-steht.html): On 4 November 2009 a metre-wide, four-tonne piece of the Berlin Wall from the Brandenburg Gate, given by the Berlin businessman Peter Koch, was set on a low plinth beside the Normaluhr at the edge of the Holland, near the last piece of Herford's town wall, for handover to the public on Saturday 7 November. - [Herfords neue Achse der Erinnerung — Neue Westfälische](https://www.nw.de/lokal/kreis_herford/herford/herford/3229223_Herfords_neue_Achse_der_Erinnerung.html): The roughly four-tonne, three-metre section on Berliner Straße, a gift to the city from Peter Koch and his wife Evelin, was formally handed over in November 2009 before about fifty people; the mayor Bruno Wollbrink acknowledged earlier disagreement over the site. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Herford%2C%20NW): 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. ### Hoevelhof, NW - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/hoevelhof/hoevelhof-nw-a176 - Place: Riege, Hövelhof, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #176. An original piece set up in the village of Riege in 2009 beside the Europaradweg R1 towards Berlin, given by a local businessman. The municipality's cycling brochure lists the Berliner "Mauer-Denk-Mal" at the old Riege school as a stop on its Mühlen-Tour and, on its tour of places of remembrance, "Mauerstück der Berliner Mauer in Riege": an original piece of the Berlin Wall, set up as a reminder of Germany's division, with a short note on the Wall built in 1961 and opened in 1989. That is the municipality's own word for what stands in the village. The Paderborn district's tourism office says it has been there since 2009, put up for the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall as a symbol of the overcoming of division, and gives the nearest bus stop as Hövelhof-Riege, Spieker. The Wall Net, a general reference, places it in front of an inn on the Europaradweg R1 — the route that runs 3,500 kilometres from Boulogne-sur-Mer through Hövelhof and Berlin to St Petersburg — and says it was given by the local businessman Hartwig Liemke to tell cycling tourists they are on the way to a free Berlin. A photograph on Wikimedia Commons shows the segment in Riege on 9 November 2014. Provenance: Given by the Hövelhof businessman Hartwig Liemke and set up in 2009 for the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall, by the tourism office's and The Wall Net's accounts. Sources: - [Radfahren in Hövelhof — Gemeinde Hövelhof, cycling brochure](https://www.hoevelhof.de/de-wAssets/docs/hoevelhof/gemeindeinfos/broschueren/broschueren/Radbroschuere_Hoevelhof.pdf): The municipality's cycling brochure lists the Berliner "Mauer-Denk-Mal" at the Alte Rieger Schule as a stop on the Mühlen-Tour and, on the Erinnerungstour, "Mauerstück der Berliner Mauer in Riege": an original piece of the Berlin Wall set up as a reminder of Germany's division, with a note on the Wall built in 1961 and opened in 1989. - [Berliner Mauer — Tourismus Paderborner Land](https://www.paderborner-land.de/deu/entdecken/standorte/berliner-mauer.php): A piece of German history in the Riege district: an original section of the Berlin Wall set up in 2009, for the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall, as a "Mauer-Denk-Mal" symbolising the overcoming of division; nearest bus stop Hövelhof-Riege, Spieker. - [Riege-Segment der Berliner Mauer.jpg — Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Riege-Segment_der_Berliner_Mauer.jpg): Athde's photograph of 9 November 2014, "Segment der Berliner Mauer in Hövelhof-Riege", released CC0; no geotag. - [Hövelhof, NW — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/hoevelhof/): A segment set up for the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall in front of an inn on the Europaradweg R1 in Hövelhof, given by the local businessman Hartwig Liemke, to signal to cycle tourists that they are on the way to a free Berlin; the R1 runs 3,500 km from Boulogne-sur-Mer via Hövelhof and Berlin to St Petersburg. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Hoevelhof%2C%20NW): 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. ### Hohen Neuendorf, BB – elementary school - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/hohen-neuendorf/hohen-neuendorf-bb-elementary-school-a177 - Place: Grundschule Niederheide, Hohen Neuendorf, Brandenburg, Germany - Classification: Former Location; can it be seen today: Moved (Moved to Mogi Mirim in 2016); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 52.6768, 13.2598 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #177. A three-tonne segment painted on one side by a class of the school and its Brazilian partners in 2015 and shipped to the partner music school in Mogi Mirim in April 2016. The segment that the Berlin Wall Archive lists at an elementary school in Hohen Neuendorf no longer stands there, and it was never a memorial. The town's news of 27 April 2016 explains: seven months earlier, pupils of class 5a of the Grundschule Niederheide had painted one side of an original piece of the Wall, and on 22 April 2016 they sent it on its way to Brazil, where children of their partner music school, the Banda Lyra in Mogi Mirim in the state of São Paulo, were to receive it and paint the other side. The project belonged to „Die Erde mein Zuhause“, a global e-learning programme built around the children's character Theo Tintenklecks, in which the two schools held joint lessons by video link; the pupils questioned a Hamburg logistics firm about the route and learned that the three-tonne piece would take about seventeen days by container ship from Hamburg via Antwerp to São Paulo. The Federal Foundation's entry for Mogi Mirim fills in the rest: the Berlin association MyTheo e.V. and its founder, Sylvia Hahnisch, began the wall project in 2015; a Brazilian group of ten came to Berlin in September 2015 and painted one side of a real wall piece with the partner school in Hohen Neuendorf; the segment arrived in Mogi Mirim in May 2016, and that town's record in this catalogue follows the piece from there. The Wall Net says it came from Bornholmer Straße. Provenance: Painted at Hohen Neuendorf in September 2015 in a project of MyTheo e.V. and shipped to Mogi Mirim, Brazil, on 22 April 2016; from Bornholmer Straße according to the Wall Net. Sources: - [E-Learning global: „Die Erde mein Zuhause“ — Stadt Hohen Neuendorf, 27 April 2016](https://hohen-neuendorf.de/en/node/3322): Seven months earlier pupils of class 5a of the Grundschule Niederheide painted one side of an original part of the Berlin Wall; on 22 April 2016 they sent it to Brazil, where children of the partner music school Banda Lyra in Mogi Mirim / São Paulo were to paint the other side; the project „Die Erde mein Zuhause“ of Theo Tintenklecks with video-linked lessons; the three-tonne piece to travel about seventeen days by container ship from Hamburg via Antwerp to São Paulo; partners the Musikschule Allegro and the Dorsch-Gruppe. - [Berliner Mauer in Mogi Mirim — Die Berliner Mauer in der Welt, Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-mogi-mirim/): MyTheo e.V. and Sylvia Hahnisch began the wall project in 2015; the Banda Lyra Mogimiriana became partner school of the Grundschule Niederheide; a Brazilian group of ten came to Berlin in September 2015 and painted one side of a real wall piece with the partner school in Hohen Neuendorf; the piece arrived in Mogi Mirim in May 2016. - [Hohen Neuendorf, BB – Grundschule — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/hohen-neuendorf-bb/): One segment from Bornholmer Straße set up at the Grundschule Niederheide with the support of Theo Tintenklecks and the Berlin Musikschule Allegro e.V., painted on one side by children from both countries, and sent to Brazil in April 2016 to have its reverse painted in Mogi Mirim. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Hohen%20Neuendorf%2C%20BB%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20elementary%20school): 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. ### Hohen Neuendorf, BB – Florastraße - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/hohen-neuendorf/hohen-neuendorf-bb-florastrasse-a178 - Place: Florastraße, 16540 Hohen Neuendorf, Brandenburg, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 52.6641021, 13.3164337 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #178. A segment the Berlin Senate gave the town in 2014, kept three years in the council works yard, and set in 2017 beside the stele for a woman shot at the border in 1980. Hohen Neuendorf sits on the outer ring of the border, north-west of Berlin, and the strip ran through what is now Florastraße. Two memorial steles already stood there for people killed trying to cross from the town into West Berlin, among them Marienetta Jirkowsky, who was shot by border soldiers during an escape attempt in 1980 and died of her injuries. The Berlin Senate Chancellery gave the town an original segment in 2014. It then spent three years in the council works yard — which is its own small record of how these objects actually move — before the town put it up on 1 September 2017 on municipal land in Florastraße, beside the steles, with a path of historic stone paving laid from the pavement to reach it. The town had acquired the ground, once part of the border strip, expressly to be able to commemorate the border there later. In July 2026 a nature park and memorial site were opened on the former wall corridor at Florastraße, taking in the segment and the steles. The pairing is the point of the record. Most relocated segments in this catalogue commemorate the Wall in the abstract, a long way from it. This one stands on the line, next to the name of somebody who died crossing it. Provenance: Given to the town by the Berlin Senate Chancellery in 2014, stored on the municipal works yard for three years, and erected on 1 September 2017. Sources: - [Mauerteil für Jubiläum aufgestellt — Stadt Hohen Neuendorf](https://hohen-neuendorf.de/de/stadt-leben/aktuelles/mauerteil-fuer-jubilaeum-aufgestellt): The original segment donated by the Berlin Senate Chancellery, its three years in storage on the municipal works yard, its erection on 1 September 2017 on city-owned land in Florastraße, the two existing memorial steles including the one for Marienetta Jirkowsky, the planned stone path, and the town's acquisition of the former border land for commemoration. - [Naturpark und Gedenkort an der Florastraße eröffnet — Stadt Hohen Neuendorf](https://hohen-neuendorf.de/de/stadt-leben/aktuelles/naturpark-und-gedenkort-der-florastr-eroffnet): The opening of a nature park and memorial site on the former wall corridor at Florastraße in July 2026. - [MAU-708 Mauerelement an der Invalidensiedlung in der Florastraße — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.mauerspuren.de/de/13189/invalidensiedlung/#mau-708): A wall element with a graffito at the northern boundary of the Invalidensiedlung on the Florastraße in Hohen Neuendorf, catalogued as MAU-708 and photographed in 2020. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Hohen%20Neuendorf%2C%20BB%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Florastra%E2%88%9A%C3%BCe): 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. ### Juelich, NW - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/juelich/juelich-nw-a193 - Place: Große Rurstraße, beside the Neues Rathaus, at the foot of the Eleonorenbastion, 52428 Jülich, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #193. Three segments a Jülich building contractor brought home after the Wall fell, shown on the Schlossplatz from 2009 and given a setting beside the town hall, modelled on the Bernauer Straße memorial, in 2019. Three original segments stand on the Große Rurstraße beside Jülich's Neues Rathaus, at the foot of the Eleonorenbastion and within sight of the council chamber. They were acquired by Heinz August Schüssler, a Jülich building contractor and honorary citizen. The local magazine HERZOG says he bought them in 1989, had them brought to Jülich on a low-loader and kept them on private ground until German Unity Day 2009, when they went up on the Schlossplatz, at the corner of Kölnstraße and Schlossstraße, for the twentieth anniversary of the opening — at first, a council officer told the local paper, as a gift for a limited time that would disappear after a few weeks unless the townspeople wanted to keep it. They stayed. HERZOG says Schüssler gave the monument to the town in 2010; The Wall Net calls the segments a permanent loan; the town's own announcement says only that he acquired them and handed them over to it. Finding them a better place took years of committee meetings — the bridgehead park, the line of the old B1, the Neusser Platz and the courtyard entrance of the town hall were all considered — before they reached their present site, early in 2015 by The Wall Net's account. In September 2019 the association of Jülich businesspeople paved the surroundings and added an information panel and concrete blocks as seats, and the site was opened as a Begegnungsstätte, a place of encounter, designed with the support of the Berlin Wall Foundation after the preserved strip at Bernauer Straße. The mayor, Axel Fuchs, said that the history of the Wall and of Germany's division could not simply be wiped away. This record has no pin: the listing came without coordinates, and no checked coordinate for the site beside the Neues Rathaus was found. Provenance: Acquired by the Jülich building contractor Heinz August Schüssler — in 1989, according to HERZOG — and kept on private ground until 2009. Given to the town in 2010 by HERZOG's account; a permanent loan by The Wall Net's. Sources: - [Deutsche Geschichte zum Anfassen ermöglicht — Stadt Jülich](https://www.juelich.de/aktuelles?news=Deutsche_Geschichte_zum_Anfassen_erm_oe_glicht): The town's press release of 2 September 2019: the three original parts of the Berlin Wall acquired by Heinz August Schüssler and handed over to the town, which had stood for many years on the Schlossplatz, were formally opened beside the Neues Rathaus as a Begegnungsstätte; the association Jülicher Unternehmer added an information panel, paving and seating blocks, with the support of the Berlin Wall Foundation and after the preserved strip of the Wall; quotations from the mayor Axel Fuchs. - [Geschichte entdecken: „Berliner Mauer“ — HERZOG Kultur- & Stadtmagazin](https://www.herzog-magazin.de/magazin/geschichten/geschichte-entdecken-berliner-mauer/): An article of 3 October 2025: the wall stands on the Große Rurstraße within sight of the council chamber; Heinz-August Schüssler bought it in 1989, kept it on private ground and first showed three segments on the Schlossplatz at the corner of Kölnstraße and Schlossstraße on German Unity Day 2009, described then as a temporary gift; he gave it to the town in 2010; committees debated sites from 2010, including the Brückenkopf-Park, the Neusser Platz and the town-hall courtyard entrance, before it reached its place at the foot of the Eleonorenbastion; the setting after the Bernauer Straße memorial was created on the initiative of local businesspeople in the thirtieth year after the fall of the Wall. - [Mauer steht in Jülich — Radio Rur](https://www.radiorur.de/artikel/mauer-steht-in-juelich-317579): A report of 3 September 2019: three original parts of the Berlin Wall have been installed beside the Neues Rathaus with the support of Jülich businesspeople, after standing on the Schlossplatz, and are to stay there permanently. - [Jülich, NW — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/juelich-nw/): Three segments, a permanent loan from the Jülich building contractor and honorary citizen Heinrich August Schüssler, stood first on the edge of the Schlossplatz and were set up in front of the new town hall early in 2015. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Juelich%2C%20NW): 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. ### Kiel, SH – Department of Trade and Industy - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/kiel/kiel-sh-department-of-trade-and-industy-a199 - Place: Ministry of Economic Affairs, Düsternbrooker Weg 94, 24105 Kiel, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #199. Schleswig-Holstein's piece of the Axel Springer gift to every federal state, unveiled by the minister-president at the end of 2009. An original segment stands on the open ground in front of Schleswig-Holstein's Ministry of Economic Affairs in Kiel. It is the state's share of the gift that Axel Springer made, through BILD, to every federal state for the twentieth anniversary of the opening, and the plaque at its foot says so: a present from BILD to the Land Schleswig-Holstein, in memory of the newspaper's founder Axel Springer, who held on to his dream of German unity against all resistance. The same plaque calls the Wall twenty-eight years a means and a sign of oppression, and its pieces a symbol of freedom and self-determination and a warning that both are always at risk. The Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung gives two dates. Its memorials database says the minister-president, Peter Harry Carstensen, unveiled the segment on the ministry's grounds on 8 December 2009; the foundation's essay on the Wall in Germany lists Kiel as receiving its segment on 10 November 2009. The Wall Net says November 2009. An older lead had put Kiel's segment outside the Landeshaus, the seat of the state parliament. The sources read here put it at the ministry. This record has no pin: the listing came without coordinates, and no checked coordinate for the ministry at Düsternbrooker Weg 94 was found. Provenance: A gift from Axel Springer AG through BILD to the Land Schleswig-Holstein for the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall, one of the segments the company gave to every federal state. Sources: - [Denkmal „Berliner Mauer“ — Orte des Erinnerns](https://www.orte-des-erinnerns.de/igof_memorials/denkmal-berliner-mauer-21/): On 8 December 2009 the minister-president Carstensen unveiled an original segment of the Berlin Wall, donated by Axel Springer AG, on the grounds of the Ministry of Economic Affairs in Kiel, on the open ground in front of the ministry; the full text of the plaque at its foot, describing it as a gift from BILD to the Land Schleswig-Holstein for the twentieth anniversary in memory of Axel Springer. - [Die Berliner Mauer in Deutschland — Die Berliner Mauer in der Welt](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/sachtexte/die-berliner-mauer-in-deutschland/): Under the Axel Springer initiative every federal state received an original segment, usually set up in its capital; Kiel received one on 10 November 2009. - [Kiel, SH – Wirtschaftsministerium — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/kiel/): For the twentieth anniversary Axel Springer AG gave every federal state a segment; Schleswig-Holstein's was set up on the grounds of the economics ministry in November 2009. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Kiel%2C%20SH%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Department%20of%20Trade%20and%20Industy): 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. ### Mauerelement an der Stadtgrenze, Karl-Marx-Straße - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/kleinmachnow/kleinmachnow-karl-marx-strasse - Place: Karl-Marx-Straße / Benschallee, 14532 Kleinmachnow, Brandenburg, Germany - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 52.42066, 13.2251 An element standing on the town boundary it used to be, where Kleinmachnow meets the southern edge of Berlin. The element is at the corner of Karl-Marx-Straße and Benschallee. The Berlin Wall Foundation catalogues it as MAU-710, photographed in 2019. The line it marks is the outer ring. Of the 155 kilometres of border around West Berlin, roughly 43 cut through the city itself and the rest ran through fields and suburbs like this one — the part that was neither photographed nor sold, and which almost nothing in this catalogue represents. An element put back on the boundary is a different kind of object from one shipped to Ohio. It is not quite in its original position — this catalogue keeps that distinction carefully — but it is on the right line, which is more than almost any other relocated segment can say. Provenance: Not established. Sources: - [MAU-710 Mauerelement an der Stadtgrenze von Kleinmachnow — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.mauerspuren.de/de/13195/kleinmachnow-karl-marx-strasse/#mau-710): A wall element at the Kleinmachnow town boundary at Karl-Marx-Straße/Benschallee, catalogued as MAU-710, classified as a Mauerelement, dated from 1980 and photographed in 2019. - [The Berlin Wall — Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/en/topics/berlin-wall): The border ran 155 km around West Berlin, of which roughly 43 km cut through the city itself. ### Koblenz, RP - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/koblenz/koblenz-rp-a203 - Place: Deutsches Eck, Moselle bank, Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 50.3533278, 7.5943951 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #203. Three segments handed over by the last prime minister of East Germany in June 1990, at a monument that had been a memorial to German unity since 1953. Three original segments stand on the Moselle bank behind the Deutsches Eck, carrying the inscriptions “Den Opfern der Teilung” — to the victims of division — “17. Juni 1953” and “9. November 1989”. The site was already a memorial to German unity: in 1953 President Theodor Heuss declared the empty plinth of the Kaiser Wilhelm monument a memorial to the unity still to be regained. The segments arrived in 1990 and completed an argument the site had been making, unfinished, for thirty-seven years. Provenance: Handed over in June 1990 by Lothar de Maizière, then prime minister of the German Democratic Republic — one of very few records in this catalogue donated by the East German state itself rather than by Berlin after unification. Sources: - [Koblenz, RP — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/koblenz/): Three segments placed beside the monument in June 1990, handed over by Lothar de Maizière, with their inscriptions. - [Das Deutsche Eck in Koblenz — regionalgeschichte.net](https://www.regionalgeschichte.net/mittelrhein/koblenz/kulturdenkmaeler/deutsches-eck.html): The 1953 declaration by Theodor Heuss and the segments' role in the monument's meaning. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Koblenz%2C%20RP): 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. ### Leipzig, SN – Museum Runde Ecke - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/leipzig/leipzig-sn-museum-runde-ecke-a219 - Place: Promenadenring, by the Museum in der Runden Ecke, Leipzig, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 51.34152, 12.37 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #219. Saxony's Axel Springer segment, set on the Promenadenring outside the former Stasi district headquarters. A segment stands on the Promenadenring beside the Runde Ecke — the Leipzig district headquarters of the Stasi, occupied by citizens in December 1989 and a museum ever since. It is Saxony's share of the Axel Springer distribution for the twentieth anniversary, presented through BILD to the Free State, the city and the Bürgerkomitee Leipzig. The dedication is to 9 October 1989, when around seventy thousand people walked this ring road past this building and the order to shoot was not given. Leipzig, not Berlin, is where the regime lost its nerve; placing a piece of the Berlin Wall on the route of that march is an argument about which city ended it. Provenance: A gift from Axel Springer AG in 2009, one of the 33 elements the company acquired and distributed to German states and cities. Sources: - [Originalstück der Berliner Mauer für das Museum in der Runden Ecke — Stadt Leipzig](https://www.leipzig.de/newsarchiv/news/originalstck-der-berliner-mauer-fr-das-museum-in-der-runden-ecke): The city's own announcement of the segment presented by BILD in recognition of 9 October 1989 and Leipzig's role in the peaceful revolution. - [Leipzig, SN – Museum Runde Ecke — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/leipzig-museum-runde-ecke/): Site record and position on the Promenadenring. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Leipzig%2C%20SN%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Museum%20Runde%20Ecke): 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. ### Leonberg, BW - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/leonberg/leonberg-bw-a222 - Place: Stadtpark, Leonberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Listed - Position: 48.8012983, 9.0150026 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #222. A wall element built into a peace memorial in the Stadtpark as ensemble piece nine. A part of the Wall forms the ninth piece in a peace memorial in the Leonberg Stadtpark, designed by Hans Daniel Sailer and made with other artists working as a Bauhütte — a medieval term for the guild-workshop attached to a cathedral, revived here for a collaborative sculpture. The element is a component in someone else's composition rather than the subject of it, which is unusual: most of this catalogue displays the Wall as itself. Sources: - [Leonberg Sailer-056.jpg — Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ALeonberg_Sailer-056.jpg): The peace memorial in the Leonberg Stadtpark, designed by Hans Daniel Sailer with a Bauhütte of artists, with a part of the Berlin Wall as ensemble piece nine. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Leonberg%2C%20BW): 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. ### Luebeck, SH – Willy-Brandt-Haus - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/luebeck/luebeck-sh-willy-brandt-haus-a236 - Place: Willy-Brandt-Haus Lübeck, Königstraße 21, 23552 Lübeck, Germany - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display in the museum garden); evidence: Documented - Position: 53.8697428, 10.6895494 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #236. A segment craned into the garden of the museum to the chancellor who was governing mayor of Berlin when the Wall went up — in the only large city on the inner-German border. 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. Provenance: Acquired while the museum was being planned and craned into the garden; the museum opened in December 2007. Sources: - [Mein Lieblingsstück: Berliner Mauer — Lübeck verliebt](https://luebeck-verliebt.de/2026/05/23/mein-lieblingsstueck-berliner-mauer/): 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. - [Willy-Brandt-Haus Lübeck — Bundeskanzler Willy Brandt Stiftung](https://willy-brandt.de/en/exhibitions/exhibitions/haus-lubeck/): The museum as the Lübeck branch of the Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation, opened in December 2007, and the themes of the permanent exhibition. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Luebeck%2C%20SH%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Willy-Brandt-Haus): 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. ### Luebeck-Schlutup, SH - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/luebeck-schlutup/luebeck-schlutup-sh-a237 - Place: Schlutup, Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 53.8858398, 10.7954353 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #237. An element at the old inner-German crossing on the edge of Lübeck — the other border, and Lübeck's second record. A wall element stands at Schlutup, on the eastern edge of Lübeck. The Berlin Wall Foundation catalogues it as MAU-764, photographed in 2022. Schlutup was not on the Berlin Wall. It was a crossing point on the inner-German border, where the road ran east into Mecklenburg — the other frontier, which almost nothing in this catalogue represents. That is what makes a Berlin element here worth recording. Lübeck was the only large city on the inner-German border, and it now holds two pieces of the Berlin one: this, and the segment craned into the garden of the Willy-Brandt-Haus. The city that lived beside the longer border commemorates it with concrete from the shorter, more famous one. Provenance: Not established. The Foundation's directory records the element and its position but not its origin. Sources: - [MAU-764 Mauerelement Lübeck-Schlutup — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.mauerspuren.de/de/13526/mauersegment-lubeck-schlutup/#mau-764): A wall element at Lübeck-Schlutup, catalogued as MAU-764, classified as a Mauerelement, dated from 1980 and photographed in 2022. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Luebeck-Schlutup%2C%20SH): 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. ### Luedinghausen, NRW - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/luedinghausen/luedinghausen-nrw-a238 - Place: Ruth-Weiss-Platz, Lüdinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 51.7717757, 7.444639 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #238. Two segments painted by the Lüdinghausen artist Alfred Gockel, shown first in Athens and since 2020 a memorial in his own town, kept by a local association for justice and peace. Two original segments of the Berlin Wall make up the memorial that the Arbeitsstelle Gerechtigkeit und Frieden, a Lüdinghausen association for justice and peace, describes on what it now calls the Ruth-Weiss-Platz. By the association's account the pieces stood first in Athens, were painted by the artist Alfred Gockel, and have stood in Lüdinghausen since the memorial was inaugurated in 2020. Beside them is a KreativWand, a panel developed with Gockel and pupils of the Richard-von-Weizsäcker-Berufskolleg as a place for changing messages about the walls in people's heads. The Wall Net fills in the route. The segments were bought in 2007 from the stock of Baumedia GmbH in Lünen, lent to the German embassy in Athens from 2010 to 2015, and brought back by Gockel when the embassy no longer had room for them; the association then bought them and, with the town, its citizens' foundation and local firms, put up the memorial in front of the police station on the Seppenrader Straße in October 2020. In 2026 the square is being rebuilt and the memorial given a new subject. Pupils of the Canisianum have made a large stencil portrait of Ruth Weiss — the Jewish journalist and opponent of apartheid who lived in Lüdinghausen for many years and died in 2025 — with her appeal BE HUMAN, to be set into the KreativWand once the work on the square is finished. Provenance: From the stock of Baumedia GmbH, Lünen, bought in 2007; lent to the German embassy in Athens from 2010 to 2015 and painted by Alfred Gockel; bought by the Arbeitsstelle Gerechtigkeit und Frieden and inaugurated as a memorial in Lüdinghausen in 2020. Sources: - [AK Friedensräume — Arbeitsstelle Gerechtigkeit & Frieden](https://guf-lh.de/ak-friedensraeume/): The association's own page: the wall memorial inaugurated in 2020 on the Ruth-Weiss-Platz consists of two original pieces of the Berlin Wall, which stood first in Athens, were designed by the artist Alfred Gockel and have recalled the overcoming of borders in Lüdinghausen since 2020; the KreativWand was developed with Gockel and pupils of the Richard-von-Weizsäcker-Berufskolleg; in 2026 the square is being rebuilt and pupils of the Canisianum have made a stencil portrait of Ruth Weiss (1924–2025), with the words BE HUMAN, to be integrated once the work on the square is complete. - [Lüdinghausen — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/luedinghausen/): Two segments and a KreativWand set up in October 2020 in front of the police station on Seppenrader Straße; bought in 2007 from Baumedia GmbH in Lünen, lent to the German embassy in Athens from 2010 to 2015, painted by Alfred Gockel, and acquired by the Arbeitsstelle Gerechtigkeit und Frieden, which realised the memorial with the town, its citizens' foundation and local businesses. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Luedinghausen%2C%20NRW): 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. ### Luenen, NRW - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/luenen/luenen-nrw-a239 - Place: Restaurant Westermann's, An der Wethmarheide, Lünen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: Unknown (Not confirmed since 2020); evidence: Documented - Position: 51.6142482, 7.5228088 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #239. Three painted elements that spent three years in a restaurant's beer garden on the Wethmarheide, until two of them left for Dortmund in September 2020. The Ruhr Nachrichten reported on 1 September 2020 that three elements of the Berlin Wall, each weighing 2.8 tonnes, had stood for three years in the beer garden of the restaurant Westermann's on the Wethmarheide in Lünen, and that two of them had been moved that day to Dortmund, to the Lensing Carrée of Lensing Media. The Wall Net, a general reference, says the three came from the stock of Baumedia GmbH, the Lünen firm that had lent segments to the German embassy in Athens in 2010 — the stock the pair now at Lüdinghausen came from — and that in the spring of 2019 the Ruhr-born artist miNo repainted them as a memorial to the Wall and its victims. Neither source says what became of the third element after September 2020, or whether it is still in the beer garden. Provenance: From the stock of Baumedia GmbH, Lünen, by The Wall Net's account, and repainted by miNo in 2019. Two of the three elements moved to Lensing Media in Dortmund on 1 September 2020. Sources: - [Mauerstücke aus Lünen ziehen vom „Westermann‘s“ ins Lensing-Carré — Ruhr Nachrichten](https://www.ruhrnachrichten.de/luenen/mauerstuecke-aus-luenen-ziehen-vom-westermanns-ins-lensing-carree-w1551341-2000086153/): A report by Daniel Claeßen of 1 September 2020: for three years three elements of the Berlin Wall stood in the beer garden of the restaurant Westermann's on the Wethmarheide in Lünen; that day two of them moved to the Lensing Carrée of Lensing Media in Dortmund; each element weighs 2.8 tonnes. - [Lünen, NRW — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/luenen-nrw/): Three segments from the stock of Baumedia GmbH, which lent segments to the German embassy in Athens in 2010, on the grounds of the restaurant Westermanns in Lünen; repainted in spring 2019 by the Ruhr-born artist miNo as a memorial to the Wall and its victims; two of the three moved to Dortmund in September 2020. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Luenen%2C%20NRW): 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. ### Magdeburg, ST - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/magdeburg/magdeburg-st-a243 - Place: Lothar-Kreyssig-Straße, by the cathedral, Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 52.12519, 11.63237 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #243. A segment in the capital of Saxony-Anhalt, a city that was on the eastern side of the line. A segment of the Wall in Magdeburg. It belongs to a small and easily missed group in this catalogue: pieces that went to cities in the former GDR. Almost everything here travelled west or abroad, because that is where the buyers and the diplomatic recipients were. A segment standing in Magdeburg is a piece of the border returned to the side it was built to hold in. The city's own page on its memorials places it on Lothar-Kreyssig-Straße, where a timeline of the division runs between it and the citizens' monument to the Monday demonstrations of 1989, and the Volksstimme records how it got there and what happened to it: given by the Springer publishing house in its round of gifts to the state capitals, vandalised in April 2012, and redesigned for 9 November 2013 by the Magdeburg designer Christoph Ackermann, who won a city competition with a dove breaking from its cage and a woodpecker pecking the outline of a united Germany into the concrete. Provenance: Given by Axel Springer's publishing house in its 2009 round of gifts to the state capitals, by the Volksstimme's account; redesigned by Christoph Ackermann in 2013. Sources: - [Segment der Berliner Mauer Magdeburg.JPG — Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASegment_der_Berliner_Mauer_Magdeburg.JPG): A segment of the Berlin Wall at Magdeburg. - [Mahnmale zur Teilung Europas und Opfer des Eisernen Vorhangs / Landeshauptstadt Magdeburg](https://www.magdeburg.de/MahnmaleTeilungEuropas): The City of Magdeburg's page on its memorials to the division of Europe: the segment of the Berlin Wall on Lothar-Kreyssig-Straße, with a timeline of the division running between it and the citizens' monument to the peaceful revolution, and the names of victims on a memorial plaque integrated into the existing segment. - [Magdeburger Designer lässt einen Specht am Dom das vereinte Deutschland meißeln](https://www.volksstimme.de/nachrichten/magdeburg/1172485_Magdeburger-Designer-laesst-einen-Specht-am-Dom-das-vereinte-Deutschland-meisseln.html): Volksstimme, 7 November 2013: the 3.60 metre, 2.7 tonne segment on Lothar-Kreyssig-Straße by the cathedral, vandalised in April 2012, was redesigned by the Magdeburg designer Christoph Ackermann after a city competition, with a dove breaking from its cage and a woodpecker pecking out the outline of united Germany, for unveiling by the mayor on 9 November 2013. - [Wenig Interesse am Wende-Zeitstrahl](https://www.volksstimme.de/lokal/magdeburg/wenig-interesse-am-wende-zeitstrahl-428470): Volksstimme, 29 July 2011: the segment in the chestnut grove in front of the cathedral was given to Magdeburg, as to the other state capitals, by the Springer publishing house, and a timeline of the twenty-eight years from the building of the Wall to its fall was to link it to the citizens' monument some fifty metres away. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Magdeburg%2C%20ST): 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. ### Mainz, RP - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/mainz/mainz-rp-a244 - Place: By the Theodor-Heuss-Brücke, Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 50.0012314, 8.2762513 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #244. Rhineland-Palatinate's segment from the Axel Springer gift to the federal states, inaugurated by the Rhine bridge in September 2009, with a stele on the history of division added beside it that November. An original segment stands by the Theodor-Heuss-Brücke in Mainz, one of the segments the publisher Axel Springer gave for the twentieth anniversary of the opening. It was inaugurated on 8 September 2009 in the presence of the minister-president of Rhineland-Palatinate, Kurt Beck. On 6 November 2009 the mayor, Jens Beutel, and Michael Ebling, then a state secretary, unveiled an information stele a few metres away: its front describes the events of 9 November 1989 and the inner-German border, its back sets out a chronicle of divided Germany from 1945 to 1990, and in its form it continues the city's series of Historisches Mainz markers. The Wall Net dates the segment to November 2009 and says the site near the Rheingoldhalle was chosen deliberately: it was there, on 31 May 1989, that President George Bush said that the world had waited long enough, that the time was right, and that Europe must be free and undivided. The Bundesstiftung's memorials database does not mention the speech. Provenance: A gift from Axel Springer AG, one of the segments the company gave to the German states for the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall. Sources: - [Denkmal „Berliner Mauer“ und Informationsstele — Orte des Erinnerns](https://www.orte-des-erinnerns.de/igof_memorials/denkmal-berliner-mauer-und-informationsstele/): An original segment of the Berlin Wall at the Theodor-Heuss-Brücke in Mainz, donated by the Axel Springer publishing house and inaugurated on 8 September 2009 in the presence of the minister-president Kurt Beck; on 6 November 2009 the mayor Jens Beutel and the then state secretary Michael Ebling unveiled an information stele a few metres away, with the events of 9 November 1989 and the inner-German border on the front and a chronicle of 1945–1990 on the back, continuing the Historisches Mainz series. - [Mainz, RP — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/mainz/): For the twentieth anniversary Axel Springer AG gave every federal state a segment; Rhineland-Palatinate's was set up in Mainz in November 2009, near the Rheingoldhalle, deliberately, because George Bush senior spoke there on 31 May 1989 of a Europe that must be free and undivided. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Mainz%2C%20RP): 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. ### Munich, BY – American Consulate - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/munich/munich-by-american-consulate-a281 - Place: Englischer Garten, by the US Consulate General, Königinstraße, Munich, Germany - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 48.1451958, 11.5841143 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #281. Bought privately in 1990 and kept in a politician's own garden for years before he gave it to the Free State of Bavaria. An original segment stands at the south-west corner of the Englischer Garten, beside the United States Consulate General on the Königinstraße and within sight of the Bavarian State Chancellery. It has been there since the beginning of October 1996: the visitor guide this record first rested on gives 3 October, German Unity Day, and the Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung's memorials database gives 2 October, with the unveiling marking the sixth anniversary of unity and a speech by the minister-president, Edmund Stoiber. The sculptor Joachim Hoppe made the segment into a memorial, with three iron plates set at an angle into the ground and leaning left and right to open a path — a breach in the Wall. The site is freely accessible at any hour, which is not true of most segments standing next to diplomatic buildings. Provenance: Acquired in 1990 by Johannes Singhammer, then a member of parliament for the CSU, who set it up in his own garden. He gave it to the Free State of Bavaria a few years later, and it was installed on its present site in 1996. Sources: - [Berlin Wall Munich — Englischer Garten München](https://www.englischer-garten-muenchen-infos.de/en/sights/berlin-wall-munich/): The Singhammer purchase in 1990, the years in his garden, the gift to Bavaria and the installation on 3 October 1996. - [Munich, BY – American Consulate — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/muenchen-d/): Site record and position beside the consulate. - [Denkmal „Berliner Mauer“ — Orte des Erinnerns](https://www.orte-des-erinnerns.de/igof_memorials/denkmal-berliner-mauer-61/): A memorial of Wall parts erected on the Königinstraße in the Englischer Garten on 2 October 1996: the CSU member of the Bundestag Johannes Singhammer bought a segment, had it taken to his garden and later gave it to the Free State of Bavaria; the sculptor Joachim Hoppe made it into a work with three angled iron plates symbolising a breach, and it was unveiled for the sixth anniversary of German unity with a speech by Edmund Stoiber. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Munich%2C%20BY%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20American%20Consulate): 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. ### Neckargemuend, BW - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/neckargemuend/neckargemuend-bw-a283 - Place: Menzerpark, Neckargemünd, Baden-Württemberg, Germany - Classification: Fragment; can it be seen today: On display (On display under glass); evidence: Documented - Position: 49.3954054, 8.7965893 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #283. A 650-kilogram piece that East German border guards traded for beer in the days after the border opened, the leavers' monument of a grammar-school year of 1990, lent to the town and kept behind glass since vandals broke it. The piece stands in the Menzerpark, framed in thick concrete behind a glass wall. It weighs 650 kilograms and comes from the West Berlin face of the Wall. The Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung has told how it got here twice, and the two accounts agree on the outline. The leavers' year of 1990 at the town's grammar school, then the Gymnasium Neckargemünd and now the Max-Born-Gymnasium, wanted a piece of the Wall as a leavers' monument; the first idea, the 2018 report says, had been to sell it to Michael Jackson. In the first days after the border opened, a former classmate who had moved to Berlin went with friends from his school there onto ground that was still guarded. Turned away once by the West Berlin police, they asked East German border guards on a watchtower, who brought a piece to the border in exchange for beer — a crate of it in the paper's 2014 telling, a few bottles in its 2018 one. In Neckargemünd it was painted and set up in the school yard. When the head teacher no longer wanted it there, the year offered it to the town as a permanent loan, and the mayor, Oskar Schuster, had it put in the Menzerpark. In September 2013 vandals tore it from its anchoring and it broke. The town had it restored: the pieces were glued onto a cast concrete slab with two U-profiles, the whole now weighing about two tonnes, and it was set back in its old place on 21 November 2014 for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the opening of the Wall, with a former head of the Federal Intelligence Service among the guests. By 2018 it had been enclosed in concrete and glass, and its painting renewed under one of the original leavers. Provenance: Obtained from East German border guards in the first days after the border opened by Berlin school friends of a Neckargemünd pupil, for the leavers' year of 1990 at the Gymnasium Neckargemünd; shown in the school yard, then lent to the town, which set it in the Menzerpark. Restored after vandalism in 2013 and re-erected on 21 November 2014. Sources: - [Die Berliner Mauer steht wieder - aber in Neckargemünd — Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung](https://www.rnz.de/region_artikel,-Region-Heidelberg-Die-Berliner-Mauer-steht-wieder-aber-in-Neckargemuend-_arid,69806.html): A report of 24 November 2014: the original piece of the Wall, from its West Berlin side, back in its old place in the Menzerpark since the previous Friday, after vandals tore it from its anchoring in September 2013 and it broke; the town had it restored and re-erected for the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Wall. The leavers' year of 1990 of today's Max-Born-Gymnasium, then the Gymnasium Neckargemünd, got the 650 kg piece from GDR border soldiers for a crate of West German beer, painted it and set it up as a leavers' monument on the school grounds, then offered it to the town as a permanent loan; the mayor Oskar Schuster had it set up in the Menzerpark. A former head of the Federal Intelligence Service attended; the fragments were glued onto a cast concrete slab with two U-profiles and the whole weighs about two tonnes. - [Menzerpark statt Michael Jackson — Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung](https://www.rnz.de/region_artikel,-Neckargemuend-Menzerpark-statt-Michael-Jackson-_arid,407646.html): A report of 17 December 2018: the 650 kg piece in the Menzerpark, protected behind a glass wall and framed in thick concrete; the original plan was to sell it to Michael Jackson; a former Neckargemünd pupil who had moved to Berlin and friends from the Schiller-Gymnasium there, turned away once by the West Berlin police, got East German border guards on a watchtower to bring a piece to the border for a few bottles of beer in the first days after the Wall opened; it was painted and set up in the school yard until the head teacher no longer wanted it, then lent to the town under the mayor Oskar Schuster; damaged by vandalism, now encased in concrete behind glass, its painting renewed under one of the 1990 leavers. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Neckargemuend%2C%20BW): 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. ### Neubeckum, NW - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/neubeckum/neubeckum-nw-a285 - Place: Eternit works, Neubeckum, Beckum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: Restricted access (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 51.7989322, 8.0252277 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #285. Elements that lay forgotten twice — on Eternit's Berlin works and then at its Westphalian plant — before the firm stood them up near its works entrance in 2011, graffiti side out. Eternit's main works stood in Berlin-Rudow, hard against the border, and the Wall went up beside it in August 1961. Die Glocke reported in August 2011, fifty years on, how part of it came to stand on the company's ground in Neubeckum instead. By the deputy works manager's account, Eternit took the elements down itself — the paper gives the year as 1998, in a sentence that also places it at the fall of the Iron Curtain — and they then lay forgotten on the Berlin site until the Rudow works closed in 2001, when the clearance brought them back to light and they were sent to Neubeckum. There they were forgotten again, unloaded with the grey east side up, until they had to be moved and the other face turned out to be covered in graffiti, with a stylised peace sign by an unknown painter at its centre. The town of Beckum was offered them, and a council committee agreed to set them up beside the Werse cycle path. That never happened: the town told the paper the L-shaped segments could not be made stable. So at the works family day in May 2011 the company stood the roughly four-metre elements up on its own site, not far from the works entrance, with a coating against weathering. Souvenir hunters had already chipped at them. The Wall Net counts four segments; the newspaper gives no number. Provenance: Taken down by Eternit at its Rudow works in Berlin, kept there until the works closed in 2001, moved to the Neubeckum plant and set up on the works site in May 2011. Sources: - [Wie ein Mauer-Stück nach Neubeckum kam — Die Glocke](https://www.die-glocke.de/lokalnachrichten/wie-ein-mauer-stueck-nach-neubeckum-kam-1622828057): A report of 12 August 2011: parts of the Wall from beside Eternit's main works in Berlin-Rudow stand on the Eternit site in Neubeckum, the roughly four-metre fragments not far from the works entrance; by the deputy works manager's account Eternit removed them itself ('1998, beim Fall des Eisernen Vorhangs'), they lay forgotten on the Berlin site until the Rudow works closed in 2001, were moved to Neubeckum and forgotten again until the graffiti side, with a peace sign by an unknown artist, was found when they were moved; a plan agreed with the town of Beckum to set them up by the Werse cycle path failed because the L-shaped segments could not be made stable; they were set up on the works site at the family day in May, coated against weathering. - [Neubeckum, NW — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/neubeckum-nw/): Four segments at the Eternit works in Neubeckum, found on the Rudow site when it closed in 2001, rediscovered with their graffiti in 2011 and set up on the works grounds. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Neubeckum%2C%20NW): 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. ### Neuenstein, BW - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/neuenstein/neuenstein-bw-a286 - Place: FKN, Kirchensaller Straße, Neuenstein, Baden-Württemberg, Germany - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 49.2047713, 9.5803049 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #286. Two painted remnants outside a local firm, which the regional paper found still standing on the fiftieth anniversary of the Wall's construction — so far the only account of them. The pieces stand on Kirchensaller Straße in Neuenstein, in front of the FKN company, which set them up in 1990. The Heilbronner Stimme mentioned them in August 2011, at the end of a profile of a Neuenstein couple who had been separated from family by the Wall and left the GDR in November 1988. The Wall, the paper wrote, still stands in Neuenstein: only two remnants, but bigger and more colourful than the small grey fragments the couple keep on their living-room table, and they pass them often on the way to the shops. That is all the report says. Where in Berlin they came from and how the firm acquired them are not established here. Provenance: Set up by the FKN company in 1990; how it obtained them is not recorded. Sources: - [Von der Mutter getrennt: Das war ein Schock — Heilbronner Stimme](https://www.stimme.de/hohenlohe/nachrichten/von-der-mutter-getrennt-das-war-ein-schock-art-2213997): A report of 13 August 2011: the Wall still stands in Neuenstein, as two remnants in front of the FKN company, bigger and more colourful than the fragments a local couple keep at home; the caption says the remnants stand in Kirchensaller Straße and that FKN set them up in 1990. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Neuenstein%2C%20BW): 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. ### Neumarkt (Oberpfalz), BY - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/neumarkt-oberpfalz/neumarkt-oberpfalz-by-a287 - Place: Staatliche Berufsschule, Berufliches Schulzentrum, Deininger Weg, 92318 Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Bavaria, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display at the school entrance); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 49.26565, 11.47063 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #287. A segment that fenced bulk material at Berlin concrete plants and stood in an art project at Teltow until 2014, unveiled at the vocational school's entrance on 6 November 2014. For the twenty-fifth anniversary of the fall of the Wall the vocational school held a theme week from 3 to 7 November 2014, with the Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung's exhibition „Die Mauer“ in the assembly hall and three talks by Lutz Quester, a political prisoner in the GDR whose release the Federal Republic had bought. Its high point was the inauguration of an original segment of the Wall in front of the main entrance on Thursday 6 November 2014, in the presence of Albert Füracker, state secretary in the Bavarian finance ministry, the district administrator Willibald Gailler, Kurt Walther of the Max Bögl group and the former head Rüdiger Cedl. The school's own account of the piece's route is unusually precise. The segment was sold by the NVA and the Bundeswehr in 1990/91 and used to enclose bulk material at concrete mixing plants around Berlin; when those plants were dismantled it was set up on the premises of Klösters Baustoffwerke in Teltow, where it was part of an art project until 2014, and it was bought for the school centre with the support of the school's Förderverein, the Kreishandwerkerschaft Neumarkt and the Max Bögl group. The social-studies department wanted the „Denk-mal“ to recall the courage of GDR citizens who kept to their convictions, tried to leave the country at the risk of their lives or joined the demonstrations, and to keep the memory of the victims of the Wall. The Neumarkter Nachrichten reported the next day that the piece stands to the right of the entrance of the state vocational school on Deininger Weg, and that some pupils thought a witness's talk worth more than a mute stone; the teacher who had organised it, Thomas Trappe, answered that the price had not been high and that the symbol was what counted. Provenance: Sold by the NVA/Bundeswehr in 1990/91 and used at concrete plants around Berlin; set up at Klösters Baustoffwerke in Teltow, part of an art project there until 2014; bought for the school centre with the Förderverein, the Kreishandwerkerschaft Neumarkt and Max Bögl, and inaugurated on 6 November 2014. Sources: - [25 Jahre Mauerfall — Berufliches Schulzentrum Neumarkt](https://www.bsz-neumarkt.de/index.php/berufsschule-neumarkt/sozialkunde/projekte-sozialkunde/77-25-jahre-mauerfall): The school's own account: an original piece of the Berlin Wall stands in front of the main entrance; the theme week of 3–7 November 2014 with the Bundesstiftung's exhibition and Lutz Quester's talks; the segment was sold by the NVA/Bundeswehr in 1990/91, used to enclose bulk material at concrete plants around Berlin, then set up at Klösters Baustoffwerke in Teltow as part of an art project until 2014, and bought with the Förderverein, the Kreishandwerkerschaft Neumarkt and the Max Bögl group; inaugurated on Thursday 6 November 2014 with Albert Füracker, Willibald Gailler, Kurt Walther, Rüdiger Cedl and Lutz Quester; the memorial's purpose. - [Ein Stück Stein und ein Zeitzeuge in der Berufschule — Neumarkter Nachrichten / nordbayern.de, 7 November 2014](https://www.nordbayern.de/oberpfalz/neumarkt/ein-stuck-stein-und-ein-zeitzeuge-in-der-berufschule-1.3994878): Since Thursday a part of the Berlin Wall officially stands at the state vocational school on Deininger Weg, to the right of the entrance, inaugurated with the head Albert Hierl, Landrat Willibald Gailler, state secretary Albert Füracker and a witness; the social-studies teacher Thomas Trappe on its purpose and on pupils' criticism of the cost. - [Neumarkt (Oberpfalz), BY — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/neumarkt-oberpfalz-by/): One segment at the main entrance of the Berufsschule, set up for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the fall of the Wall, acquired with the Förderverein, the Kreishandwerkerschaft and Max Bögl; photographs of the inauguration in December 2014 credited to Agrar News. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Neumarkt%20(Oberpfalz)%2C%20BY): 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. ### Nienburg/Weser, NI - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/nienburg-weser/nienburg-weser-ni-a299 - Place: Berliner Ring, Nienburg/Weser, Lower Saxony, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 52.6487602, 9.2578105 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #299. Two fragments from the Staaken border crossing, given to the town in the early 1990s and made a memorial site in 2010 by the mayors of the two Nienburgs, on the Weser and on the Saale. The fragments stand on the Berliner Ring, at what the town calls its Erinnerungsort „Berliner Mauer“. The regional tourist board says they came from the border crossing at Berlin-Staaken, were given to the town and were handed over to the public on 8 May 1992. The Wall Net gives the background: in 1991 the commander of the Clausewitz barracks in Nienburg had four segments, kept two on the base and gave the other two to the town. On 30 May 2010 the place was inaugurated as a memorial by Nienburg/Weser's mayor, Henning Onkes, and Markus Bauer, mayor of Nienburg (Saale) — the town of the same name in Saxony-Anhalt with which it has been twinned for twenty years — to recall the peaceful revolution in the GDR, reunification and the partnership. For the occasion, within a joint project in which pupils from both towns worked through the history, the Belarusian painter Wladimir Wolnow restored the graffiti. The site is in use. In June 2023 the town's Arbeitskreis Gedenken invited people to a commemoration there of the 1953 uprising in the GDR, and asked them to bring flowers to decorate the wall fragments on the Berliner Ring. Provenance: By The Wall Net's account, two of four segments obtained in 1991 by the commander of the Clausewitz barracks and given to the town; by the tourist board's, from the Berlin-Staaken crossing and handed over on 8 May 1992. Inaugurated as a memorial site on 30 May 2010, with the graffiti restored by Wladimir Wolnow. Sources: - [Der 17. Juni 1953: erster Baustein auf dem Weg zur Wiedervereinigung — Stadt Nienburg/Weser](https://www.nienburg.de/portal/meldungen/der-17-juni-1953-erster-baustein-auf-dem-weg-zur-wiedervereinigung-902011581-21501.html): The town's Arbeitskreis Gedenken invited people to a commemoration of the 1953 uprising on 17 June 2023 at the Erinnerungsort „Berliner Mauer“, asking them to bring flowers to decorate the wall fragments set up on the Berliner Ring. - [Erinnerungsort „Berliner Mauer“ in Nienburg (Weser) — Stadt Nienburg (Saale)](https://www.stadt-nienburg-saale.de/news/1/110588/nachrichten/110588.html): On Sunday 30 May 2010 an Erinnerungsort „Berliner Mauer“ in Nienburg/Weser was inaugurated by the mayors Henning Onkes (Nienburg/Weser) and Markus Bauer (Nienburg (Saale)), to recall the peaceful revolution, reunification and twenty years of partnership between the two towns; within the joint project „Spurensuche“, in which pupils of two schools researched the history, the graffiti were restored by the Belarusian painter Wladimir Wolnow. - [Fragmente der Berliner Mauer — Mittelweser-Touristik](https://www.mittelweser-tourismus.de/poi/fragmente-der-berliner-mauer/): The two wall fragments come from the Berlin-Staaken border crossing; they were given to the town of Nienburg/Weser and handed over to the public on 8 May 1992. - [Nienburg/Weser, NI — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/nienburgweser-ni/): Two segments on the Berliner Ring: in 1991 the commander of the Clausewitz barracks had four segments, two set up on the base and two given to the town; the memorial site inaugurated in May 2010 with the mayor of Nienburg/Saale, the graffiti restored by Wladimir Wolnow. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Nienburg%2FWeser%2C%20NI): 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. ### Northeim, NI - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/northeim/northeim-ni-a301 - Place: Rhumebrücke, corner of Seesener Landstraße and Rückingsallee, Northeim, Lower Saxony, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 51.713952, 9.998821 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #301. A segment from the border in Berlin-Mitte, found in 2003 at a disbanded barracks in Osterode by veterans of Northeim's old garrison and painted by grammar-school pupils for the town in 2009. The segment stands on a green beside the Rhumebrücke, at the corner of Seesener Landstraße and Rückingsallee, covered in symbols of peace and freedom. It was unveiled there on 10 November 2009, for the twentieth anniversary of the opening of the Wall. The town's own account, published for the thirtieth, is that the Kameradenkreis der ehemaligen Garnison Northeim — the association of former members of the town's garrison — under its chairman Claus Bumann found it in 2003 on the grounds of the disbanded barracks in Osterode, brought it to Northeim with the help of sponsors and gave it to the town in 2009. An art class at the Corvinianum grammar school painted the once grey concrete. The town adds the particulars: reinforced concrete, 3.60 metres high and 1.20 metres wide on a 2-metre foot, 2.7 tonnes, carrying the number 62, from the border area in Berlin-Mitte, and one of 360 elements given away or sold in 1990. The Wall Net fills in the years between. The Panzergrenadierbataillon 12 at Osterode had obtained two pieces through the Bundeswehr in Berlin; it gave one to the town of Osterode and set the other up in 1991 outside a company at the Rommel-Kaserne, where it stayed when the barracks closed in 2003, until the federal property agency released it to the Kameradenkreis in 2009 on condition that it not be used commercially. Provenance: From the border area in Berlin-Mitte. By The Wall Net's account obtained through the Bundeswehr by the Panzergrenadierbataillon 12 and set up at the Rommel-Kaserne in Osterode in 1991; found there in 2003 by the Kameradenkreis der ehemaligen Garnison Northeim, released by the federal property agency in 2009, given to the town and unveiled on 10 November 2009. Sources: - [Mauerstück an der Rhumebrücke stammt aus dem Grenzbereich Berlin Mitte — Stadt Northeim](https://www.northeim.de/startseite-details/mauerstueck-an-der-rhumebruecke-stammt-aus-dem-grenzbereich-berlin-mitte.html): A town notice of 4 November 2019: the painted piece of the Berlin Wall at the Rhumebrücke, corner of Seesener Landstraße and Rückingsallee, was unveiled ten years earlier on 10 November; the Kameradenkreis der ehemaligen Garnison Northeim under its chairman Claus Bumann found it in 2003 on the grounds of the disbanded barracks in Osterode, brought it to Northeim with sponsors' help and gave it to the town in 2009; pupils of an art class at the Corvinianum painted it; it carries the number 62, is one of 360 wall parts given away or sold in 1990, is reinforced concrete 3.60 m high, 1.20 m wide with a 2.00 m foot and weighs 2.7 tonnes, and comes from the border area in Berlin-Mitte. - [Northeim, NI — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/northeim/): One segment from the Berlin-Mitte border on a municipal green at the Rhumebrücke: the Panzergrenadierbataillon 12 at Osterode obtained two pieces through the Bundeswehr in Berlin, gave one to the town of Osterode and set the other up in 1991 at the Rommel-Kaserne, where it remained after the site closed in 2003; in 2009 the federal property agency in Magdeburg released it to the Kameradenkreis der ehemaligen Garnison Northeim on condition it not be used commercially; designed by a Year 11 art class of the Corvinianum. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Northeim%2C%20NI): 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. ### Nuremberg, BY - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/nuremberg/nuremberg-by-a302 - Place: Hallplatz, Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (Photographed in place); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 49.44914, 11.07916 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #302. Bavaria's segment from the Axel Springer distribution of 2009, on the Hallplatz between the expellees' memorial and the Way of Human Rights. The segment stands on the Hallplatz, between the memorial to flight and expulsion and the Kartäusergasse with the columns of the Way of Human Rights, and the Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung's memorials database explains why it is here rather than in Munich. It is the Bavarian element of the 2009 distribution in which Axel Springer AG gave a segment to every federal state for the twentieth anniversary of the opening. Most went to the state capital; Bavaria's went to Nuremberg as the city of peace and human rights, and as one where an unusually large number of expellees and refugees from the GDR had settled. The 2.7-tonne, 3.60-metre element was unveiled on 12 December 2009 by the federal defence minister of the day, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg. The photograph confirms the object; the database places it. Until October 2026 this record could say only that the piece was somewhere in Nuremberg. Provenance: A gift from Axel Springer AG for the twentieth anniversary of the opening, one element to each federal state; Bavaria's was set up in Nuremberg and unveiled on 12 December 2009. Sources: - [Berlin Wall segment - Nuremberg, Germany - DSC02329.jpg — Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABerlin_Wall_segment_-_Nuremberg%2C_Germany_-_DSC02329.jpg): A photograph of a Berlin Wall segment in Nuremberg, released under CC0. - [Denkmal „Berliner Mauer“ — Orte des Erinnerns](https://www.orte-des-erinnerns.de/igof_memorials/denkmal-berliner-mauer-41/): A 2.7-tonne, 3.60-metre segment on the Hallplatz, between the memorial to flight and expulsion and the Kartäusergasse with its human-rights columns, since 12 December 2009, unveiled by the defence minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg; Axel Springer AG's gift to the state of Bavaria for the twentieth anniversary, placed in Nuremberg rather than the state capital as the city of peace and human rights and the home of many expellees and GDR refugees. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Nuremberg%2C%20BY): 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. ### Oberkirch, BW - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/oberkirch/oberkirch-bw-a304 - Place: Rathaus garden, Oberkirch, Baden-Württemberg, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display in the garden); evidence: Documented - Position: 48.5307122, 8.0783998 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #304. Two graffiti-covered segments a local media entrepreneur gave the town for his fiftieth birthday in 1998, unveiled eleven years later for the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall. The two segments stand in the garden of Oberkirch's town hall, beside a plaque. They were a gift to the town in 1998 from the media entrepreneur Werner Kimmig, for his fiftieth birthday. He had been in East Berlin on a visit in August 1961 and saw the Wall go up — at thirteen, by The Wall Net's account. The Federal Foundation's directory of memorial sites records that they were handed over to the public, still covered in graffiti, on 7 November 2009, in the presence of Kimmig, the Land finance minister Willi Stächele and the member of the Bundestag Arnold Vaatz. The plaque reads „Diese Mauerreste sollen eine Mahnung an alle sein, sich stets für das hohe Gut der Freiheit und den Frieden, aufgebaut auf demokratischen Grundwerten, einzusetzen“ — these remains of the Wall should remind everyone always to stand up for freedom and peace, built on democratic values. Where the segments were in the eleven years between the gift and the unveiling, the sources do not say. Provenance: Given to the town in 1998 by the Oberkirch media entrepreneur Werner Kimmig for his fiftieth birthday; unveiled in the town-hall garden on 7 November 2009. Sources: - [Denkmal „Berliner Mauer“ — Orte des Erinnerns](https://www.orte-des-erinnerns.de/igof_memorials/denkmal-berliner-mauer-42/): Two segments of the Berlin Wall in the garden of Oberkirch's town hall since the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall, given to the town in 1998 by the media entrepreneur Werner Kimmig for his fiftieth birthday, who had seen the Wall built during a visit to East Berlin in 1961; handed over to the public, covered in graffiti, on 7 November 2009 in the presence of Kimmig, the Land finance minister Willi Stächele and the member of the Bundestag Arnold Vaatz; the text of the plaque. - [Oberkirch, BW — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/oberkirch/): Two segments in front of the town hall, given in 1998 by the Oberkirch media entrepreneur Werner Kimmig for his fiftieth birthday; Kimmig was visiting Berlin aged thirteen on the day the Wall was built. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Oberkirch%2C%20BW): 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. ### Oberstdorf, BY - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/oberstdorf/oberstdorf-by-a305 - Place: Kurpark, Oberstdorf, Bavaria, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 47.4193767, 10.2792549 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #305. A segment given by the city of Berlin and unveiled in the spa gardens of an Alpine resort on the first anniversary of unity, about as far from the border as Germany goes. A memorial stone with a piece of the Wall in the Kurpark at Oberstdorf, the southernmost market town in Germany, in the Allgäu Alps. It is roughly as far from the border as it is possible to be and still be in the country — which is the point of a catalogue like this one: the Wall did not stay near where it stood. It was unveiled on 3 October 1991, the first anniversary of unity, after a mountain mass and a ceremony on the Fellberg. The Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung's memorials database records it as an original segment given to the town by the city of Berlin on the initiative of the councillor Dr Wolfgang Soergel, and set up near the unity oak planted the year before; its plaque reads „Berliner Mauer — Tag der Wiedervereinigung Deutschlands, 3. Oktober 1991“. The photograph's title calls the object a memorial stone and the database a full segment; both readings are kept. Provenance: Given to the market town by the city of Berlin on the initiative of the councillor Dr Wolfgang Soergel, and unveiled in the Kurpark on 3 October 1991. Sources: - [Gedenkstein Kurpark (Oberstdorf) Berliner Mauer.jpg — Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AGedenkstein_Kurpark_(Oberstdorf)_Berliner_Mauer.jpg): A memorial stone with the Berlin Wall in the Kurpark at Oberstdorf. - [Denkmal „Berliner Mauer“ — Orte des Erinnerns](https://www.orte-des-erinnerns.de/igof_memorials/denkmal-berliner-mauer-54/): An original segment of the Berlin Wall, given to Oberstdorf by the city of Berlin on the initiative of the councillor Dr Wolfgang Soergel, unveiled in the Kurpark on 3 October 1991 — the first anniversary of German unity — near the unity oak planted a year earlier, with a plaque reading „Berliner Mauer — Tag der Wiedervereinigung Deutschlands, 3. Oktober 1991“. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Oberstdorf%2C%20BY): 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. ### Oberursel, HE - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/oberursel/oberursel-he-a306 - Place: Apfelpark, Oberstedten, Oberursel (Taunus), Hesse, Germany - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 50.226694, 8.574528 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #306. A piece of the Wall in a village apple park, the last project of the long-serving chairman of the local clubs' association, meant to show the young that Germany was once divided. The piece stands in the middle of the Apfelpark — the „Stedter Äppelpark“ — in Oberstedten, a district of Oberursel, behind the square the village named after Willi Steffek. Steffek led the Vereinsring Oberstedten, the umbrella of the village's clubs, until 2017: for fifteen years by the Frankfurter Neue Presse's count, twenty by the Taunus-Nachrichten's. When he stood down, the Frankfurter Neue Presse listed what his committee had done — the roundabout with its fountain at the edge of the village, the Apfelpark, the Christmas lights along the Hauptstraße — and called setting up a piece of the Berlin Wall in the Apfelpark his last project, meant above all to show young people that Germany had once been a divided country. In 2019, when the town gave him its medal of honour, the Taunus-Nachrichten noted that he had had the original piece of the Wall carted to the park himself. The Wall Net dates its arrival to the autumn of 2014, gives its origin as Potsdamer Platz, and says its graffito was reworked and a map of divided Germany added. Provenance: Brought to Oberstedten on the initiative of Willi Steffek, chairman of the Vereinsring Oberstedten; The Wall Net dates it to autumn 2014 and gives its origin as Potsdamer Platz. Sources: - [Steffek-Team überlässt Jüngeren das Vereinsring-Ruder — Frankfurter Neue Presse](https://www.fnp.de/lokales/hochtaunus/steffek-team-ueberlaesst-juengeren-vereinsring-ruder-10892916.html): Willi Steffek, who led the Vereinsring Oberstedten with his committee for fifteen years, stood down; among the committee's projects were the roundabout with fountain, the Apfelpark and the Christmas lights on the Hauptstraße, and his last was setting up a piece of the Berlin Wall in the Apfelpark, meant above all to show young people that Germany was once a divided country. - [Ehre für Mr. Oberstedten und für Mr. Stierstadt — Taunus-Nachrichten](https://www.taunus-nachrichten.de/oberursel/nachrichten/oberursel/ehre-fuer-mr-oberstedten-fuer-mr-stierstadt-id69653.html): A report of 28 May 2019 on the town of Oberursel's medal of honour for Willi Steffek, chairman of the Vereinsring Oberstedten for twenty years until 2017: behind the Willi-Steffek-Platz lies the Stedter Äppelpark, another of his projects, and he had the original piece of the Berlin Wall in its middle carted there. - [Oberursel, HE — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/oberursel/): One segment from Potsdamer Platz in the Apfelpark in Oberstedten since autumn 2014, on the initiative of Willi Steffek of the Vereinsring Oberstedten; the graffito reworked and a map of divided Germany added. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Oberursel%2C%20HE): 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. ### Offenburg, BW – Burda Medien Park - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/offenburg/offenburg-bw-burda-medien-park-a310 - Place: Burda Medien Park, Offenburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: Unknown (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 48.466186, 7.936647 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #310. A Thierry Noir segment in the Burda Medien Park, the Superillu editors' thanks to the publisher who had been the first from the West to work in the GDR. In February 2000 the editors of Superillu had a piece of the Berlin Wall delivered to Offenburg, as a present for the sixtieth birthday of Hubert Burda, the publisher and patron of the arts, and as a thank-you. The Badische Zeitung, which photographed it in the Burda Medien Park for a tour of the Wall pieces in southern Baden in 2014, gave the reason: Burda had been the first Western publisher present in the GDR, with Burda Moden in the 1980s, which gave it a head start in 1989, and that groundwork is partly why Superillu still overshadowed everything from Spiegel to Stern in eastern Germany. The Medien Park was inaugurated the same year. The magazine bought the element from one of the many building contractors that pulled the Wall down on the GDR's behalf in the summer of 1990. Where it stood is no longer traceable — somewhere in the centre of Berlin, by the paper's account. The painting came afterwards: Thierry Noir, who had illegally painted many sections of the Wall in Berlin with his big-nosed heads, decorated it once it had been bought, so the picture dates from after the Wall rather than from it. Provenance: Bought by Superillu from a contractor that demolished the Wall in 1990, painted afterwards by Thierry Noir, and given to Hubert Burda for his sixtieth birthday in February 2000. Sources: - [Teile der Berliner Mauer in Südbaden – eine Besichtigungstour — Badische Zeitung](https://www.badische-zeitung.de/teile-der-berliner-mauer-in-suedbaden-eine-besichtigungstour--93988194.html): A report by Dominik Bloedner of 4 November 2014, with a photograph captioned as the piece in the Burda Medien Park in Offenburg: in February 2000 the Superillu editors had a piece of the Berlin Wall delivered to the Ortenau as a sixtieth-birthday present and thank-you to the publisher Hubert Burda; Burda had been the first Western publisher in the GDR with Burda Moden; the Burda Medien Park was inaugurated the same year; the magazine bought the piece from one of the contractors that demolished the Wall for the GDR in summer 1990; it stood somewhere in central Berlin, exactly where is not traceable; it was painted afterwards by Thierry Noir. - [Offenburg, BW – Burda Medien Park — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/offenburg/): One segment in the Burda Medien Park, given to Hubert Burda by the Superillu editors for his sixtieth birthday in February 2000, designed by Thierry Noir and taken from the stock of a construction firm involved in the demolition. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Offenburg%2C%20BW%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Burda%20Medien%20Park): 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. ### Oldenburg, NI - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/oldenburg/oldenburg-ni-a312 - Place: Oldenburger Mühle, Tweelbäke, Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 53.1175, 8.25833 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #312. Two painted segments a travel company set in the garden of the windmill it had bought as its Oldenburg office, to remind its customers that travel is freedom. The Oldenburger Mühle, the windmill in the Tweelbäke district of Oldenburg that the Nordwest-Zeitung calls the Senfmühle, has belonged since 10 January 2020 to Höffmann-Reisen, a travel company from Vechta. The firm restored it as a second office, with rooms for meeting travellers before and after their trips, and opened its garden to cyclists as a resting place, with a picnic and barbecue area and a public toilet. In August 2020 the paper watched the second of two original segments set down in that garden. One carries the flag of the GDR, the other a portrait of John F. Kennedy; the words Reisen and Freiheit, travel and freedom, are painted across them, and the steel reinforcement shows through the concrete. The managing director, Hans Höffmann, told the paper that travel is freedom and that his customers should remember it whenever they book. He had had pieces of the Wall at the company's headquarters in Vechta since 1999; a documentary saying there were none left to buy sent him to ask, and he found that there were. School classes, he said, were welcome to come and see them, with a lesson in the mill afterwards. The Wall Net, a general reference, gives the inscription above the paintings as „Vergessen wir nie – Reisen ist die größte Freiheit“. Provenance: Bought by Hans Höffmann of Höffmann-Reisen in 2020 and set up in the garden of the Oldenburger Mühle in August 2020. Where in Berlin they stood is not recorded. Sources: - [Teile der Berliner Mauer erinnern an Reise(un)freiheit — Nordwest-Zeitung](https://www.nwzonline.de/region/oldenburg-vechta-senfmuehle-in-oldenburg-teile-der-berliner-mauer-erinnern-an-reiseunfreiheit_a_50,9,2296499104.html): A report by Nils Coordes of 14 August 2020: the second of two original pieces of the Berlin Wall set down in the garden of the Oldenburger Mühle in the Tweelbäke district; Höffmann-Reisen had owned the mill since 10 January, restored it and opened the garden to cyclists as a resting place; Hans Höffmann had had pieces of the Wall at the Vechta headquarters since 1999 and bought these two after a documentary said none were left; the graffiti show the GDR flag, John F. Kennedy and the words Reisen and Freiheit; school classes are welcome to see them. - [Oldenburg, NI — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/oldenburg-ni/): Two segments at the Oldenburger Senfmühle since 2020 as a symbol of the freedom to travel, set up by the travel entrepreneur Hans Höffmann, with „Vergessen wir nie – Reisen ist die größte Freiheit“ above the GDR flag and the portrait of Kennedy. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Oldenburg%2C%20NI): 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. ### Osterode, NI - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/osterode/osterode-ni-a318 - Place: Berliner Straße, at Abgunst, Osterode am Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Listed - Position: 51.7170057, 10.2729905 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #318. A memorial on the extension of Berliner Straße, in a town that sat a few kilometres from the inner-German border. A memorial on the continuation of Berliner Straße, at the place called Abgunst. Osterode is in the western Harz, a few kilometres from where the inner-German border ran — so unlike most of the German towns in this catalogue, this one had the frontier as a neighbour rather than as news, and the piece it holds is from the Berlin end of the same line. Sources: - [Berliner Straße Abgunst Denkmal Berliner Mauer (Osterode am Harz) 01.jpg — Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABerliner_Stra%C3%9Fe_Abgunst_Denkmal_Berliner_Mauer_(Osterode_am_Harz)_01.jpg): The Berlin Wall memorial on the extension of Berliner Straße at Abgunst, Osterode am Harz. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Osterode%2C%20NI): 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. ### Pforzheim, BW - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/pforzheim/pforzheim-bw-a325 - Place: DDR-Museum Pforzheim, Hagenschießstraße 9, 75175 Pforzheim, Germany - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display outside the museum); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 48.87794, 8.72351 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #325. A segment said to have stood at Potsdamer Platz, outside a museum of the GDR built from the collection of a man who left it just before the Wall went up. A segment of the Wall has stood in front of the DDR-Museum in Pforzheim since 29 September 1999. It weighs 2.6 tonnes and is 3.60 metres high. The Federal Foundation's memorials database says it is supposed to come from the stretch at Potsdamer Platz; the Badische Zeitung, on a tour of the Wall pieces in the south-west in 2014, says without qualification that it once divided Berlin there. The museum began in 1998 with a circle of friends around Klaus Knabe, who had fled the GDR shortly before the Wall was built and after 1989 collected what the state left behind; the association „Gegen das Vergessen“ set out to interest young people in the history of the SED state. The city of Pforzheim provided the building, the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship paid for its conversion and extension, and the Baden-Württemberg education ministry for a new teaching concept, and the enlarged exhibition opened on 11 September 2003. Knabe died on 11 February 2012; the foundation Lernort Demokratie – Das DDR-Museum Pforzheim, which he had worked towards, was set up that July. Provenance: In front of the museum since 29 September 1999; said to come from the Wall at Potsdamer Platz. How the museum acquired it is not stated. Sources: - [DDR-Museum Pforzheim – Lernort der Demokratie — Orte des Erinnerns](https://www.orte-des-erinnerns.de/igof_memorials/ddr-museum-pforzheim-lernort-der-demokratie/): The museum begun in 1998 by a circle of friends around Klaus Knabe, who fled the GDR before the Wall was built, from his private collection; the building provided by the city of Pforzheim, converted with funds from the Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung and reconceived with the Baden-Württemberg education ministry, the enlarged exhibition opened on 11 September 2003; Knabe's death on 11 February 2012 and the foundation Lernort Demokratie – Das DDR-Museum Pforzheim established on 24 July 2012; a Berlin Wall segment in front of the museum since 29 September 1999, 2.6 tonnes and 3.60 m high, supposed to come from the section at Potsdamer Platz; Hagenschießstraße 9, 75175 Pforzheim. - [Teile der Berliner Mauer in Südbaden – eine Besichtigungstour — Badische Zeitung](https://www.badische-zeitung.de/teile-der-berliner-mauer-in-suedbaden-eine-besichtigungstour--93988194.html): A report of 4 November 2014: in front of the DDR-Museum in Pforzheim an original piece that once divided Berlin at Potsdamer Platz has stood since 1999. - [Pforzheim, BW — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/pforzheim/): One segment in front of the museum founded by Klaus Knabe and the association Gegen das Vergessen. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Pforzheim%2C%20BW): 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. ### Point Alpha, HE - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/point-alpha/point-alpha-he-a328 - Place: Gedenkstätte Point Alpha, on the former border between Rasdorf (Hesse) and Geisa (Thuringia), Germany - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display on the museum grounds); evidence: Documented - Position: 50.724107, 9.9315939 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #328. A three-tonne gift of the Berlin Senate on the grounds of the former American lookout over the Fulda Gap, whose board ties the Wall to the fortifying of the whole frontier between the two Germanys. Point Alpha was one of the US Army's observation posts on the inner-German border. It was set up in 1945 on the Rasdorfer Berg in the Hessian Rhön, directly on the American–Soviet demarcation line, and from 1972 was manned by the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, the „Black Horse“, watching the Fulda Gap through which Western planners expected a Soviet attack to come. The army gave it up in 1992. It is now a memorial, run since 2008 by the Point Alpha Stiftung, whose founders include the states of Hesse and Thuringia, the two counties and the two neighbouring towns of Rasdorf and Geisa. An original segment of the Berlin Wall stands on the memorial's grounds. Its information board, as the Federal Foundation's memorials database records it, gives it as 1.20 metres wide, 3.60 metres high with its base and three tonnes in weight, and as a gift from the Berlin Senate. The board also makes the case for showing it here, far from Berlin: the building of the Wall in August 1961 began the massive fortification of the roughly 1,400-kilometre inner-German border, and its opening in November 1989 soon brought down the rest of the Iron Curtain. The foundation itself mentioned the piece in September 2026, as a symbol of the end of the Cold War and of freedom won. Neither source says when the Senate's gift arrived. Provenance: A gift from the Berlin Senate to the Gedenkstätte Point Alpha; the date is not given. Sources: - [Gedenkstätte Point Alpha — Orte des Erinnerns](https://www.orte-des-erinnerns.de/igof_memorials/gedenkstaette-point-alpha/): The history of Observation Point Alpha on the Rasdorfer Berg from 1945 to its abandonment by the US Army in 1992, the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment („Black Horse“) from 1972 and the Fulda Gap; the Point Alpha Stiftung as operator since 2008, founded by Hesse, Thuringia, the Fulda district, the Wartburgkreis, Geisa and Rasdorf; and the text of the information board at the original Berlin Wall segment on the memorial's grounds: 1.20 m wide, 3.60 m high with base, 3 tonnes, a gift of the Berlin Senate, with the Wall's construction in 1961 marking the start of the massive expansion of the roughly 1,400 km inner-German border and its opening in 1989 the fall of the rest of the Iron Curtain. - [Eine Mauer für die Welt – über Inszenierung und Marketing der Berliner Mauer — Point Alpha Stiftung](https://www.pointalpha.com/en/ein-mauer-fuer-die-welt-ueber-inszenierung-und-marketing-der-berliner-mauer/): A report of 8 September 2026 on a lecture by the historian Ronny Heidenreich at the memorial, noting that a piece of the Wall stands directly at the Gedenkstätte Point Alpha as a symbol of the end of the Cold War and of freedom won. - [Point Alpha, HE — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/point-alpha/): One segment of the Berlin Wall among the exhibits on the open-air grounds of the Point Alpha memorial. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Point%20Alpha%2C%20HE): 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. ### Postbauer-Heng, BY - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/postbauer-heng/postbauer-heng-by-a330 - Place: Schulpark, Hans-Bradl-Platz, by the Erich-Kästner-Schule, 92353 Postbauer-Heng, Bavaria, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 49.3030329, 11.3507199 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #330. Pieces of the hinterland wall brought from Berlin by a local haulier, set up opposite the Deutschordensschloss in 2006 and moved to the school park on Hans-Bradl-Platz in 2017. The municipality's newsletter for November and December 2014 carried a report by its local heritage officer, Hans Bradl, on why there are pieces of the GDR's wall in Postbauer-Heng. The Gemeinde had decided to set up a memorial to the division of Germany and to its many citizens who had been expelled after the war from what became the GDR, from present-day Poland and from the Sudetenland. The pieces came free of charge through the haulage firm of Siegfried Dinkel, who had told Bradl, then mayor, that he could bring wall pieces back from Berlin if the municipality wished; they were delivered and stored, and from 2006 three wall pieces and a piece of original barbed wire stood opposite the Deutschordensschloss, visited several times by school classes. The Wall Net, which describes them as parts of the hinterland wall, records the move: after the area around the Erich-Kästner-Schule was redesigned, the memorial was set up in July 2017 in the new school park on Hans-Bradl-Platz, the square named after the former mayor. At the opening of the new grounds and sports hall the mayor, Horst Kratzer, said it had found a place where it was more visible and would gain new weight in the school's history lessons. The Wall Net's photographs of both sites are credited to the Gemeinde. Provenance: Brought from Berlin by Siegfried Dinkel's haulage firm and given to the municipality free of charge; stored, set up opposite the Deutschordensschloss in 2006 and moved to the school park on Hans-Bradl-Platz in July 2017. Sources: - [Fall der DDR-Mauer vor 25 Jahren — Mitteilungsblatt Markt Postbauer-Heng, November/Dezember 2014 (report by the heritage officer Hans Bradl, copy hosted by The Wall Net)](https://the-wall-net.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Fall-der-DDR-Mauer.pdf): The municipality's newsletter: the Gemeinde decided to set up a memorial to the division of Germany and the expellees; three wall pieces and an original piece of barbed wire stand opposite the Deutschordensschloss since 2006; the pieces were brought from Berlin free of charge by Siegfried Dinkel's haulage firm, who had offered them to Mayor Hans Bradl, and were delivered and stored first; school classes have visited them. The publisher is the Markt Postbauer-Heng; the copy read is the one The Wall Net links from its entry. - [Postbauer-Heng, BY — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/postbauer-heng-by/): Parts of the hinterland wall brought by Siegfried Dinkel to his home municipality shortly after the fall of the Wall, set up opposite the Deutschordensschloss in 2006 and moved in July 2017 to the new school park on Hans-Bradl-Platz after the redesign of the area at the Erich-Kästner-Schule; Mayor Horst Kratzer's words at the opening of the new grounds and sports hall; photographs of the earlier and the present site credited to the Gemeinde. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Postbauer-Heng%2C%20BY): 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. ### Potsdam, BB – Oberstufenzentrum - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/potsdam/potsdam-bb-oberstufenzentrum-a331 - Place: OSZ 2 Wirtschaft und Verwaltung, Zum Jagenstein 26, 14478 Potsdam (Waldstadt), Brandenburg, Germany - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: Restricted access (On the school grounds); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 52.368106, 13.096733 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #331. A segment from a festival at Teltow, painted by a Berlin youth training centre with „20 Jahre Osten und Westen vereint“ and unveiled in the school's yard on 20 November 2009. The Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten reported on 21 November 2009 that an original segment of the Wall now adorns the schoolyard of the Oberstufenzentrum II for business and administration in the Waldstadt. Its colourful graffiti reads „20 Jahre Osten und Westen vereint“, the work of the Jugend-Ausbildungszentrum Steglitz-Zehlendorf, and it had been unveiled the day before in front of more than two hundred trainees, with the school's head, Christina Weigel, and Brandenburg's education minister, Holger Rupprecht. The piece had come from the „Fest ohne Grenzen“ at the Knesebeckbrücke in Teltow on 8 November, where the school's trainee event managers had taken part and then secured it for the school. The Wall Net describes the school as teaching about 2,000 pupils and trainees in seventeen trades and records the segment as designed by pupils in a class project and set up in November 2009. The school's own site gives its address as Zum Jagenstein 26 in the Waldstadt; the archive's pin, five kilometres away on the other side of the city, has been moved there. Provenance: From the „Fest ohne Grenzen“ at the Knesebeckbrücke, Teltow, on 8 November 2009; painted by the Jugend-Ausbildungszentrum Steglitz-Zehlendorf and unveiled at the school on 20 November 2009. Sources: - [Mauerfall-Denkmal auf dem Schulhof — Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten, 21 November 2009](https://www.tagesspiegel.de/potsdam/mauerfall-denkmal-auf-dem-schulhof/22198144.html): An original segment of the Berlin Wall with the graffiti „20 Jahre Osten und Westen vereint“, painted by the Jugend-Ausbildungszentrum Steglitz-Zehlendorf, was unveiled on 20 November 2009 in the schoolyard of the OSZ II Wirtschaft und Verwaltung in the Waldstadt before more than 200 trainees, with the head Christina Weigel and education minister Holger Rupprecht; it came from the „Fest ohne Grenzen“ at the Knesebeckbrücke in Teltow on 8 November, where the school's trainee event managers had taken part and acquired it for the school. - [Anreise — OSZ 2 Europaschule Potsdam](https://www.osz2-potsdam.de/de/unsere-schule/anreise): The school's address, Zum Jagenstein 26, 14478 Potsdam, and the map position it links to. - [Potsdam, BB – Oberstufenzentrum II — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/potsdam-2/): One segment at the Oberstufenzentrum II, Zum Jagenstein; the school teaches about 2,000 pupils and trainees in seventeen trades; a segment designed by pupils in a class project and set up in November 2009. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Potsdam%2C%20BB%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Oberstufenzentrum): 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. ### Potsdam, BB – Rudolf-Breitscheid-Straße - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/potsdam/potsdam-bb-rudolf-breitscheid-strasse-a332 - Place: Rudolf-Breitscheid-Straße 236a, Potsdam, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Listed - Position: 52.39639, 13.13556 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #332. A memorial with a plaque on Rudolf-Breitscheid-Straße, on the Potsdam side of the border that ringed West Berlin. The address is number 236a. Potsdam is not a recipient like the rest of this catalogue: the border ran around West Berlin, and Potsdam was on the outside of it, so the Wall here was local infrastructure rather than an import. The town holds five catalogue records, more than most countries. Sources: - [Gedenktafel Rudolf-Breitscheid-Str 236a (Potsdam) Berliner Mauer.jpg — Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AGedenktafel_Rudolf-Breitscheid-Str_236a_(Potsdam)_Berliner_Mauer.jpg): The memorial plaque and wall at Rudolf-Breitscheid-Straße 236a, Potsdam. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Potsdam%2C%20BB%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Rudolf-Breitscheid-Stra%E2%88%9A%C3%BCe): 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. ### Potsdam, BB – Villa Schöningen - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/potsdam/potsdam-bb-villa-schoningen-a333 - Place: Villa Schöningen, Schwanenallee, 14467 Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display outside the villa); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 52.4135931, 13.087704 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #333. A painted element outside the villa at the Glienicke Bridge — confirmed by the Berlin Wall Foundation's own directory of surviving traces after two other sources had failed to mention it. 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. Provenance: Not established. The Foundation's directory records the element and its position but not how it came to the villa. Sources: - [MAU-704 Villa Schöningen — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.mauerspuren.de/de/13177/villa-schoningen/#mau-704): 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. - [Villa Schöningen — Chronik der Mauer](https://www.chronik-der-mauer.de/grenze/184373/villa-schoeningen): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Potsdam%2C%20BB%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Villa%20Sch%E2%88%9A%E2%88%82ningen): 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. ### Potsdam-Babelsberg, BB - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/potsdam-babelsberg/potsdam-babelsberg-bb-a336 - Place: Griebnitzsee shore near Stubenrauchstraße, Potsdam-Babelsberg, Brandenburg, Germany - Classification: Original Position; can it be seen today: On display (Standing; under monument protection since 2009); evidence: Documented - Position: 52.3914035, 13.0929636 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #336. The only Grenzmauer 75 preserved as a protected monument at its original position anywhere on the outer ring around West Berlin. Almost everything in this catalogue is a piece of the inner-city Wall, because that is the part the world photographed and the part that was sold. The border around West Berlin was far longer — the Außenring, running through fields, lakes and suburbs — and of that whole outer ring, the Grenzmauer 75 on the Griebnitzsee shore at Potsdam-Babelsberg is the only stretch preserved as a protected monument where it actually stood. The Berlin Wall Foundation's directory of surviving traces records what is there: the wall itself and the foundation of a BT-9 watchtower, under monument protection, and separately three artistically painted wall elements standing at the lake. The shore keeps more than the wall. Concrete posts, stretches of metal mesh fencing, the foundations of observation towers and the Kolonnenweg — the patrol road — are all still readable in the ground, and since 2009 a line of wooden posts along Stubenrauchstraße marks where the Wall ran. Parts of the patrol road have been hedged over by residents whose gardens now run down to the water. Three memorial steles stand here for people who died at this stretch of border. Peter Böhme and Jörgen Schmidtchen were both killed on 18 April 1962 — one trying to cross, one a border soldier on duty — and Willi Marzahn on 19 March 1966. The Wall is usually recorded as something that killed the people trying to get past it. Two of these three names are on the same date, and one of them was wearing the uniform. An earlier version of this record said there were six segments, repainted white by a Potsdam conservation firm for a memorial completed on 9 November 2009. That rested on a city press release which potsdam.de has since removed, and no other source read here carries those details, so they have been taken out. Provenance: In place, and protected as a monument. The Foundation's directory records the wall and a watchtower foundation on the shore; how many elements survive is not stated by any source that still resolves. Sources: - [Griebnitzsee — Chronik der Mauer](https://www.chronik-der-mauer.de/grenze/175000/griebnitzsee): The fourth-generation Grenzmauer 75 segments at Griebnitzsee as the only ones preserved as a protected monument at their original location on the entire outer ring, the wooden posts marking the wall's course along Stubenrauchstraße since 2009, the surviving concrete posts, mesh fencing, observation tower foundations and Kolonnenweg, the hedging of the patrol road by residents since 2009, and the memorial steles for Peter Böhme and Jörgen Schmidtchen on 18 April 1962 and Willi Marzahn on 19 March 1966. - [MAU-068 Grenzmauer 75 und Fundament eines Wachturms am Ufer des Griebnitzsees — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.mauerspuren.de/de/12926/grenzmauer-75-griebnitzsee/#mau-068): Grenzmauer 75 and the foundation of a BT-9 watchtower surviving on the shore of the Griebnitzsee, catalogued as MAU-068, recorded as under monument protection and photographed in 2018. - [MAU-734 Drei künstlerisch bemalte Mauerelemente am Griebnitzsee — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.mauerspuren.de/de/13271/griebnitzsee/#mau-734): Three artistically painted wall elements at the Griebnitzsee, catalogued as MAU-734 and photographed in 2018. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Potsdam-Babelsberg%2C%20BB): 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. ### Ramstein, RP - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/ramstein/ramstein-rp-a343 - Place: Passenger Terminal, Ramstein Air Base, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: Restricted access (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 49.4475167, 7.5554676 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #343. A section brought from Rhein-Main Air Base in 2004 for the passenger terminal at the largest American air base in Europe — one of several pieces on the base. A segment in front of the passenger terminal at Ramstein, the United States Air Force's main European hub and the airfield through which most American personnel enter and leave the continent. Placing it at the terminal rather than at a memorial means it is seen mainly by people arriving for a posting — the first and last German object a great many of them will look at. The base newspaper, the Kaiserslautern American, reported the piece's arrival: a section 4.5 feet wide, a foot thick and more than twelve feet high, weighing over 5,000 pounds, moved from Rhein-Main Air Base at Frankfurt to Ramstein on 18 February 2004 and put into storage until the passenger terminal's design committee decided where to show it — inside the terminal, or in front of the courtyard of the planned KMC Center. The same report says three other sections were already on display in the side courtyard of the Officers' Club; in September 2021 the base's civil engineers moved those to a roundabout by the KMC Center in time for German Unity Day. Nothing read here confirms where the 2004 section finally went, so the Wikipedia list's „in front of the passenger terminal“ and the committee's two options are all kept. Provenance: Moved from Rhein-Main Air Base to Ramstein on 18 February 2004, by the base newspaper's account; where the Air Force had it from is not stated. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A segment of the wall in front of the base passenger terminal at Ramstein. - [Section of Berlin Wall moves to Ramstein — Kaiserslautern American](https://www.kaiserslauternamerican.com/section-of-berlin-wall-moves-to-ramstein/): A report of 27 February 2004 by the 435th Air Base Wing's public affairs office: a 4.5-foot-wide, one-foot-thick section more than twelve feet high and over 5,000 pounds moved from Rhein-Main Air Base to Ramstein on 18 February 2004, held in storage until the passenger terminal design committee chose between the terminal and the courtyard of the planned KMC Center; three other sections were already on display in the side courtyard of the Officers' Club. - [786 CES preserves, transports piece of history — Kaiserslautern American](https://www.kaiserslauternamerican.com/786-ces-preserves-transports-piece-of-history/): A report of 8 October 2021 by the 86th Airlift Wing's public affairs office: Wall pieces on display since the early 2000s near the Officers' Club were moved between 14 and 30 September 2021 to a roundabout by the Kaiserslautern Military Community Center, in time for German Unity Day; it does not mention the passenger terminal. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Ramstein%2C%20RP): 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. ### Recklinghausen, NW – Charlottenburger Straße - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/recklinghausen/recklinghausen-nw-charlottenburger-strasse-a346 - Place: Charlottenburger Straße, between Stuckenbusch and Hochlarmark, Recklinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (Reported in place); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 51.5782642, 7.1868275 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #346. An original segment a local association set up as a memorial in Recklinghausen's Berliner Viertel, given an information board in October 2006. The segment stands on Charlottenburger Straße in what Recklinghausen calls the Berliner Viertel, a housing quarter of the early 1960s between Stuckenbusch and Hochlarmark. The city's own account, in a brochure on the history of German democracy published in 2011, credits civic engagement and a Recklinghausen association with setting up the original fragment as a memorial and with giving it an information board in October 2006. The city archive's photograph collection files its pictures of the place under „Mahnmal Berliner Mauer, Charlottenburger Str.“. Neither city source names the association or says when the segment arrived. The Wall Net, a tertiary list, describes the association as close to the CDU and says the segment came from a local recycling firm that had taken part in demolishing the Wall; nothing read here confirms either. The quarter is almost exactly as old as the Wall it now commemorates. Provenance: Set up as a memorial by a Recklinghausen association, which added an information board in October 2006. When it arrived and where it came from are not stated by the city. Sources: - [„Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit“: Zur Geschichte der deutschen Demokratie — Stadt Recklinghausen](https://www.recklinghausen.de/inhalte/startseite/leben_wohnen/dokumente/integrationsbrosch%FCre.pdf): The city's 2011 brochure, in its chapter „Deutsche Teilung – Deutsche Einheit: Ein Fragment der Berliner Mauer in Recklinghausen“: through civic engagement a Recklinghausen association set up an original fragment of the Berlin Wall as a memorial on Charlottenburger Straße in the so-called Berliner Viertel, a residential quarter of the early 1960s between Stuckenbusch and Hochlarmark, and gave it an information board in October 2006; a city photograph is captioned as an original segment of the Berlin Wall on Charlottenburger Straße. - [Findbuch Fotoarchiv — Stadt Recklinghausen](https://www.recklinghausen.de/inhalte/startseite/ruhrfestspiele_kultur/dokumente/findbuch%20fotoarchiv.pdf): The finding aid of the city's photograph archive (2018) lists, among memorials, the heading „Mahnmal Berliner Mauer, Charlottenburger Str.“. - [Recklinghausen, NW – Charlottenburger Straße — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/recklinghausen/): One segment in the Berliner Siedlung on Charlottenburger Straße, set up by an association close to the CDU with others' support; the segment came from a local recycling firm involved in the demolition of the Wall. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Recklinghausen%2C%20NW%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Charlottenburger%20Stra%E2%88%9A%C3%BCe): 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. ### Reichenbach, SN - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/reichenbach/reichenbach-sn-a350 - Place: In front of the Seniorenbegegnungsstätte, Albert-Schweitzer-Straße 40, Neubaugebiet West, Reichenbach im Vogtland, Saxony, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 50.6200076, 12.298936 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #350. A segment the local savings bank set up as a memorial stone in 1997, outside a meeting place for older people, inscribed „Nie wieder!“. The segment stands in the Neubaugebiet West of Reichenbach im Vogtland, in front of the Seniorenbegegnungsstätte, the meeting place for older people, at Albert-Schweitzer-Straße 40. The Federal Foundation's memorials database records it as a memorial stone made of a segment of the Wall, put up in August 1997 by the Sparkasse Vogtland from its Reichenbach head office. The idea came from a member of the bank's board, who brought in the Reichenbach group of the Vereinigung der Opfer des Stalinismus, the association of the victims of Stalinism, to help shape it. The inscription reads „Nie / wieder! / Berliner Mauer / 1961–1989“. The Wall Net tells it the same way. Where in Berlin the segment stood, and how the bank came by it, neither says. Provenance: Set up in August 1997 by the Sparkasse Vogtland, Reichenbach head office, with the Reichenbach group of the Vereinigung der Opfer des Stalinismus. Sources: - [Gedenkstein zur Erinnerung an die Berliner Mauer — Orte des Erinnerns](https://www.orte-des-erinnerns.de/igof_memorials/gedenkstein-zur-erinnerung-an-die-berliner-mauer/): The memorial stone, a segment of the Wall, was put up in August 1997 by the Sparkasse Vogtland, Reichenbach head office, on the initiative of a member of its board, who involved the Reichenbach group of the Vereinigung der Opfer des Stalinismus in its design; inscription „Nie / wieder! / Berliner Mauer / 1961–1989“; location Neubaugebiet West, in front of the Seniorenbegegnungsstätte, Albert-Schweitzer-Straße 40, Reichenbach, Saxony. - [Reichenbach, SN — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/reichenbach/): One segment in front of the Seniorenbegegnungsstätte, brought to Reichenbach im Vogtland in 1997 as a memorial on the initiative of the board of the local Sparkasse, supported by the Reichenbach group of the Vereinigung der Opfer des Stalinismus. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Reichenbach%2C%20SN): 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. ### Rodalben, RP - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/rodalben/rodalben-rp-a356 - Place: Berufsbildende Schule, Rodalben, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: Restricted access (On display); evidence: Listed - Position: 49.2384912, 7.6392258 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #356. Segments at a vocational school in the Palatinate. The place is Rodalben. Schools recur through this catalogue — the German schools in Yokohama and Mexico City, the Atlanta International School, and a long list of American universities — and they are the recipients with the clearest purpose: the object is there to be explained to people who were not born when it came down. Sources: - [Rodalben-Berufsbildende Schule-21-Berliner Mauer-gje.jpg — Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ARodalben-Berufsbildende_Schule-21-Berliner_Mauer-gje.jpg): Segments of the Berlin Wall at the Berufsbildende Schule, Rodalben. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Rodalben%2C%20RP): 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. ### Rostock-Warnemuende, MV - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/rostock-warnemuende/rostock-warnemuende-mv-a357 - Place: Passagierkai, at the cruise terminal, Warnemünde, Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 54.1731946, 12.0770189 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #357. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern's piece of the Axel Springer gift of 2009, by the cruise quay on a coast from which thousands tried to flee across the Baltic. An original segment was unveiled at the cruise terminal on Warnemünde's Passagierkai on 4 November 2009. It is Mecklenburg-Vorpommern's element in the distribution described on the Stuttgart record: Axel Springer AG, through Bild, gave a segment to every federal state for the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall. This one, 3.60 metres high and 2.7 tonnes, was handed over by Bild's deputy editor-in-chief, Jörg Quoos. Small plaques in German and English, with the Bild logo beneath, say where it comes from and what it is for, and end with the dedication to Axel Springer used across the distribution. At the unveiling, as the Federal Foundation's memorials database records it, the mayor, Roland Methling, spoke of the miracle of a peaceful revolution, and the minister-president, Erwin Sellering, of the courage of East Germans' peaceful protest. Christoph Kleemann — spokesman of Rostock's Round Table, acting mayor in 1990 and later head of the Stasi Records office's Rostock branch — drew up the balance of the Wall along the Baltic: almost 5,650 people tried to flee across the sea between the building of the Wall and its fall, 913 succeeded, some four and a half thousand were caught while still preparing, at least 174 paid with their lives, and around 1,250 seamen stayed for good in Western ports. Provenance: A gift from Bild (Axel Springer AG) to the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern for the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall, handed over by Jörg Quoos and unveiled on 4 November 2009. Sources: - [Denkmal „Berliner Mauer“ — Orte des Erinnerns](https://www.orte-des-erinnerns.de/igof_memorials/denkmal-berliner-mauer-29/): An original segment, 3.60 m high and 2.7 tonnes, unveiled at the cruise terminal on the Warnemünde Passagierkai on 4 November 2009, a gift of Axel Springer AG, which gave every federal state a segment for the twentieth anniversary, handed over by Bild's deputy editor-in-chief Jörg Quoos; the speeches of Roland Methling, Erwin Sellering and Christoph Kleemann, with Kleemann's figures for flight across the Baltic (almost 5,650 attempts, 913 successful, about 4,500 detected in preparation, at least 174 dead, about 1,250 seamen who left ship in Western ports); small plaques in German and English with the Bild logo, and their text. - [Die Berliner Mauer in Deutschland — Die Berliner Mauer in der Welt](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/sachtexte/die-berliner-mauer-in-deutschland/): An essay by Tina Schaller and Moritz Reininghaus for the Federal Foundation: Rostock received one of the segments of the Axel Springer initiative on 4 November 2009. - [Rostock-Warnemünde, MV — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/rostock/): The segment for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern from Axel Springer AG's gift to each federal state, set up on the Passagierkai in Warnemünde in November 2009. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Rostock-Warnemuende%2C%20MV): 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. ### Rust, BW - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/rust/rust-bw-a360 - Place: Europa-Park, Rust, Baden-Württemberg, Germany - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 48.2659347, 7.7263213 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #360. Two segments from the Glienicker Brücke, standing in a theme park's German quarter with a certificate of origin. Two segments stand at the start of the park's German themed area, near the Alexanderplatz station, among half-timbered buildings and Weimar neoclassicism. They were erected in 1996 on the initiative of Roland Mack, who runs the park, and they come with a certificate of origin — a detail worth recording, because most records in this catalogue have no paperwork at all and several have graffiti that is probably not original. The park's own press office documents a third segment: from 1 October 2015, for the twenty-fifth anniversary of German unity, it has shown in its entrance area an element painted by the New York pop artist James Rizzi as Borderless Buildings, nearly four metres high and 3.8 tonnes, from the Rizzi family estate. The release says nothing about the two older segments. Provenance: Bought from Friedrich Dunsing, an entrepreneur who had been responsible for demolishing a stretch of the Wall at the Glienicker Brücke, where these elements came from — the bridge used for spy exchanges between Potsdam and West Berlin. Sources: - [Rust, BW — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/rust/): Two segments with certification of origin, erected 1996 on Roland Mack's initiative, bought from Friedrich Dunsing and originating at the Glienicker Brücke. - [25 Jahre Deutsche Einheit: Europa-Park enthüllt Rizzi-Werk der Berliner Mauer](https://www.presseportal.de/pm/25248/3136850): Europa-Park's own press release of 1 October 2015: a further original segment of the Wall, painted by the New York pop artist James Rizzi in 2009–2010 as Borderless Buildings, nearly four metres high and 3.8 tonnes, from the Rizzi family estate, on show in the park's entrance area on the Deutsche Allee from 1 October 2015; it does not mention the two older segments. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Rust%2C%20BW): 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. ### Saarbrücken, SL - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/saarbrucken/saarbrucken-sl-a361 - Place: Landtag des Saarlandes, Franz-Josef-Röder-Straße 7, Saarbrücken, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (Reported in place); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 49.22944, 6.99444 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #361. The first segment of the Axel Springer distribution to reach a state, unveiled outside the Saarland parliament on 17 June 2009, the former Day of German Unity. An original segment, 3.60 metres high and 2.7 tonnes, stands outside the Landtag of Saarland. It was unveiled on 17 June 2009, the former Day of German Unity, by the minister-president Peter Müller, the president of the Landtag Hans Ley and Bild's deputy editor-in-chief Alfred Draxler. Saarland was the first state to receive one of the segments Axel Springer AG gave to every federal state for the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall — the distribution described on the Stuttgart record. Müller called the Wall a symbol of unfreedom and its overcoming a symbol of people's freedom and self-determination; by putting it outside the Landtag, Saarland too meant to keep the memory of the peaceful revolution alive. The plaque at its foot carries the wording used across the distribution: the fragment was part of the wall that divided Berlin and Germany, for 28 years the means and purpose of oppression, overcome by the peaceful revolution of 9 November 1989, and its parts are now a symbol of the power of freedom and a warning of its constant danger. It calls the segment a gift from Bild to Saarland for the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall on 9 November 2009, in memory of Axel Springer, who held to his dream of German unity against all resistance — though by then it had been standing for five months. Provenance: A gift from Bild (Axel Springer AG) to the state of Saarland, the first of the state segments, unveiled on 17 June 2009. Sources: - [Denkmal „Berliner Mauer“ — Orte des Erinnerns](https://www.orte-des-erinnerns.de/igof_memorials/denkmal-berliner-mauer-66/): On 17 June 2009, the former Day of German Unity, an original segment was set up in front of the Saarland Landtag, Saarland being the first state to receive a segment from Axel Springer AG for the twentieth anniversary; unveiled by Peter Müller, Hans Ley and Alfred Draxler, 2.7 tonnes and 3.60 m high; Müller's words on unfreedom and freedom; the text of the information plaque at its foot, a gift from Bild to Saarland for the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall on 9 November 2009 in memory of Axel Springer; location Franz-Josef-Röder-Straße 7. - [Die Berliner Mauer in Deutschland — Die Berliner Mauer in der Welt](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/sachtexte/die-berliner-mauer-in-deutschland/): An essay by Tina Schaller and Moritz Reininghaus for the Federal Foundation: on 17 June 2009 Saarbrücken, and so Saarland, became the first state to receive an original segment under the Axel Springer initiative, followed by Stuttgart on 9 November 2009. - [Saarbrücken, SL — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/saarbruecken/): One segment in front of the Landtag building, Saarland being the first state to receive a segment from Axel Springer AG; gives the setting-up as August 2009. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Saarbr%E2%88%9A%C2%BAcken%2C%20SL): 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. ### Schermbeck, NW - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/schermbeck/schermbeck-nw-a373 - Place: Gesamtschule Schermbeck, Schermbeck, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: Restricted access (On the school grounds); evidence: Documented - Position: 51.69556, 6.87639 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #373. A segment carrying a portrait of Nelson Mandela, a local man's gift to the municipality, set up at the comprehensive school that opened the year he left for the East. A piece of the Berlin Wall was unveiled in Schermbeck on 16 June 2015. Schermbeck Online, the local news site, reported it as a gift to the municipality from Elmar Prost, a Schermbeck man who moved away in 1989 — the year the Gesamtschule opened, while the Wall still stood. It carries a picture of Nelson Mandela, the South African opponent of apartheid. After the unveiling the guests let coloured balloons rise under the motto „Gegen Mauern in unseren Köpfen“, against the walls in our heads. The Wall Net, a tertiary list citing the same local site, places the segment on the open grounds of the Gesamtschule and adds details the report read here does not carry: that it was put up twenty-five years after the official start of the dismantling of the inner-German border on 13 June 1990, that the head teacher, Norbert Hohmann, wanted it to be a memorial for everyone who loves freedom, and that the Mandela portrait was sprayed in 2014 by the Spanish artist Victor Landeta. The two disagree about where Prost went: to Berlin, says Schermbeck Online; to Königs Wusterhausen, just outside it, straight after the Wall opened, says The Wall Net. Provenance: A gift to the municipality of Schermbeck from Elmar Prost, unveiled on 16 June 2015. Sources: - [Teilstück der Berliner Mauer in Schermbeck enthüllt — Schermbeck Online](https://schermbeck-online.de/teilstueck-der-berliner-mauer-in-schermbeck-enthuellt/): A report of 16 June 2015, filed under the Gesamtschule Schermbeck: a piece of the Berlin Wall with a picture of Nelson Mandela was unveiled that day in Schermbeck, a gift to the municipality from Elmar Prost, who moved to Berlin in 1989, the year the Gesamtschule opened; afterwards visitors released balloons under the motto „Gegen Mauern in unseren Köpfen“. - [Schermbeck, NW — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/schermbeck-nw/): One segment on the open grounds of the Gesamtschule Schermbeck, set up 25 years after the dismantling of the inner-German border officially began on 13 June 1990; the head teacher Norbert Hohmann's words; given by Elmar Prost, who moved to Königs Wusterhausen in 1989; the Mandela portrait sprayed in 2014 by Victor Landeta. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Schermbeck%2C%20NW): 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. ### Schesslitz, BY - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/schesslitz/schesslitz-by-a374 - Place: Schönstatt-Zentrum Marienberg, Dörrnwasserlos 50, 96110 Scheßlitz, Bavaria, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 50.0244, 11.0653 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #374. An original piece of the Wall on a former NATO missile site above Scheßlitz, placed by the Schönstatt movement to recall 9 November 1989 and the site's peaceful reuse. The Marienberg above Dörrnwasserlos, a hamlet of Scheßlitz north-east of Bamberg, was a NATO missile position during the Cold War; the town's page on the centre says it stands on the former NATO rocket base. The Schönstatt movement of the archdiocese of Bamberg now runs it as a meeting place, with a shrine, a chapel, a cross re-erected in 1997, a playground opened in 2012, a way of the cross across the hill and a Sunday flea market. Among the things its own page lists on the grounds is a part of the Berlin Wall, which recalls 9 November 1989, the day on which, as the page puts it, German unity was peacefully given back to the country — the turning point that made the NATO position redundant and its peaceful use possible. The Wall Net gives the full text of the plaque, which goes on to describe two crossed artillery shells as the swords and lances of our time, recalling the biblical vision of swords beaten into ploughshares, and a plough for the toil of daily work and trust in God. It counts one segment. Nothing read says when the piece was set up or where in Berlin it stood. Provenance: One original segment placed at the Schönstatt-Zentrum on the Marienberg; date and origin not stated by the sources read. Sources: - [Ort Marienberg — Schönstatt-Zentrum Marienberg, Schönstatt im Erzbistum Bamberg](https://schoenstatt-bamberg.de/marienberg/ort-marienberg/index.html): The centre's own page: a part of the Berlin Wall recalls 9 November 1989, the day on which German unity was peacefully given back to the country, the turning point with which the former NATO missile position on the Marienberg lost its significance and a peaceful use became possible; also the shrine, the cross re-erected in 1997, the playground opened on 1 May 2012, the way of the cross and the Sunday flea market. - [Schönstatt-Zentrum Marienberg — Stadt Scheßlitz](https://www.schesslitz.de/leben-in-schesslitz/kirchen-glaubensgemeinschaften/schoenstatt-zentrum-marienberg): The town's page: the Schönstatt-Zentrum Marienberg, Dörrnwasserlos 50, 96110 Scheßlitz, stands on the former NATO rocket base. - [Scheßlitz, BY — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/schesslitz/): One segment at Schönstatt-Marienberg, a NATO missile position in the Cold War abandoned after the fall of the Wall and now the meeting place of an apostolic community; the full text of the plaque, including the two crossed artillery shells and the plough. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Schesslitz%2C%20BY): 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. ### Schöneiche/Kleinschönebeck, BB - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/schoneiche-kleinschonebeck/schoneiche-kleinschonebeck-bb-a376 - Place: Dorfaue 34, Kleinschönebeck, 15566 Schöneiche bei Berlin, Brandenburg, Germany - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (Set into a wall on the village green); evidence: Documented - Position: 52.4812663, 13.7015512 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #376. A small original segment set into a wall on the village green of Kleinschönebeck, which the municipality lists among its memorial sites with an inscription recalling 9 November 1989. Kleinschönebeck is the old village core of Schöneiche, east of Berlin, and its green is now the Dorfaue. The municipality's register of memorial sites, „Gemeinsam gedenken – Gedenkorte in der Gemeinde Schöneiche bei Berlin“, in its edition of September 2018, lists as its seventeenth political memorial a Berliner Mauersegment at Dorfaue 34, with the inscription „Wir waren auf alles vorbereitet – nur nicht auf Kerzen und Gebete! 9./10. November 1989“, and notes that it is used for commemoration on larger anniversaries. The Wall Net describes a segment of the Berlin Wall integrated into a wall on the Dorfaue and knows nothing more; a photographer who contributed pictures of it adds in a comment that the wall it is built into belongs to the adjoining property rather than enclosing the green. Nothing read says when the piece came to Kleinschönebeck or where it stood in Berlin. Provenance: One segment set into a wall at Dorfaue 34; date and origin not stated by the sources read. Sources: - [Gemeinsam gedenken – Gedenkorte in der Gemeinde Schöneiche bei Berlin (Stand September 2018) — Gemeinde Schöneiche bei Berlin](https://www.schoeneiche.de/files/uploads/Freizeit/Geschichte/Denkmalpflege/20190129GEDENKORTE.pdf): The municipality's register of memorial sites lists under its political memorials, as number 17, a Berliner Mauersegment at Dorfaue 34 with the inscription „Wir waren auf alles vorbereitet – nur nicht auf Kerzen und Gebete! 9./10. November 1989“, used for commemoration on larger anniversaries. - [Schöneiche/Kleinschönebeck, BB — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/schoeneichekleinschoenebeck/): One segment at the Dorfaue in Kleinschönebeck, the village core settled in the thirteenth century, integrated into a wall; further details unknown; a commenter who photographed it notes that the wall belongs to the adjoining private property. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Sch%E2%88%9A%E2%88%82neiche%2FKleinsch%E2%88%9A%E2%88%82nebeck%2C%20BB): 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. ### Wall memorial at the Steinerne Brücke, Schönwalde-Glien - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/schonwalde-glien/schoenwalde-glien-steinerne-bruecke - Place: Steinerne Brücke, Berliner Allee, 14621 Schönwalde-Glien, Brandenburg, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (Standing as a memorial); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 52.59566, 13.15364 Two original segments set to look as if they are toppling, on the Spandau boundary where a refugee and a border guard were killed. Two original segments stand at the Steinerne Brücke, on the road between Spandau and Schönwalde-Glien, set at an angle so that they seem to be falling over — the opening of the border shown as the moment of collapse. The memorial was unveiled on 13 August 2007, the anniversary of the day the border was closed, and information boards followed a year later. It names two people who died on this stretch. Dietmar Schwietzer, from Magdeburg, ran for the border wall early on 16 February 1977 and was fired on from two watchtowers. Ulrich Steinhauer was a GDR border soldier, shot in the back on 4 November 1980 by a fellow soldier who was escaping. A memorial that lists a refugee and a guard side by side is making a deliberate argument about who the border killed. A commemoration is held here every 13 August. The Berlin Wall Foundation, whose project the information boards were, lists the installation in its directory of surviving traces as MAU-735. Provenance: Two original segments installed at the Steinerne Brücke and unveiled on 13 August 2007. Sources: - [Mauerdenkmal an der „Steinernen Brücke“ — Orte des Erinnerns](https://www.orte-des-erinnerns.de/igof_memorials/mauerdenkmal-an-der-steinernen-bruecke/): Two original segments installed at the Steinerne Brücke between Spandau and Schönwalde-Glien so that they appear to tip over, symbolising the opening of the border; unveiled on 13 August 2007, with boards added on 13 August 2008; commemorating Dietmar Schwietzer, shot on 16 February 1977 from two watchtowers, and the border soldier Ulrich Steinhauer, shot in the back by a fleeing colleague on 4 November 1980; a project of the Stiftung Berliner Mauer. - [Schönwalde-Glien: Gedenkveranstaltung an den Bau der Berliner Mauer vor 61 Jahren — Unser Havelland](https://unserhavelland.de/2022/08/15/schoenwalde-glien-gedenkveranstaltung-an-den-bau-der-berliner-mauer-vor-61-jahren/): The annual commemoration of the building of the Wall held at the Steinerne Brücke on 13 August. - [MAU-735 Mauerdenkmal Schönwalde-Glien — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.mauerspuren.de/de/13274/mauerdenkmal-schonwalde-glien/#mau-735): Two wall elements forming part of the memorial installation on the Berliner Allee in Schönwalde, catalogued as MAU-735. ### Silberhausen, TH - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/silberhausen/silberhausen-th-a390 - Place: Dorfanger, Silberhausen, Dingelstädt, Thuringia, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 51.3106141, 10.3382184 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #390. Perhaps the first segment set up anywhere outside Berlin, fetched from the city by a village stonemason with a borrowed lorry and unveiled on the green in April 1990 with the president of the Bundestag present. Silberhausen is a village in the Eichsfeld, now part of the town of Dingelstädt, a few kilometres from where the inner-German border ran. Its stonemason, Michael Spitzenberg, had had to help build the border fence there as a young man. In early December 1989 he went to Berlin with his tools to chip at the Wall at the Sonnenallee crossing, was shocked by its scale, and decided on the spot to bring a segment home — not everyone, he said later, could go to Berlin and look at it. By the account the Federal Foundation records, he organised it with no money: countless telephone calls and letters, chocolates for a telephonist at Limex, and some sleight of hand. In early February 1990 he drove to Berlin in a borrowed lorry to collect the element he had been allotted, no. 196. It had suffered so badly from the souvenir hunters that another was loaded instead, and it stood at first in Spitzenberg's garden. He cut a sundial into the eastern face, with the points of GDR history he thought mattered and the dimensions of the barrier around West Berlin — 106 km of concrete wall, 66.5 km of mesh fence, 302 watchtowers, 259 dog runs, 20 bunkers. The western face keeps its original paint. The mayor gave him a lease on exactly three square metres of the village green. On 29 April 1990, at the invitation of the village brass band, guests from the GDR and the Federal Republic gathered with the villagers for the unveiling; Rita Süssmuth, president of the Bundestag, gave the political address, Rainer Hildebrandt of the Haus am Checkpoint Charlie museum was there, and two lime trees were planted beside it as a symbol of life. A slab in front reads „Den Opfern zum Gedenken, den Lebenden zur Mahnung“, and a stone „Nach 43 Jahren SED Ade!“. The Foundation calls it probably the first original segment set up outside Berlin and leaves open whether it really was. When Der Spiegel wrote about him in 2020, Spitzenberg remarked that Germany's true centre, its point of balance, lies exactly where the memorial stands. His „Mauerfilm“ drew enough interest that he and the town's senior citizens' council arranged a second screening, which he introduces himself, for 9 November 2026. Provenance: Collected from Berlin by the Silberhausen stonemason Michael Spitzenberg in February 1990, in place of the element no. 196 he had been allotted; donated and shaped by him and unveiled on the village green on 29 April 1990. Sources: - [Ortschaft Silberhausen – als Teil der Stadt Dingelstädt — Stadt Dingelstädt](https://www.dingelstaedt.de/buerger/ortschaften/ortschaft-silberhausen/): In 1990 a segment of the Berlin Wall was set up as a memorial on the Anger, the village green, in Silberhausen, part of the town of Dingelstädt. - [Filmvorführung des „Mauerfilms“ am Tag des Mauerfalls — Stadt Dingelstädt](https://www.dingelstaedt.de/filmvorfuehrung-des-mauerfilms-am-tag-des-mauerfalls/): On 29 April 1990, at the invitation of the Silberhausen brass band, guests from the GDR and the Federal Republic and many villagers gathered for the unveiling of the 'Berliner Mauer-Denkmal'; Prof. Dr. Rita Süssmuth gave the official political address at the sports ground; Michael Spitzenberg donated the memorial and gave it its present form; because of the interest the year before, he and the town's senior citizens' council offer a second screening of the „Mauerfilm“ on 9 November 2026, which he introduces in person. - [Denkmal Berliner Mauer — Orte des Erinnerns](https://www.orte-des-erinnerns.de/igof_memorials/denkmal-berliner-mauer-58/): Probably the first original segment, unveiled on the village green on 29 April 1990 in the presence of Rita Süssmuth and Rainer Hildebrandt, with two lime trees planted; Michael Spitzenberg's trip to the Sonnenallee crossing in December 1989, his collection of a substitute for element no. 196 in February 1990 with a borrowed lorry, the sundial on the east face, the original paint on the west, the lease of three square metres, the 2020 Spiegel article, and the inscriptions on the segment, slab and stone. - [Die Berliner Mauer in Deutschland — Die Berliner Mauer in der Welt](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/sachtexte/die-berliner-mauer-in-deutschland/): An essay by Tina Schaller and Moritz Reininghaus for the Federal Foundation, telling the same story with Spitzenberg's own words — that not everyone could go to Berlin to see it — and his calls, letters and chocolates for a telephonist at Limex; in 2020 he was looking for backers to preserve the memorial; whether it really was the first segment set up outside Berlin remains unanswered. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Silberhausen%2C%20TH): 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. ### Speyer, RP - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/speyer/speyer-rp-a399 - Place: Technik Museum Speyer, Am Technik Museum 1, Speyer, Germany - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Listed - Position: 49.3165553, 8.433615 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #399. Two segments at a technology museum better known for a Boeing 747 and a Buran space shuttle. Two segments at the Technik Museum Speyer, a collection of large machines — a Boeing 747 mounted in the air, a U-boat, and the Soviet Buran space shuttle. The Buran is the detail that matters: a museum holding both the Wall and the Soviet shuttle programme is showing two halves of the same competition, and the segment stops being a political relic and becomes another very large object built at enormous cost for a purpose that expired. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): Two Berlin Wall segments on display at the Technik Museum Speyer. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Speyer%2C%20RP): 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. ### Stetten am kalten Markt, BW - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/stetten-am-kalten-markt/stetten-am-kalten-markt-bw-a404 - Place: Lager Heuberg, Stetten am kalten Markt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: Restricted access (On display on the base); evidence: Documented - Position: 48.13021, 9.07161 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #404. Two segments that reached the Heuberg training area through Bundeswehr units that were disbanded or closed, now part of the base's military history collection. Two segments of the Wall stand on the barracks site at Stetten am kalten Markt on the Swabian Alb, some 580 kilometres from where they once stood, together with border posts and a Trabant used by the military. They belong to the military history collection of the Heuberg training area, which Marcus Klotz, a retired officer, helped to build up and looks after. Nobody knows exactly where in Berlin either stood, he told the Schwäbische Zeitung in 2020. Each came by way of a unit that no longer exists. One, with border posts, belonged to a Bundeswehr regional defence command, a Verteidigungsbezirkskommando, that had taken part in dismantling the border; when that was disbanded the segment went to the barracks at Meßstetten, and when Meßstetten closed Klotz pressed for it to be transferred to Stetten. The other belonged to the Feldjäger battalion at Esslingen and came to Stetten in 1994 when the battalion moved there; before the battalion was disbanded, Klotz made sure it would stay. The Wall Net, a tertiary list, tells it differently — a memorial put up on the Heuberg in 1991, one of many raised at Bundeswehr garrisons in the West after the Bundeswehr took over the dismantling of the border — and places the pair in front of the collection's building. The paper's headline was that hardly anyone knows the Wall is there, and that it is not easy to get to see it. Provenance: One segment from a Bundeswehr Verteidigungsbezirkskommando, by way of the barracks at Meßstetten; the other from the Feldjäger battalion at Esslingen, which brought it to Stetten in 1994. Where either stood in Berlin is not known. Sources: - [Weshalb ein Stück Berliner Mauer auf der Schwäbischen Alb steht — Schwäbische Zeitung](https://www.schwaebische.de/regional/sigmaringen/stetten-am-kalten-markt/weshalb-ein-stueck-berliner-mauer-auf-der-schwaebischen-alb-steht-182362): A report by Lukas M. Heger of 3 October 2020: on the barracks site at Stetten am kalten Markt, about 580 km from their former place, stand parts of the Berlin Wall, border posts and a military Trabant; Marcus Klotz, who looks after the Heuberg military history collection, does not know where in Berlin the two segments stood; one, with border posts, belonged to a Bundeswehr Verteidigungsbezirkskommando involved in dismantling the border, went after its disbandment to the barracks at Meßstetten and, when that closed, to Stetten at Klotz's urging; the second belonged to the Feldjäger battalion in Esslingen and came to Stetten in 1994 with the unit, staying when the battalion was disbanded; the piece is not easy to see. - [Stetten am kalten Markt, BW — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/stetten-am-kalten-markt/): Two segments at the Bundeswehr's Lager Heuberg, set up as a Wall memorial in 1991 after the Bundeswehr took over the dismantling of the inner-German border, standing in front of the building of the military collection; photographs by the Bundeswehr dated 12 January 2016. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Stetten%20am%20kalten%20Markt%2C%20BW): 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. ### Stuttgart, BW – Federal State Parliament - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/stuttgart/stuttgart-bw-federal-state-parliament-a410 - Place: Oberer Schlossgarten, by the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 48.77856, 9.18431 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #410. One of the 33 segments the publisher Axel Springer gave to the German states and several cities for the twentieth anniversary, unveiled beside the Landtag on 9 November 2009. A segment 3.60 m high and weighing 2.7 tonnes stands in the Oberer Schlossgarten beside the state parliament, painted by the Berlin graffiti artist Christoph Grohmann. It was unveiled on 9 November 2009 by the minister-president Günther Oettinger with Kai Diekmann, the editor-in-chief of Bild, the Stuttgart mayor Schuster and Anna Kaminsky of the Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung, whose memorials database records the gift as made to the state capital and describes the painting as original graffiti with a Berlin skyline and the old warning „Sie verlassen den amerikanischen Sektor“ in English and French; the painter's name comes from the tourism board alone. It belongs to a distribution worth tracking across the catalogue: Axel Springer AG gave an original element to every German federal state for the twentieth anniversary of the opening, and 33 elements in all once the cities it also gave to are counted — a single publisher placing more segments than most countries in this catalogue hold, in the same way that Lord Palumbo accounts for five sites on two continents. Provenance: A gift from Axel Springer AG in 2009, one of 33 elements the company acquired and distributed to German states and cities to mark twenty years since the Wall opened. The company's own headquarters stood directly beside the Wall in Kreuzberg. Sources: - [Geschenkt: die Berliner Mauer am Landtag finden — Stuttgart-Tourist](https://www.stuttgart-tourist.de/stuttgart-entdecken/lieblingsviertel/mittendrin/kulturmeile-stuttgart/geschenkt-die-berliner-mauer-am-landtag-finden): The Axel Springer gift to all state capitals, the unveiling by Oettinger and Diekmann, the dimensions and the painter. - [Denkmal „Berliner Mauer“ — Orte des Erinnerns](https://www.orte-des-erinnerns.de/igof_memorials/denkmal-berliner-mauer-59/): A 3.60 m, 2.7-tonne original segment on the Kulturmeile between the Staatsgalerie, the Haus der Geschichte and the Landtag, one of 33 bought by Axel Springer AG and given to several states and cities; given to the state capital and unveiled on 9 November 2009 in the presence of Günther Oettinger, the mayor Schuster, Kai Diekmann and Anna Kaminsky, painted with original graffiti, a Berlin skyline and the warning „Sie verlassen den amerikanischen Sektor“. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Stuttgart%2C%20BW%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Federal%20State%20Parliament): 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. ### Mauerelemente am Teltowkanal, Oderstraße - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/teltow/teltow-oderstrasse - Place: Oderstraße, on the Teltow Canal, 14513 Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 52.40544, 13.25846 Elements standing on the canal bank in the town that became, by accident, the distribution point for the Wall's leftovers. Wall elements stand beside the Teltow Canal on the Oderstraße, catalogued by the Berlin Wall Foundation as MAU-711 and photographed in 2018. Teltow sat immediately outside West Berlin, on the far side of the outer ring. Teltow appears in this catalogue more often than any place except Berlin itself, and not because of what stands in the town. When the border was dismantled, the VEB Betonwerke bought elements from the National People's Army to use as bins for loose material, and they ended up stacked in builders' yards here. The firm Klösters later took over the 160 still standing on one Teltow site, and from 2011 its managing director invited artists and amateurs to paint them. What left those yards is scattered across this atlas. Five segments went to a peace park at Uijeongbu in South Korea, thirty kilometres from the North Korean border. One was given to the French twin town of Gonfreville-l'Orcher and laid on its side on the Nelson Mandela Promenade. A class of sixteen-year-olds from Colombes raised the money for two by running a painting competition. A small Brandenburg town with a builders' yard is the reason pieces of the Wall are standing on three continents. Provenance: Not established for these elements. Teltow's yards held the surviving stock after the border was dismantled: the VEB Betonwerke bought elements from the National People's Army for use as material bins, and 160 of them were later taken over by the building materials firm Klösters. Sources: - [MAU-711 Mauerelemente am Teltowkanal in der Oderstraße — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.mauerspuren.de/de/13198/teltow-oderstrasse/#mau-711): Wall elements beside the Teltow Canal on the Oderstraße in Teltow, catalogued as MAU-711, classified as Mauerelemente, dated from 1980 and photographed in 2018. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, Uijeongbu site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-uijeongbu/): The VEB Betonwerke's purchase of wall elements from the National People's Army for use as material bins, the 160 elements later held by the building materials firm Klösters at Teltow, and Elmar Prost's painting campaign from 2011. ## United States ### Amherst, MA - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/amherst/amherst-ma-a9 - Place: Beside Herter Hall, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 42.3731948, -72.5198761 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #9. A Thierry Noir panel titled The Power of Creativity over Concrete, installed in 2023 and deliberately oriented east–west as it stood in Berlin. A twelve-foot segment in a glass case beside Herter Hall, which houses the history and German and Scandinavian studies departments and the DEFA Film Library. It was unveiled on 25 April 2023, and it is set east–west to reproduce the way it stood in Germany — the same curatorial care the CIA took at Langley, and the opposite of most installations, which simply face the painted side at the visitor. The work is by Thierry Noir and is titled *The Power of Creativity over Concrete*. It is among the most recent installations in the catalogue: segments were still being placed more than thirty years after the border opened. Provenance: Painted by Noir in 1990 in front of an old print factory in Treptow, in the south-east of Berlin. Bought in 2010 and given to the university by the family of the late Eric Hanson. Sources: - [Berlin Wall segment unveiled — University of Massachusetts Amherst](https://www.umass.edu/news/article/berlin-wall-segment-unveiled): The university's own account: the 2023 unveiling, Noir's authorship and title, the Treptow origin, the Hanson donation and the east–west orientation. - [UMass Amherst unveils segment of the Berlin Wall on campus — Spectrum News 1](https://spectrumnews1.com/ma/worcester/news/2023/04/25/unveiling-a-segment-of-the-berlin-wall-at-umass-amherst): Contemporary reporting on the installation and its placement. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Amherst%2C%20MA): 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. ### Arlington, VA - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/arlington/arlington-va-a17 - Place: Freedom Park, Rosslyn, Arlington, Virginia, United States - Classification: Former Location; can it be seen today: Moved (Most segments removed; outdoor exhibit closed in 2015); evidence: Documented - Position: 38.8903961, -77.0841585 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #17. Where the Newseum's collection stood first: a dozen segments on an elevated park built on an abandoned motorway ramp. Freedom Park is a two-block elevated linear park in Rosslyn, built on a concrete structure originally thrown up for a motorway overpass that was never finished. It opened in 1996 as a joint venture with the Newseum and the Freedom Forum Journalists Memorial, and it was dedicated to the idea of freedom in a fairly literal way: a dozen Berlin Wall segments, a door from a cell that held Martin Luther King, stones from the Warsaw ghetto, and a spiral of dichroic glass carrying the names of reporters killed at work. This record completes a chain the catalogue can now follow end to end. The segments came here in 1996; most went across the Potomac when the Newseum moved to Pennsylvania Avenue; the Newseum closed on the last day of 2019 and its eight sections and the guard tower went into storage in Maryland. Three addresses, one collection, thirty years. The outdoor exhibit that remained in Rosslyn was reported in 2015 as becoming a children's play area. Provenance: Originally about a dozen segments, erected when the park opened in 1996 under the Freedom Forum. Most were moved to the Newseum in Washington. Sources: - [Freedom Park (Arlington, Virginia) — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Park_(Arlington,_Virginia)): The park's 1996 founding as a joint venture with the Newseum and the Journalists Memorial, the dozen wall segments, and the other objects displayed. - [Outdoor Berlin Wall exhibit in Rosslyn to become children's play area — ARLnow](https://www.arlnow.com/2015/10/13/outdoor-berlin-wall-exhibit-in-rosslyn-to-become-childrens-play-area/): The 2015 report that the outdoor Berlin Wall exhibit was to be replaced by a children's play area. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Arlington%2C%20VA): 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. ### Atlanta, GA – AIS - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/atlanta/atlanta-ga-ais-a21 - Place: Atlanta International School, Atlanta, Georgia, United States - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: Restricted access (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 33.7489924, -84.3902644 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #21. A segment on the campus of a school that teaches in German among other languages. The school is the Atlanta International School. It joins the German School Tokyo Yokohama and the Colegio Alemán in Mexico City as a school holding a piece — a small, consistent category of recipient whose job is to explain a country to children who live somewhere else, and for whom the Wall is now as distant as the Kaiser. The school dedicated it on 20 November 2014; local press says it was arranged by the head of its primary school, Camille Du Aime, formerly of the Berlin Brandenburg International School, and that its exact origin is unconfirmed, probably the stretch near Kleinmachnow. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A segment of the wall on the campus of the Atlanta International School. - [Section of Berlin Wall comes to Atlanta International School](https://roughdraftatlanta.com/2014/11/18/section-berlin-wall-comes-atlanta-international-school/): A segment about ten feet by three, arranged by the head of the primary school Camille Du Aime, dedicated on 20 November 2014 at Atlanta International School; its place of origin is unconfirmed, probably near Kleinmachnow. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Atlanta%2C%20GA%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20AIS): 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. ### Augusta, GA - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/augusta/augusta-ga-a23 - Place: Former U.S. Army Signal Corps Museum, Chamberlain Avenue, Fort Gordon (now Fort Eisenhower), Augusta, Georgia, United States - Classification: Former Location; can it be seen today: Unknown (Museum closed in 2021; present location of the piece not established); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 33.4258014, -82.1449685 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #23. A large piece of the Wall shown in the Army Signal Corps Museum until it closed in February 2021. The Army does not say where the piece is now. The Army's own report on the closing of the Signal Corps Museum, published on army.mil on 4 March 2021, says the museum had been on Chamberlain Avenue at Fort Gordon since 1998 and housed "an original piece of the Berlin Wall, standing at about 8 feet tall"; a photograph caption quotes the German Armed Forces liaison officer, Lt. Col. Sascha Blankenburg, calling it a "symbol of unity". The museum closed temporarily on 25 February 2021 ahead of a planned move. A second report, of 20 May 2021, lists "a large piece of the Berlin Wall" among the irreplaceable artefacts being packed, most of which the Army sent to a museum in Anniston, Alabama for temporary storage while a few stayed on post. It does not say which the Wall piece was. The post, renamed Fort Eisenhower in 2023, has a second record in this catalogue, the two sections and a sign in Freedom Park. Whether they are the museum's piece or a different one is not established here; the Army speaks of one piece, The Wall Net of two segments in the museum. The Augusta listing was pinned in the middle of the city, 17 km from the post. The pin now marks the former museum building on the post: where a source last placed the piece, not where it is. Provenance: Not established. Sources: - [Bittersweet history: museum casing ceremony is part of ongoing transformation — U.S. Army, 4 March 2021](https://www.army.mil/article/243950/bittersweet_history_museum_casing_ceremony_is_part_of_ongoing_transformation): The Signal Corps Museum, on Chamberlain Avenue at Fort Gordon since 1998, housed an original piece of the Berlin Wall about eight feet tall, described by a German liaison officer as a symbol of unity; the museum closed on 25 February 2021 to prepare for relocation. - [Museum artifacts safely stored, to be rehoused — U.S. Army, 20 May 2021](https://www.army.mil/article/246668/museum_artifacts_safely_stored_to_be_rehoused): A large piece of the Berlin Wall was among the irreplaceable artefacts packed up; most items went to an Army museum in Anniston, Alabama, for temporary storage and a few stayed on post. - [Augusta, GA — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/augusta-ga/): Two segments of the inner wall at the Signal Corps Museum on Fort Gordon, with further details unknown. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Augusta%2C%20GA): 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. ### Boston, MA – EF Headquarter - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/boston/boston-ma-ef-headquarter-a45 - Place: Education First headquarters, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display outside the headquarters); evidence: Documented - Position: 42.369858405702, -71.068818503063 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #199 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #45. A complete segment with its anti-climb pipe still on it, outside a language-travel company that cannot say how it got there. A complete segment has stood outside the headquarters of the language-travel company Education First in Cambridge since the 1990s. It is in unusually good condition: the round anti-climb pipe along the top, which is missing from most of the records in this catalogue, is still there at full size. Somebody has painted a small figure on it in a blue hat, green T-shirt and pink jacket, with the Fila logo across the front, and who that was is not known. Nor is anything else. The company, which also operates in Germany, could not say when the segment arrived or why. What it offers instead is a claim about itself: that over forty years it has placed millions of European pupils and students in the United States for language study, and so did its own small part in overcoming the division of the world through exchange. The record was held back for a while because Boston holds more than one section and this listing carried only the city name. The Federal Foundation's own entry names the company, and the catalogue's separate listing for the EF headquarters — which has no coordinates at all — fits it exactly. Provenance: Not established. The company could not say when or why the segment came to Boston. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-boston-2/): The complete segment outside the Education First headquarters in Cambridge since the 1990s, the intact anti-climb pipe, the painted figure with the Fila emblem, the company's inability to establish when or why it arrived, and its own account of its exchange programmes. - [Education First aims to bridge barriers with exchange](https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2013/02/03/founder-bertil-hult-sees-education-first-breaking-down-global-barriers/KK6hpFwDqvocR73w0Xf9jO/story.html): In 2013 a 12-foot graffitied section of the Wall stood behind Plexiglas outside EF's Cambridge office, which the founder Bertil Hult describes as a symbol of free trade and education. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-boston-2/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Boston%2C%20MA%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20EF%20Headquarter): 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. ### Boston, MA – JFK Library and Museum - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/boston/boston-ma-jfk-library-and-museum-a46 - Place: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Columbia Point, Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 42.316321045042, -71.034256607592 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #198 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #46. Segment 41, given in memory of the president who told West Berliners “Ich bin ein Berliner” two years after the Wall went up. A tall graffitied section, catalogued as segment 41, held by the library of the president who went to West Berlin in June 1963, two years after the Wall was built, and told the crowd at the Rathaus Schöneberg that he too was a Berliner. Of all the recipients in this catalogue this is among the most direct: the object is in the keeping of the man whose most quoted sentence was about the city it divided. Provenance: A gift from the German government in memory of President Kennedy, obtained with the help of his sister Jean Kennedy Smith. Sources disagreed about the year — 1989, 1990 and 1999 all appear — and the photograph's own record settles it: the piece was received after reunification and installed as an exhibit in 1993. Sources: - [Boston, MA – JFK Library and Museum — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/boston-ma-2/): Segment 41, a gift of the German government in memory of President Kennedy, obtained via Jean Kennedy Smith and erected in Boston in autumn 1990. - [Section of Berlin Wall — JFK Library collections](https://jfk.artifacts.archives.gov/objects/4330/section-of-berlin-wall): The library's own object record for the section. Not retrievable at the time of writing; listed so the accession detail can be checked. - [John F. Kennedy Presidential Library (7207868578) — Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_F._Kennedy_Presidential_Library_(7207868578).jpg): The piece was received by the Kennedy Library as a gift after German reunification and installed as an exhibit in 1993. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-boston/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Boston%2C%20MA%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20JFK%20Library%20and%20Museum): 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. ### Camden, NJ - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/camden/camden-nj-a69 - Place: Private property, Camden, New Jersey, United States - Classification: Private / Limited Access; can it be seen today: Restricted access (Reported in place); evidence: Listed - Position: 39.9448402, -75.1198911 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #69. A section on private property — listed, but not a place the atlas will send anyone. The record exists so the object is accounted for; it carries no address beyond the city, Camden, and no visitor guidance, and it should not acquire either. Several records in this catalogue are like this, and the right treatment is to log them and stop. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A section of the Berlin Wall located on private property in Camden. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Camden%2C%20NJ): 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. ### Chalk Hill, PA - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/chalk-hill/chalk-hill-pa-a75 - Place: Kentuck Knob, 723 Kentuck Road, Chalk Hill, Pennsylvania, United States - Classification: Private / Limited Access; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 39.8556115, -79.5790584 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #75. Two segments on the grounds of a Frank Lloyd Wright house, placed by Lord Palumbo — part of the five sites one collector accounts for. One is in the sculpture meadow of the I. N. Hagan house, which Wright designed, the other on the drive. They are part of Lord Palumbo's holdings, which also include the Imperial War Museum segment in London, Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Nemacolin Woodlands. Provenance: Placed by Lord Palumbo, who bought the house in 1986. Sources: - [Kentuck Knob's Pieces of the Berlin Wall](http://kentuckknob.blogspot.com/2009/11/kentuck-knobs-pieces-of-berlin-wall.html): The house's own account of the two segments and their placement. - [Chalk Hill, PA — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/dunbar-pa/): Site record for the Chalk Hill segments. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Chalk%20Hill%2C%20PA): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Charlottesville - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/charlottesville/berlin-wall-charlottesville-f222 - Place: Outside Alderman Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 38.035971016836, -78.505346667623 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #222 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #76. Four panels lent by the collectors Robert and MeiLi Hefner and unveiled in April 2014 beside the main library at the University of Virginia. The panels stand on the quad beside Alderman Library and the Small Special Collections Library. They are not a purchase by the university: Robert and MeiLi Hefner, collectors then in Oklahoma City, lent four panels, 16 feet long and 12 feet high in all, and they were unveiled on 11 April 2014 for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the fall of the Wall. The west face carries Dennis Kaun's mural Kings of Freedom; the east face is unpainted grey concrete. The list this record was first written from speaks of a single segment outside the library; the university's own pages say four, and are followed here. Neither says whether the loan has ended. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A segment of the wall on display outside Alderman Library at the University of Virginia. - [The Berlin Wall at UVA](https://arts.virginia.edu/berlinwall): Four panels, 16 feet long and 12 feet high, lent by Robert and MeiLi Hefner and unveiled on 11 April 2014 on the quad beside Alderman Library and the Small Special Collections Library, bearing Dennis Kaun's Kings of Freedom. - [Kings of Freedom: Section of Berlin Wall comes to Grounds](https://uvamagazine.org/articles/kings_of_freedom): Four lent panels with Dennis Kaun's Kings of Freedom mural on the west face and unpainted grey concrete on the east face, installed near Alderman Library in 2014 as part of a university celebration of artistic and political freedom. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-charlottesville/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Charlottesville%2C%20VA): 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. ### Chicago, IL – Lincoln Square - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/chicago/berlin-wall-chicago-f179 - Place: Western station, CTA Brown Line, 4648 North Western Avenue, Lincoln Square, Chicago, Illinois, United States - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 41.9685116, -87.6886528 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #179 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #77. A Grenzmauer 75 slab inside a working elevated-railway station in Chicago's historically German neighbourhood — commuters pass it twice a day. A twelve-foot slab stands inside the Western station on the Brown Line of the Chicago “L”, in Lincoln Square, historically the city's German neighbourhood. It carries remnants of a mural painted on the western face during the 1980s, and it is identified as coming from the fourth and final generation of the barrier, the Grenzmauer 75. The setting is the most ordinary of any record here: not a museum or a plaza but a working commuter station, passed twice a day by people not visiting it. The plaque presents the gift “as an expression of gratitude for the invaluable assistance rendered by the United States of America in securing the safety and the freedom of Berlin, in bringing down the wall, and in supporting the reunification of Germany and Berlin”. Provenance: Offered to Chicago by the German government and dedicated at the station on 19 January 2008, at a ceremony with the CTA president Ron Huberman, the German consul general Wolfgang Drautz and Alderman Eugene Schulter. Sources: - [Berlin Wall Monument (Chicago) — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall_Monument_(Chicago)): The Western station location, the Grenzmauer 75 identification, the 2008 dedication and attendees, and the plaque text. - [30th anniversary of Berlin Wall's demise to be celebrated at monument in Lincoln Square — Block Club Chicago](https://blockclubchicago.org/2019/11/01/30th-anniversary-of-berlin-walls-demise-to-be-celebrated-at-monument-in-lincoln-square/): The monument's standing in the neighbourhood and its continued commemorative use. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-chicago/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Chicago%2C%20IL%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Lincoln%20Square): 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. ### Chicago, IL – SafeHouse - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/chicago/chicago-il-safehouse-a78 - Place: Formerly SafeHouse Chicago, 60 E Ontario Street, Chicago, Illinois, United States - Classification: Former Location; can it be seen today: Gone (Venue closed in 2023; the piece's whereabouts are unknown); evidence: Documented - Position: 41.8934973, -87.6259171 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #78. A spy-themed bar in River North that displayed a piece of the Wall among its props, until it closed in March 2023. Where the piece went is not known. SafeHouse, a spy-themed restaurant and bar with a password at the door, opened in Chicago's River North in March 2017, a sister to the original in Milwaukee. The Chicago Sun-Times, previewing the opening, listed the artefacts of the era it had assembled: a piece of the Berlin Wall, the flight deck of a Second World War spy plane donated by its pilot, and replica machine guns from the estate of John Wayne. It closed abruptly in March 2023. Nothing read here says what became of the Wall piece, and this record is kept as a former location for exactly that reason. A segment in a themed bar is the kind that moves without anyone writing it down: it belonged to a business, not a museum or a city, and when the business went the object went with it. It is also a fair reminder of how many of the catalogue's listings are like this one — a record that was true when it was made, of a place that no longer exists. Provenance: Displayed at SafeHouse Chicago from its opening in 2017; not traced after the venue closed in 2023. Sources: - [SafeHouse and EscapeHouse ready for covert ops in Chicago — Chicago Sun-Times, 1 March 2017](https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/safehouse-and-escapehouse-ready-covert-ops-in-chicago): SafeHouse Chicago at 60 E. Ontario displayed artefacts of the era including a piece of the Berlin Wall, a flight deck from a Second World War spy plane donated by the pilot, and replica machine guns from the estate of John Wayne. - [SafeHouse Chicago, spy-themed restaurant and bar in River North, abruptly closes — NBC Chicago](https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/safehouse-chicago-spy-themed-restaurant-and-bar-in-river-north-abruptly-closes/3087780/): SafeHouse Chicago in River North closed abruptly in March 2023, announcing that it had completed its last mission in Chicago. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Chicago%2C%20IL%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20SafeHouse): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Cincinnati - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/cincinnati/berlin-wall-cincinnati-f211 - Place: National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, 50 East Freedom Way, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 39.097221071788, -84.511616933361 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #211 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #80. A section beside the entrance of a museum about American slavery, placed to argue that the struggle against unfreedom is one subject rather than several. A large section stands beside the entrance to the Freedom Center, with quotations about freedom set into the surrounding pavement. The museum's subject is the Underground Railroad and American slavery, and the segment is there to place that history in the same frame as the Iron Curtain — an argument that the struggle against unfreedom is one subject rather than several. It is among the clearest cases in the catalogue of a recipient rewriting what the object means. Cincinnati's mayor announced the gift in September 2009, and said the Freedom Center sits on the bank of the Ohio River, another barrier to freedom that eventually fell. Provenance: Recorded as a gift from the city of Berlin. Sources: - [National Underground Railroad Freedom Center — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Underground_Railroad_Freedom_Center): The Berlin Wall section at the museum entrance and its framing within the museum's mission. - [Berlin Wall segment, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center — Waymarking](https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMRVTY_Berlin_Wall_segment_National_Underground_Railroad_Freedom_Center_Cincinnati_OH_US): Position beside the entrance and the freedom quotations in the pavement. - [Piece of Berlin Wall coming to Cincinnati](https://www.fox19.com/story/11156605/piece-of-berlin-wall-coming-to-cincinnati/): Mayor Mark Mallory announced in September 2009 that a section of the Wall, a gift from the city of Berlin, would be permanently displayed on the southwest lawn of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-cincinnati/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Cincinatti%2C%20OH): 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. ### Berlin Wall — College Station - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/college-station/berlin-wall-college-station-f219 - Place: George H. W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 30.596539478243, -96.353276769326 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #219 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #81. A twelve-foot section inside the presidential library of the man who was in office when the Wall opened, still carrying its graffiti. The segment at the Bush library is the centrepiece of its Berlin Wall / Age of Freedom exhibit, with the graffiti it wore in Berlin. The placement is the argument: this is the presidential library of the man in office on 9 November 1989, and the exhibit sets the segment among the other international events of that administration. The grounds also carry a sculpture whose sister casting stands at the Allied Museum in Berlin. Provenance: Recorded by the library as a gift to President George Bush. Sources: - [The Berlin Wall/Age of Freedom — George H. W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum](https://www.bush41library.gov/berlin-wallage-freedom): The library's own account: a twelve-foot section, graffitied, gifted to President Bush, displayed with video kiosks. - [The Grounds — George H. W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum](https://www.bush41library.gov/visit/grounds): The grounds sculpture whose sister casting is at the Allied Museum in Berlin. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-college-station/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=College%20Station%2C%20TX): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Columbus - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/columbus/berlin-wall-columbus-f212 - Place: Courtyard behind Huber-Spielman Hall, Capital University, Columbus, Ohio, United States - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display in a campus courtyard); evidence: Documented - Position: 39.956796156199, -82.937796745808 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #212 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #85. Brought over as an attraction for a flower show marking five hundred years since Columbus, and left behind on a university campus when the show closed. The five hundredth anniversary of Columbus's voyage was marked in 1992 by a horticultural exhibition held, inevitably, at Columbus in Ohio: thirty-six hectares of flower displays from around the world under the patronage of the First Lady, Barbara Bush. Alongside it ran other exhibitions to draw visitors, among them one about Germany, in which the entrepreneur Günther Tukay was involved. Tukay, whose plant-construction and recycling company had expanded into the new eastern states after 1990, was trying to interest American firms in doing the same, and had a wall segment shipped over as a particular attraction for the German pavilion. When the exhibition closed in October 1992 he offered the segment to Capital University as a permanent loan. With support from the Huntington Bank the 2.6-tonne piece was installed in the Blackmore Library on 3 December 1992. It now stands outdoors, in a courtyard behind Huber-Spielman Hall, described by the university as a symbol of the triumph of the human spirit over insurmountable conditions. The painting on it is the unusual part. The remains of a devil, coloured snowflakes and the year 89 are on the face that used to point east — the side almost nobody could reach before November 1989, and which was therefore very rarely painted even afterwards. The west face, the one the world photographed, is bare grey here. To keep it that way a sign asks students not to add anything of their own. For the thirtieth anniversary the university's history department and a film and media production class held a commemoration at the segment on 7 November 2019. Provenance: Brought to the United States by the entrepreneur Günther Tukay for the German pavilion at the 1992 Columbus horticultural exhibition, and left with Capital University as a permanent loan when it closed in October 1992. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-columbus/): The 1992 Columbus quincentenary horticultural exhibition and the German pavilion, Günther Tukay's shipment of the segment and his offer of it to Capital University, the installation in the Blackmore Library on 3 December 1992 with Huntington Bank's support, the present position behind Huber-Spielman Hall, the painting on the formerly east-facing side and the unpainted west face with its notice, and the commemoration of 7 November 2019. - [The Berlin Wall: 22 years later](https://cuchimes.com/11/2011/the-berlin-wall-22-years-later/): Capital University's student newspaper reports that the 12-foot section came to the university after the 1992 AmeriFlora exhibition on long-term loan from the German firm Hansa Consulting GmbH, and was installed in Blackmore Library. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-columbus/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Columbus%2C%20OH): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Connecticut - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/connecticut/berlin-wall-connecticut-f173 - Place: A storage depot in Connecticut, United States - Classification: Private / Limited Access; can it be seen today: In storage (In storage; not publicly accessible); evidence: Listed - Position: 41.755698348719, -72.934705739372 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #173. Five Noir and Citny segments from Wings of Desire, taken off Madison Avenue for restoration and last reported in storage in Connecticut. Five of the most photographed segments anywhere are in a store in Connecticut, and this listing — filed under the state, with no town — is what the catalogue made of that. They were painted in October 1985 on Waldemarstraße in West Berlin, Thierry Noir taking the left part and Kiddy Citny the right, in the heads both artists are known for. Liselotte and Armin Orgel-Köhne photographed them the same year and the pictures were used everywhere for Berlin's 750th anniversary in 1987; the same segments are clearly visible in Wings of Desire, which Wim Wenders filmed in West Berlin that year. How they reached America can no longer be settled. They were probably bought in the early 1990s by Jerry I. Speyer, co-owner of Tishman Speyer, and set up outside the firm's headquarters at 520 Madison Avenue. A second account has Limex selling them to the Museum of Modern Art in 1990 for 500,000 marks; the museum could not confirm it. For years they stood in a small courtyard beside the entrance at 520 Madison Avenue, and the weather worked on them. In 2015 they were removed to a warehouse in New Jersey for careful restoration. According to the Canadian artists and filmmakers Vid Ingelevics and Blake Fitzpatrick, who have spent years tracking the Wall in North America, they came back to Manhattan after about six months and were installed in the building's lobby, stood there for around two years, and were then taken away again to a depot in Connecticut. Whether anyone intends to put them back where they can be seen could not be established. The catalogue holds a separate record for the Madison Avenue courtyard. This one is for the objects themselves, in the place they are now. Provenance: Painted by Thierry Noir and Kiddy Citny on Waldemarstraße in October 1985; probably bought in the early 1990s by Jerry I. Speyer for 520 Madison Avenue, though a second account has Limex selling them to the Museum of Modern Art in 1990 for 500,000 marks, which the museum could not confirm. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-connecticut/): The five Noir and Citny segments that stood at 520 Madison Avenue until 2015, the two competing accounts of their purchase by Jerry I. Speyer or by MoMA, their decay outdoors and removal to a New Jersey warehouse for restoration, the account by Vid Ingelevics and Blake Fitzpatrick of their return to the Manhattan lobby for about two years and subsequent storage in Connecticut, the October 1985 painting on Waldemarstraße, the Orgel-Köhne photographs used for Berlin's 750th anniversary, and their appearance in Wings of Desire. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-connecticut/): 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. ### Culver City, CA - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/culver-city/culver-city-ca-a88 - Place: The Wende Museum, 10808 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, California, United States - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (Installed at the corner of Culver Boulevard and Coombs Avenue in 2019); evidence: Documented - Position: 34.0211224, -118.396466 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #182 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #88. A Thierry Noir segment at the museum's door, installed in 2019 — the Cold War museum that also put ten segments on Wilshire Boulevard. An original segment painted by Thierry Noir stands at the entrance of the Wende Museum in Culver City. Justinian Jampol, the museum's founder and director, bought it in 2006 and had Noir paint it; when the museum moved in 2017 from Buckingham Parkway into a former National Guard armory, the segment was permanently installed at the corner of Culver Boulevard and Coombs Avenue, in 2019. Jampol had the idea of exhibiting East German history in the United States during a period of study in Germany in the 1990s. The museum opened in the summer of 2002 and its collection now runs to more than a hundred thousand objects of everyday life and politics in the GDR — the largest such collection outside Germany, assembled while the material was still being thrown away. The museum is also why Los Angeles holds the longest stretch of the Wall standing anywhere outside Berlin. Ten further segments came into the collection for the twentieth anniversary in 2009 and were installed on Wilshire Boulevard, where this catalogue records them separately. Sources: - [The Wall Project — Wende Museum via Google Arts & Culture](https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/the-wall-project/QQspCdVW): The museum's role as holder and installer of the Los Angeles segments. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-culver-city/): The Thierry Noir segment at the Wende Museum entrance, Jampol's purchase in 2006 and commission of the painting, the museum's 2017 move from Buckingham Parkway to the former National Guard building and the segment's permanent installation in 2019 at Culver Boulevard and Coombs Avenue, the museum's founding in summer 2002 and its collection of more than 100,000 objects, and the ten further segments installed on Wilshire Boulevard in 2009. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-culver-city/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Culver%20City%2C%20CA): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Dallas - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/dallas/berlin-wall-dallas-f220 - Place: Hilton Anatole, 2201 North Stemmons Freeway, Dallas, Texas, United States - Classification: Private / Limited Access; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 32.7997897, -96.829024314626 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #220 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #91. Two segments in a hotel sculpture garden, with an explanatory plaque — the Wall as part of a private art collection. Two segments stand in the sculpture garden of the Hilton Anatole, accompanied by a descriptive plaque. The hotel holds a large private art collection and the segments are shown as part of it — which places them, unusually, in the company of art bought for decoration rather than of objects kept as evidence. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): Two segments on display in the sculpture garden of the Hilton Anatole hotel. - [Creativity knows no bounds at luxuriously artsy hotels](https://www.meetingstoday.com/articles/138228/creativity-knows-no-bounds-luxuriously-artsy-hotels): The Hilton Anatole in Dallas holds two 12-foot Berlin Wall sections in its art collection, assembled by Trammell and Margaret Crow. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-dallas/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Dallas%2C%20TX): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Dayton - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/dayton/berlin-wall-dayton-f214 - Place: National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, United States - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display in the Cold War galleries); evidence: Listed - Position: 39.78091443907, -84.109364057988 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #214 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #92. Four segments obtained in exchange for two airlift aircraft, flown to Ohio in a chartered Starlifter and displayed behind a camouflaged Trabant. More than three hundred aircraft stand in the three hangars of the United States Air Force's museum near Dayton, two of them given over to the Cold War, and since 2000 the galleries have also held two ensembles of the Berlin Wall. The first four segments came from Rhein-Main air base at Frankfurt, and they were not bought. They were exchanged for two aircraft — a Douglas C-47 and a C-54 of the type flown in the Berlin airlift of 1948 — with General William J. Begert travelling to Frankfurt on 23 December 1999 to take delivery. At about sixteen tonnes the concrete needed a chartered C-141 Starlifter to cross the Atlantic. The segments were shown to the public on 11 November 2000. The museum decided that plain grey concrete was not enough. The segments stand behind a Trabant painted in camouflage, a woman standing on its roof waving, her companion already over the wall and sitting cheering on the round anti-climb pipe, the two joined by a German flag. Two further segments arrived the same year as a gift from the AlliiertenMuseum in Berlin, carrying heads that Thierry Noir painted for the Air Force Museum specially. The exchange is the fact worth keeping. Everywhere else in this catalogue the Wall is bought, given or lent. Here a museum traded two transport aircraft for four pieces of a border — the aircraft that broke the blockade of 1948 for the wall that went up thirteen years later. Provenance: Four segments from Rhein-Main air base, obtained in an exchange for a Douglas C-47 and a C-54 of the Berlin airlift type, taken over on 23 December 1999 and flown to Ohio in a chartered C-141; two further segments given the same year by the AlliiertenMuseum in Berlin and painted by Thierry Noir. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-dayton/): The two wall ensembles in the Cold War galleries since 2000, the exchange of four segments from Rhein-Main air base for two Berlin airlift aircraft, General William J. Begert's collection of them on 23 December 1999, the sixteen tonne weight and the chartered C-141, the public presentation on 11 November 2000, the camouflaged Trabant display, and the two further segments given by the AlliiertenMuseum and painted by Thierry Noir. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-dayton/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Dayton%2C%20OH): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Durham - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/durham/berlin-wall-durham-f210 - Place: The Frontier, 800 Park Offices Drive, Research Triangle Park, Durham, North Carolina, United States - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 35.8961444, -78.8703948 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #210 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #109. One segment carrying a 1985 Kiddy Citny crowned heart, from the Waldemarstraße stretch. The Frontier's segment carries one of the two famous hearts, and shares an origin stretch with the New York pieces. It is also a direct link to the Noir–Citny litigation over reproduction described in docs/research/dispersal.md. The Research Triangle Foundation records that it was installed in the atrium in early 2015 on loan from Gordon Smith. Provenance: From Waldemarstraße in Kreuzberg, painted by Kiddy Citny in 1985. Lent in 2015 by Gordon Smith, who had bought it in 1990. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): The Citny crowned heart and the Waldemarstraße origin. - [The Berlin Wall: Breaking Down Barriers](https://frontier.rtp.org/2015/04/berlin-wall/): The Frontier in Research Triangle Park installed the segment in its atrium in early 2015 on loan from the philanthropist Gordon Smith, graffiti on the former west face and blank concrete on the east. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-durham/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Durham%2C%20NC): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Eureka - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/eureka/berlin-wall-eureka-f180 - Place: Reagan Peace Garden, Eureka College, 300 East College Avenue, Eureka, Illinois, United States - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 40.713481414811, -89.269170808529 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #180 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #120. A section in the peace garden at Reagan's own college, marking the commencement speech he gave there in 1982 on the fiftieth anniversary of his graduation. A worn slab of concrete and rebar stands in the Reagan Peace Garden at Eureka College, with a bronze bust of Reagan by Lonnie Stewart on a pedestal carrying lines from the speech — among them “Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with conflict by peaceful means”. Reagan graduated from Eureka in 1932 and returned on 9 May 1982, the fiftieth anniversary of his graduation, to give a commencement address proposing arms reduction talks with the Soviet Union. The garden dates the argument to that speech rather than to 1987 or 1989, which is a distinctly institutional piece of framing. Provenance: The garden was given by the former board chairman David Vaughan and his wife Anne Vaughan in 2000, and dedicated by Reagan's daughter Maureen. Sources: - [Visit Reagan's Campus — The Ronald W. Reagan Society of Eureka College](https://reagan.eureka.edu/visit-reagans-campus.html): The college's own account: the peace garden with a bust and an authentic section of the Berlin Wall, commemorating the 1982 commencement address. - [A portion of the Berlin Wall is at Reagan's alma mater in Illinois — NPR Illinois](https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2019-11-07/a-portion-of-the-berlin-wall-is-at-reagans-alma-mater-in-illinois): The Vaughan donation in 2000, the dedication by Maureen Reagan, the sculptor, and the quoted line. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-eureka/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Eureka%2C%20IL): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Eureka Springs - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/eureka-springs/berlin-wall-eureka-springs-f171 - Place: Church in the Grove, Great Passion Play grounds, 935 Passion Play Road, Eureka Springs, Arkansas, United States - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 36.407203056433, -93.720353988184 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #171 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #119. A ten-foot section beside a relocated country church on the Great Passion Play grounds, carrying words from Psalm 23 in German. A section about ten feet by ten feet stands next to the Church in the Grove, a country church more than a century old that was moved onto the Great Passion Play grounds in 1986 and refurbished. The section carries words from the 23rd Psalm in German — “though I walk through the dark valley, I will not fear”. The site reads the object devotionally, in the same register as Fátima: the Wall as an occasion for scripture rather than a Cold War artefact. Provenance: Bought in 1991 by the Elna M. Smith Foundation. Sources: - [Berlin Wall Section — Eureka Springs, Arkansas](https://www.eurekasprings.com/attractions/details.html?id=130): A ten-foot by ten-foot section beside the Church in the Grove, inscribed with the 23rd Psalm in German. - [Berlin Wall Section - The Great Passion Play](https://www.greatpassionplay.org/berlin-wall-section.html): The Great Passion Play's own page: the Elna M. Smith Foundation bought the 10-foot by 10-foot section in 1991 and set it up next to the Church in the Grove, with words from Psalm 23 in German painted on it. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-eureka-springs/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Eureka%20Springs%2C%20AR): 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. ### Flagstaff, AZ - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/flagstaff/flagstaff-az-a123 - Place: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States - Classification: Fragment; can it be seen today: On display (On display; a move to a more public position has been planned); evidence: Documented - Position: 35.1987522, -111.651822 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #170 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #123. A purple-pink fragment given to Northern Arizona University in 1993 by a businessman who took the reason with him. The fragment held in Flagstaff is painted in striking purple and pink. A plaque on its back dates the donation to 1993 and names the donor as the businessman Bob Baker. Baker has since died, and with him went any record of why he gave it or where he got it. The university does hold a certificate of authenticity, issued by Limex-Bau, the GDR's foreign trade enterprise, stating that the proceeds of this piece went to the East German health service — the formula that accompanied the whole 1990 sale. Sources place it in two different rooms. The list this record was first written from puts it in the student union, displayed so that the reinforcing bars running through the concrete are visible, which is unusual: almost every other record in this catalogue is shown painted face outward, as a canvas rather than as a piece of engineering. The Federal Foundation places it in the lobby of the department of global languages and cultures, framed by photographs of the events of 9 November 1989, and notes that a move to a more prominent position with more passers-by is intended. Either it has moved, or one of the two accounts is out of date; both are kept. A text panel on the front describes the Wall as an ominous symbol of the Cold War and of the oppression of the East German people, and credits German unification to the peaceful efforts of the people in the east and the support of the NATO countries. The university's news service reported it rededicated in October 2009 in the Babbitt Academic Annex, during the Wall Fall Ball for the twentieth anniversary, a third room alongside the two accounts above. Provenance: Given to Northern Arizona University in 1993 by the businessman Bob Baker; the university holds a Limex-Bau certificate of authenticity. Baker's motive and the piece's earlier history are not recorded. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A segment showing the reinforcing rebars within it, on display in the student union at Northern Arizona University. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-flagstaff/): The purple and pink painted fragment at Northern Arizona University, the plaque dating Bob Baker's donation to 1993 and the loss of the donor's account with his death, the Limex-Bau certificate stating that the proceeds went to the GDR health service, the display in the lobby of the languages and cultures department framed by photographs of the fall, the planned move to a more prominent position, and the wording of the text panel. - [NAU commemorates the fall of the Berlin Wall](https://in.nau.edu/news/nau-commemorates-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall/): The university's news service reports the section rededicated in the Babbitt Academic Annex in October 2009 during the Wall Fall Ball, with Arizona Board of Regents president Ernest Calderón presiding. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-flagstaff/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Flagstaff%2C%20AZ): 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. ### Fort Benning, GA - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/fort-benning/fort-benning-ga-a124 - Place: National Infantry Museum, Fort Benning, Georgia, United States - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 32.3620907, -84.953158 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #124. Three sections in the US Army's own collection, in the museum's Cold War gallery. The museum is the National Infantry Museum. With Fort Knox, Fort Leavenworth, the CIA at Langley and the barracks at Stuttgart, the American military accounts for a distinct cluster of records in this catalogue — objects kept by the institution that stood on the other side of them. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): Three sections of the wall in the US Army's collection at the National Infantry Museum. - [The Cold War: 1947-1989 - National Infantry Museum & Soldier Center](https://nationalinfantrymuseum.org/project/the-cold-war/): The museum's Cold War gallery invites visitors to examine real pieces of the Berlin Wall on the way out of the Cold War and into the present era. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Fort%20Benning%2C%20GA): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Fort Gordon - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/fort-gordon/berlin-wall-fort-gordon-f176 - Place: Freedom Park, Fort Eisenhower (formerly Fort Gordon), Georgia, United States - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: Restricted access (On display); evidence: Listed - Position: 33.426078177089, -82.145222614419 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #176. Two sections and a sign taken from the Wall, in Freedom Park on the post formerly called Fort Gordon. Two sections stand in Freedom Park on the Georgia post, shown with a sign taken from the Wall itself — signage is rare in this catalogue, where almost everything that travelled was concrete. The post was Fort Gordon when the record was listed and is now Fort Eisenhower, which is why the lead and the catalogue disagreed about the name until a photograph settled it. Sources: - [Fort Gordon's Berlin Wall Display.JPG — Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AFort_Gordon's_Berlin_Wall_Display.JPG): Two sections of the Berlin Wall and a sign from the wall, in Freedom Park on Fort Eisenhower. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-fort-gordon/): 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. ### Fort Knox, KY - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/fort-knox/fort-knox-ky-a125 - Place: General George Patton Museum of Leadership, Fort Knox, Kentucky, United States - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 37.8976552, -85.9038521 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #196 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #125. Segments brought from Berlin by the commander of US Forces there in 1990 — and the one record where the paint itself is in doubt. A section carrying the words “democracy” and “freedom” and the phrase “Tear the wall down” is a permanent exhibit at the Patton Museum. The record carries an unusual caveat and it is worth stating plainly: the authenticity of the concrete is not in question, but the graffiti differs from that visible in a photograph of the segment in place in Berlin, which suggests the painting was reproduced after the move. That makes this the clearest test in the catalogue of what “original” means for an object whose most photographed feature is its surface. Provenance: In 1990 Raymond D. Haddock, commander of US Forces in West Berlin, arranged for three segments to be moved from Berlin to the museum at Fort Knox. Sources: - [Fort Knox, KY — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/fort-knox-ky/): The Haddock transfer of three segments in 1990, and the observation that the graffiti differs from the in-situ photograph and may have been reproduced. - [Berlin Wall exhibit provides palette for Fort Knox artist — The News-Enterprise](https://www.thenewsenterprise.com/features/pulse/berlin-wall-exhibit-provides-palette-for-fort-knox-artist/article_53117ace-df3e-54af-9a58-a846da9e9b64.html): Local reporting on the exhibit and its painted surface. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-fort-knox/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Fort%20Knox%2C%20KY): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Fort Leavenworth - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/fort-leavenworth/berlin-wall-fort-leavenworth-f194 - Place: Near Smith Lake, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, United States - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: Restricted access (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 39.36038775, -94.925309563653 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #194 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #126. Three sections set at deliberately different angles to read as crumbling, falling and standing, near Smith Lake. Three sections stand near Smith Lake, about 400 feet from the Buffalo Soldier Monument. They are set at deliberately different angles, and the memorial's design concept names each one: “The Berlin Wall begins to crumble”, “The Berlin Wall falls” and “Democracy remains”. Most installations in this catalogue set segments upright as they stood; this is one of the few that uses the arrangement itself to tell a story, and it is the only one that stages collapse. Provenance: The three sections came from near Checkpoint Charlie and were donated to the post because of the worldwide reach of the US Army Command and General Staff College, which trains officers from allied armies. Sources: - [The Berlin Wall — City of Leavenworth, Kansas](https://www.leavenworthks.gov/visitors/page/berlin-wall): The Checkpoint Charlie origin, the donation to the post on account of the Staff College, and the three named stages of the design concept. - [Fort Leavenworth, KS — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/fort-leavenworth-ks/): Site record and position relative to the Buffalo Soldier Monument. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-fort-leavenworth/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Fort%20Leavenworth%2C%20KS): 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. ### Fort Sill, OK - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/fort-sill/fort-sill-ok-a128 - Place: U.S. Army Artillery Museum, Randolph Road and Corral Road, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, United States - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display in the museum); evidence: Documented - Position: 34.7027408, -98.5074309 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #128. Three sections of the Wall in the U.S. Army Artillery Museum, which opened on the post in 2009; its director listed them in 2011 as a recent addition to the gallery. Fort Sill had one museum from 1934, the Fort Sill National Historic Landmark and Museum, spread through 27 historic buildings into which no large gun could be brought. Early in 2009 the artillery's own museum was split off from it, and on 2 June 2009 the U.S. Army Artillery Museum opened in a new 38,000-square-foot building just inside the Key Gate, at the post's Interstate 44 entrance, at the corner of Randolph and Corral roads. The Army's report of the opening calls it the Field Artillery Museum; its director, Gordon A. Blaker, explained to the American Society of Arms Collectors in 2011 that it uses the shorter name because it covers siege, heavy and coastal artillery too. Blaker's account walks through the Central Gallery, with its diorama of a Mexican War flying battery and exhibits for the artillery's four components, and ends with “a recent addition to the gallery”: what he calls the ultimate artefact of the Cold War era, three sections of the Berlin Wall. The Army's own report of June 2009 does not mention them, which fits a recent addition two years later; nothing read gives the year they arrived. The Wall Net, whose entry the Berlin Wall Archive's listing follows, quotes the museum in 2017: three full-size panels, presented to Fort Sill by the German government in recognition of the artillery's part in the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and the end of the Cold War, standing in the foyer and said to be the only full-size panels of the Wall in Oklahoma. It takes them for sections of the Hinterlandmauer, the inner wall. Provenance: Presented to Fort Sill by the German government, according to the museum as quoted by The Wall Net; the year is not given. In the museum's gallery by 2011. Sources: - [The U.S. Army Artillery Museum, Fort Sill, Oklahoma — American Society of Arms Collectors Bulletin 103](https://americansocietyofarmscollectors.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/2011-B103-The-U-S-Army-Artillery-Museum-Fort-Sill-.pdf): Gordon A. Blaker, Bulletin 103 (2011), pp. 19–23: the museum opened on 2 June 2009 in a new 38,000-square-foot building just inside the Key Gate at the Interstate 44 entrance to Fort Sill, split off early in 2009 from the Fort Sill National Historic Landmark and Museum, founded in 1934, whose 27 historic buildings could not take large artillery; it is called the Artillery Museum because it interprets siege, heavy and coastal artillery as well; the Central Gallery shows the four components of the artillery, and 'a recent addition to the gallery is the ultimate artifact of the Cold War era — three sections of the Berlin Wall'. - [New Field Artillery museum opens — U.S. Army](https://www.army.mil/article/22464/new_field_artillery_museum_opens): James Brabenec, Fort Sill Cannoneer, 11 June 2009: the Field Artillery Museum opened at the intersection of Randolph and Corral roads on Fort Sill, with Central, South and North galleries; the report does not mention the Berlin Wall. - [Fort Sill, OK — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/fort-sill-ok/): Entry of 8 March 2017: the Field Artillery Museum has three full-size panels of the Berlin Wall, presented to Fort Sill by the German government in recognition of the artillery's contributions to the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and the end of the Cold War, which the museum says are the only full-size panels of the Wall in Oklahoma, shown in the foyer; the entry takes them for sections of the Hinterlandmauer. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Fort%20Sill%2C%20OK): 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. ### Ft. Huachuca, AZ - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/ft-huachuca/ft-huachuca-az-a134 - Place: Military Intelligence Heritage Museum, Fort Huachuca, Arizona, United States - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: Restricted access (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 31.5272545, -110.3606475 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #134. A section at the US Army's military intelligence museum in Arizona. Fort Huachuca is the home of US Army intelligence, and the Military Intelligence Heritage Museum stands on it. It belongs with the CIA monument at Langley and the Defense Language Institute at Monterey in a small group of records held by the institutions whose business was reading the other side of the line. Sources: - [Berlin Wall, Fort Huachuca.jpg — Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABerlin_Wall%2C_Fort_Huachuca.jpg): A photograph of the Berlin Wall section at the MI Heritage Museum, Fort Huachuca, released to the public domain by the photographer. - [Real life spy stories at Ft. Huachuca museum](https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/real-life-spy-stories-at-ft-huachuca-museum): The Fort Huachuca military intelligence museum displays a graffiti-marked wall that is a remnant of the Berlin Wall. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Ft.%20Huachuca%2C%20AZ): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Fulton - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/fulton/berlin-wall-fulton-f203 - Place: Westminster College, 501 Westminster Avenue, Fulton, Missouri, United States - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 38.849942720691, -91.954987878185 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #203 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #136. Eight segments cut into Breakthrough by Edwina Sandys, dedicated on 9 November 1990 on the lawn where Churchill gave the “iron curtain” speech in 1946. Sandys is Winston Churchill's granddaughter, and the dedication of Breakthrough came on 9 November 1990, one year to the day after the opening. Ronald Reagan attended. The work is about 11 ft high and 32 ft long; Sandys cut two human silhouettes out of the concrete, so the piece is a wall you can walk through. The surviving graffiti repeats the word UNWAHR — untrue. The site is the point: Churchill delivered the "iron curtain" speech at Westminster College in 1946, and the sculpture closes a bracket opened on the same lawn forty-four years earlier. Provenance: Sandys flew to Berlin early in 1990 and chose the sections herself, from near the Brandenburg Gate. Two further segments originally at Fulton now stand outside the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library at Hyde Park, New York, on a base inscribed with the Four Freedoms and flanked by busts of Roosevelt and Churchill. Sources: - [Artist Edwina Sandys Returns for a Special "Breakthrough" Presentation — Westminster College](https://news.wcmo.edu/artist-edwina-sandys-returns-for-a-special-breakthrough-presentation/): The college's own account of the sculpture and its artist. - [Berlin Wall sculpture assembled at Westminster College — UPI, 28 September 1990](https://www.upi.com/Archives/1990/09/28/Berlin-Wall-sculpture-assembled-at-Westminster-College/6611654494400/): Contemporary reporting on the assembly and dimensions. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-fulton/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Fulton%2C%20MO): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Grand Rapids - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/grand-rapids/berlin-wall-grand-rapids-f201 - Place: Grand Valley State University, Allendale campus, Michigan, United States - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 42.962885197735, -85.887085543875 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #201 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #152. The Meijer segment on the Allendale campus, 17 km west of the university's downtown buildings. Grand Valley State University's segment is one of three that the grocer Frederik H. C. Meijer bought from the Berlin Wall Commemorative Group and gave to Grand Rapids institutions; the other two went to the Van Andel Museum Center and the Gerald R. Ford Museum. By the Federal Foundation's account it was set into a base outside the university's James H. Zumberge Library and dedicated at a university convocation on 1 September 1992 by the president, Arend D. Lubbers, and by Meijer, who had never been able to go to college himself. A bronze plaque in English and German dedicates it to the German people's strength, determination and desire to be free. Lapham's Quarterly places it outside the Mary Idema Pew Library. The university has buildings both downtown and at Allendale, 17 km west, and the two inventories put the segment in different places: the Federal Foundation's pin is on the Allendale campus, while the Berlin Wall Archive's listing, which names only the university, is pinned downtown. Every account read here gives the university one segment, so the two listings are one site. Provenance: Given by Frederik H. C. Meijer, who bought it with two others from the Berlin Wall Commemorative Group and gave one each to the Van Andel Museum Center, the Gerald R. Ford Museum and Grand Valley State University; dedicated on 1 September 1992. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A segment of the wall on the campus at Grand Valley State University, Allendale. - [Grand Rapids, MI – Gerald Ford Library and Museum — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/grand-rapids-mi-2/): Meijer donated segments to the Van Andel Museum Center and Grand Valley State University as well as the Ford museum. - [Where Have All the Fragments Gone?](https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/where-have-all-fragments-gone): Grand Rapids holds three fragments, all bought by Fred Meijer from the Berlin Wall Commemorative Group: one at the Grand Rapids Public Museum, one at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum and one outside the Mary Idema Pew Library at Grand Valley State University, dedicated in 1992 with a plaque reading that the wall should remind us of the gift of freedom. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-grand-rapids-2/): Meijer gave one of the segments he bought from the Berlin Wall Commemorative Group to Grand Valley State University; it was set into a base outside the James H. Zumberge Library and unveiled at a university convocation on 1 September 1992 by the president, Arend D. Lubbers, and Meijer, with a bronze plaque in English and German. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-grand-rapids-2/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Grand%20Rapids%2C%20MI%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Grand%20Valley%20State%20University): 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. ### Grand Rapids, MI – Gerald Ford Library and Museum - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/grand-rapids/grand-rapids-mi-gerald-ford-library-and-museum-a151 - Place: Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum, 303 Pearl Street NW, Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display in the museum); evidence: Documented - Position: 42.968598784136, -85.677558078354 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #202 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #151. Presented to Gerald Ford in 1991 with Helmut Schmidt and James Callaghan present, for the Helsinki accords he counted as his greatest achievement in office. On 1 August 1975 the heads of state of thirty-five countries signed the Helsinki Final Act. Four weeks of negotiation between the United States and Canada, the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact states had produced an agreement on cooperation across the blocs and on human rights. For the GDR it was a diplomatic success that amounted to international recognition; with his signature Erich Honecker also undertook to respect freedom of opinion, of the press and of religion and to ease travel to the west. Little changed in practice — escape attempts were still met with shots and prison — but East German citizens invoked the Helsinki provisions again and again, and the act became a foundation for the civil rights movements across the eastern bloc that helped bring the dictatorships down. For Gerald Ford, Helsinki was the greatest foreign policy achievement of his presidency. Henry Kissinger, speaking at the Ford Presidential Library in 1990, said the Helsinki agreement had laid the ground for the change then under way in eastern Europe. On 6 September 1991, at the library's tenth anniversary, Ford was accordingly presented with a segment of the Wall. Former chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who had sat beside Honecker in Helsinki signing the same document, was there, as was James Callaghan, British foreign secretary in 1975. How the segment was acquired is told two ways. The Federal Foundation records that the museum's curators bought it for 35,000 dollars from the Berlin Wall Commemorative Group, the company handling the American sales for the GDR government. The Foundation's own entry for the Van Andel Museum, and the earlier research behind this record, instead have the grocer Fred Meijer buying three segments from the same company and giving one each to this library, to Grand Valley State University and to the public museum. Both accounts put the segment in the same hands at the same source, and they are not necessarily incompatible — a donor paying and an institution recording a purchase price look alike from a distance — but nothing here resolves which is right, so both are kept. The segment still shows the remains of coloured graffiti. Provenance: From the Berlin Wall Commemorative Group, which handled the GDR government's American sales, and presented on 6 September 1991. Sources differ on whether the museum's curators bought it for 35,000 dollars or whether it was one of three bought and given by Fred Meijer. Sources: - [Grand Rapids, MI – Gerald Ford Library and Museum — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/grand-rapids-mi-2/): One segment at the Ford museum, given by Frederik H. C. Meijer, who also donated to the Van Andel Museum Center and Grand Valley State University; the Helsinki Final Act framing. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-grand-rapids-3/): The Helsinki Final Act of 1 August 1975 and its consequences for the GDR, Kissinger's 1990 remark at the library, the presentation of the segment to Gerald Ford on 6 September 1991 at the library's tenth anniversary with Helmut Schmidt and James Callaghan present, and the curators' purchase of the segment for 35,000 dollars from the Berlin Wall Commemorative Group. - [Gerald R Ford Museum visitors admire Berlin Wall on anniversary](https://www.fox17online.com/2014/11/09/gerald-r-ford-museum-visitors-admire-berlin-wall-on-anniversary): On the 25th anniversary in November 2014, a local station reported the section of the Wall as a permanent exhibit in the lobby of the Gerald R. Ford Museum. - [Where Have All the Fragments Gone?](https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/where-have-all-fragments-gone): The Ford Museum's piece was installed in 1991 in the Meijer Lobby, bought by Fred Meijer, who said in 2008 that he got it for the museum because he had come to like Ford very much. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-grand-rapids-3/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Grand%20Rapids%2C%20MI%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Gerald%20Ford%20Library%20and%20Museum): 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. ### Grand Rapids, MI – Van Andel Museum - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/grand-rapids/grand-rapids-mi-van-andel-museum-a153 - Place: Van Andel Museum Center, Grand Rapids Public Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display in the entrance area since 1994); evidence: Documented - Position: 42.965542989946, -85.67672182321 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #200 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #153. The segment a Michigan grocer went looking for because a news photograph showed his own name sprayed on it. On 13 November 1989 the Times reported on the opening of the first new crossing at Potsdamer Platz. Several segments had been lifted out of the Wall in front of the world's press, and one of those left standing had the word Meijer plainly painted on it. Fred Meijer, the Michigan grocery magnate of Dutch descent, saw the picture and decided he wanted his piece. He contacted the Berlin Wall Commemorative Group, the New Jersey company handling the sale of wall segments in the United States for the GDR trade firm Limex, and drove to New Jersey, where he actually managed to find it. He bought two more while he was there, and gave those to the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and to Grand Valley State University. The load reached Grand Rapids in March 1991 and was handed to the museum administration; the segment went on display in the entrance of the Van Andel Museum in 1994. The city owes Meijer more than the three segments — there is also a Meijer garden and sculpture park, a Meijer campus at Grand Valley State University, and a street named after him — but this is the one with the story, and it is a good illustration of how much of the dispersal was driven by individuals recognising something of their own in the photographs. This record and the Ford Library record were held back for a time as two unidentified listings a few hundred metres apart on Pearl Street, where both museums stand. The Federal Foundation's entries name them. Provenance: Bought in New Jersey from the Berlin Wall Commemorative Group by Fred Meijer, who recognised his own name in a press photograph of the segment, and delivered to Grand Rapids in March 1991. Sources: - [Grand Rapids, MI – Gerald Ford Library and Museum — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/grand-rapids-mi-2/): The Meijer donations to three Grand Rapids institutions. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-grand-rapids/): The original segment in the entrance of the Van Andel Museum since 1994 and received by the Grand Rapids Public Museum three years earlier, the Times report of 13 November 1989 and the Meijer graffito, Fred Meijer's purchase of three segments through the Berlin Wall Commemorative Group and his journey to New Jersey, the gifts to the Ford library and Grand Valley University, and the delivery in March 1991. - [Where Have All the Fragments Gone?](https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/where-have-all-fragments-gone): The Grand Rapids Public Museum's piece, shown in the Van Andel Museum since 1994, was found by Fred Meijer after a London Times photograph showed a wall piece sprayed with the word Meijer; he bought it and two others from the Berlin Wall Commemorative Group, Limex's American affiliate. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-grand-rapids/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Grand%20Rapids%2C%20MI%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Van%20Andel%20Museum): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Hamilton - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/hamilton/berlin-wall-hamilton-f206 - Place: Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, United States - Classification: Fragment; can it be seen today: On display (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 42.822482738343, -75.54167393498 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #206 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #162. A fragment on the Colgate University campus in upstate New York, brought in 1995 by an alumnus. The village is Hamilton. The catalogue holds two records for the town, and they disagreed by 125 kilometres: the second, from the other inventory, was positioned in Hamilton County in the Adirondacks, which is a different place with the same name. Hamilton village has one documented site, so both records are attached to this account and the county position has been withheld rather than left on the map. Colgate's student newspaper says the alumnus and former trustee Virg Conway, class of 1951, brought it to campus in 1995, and that it stands on the front lawn of 94 Broad Street. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A fragment of the wall on the campus of Colgate University. - [Berlin Wall Falls Between Halls](https://thecolgatemaroonnews.com/9950/news/berlin-wall-falls-between-halls/): Colgate's student newspaper reports that the alumnus and former trustee Virg Conway, class of 1951, brought a sizeable chunk of the Wall to campus in 1995, and that it sits on the front lawn of 94 Broad Street. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-hamilton/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Hamilton%2C%20NY): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Honolulu - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/honolulu/berlin-wall-honolulu-f177 - Place: Honolulu Community College, 874 Dillingham Boulevard, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 21.320695347998, -157.86975090243 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #177. A slab behind the campus bookstore, so little advertised that the lead describing it calls it secret. A slab rests behind the bookstore on the Honolulu Community College campus, both faces visible. It is the most remote record in the catalogue from Berlin — about 11,700 km — and among the least announced: the lead that documents it describes the slab as resting there secretly, which is less a claim about concealment than about how little a segment needs to be explained to stay where it is. The college's own account calls it the Berlin Wall Freedom Monument and puts it behind Building 2 on Dillingham Boulevard, a three-ton piece given by the Berlin Senate and brought by students under the history professor Rick Ziegler; the bookstore is the lead's landmark, the college's is the building. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A slab of the wall behind the Honolulu Community College bookstore. - [Honolulu: Ceremony honors 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall](https://manoa.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?aId=3233): Honolulu Community College's Berlin Wall Freedom Monument, behind Building 2 at 874 Dillingham Boulevard: a three-ton piece given by the Berlin Senate, one of three it gave, brought by a group of students led by history professor Rick Ziegler, with the monument designed with the architect Tina Mehnert. - [Piece of Berlin Wall on display in Honolulu](https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/11474471/piece-of-berlin-wall-on-display-in-honolulu/): The three-ton Berlin Wall Freedom Monument at Honolulu Community College in Iwilei, shipped 12,000 miles from Germany, marked on 9 November 2009. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-honolulu/): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Hope - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/hope/berlin-wall-hope-f178 - Place: Between David Thompson Road and Kienholz Drive, Hope Peninsula, Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho, United States - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 48.19597385339, -116.27602872127 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #178 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #180. A segment put up in 1991 between two lakeside roads by a West Berlin property dealer, its Donald Duck graffito kept under Plexiglas against the snow. The first white settlement in what is now Idaho was founded on the Hope Peninsula in 1809, a hundred and eighty years before the Wall came down. Set on the shore of Lake Pend Oreille, Hope became a favoured place for artists and collectors in the middle of the twentieth century, and in the 1970s the American assemblage artist Ed Kienholz made it his summer home. Kienholz came to Berlin in 1973 on an exchange programme and the city became his second home. The West Berlin property dealer Klaus Groenke, head of TrigonInvest, took up his work and supported him when he was still little known in Europe; in return Groenke built himself an extensive summer place on the Hope Peninsula. In 1991 he had an original segment erected there, between David Thompson Road and the road named for Kienholz. His staff had given it to him. The graffiti are kept under Plexiglas against the rain and snow — one of the few records in this catalogue where the paint has been actively protected rather than left to weather. One picture is a Donald Duck in a chef's hat and red bow tie; another hand painted a young man in jeans and a green jacket climbing over the Wall. Provenance: A gift to the West Berlin property dealer Klaus Groenke from his staff, erected on his Idaho property in 1991. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-hope/): The founding of Hope in 1809, Ed Kienholz's summer residence and his Berlin exchange from 1973, Klaus Groenke's patronage and his own house on the peninsula, the segment erected in 1991 between David Thompson Road and Kienholz Drive as a gift from his employees, and the graffiti kept under Plexiglas. - [Your Own Private Idaho](https://www.seattlemet.com/travel-and-outdoors/2010/12/lake-pend-oreille-0807): Klaus Groenke, a Berlin industrialist, bought 150 acres on the Hope Peninsula in 1984, and a slab of the Berlin Wall marks the entrance to his property. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-hope/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Hope%2C%20ID): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Houston - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/houston/berlin-wall-houston-f221 - Place: James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Baker Hall, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 29.716534685442, -95.402695673143 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #221 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #181. A twelve-foot section at the corner of Baker Hall, placed to mark James Baker's part in negotiating German reunification. A twelve-foot section stands at the south-east corner of Baker Hall, installed in 2000 and unveiled by Rice's president Malcolm Gillis with Jürgen Chrobog, the German ambassador to the United States. It is there to mark James A. Baker III's part as secretary of state in the diplomacy of 1989 and the negotiations that unified Germany — a monument less to the Wall than to the people who arranged what followed it. Provenance: Installed by Rice University in 2000, eleven years after the Wall opened. Sources: - [Press release regarding the Berlin Wall memorial at the Baker Institute — Making the History of 1989](https://1989.rrchnm.org/items/show/564.html): The 2000 installation at the south-east corner of Baker Hall, the twelve-foot height, and the unveiling by Gillis and Ambassador Chrobog. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-houston/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Houston%2C%20TX): 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. ### Hudson, MA - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/hudson/hudson-ma-a182 - Place: American Heritage Museum, 568 Main Street, Hudson, Massachusetts, United States - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display in the Cold War galleries); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 42.401, -71.50764 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #182. A segment listed among the Cold War artefacts of a Massachusetts military museum. The museum does not say where it came from. The American Heritage Museum lists a "Berlin Wall Segment" among the artefacts of its Cold War exhibit, a gallery that takes in the Berlin blockade, the Korean War, the Berlin crisis of 1961 and the Cuban missile crisis. The Boston Globe, describing the museum's galleries in January 2021, also records "a section of the Berlin Wall" among the Cold War displays. The museum is administered by the Collings Foundation, a non-profit, and sells its tickets online. Neither source says where in Berlin the segment stood, who gave it, when it arrived or how large it is, so the record leaves all of that out. Provenance: Not established. Sources: - [Cold War — American Heritage Museum](https://www.americanheritagemuseum.org/exhibits/cold-war/): The museum's Cold War exhibit page lists a "Berlin Wall Segment" among its artefacts. - [Tanks, a lot: Hudson's American Heritage Museum is home to an array of armored vehicles and much more — The Boston Globe, 11 January 2021](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/01/11/lifestyle/tanks-lot-hudsons-american-heritage-museum-is-home-an-array-armored-vehicles-much-more/): The museum's exhibits on the Cold War include a section of the Berlin Wall. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Hudson%2C%20MA): 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. ### Hutchinson, KS - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/hutchinson/hutchinson-ks-a184 - Place: Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, 1100 North Plum Street, Hutchinson, Kansas, United States - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 38.0608444, -97.9297743 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #184. A section in the Hall of Space at a spaceflight museum, where the Wall is told as part of the space race. A section sits in the Cosmosphere's Hall of Space, a gallery that runs the space race and the Cold War together — V-2 rockets, Vostok and Apollo hardware. Reading the Wall as an episode in the same contest that put people in orbit is a distinctly American framing, and it is one of the few museum contexts in this catalogue where the segment is not the centrepiece but a supporting exhibit. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A section of the wall in the Cosmosphere's Hall of Space exhibit. - [Hall of Space Museum — Cosmosphere](https://cosmo.org/explore/attractions/hall-of-space-museum/): The Cosmosphere’s own Hall of Space page lists a genuine German Wall among the significant artifacts of its Kennedy & Khrushchev gallery. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Hutchinson%2C%20KS): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Hyde Park - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/hyde-park/berlin-wall-hyde-park-f207 - Place: Freedom Court, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, 4079 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park, New York, United States - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 41.7692781, -73.9339335 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #207 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #185. BreakFree, made from the two human silhouettes Edwina Sandys cut out of her Fulton sculpture. The negative space of one work became another, 800 miles away. BreakFree stands in the Freedom Court outside the library, dedicated in 1994: twelve-foot concrete figures, a man and a woman, emerging from a tangle of oversized barbed wire. It is made from the two human silhouettes that Edwina Sandys cut out of Breakthrough at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri — so the void in one sculpture is the substance of another, eight hundred miles away. The court reads the object through Roosevelt's 1941 Four Freedoms address, and a bust of Churchill faces it across the space, putting the two wartime allies back in sight of each other. Provenance: The offcuts of Breakthrough, the eight-segment sculpture Sandys assembled at Fulton from sections she chose herself near the Brandenburg Gate in 1990. They were preserved rather than discarded and installed here in 1994. Sources: - [Artist Edwina Sandys, Churchill's granddaughter, to discuss her Berlin Wall sculpture at FDR site — Hudson Valley One](https://hudsonvalleyone.com/2019/09/12/artist-edwina-sandys-churchills-granddaughter-to-discuss-her-berlin-wall-sculpture-at-fdr-site/): BreakFree dedicated in the Freedom Court on 14 May 1994, twelve feet high, figures emerging from barbed wire, sited near the Churchill bust. - [Edwina Sandys, Breakthrough — Streaming Museum](https://www.streamingmuseum.org/post/breakthrough): BreakFree was made from the cutouts preserved from Breakthrough at Westminster College. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-im-hyde-park/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Hyde%20Park%2C%20NY): 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. ### Kennesaw, GA - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/kennesaw/kennesaw-ga-a197 - Place: Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia, United States - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On loan); evidence: Documented - Position: 34.0234337, -84.6154897 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #197. A piece on loan rather than owned, displayed outside the social sciences building. Loans matter in this catalogue because they end: the Intrepid museum in New York returned its segment to the lender over a decade ago, and the record survives only as an account of where an object used to be. Provenance: On loan to the university. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A piece of the Berlin Wall given to Kennesaw State University on loan, displayed outside the social sciences building. - [Part of Berlin Wall on Kennesaw State campus (AJC) - News](https://www.kennesaw.edu/news/stories/2018/berlin_wall_kennesaw_ajc.php): The university's news page, reprinting a 2018 newspaper story, places a 10-foot, 2.7-ton section outside the College of Humanities and Social Sciences building on the Kennesaw campus. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Kennesaw%2C%20GA): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Langley (Virginia), Washington D.C. - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/langley-virginia-washington-d-c/berlin-wall-langley-virginia-washington-d-c-f233 - Place: Original Headquarters Building, Central Intelligence Agency, Langley, Virginia, United States - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: Restricted access (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 38.953401438084, -77.145113415253 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #233 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #212. Three sections from near Checkpoint Charlie, dedicated in 1992 and oriented as they stood in Berlin — graffiti west, whitewash east. Not open to the public. The installation is unusually thoughtful about its own object. The sections were dedicated on 18 December 1992 beside the south-west entrance to the Original Headquarters Building, and they are set across the path from the car park to the entrance, so staff must go around them. Bench-height walls on both sides invite people to sit. The Wall keeps its function as well as its form. The site is not open to the public. Provenance: Taken from the Wall near Checkpoint Charlie at Potsdamer Platz in November 1989. Sources: - [Berlin Wall Monument — Central Intelligence Agency](https://www.cia.gov/legacy/headquarters/berlin-wall-monument/): The agency's own account of the monument, its orientation, and the 1992 dedication. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-langley-virginia/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Langley%2C%20VA): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Las Vegas - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/las-vegas/berlin-wall-las-vegas-f204 - Place: Main Street Station Casino, 200 North Main Street, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 36.173804586391, -115.1454463784 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #204 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #213. A slab mounted in a casino men's room with three urinals fixed to it behind glass. The original graffiti is intact, and nobody knows how it got there. The slab at Main Street Station measures about 10 by 6 feet. The men's room it is mounted in is off the casino floor, and women can ask security for an escort to see it. This is the entry that tests the classification vocabulary: a genuine relocated segment, with unknown provenance, in a commercial building — and it is also the piece most people have heard of. Provenance: Unknown. It was already in place when Boyd Gaming bought the property in the 1990s; the previous owners went bankrupt before opening. Provenance thins with distance from Berlin, and this is the extreme case. Sources: - [A Las Vegas Bathroom and 9 Other Unexpected Places to See the Berlin Wall — Smithsonian Magazine](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/las-vegas-bathroom-unexpected-places-to-see-berlin-wall-180953226/): The installation, its dimensions, and the unknown provenance. - [Berlin Wall Urinal — Atlas Obscura](https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/berlin-wall-urinal): Current access, including the escort arrangement. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-las-vegas/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Las%20Vegas%2C%20NV): 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. ### Lawrenceville, GA - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/lawrenceville/lawrenceville-ga-a216 - Place: Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center, 75 Langley Drive, Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States - Classification: Former Location; can it be seen today: Moved (Removed from the justice centre; now in Town Center Park, Suwanee); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 33.95145, -83.99308 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #216. A twelve-foot slab lent by two Suwanee restaurateurs and shown outside the county justice centre in 2014. It has since gone back to Suwanee. Gwinnett County put a section of the Wall on display in front of its Justice and Administration Center in Lawrenceville on 3 September 2014. It is twelve feet tall and weighs four tons, and the county describes graffiti of an American flag, people and buildings on the side that faced West Berlin. On 16 September the Board of Commissioners presented a proclamation to its owners, Ray Stanjevich and Suzanne Cartwright, who own Friends Suwanee Grill and had lent it. They had bought it at auction for $23,500 and had shown it before in front of Suwanee City Hall; the county quotes them as wanting to keep it local and to remind younger generations to appreciate the freedom Americans enjoy. It did not stay. Patch reported in August 2018 that Suwanee's city council had accepted the slab as a donation, that it had spent several months in front of Suwanee City Hall and the justice centre, and that it was now in Town Center Park; the Suwanee record in this catalogue is the same piece. Patch dates the time at the justice centre to 2013, the county's own releases to 2014, and the county is followed here. Nothing read says when the loan ended, where in Berlin the slab stood or who painted it. Provenance: Bought at auction in 2013 by the owners of Friends Suwanee Grill, lent to Gwinnett County in 2014 and later given to the City of Suwanee. Sources: - [County displays Berlin Wall section — Gwinnett County, 3 September 2014](https://www.gwinnettcounty.com/-/news-events/news-releases/news-details/county-displays-berlin-wall-section): The county placed a twelve-foot, four-ton Berlin Wall section on display outside the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center in Lawrenceville on 3 September 2014, on loan from Ray Stanjevich and Suzanne Cartwright of Friends Suwanee Grill, who bought it at auction for $23,500 and had shown it in front of Suwanee City Hall; graffiti of an American flag, people and buildings on the face that looked towards West Berlin. - [Officials, donors to gather for photo at Berlin Wall section on display at GJAC — Gwinnett County](https://www.gwinnettcounty.com/-/news-events/news-releases/news-details/officials-donors-to-gather-for-photo-at-berlin-wall-section-on-display-at-gjac): The Board of Commissioners presented a proclamation to the owners on 16 September 2014 for lending the section to the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center, 75 Langley Drive, and the owners wanted to keep it local and remind younger generations to appreciate freedom. - [Berlin Wall public art piece returns to Suwanee Town Center — Patch, 6 August 2018](https://patch.com/georgia/suwanee/berlin-wall-public-art-piece-returns-suwanee-town-center): Suwanee accepted the Berlin Wall section as a donation; it had spent several months in front of Suwanee City Hall and the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center and was now at Town Center Park. - [Berlin Wall Art Piece Returns to Suwanee Town Center Park — Suwanee Magazine, 31 August 2018](https://suwaneemagazine.com/berlin-wall-art-piece-returns-to-suwanee-town-center-park/): The owners bought the piece in 2013 at an auction on the Town Center Stage, first displayed it outside their Suwanee restaurant, and it was now to be shown in Town Center Park. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Lawrenceville%2C%20GA): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Los Angeles - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/los-angeles/berlin-wall-los-angeles-f183 - Place: LA Plaza Paseo Walkway, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, 501 North Main Street, Los Angeles, California, United States - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: On display (On display; visible when the museum is closed); evidence: Documented - Position: 34.056478059893, -118.23985033849 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #183. Addressed to President Trump, refused by the White House, driven to the Mexican border for the photographs, and given to a Mexican-American museum. Few objects in this catalogue have so clearly named addressee. Since 7 February 2020 a segment has stood at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes in Los Angeles carrying a letter painted on it that begins *Dear President Trump*, explains that for twenty-eight years this concrete separated east from west, families and friends, that too many people died trying to cross it whose only crime was wanting to be free, and that the United States played a major part in bringing it down — from Kennedy to Reagan. It offers him one of the last pieces of the failed Berlin Wall to commemorate America's dedication to building a world without walls, and it is signed *Citizens of Berlin*. The Berlin initiative Die offene Gesellschaft wrote it and sent it to the United States, intending to hand it to the president on 9 November 2019, the thirtieth anniversary. The thanks were genuine and the criticism was explicit: the campaign promise of a wall along the Mexican border is what the last line is about. The White House declined to accept it. So it travelled instead. It stood first in front of the Washington Monument, then went by truck with stops in Texas and New Mexico to San Diego, where it was set up directly against the border fence with Mexico and photographed there. Thousands have since signed the appeal online. Several parties wanted it permanently; in the end it was given to LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, the Mexican-American museum and cultural centre opened in 2011, and placed on the LA Plaza Paseo walkway — which had just reopened after renovation, and which tells the history of the indigenous people of Los Angeles. It can be seen even when the museum is shut. The record was held back until now as one of a group of Los Angeles listings carrying nothing but the city name. Its coordinates fall on the museum's address, and the Foundation's entry for this listing describes this segment. Provenance: Painted and sent to the United States by the Berlin initiative Die offene Gesellschaft for the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall, refused by the White House, toured to San Diego, and given to LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes in 2020. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-los-angeles/): The segment at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes since 7 February 2020 and the full text of the letter painted on it, the Die offene Gesellschaft initiative and its intention to present it to President Trump on 9 November 2019, the criticism of the Mexican border wall promise, the White House's refusal, the tour from the Washington Monument through Texas and New Mexico to the border fence at San Diego, the online signatures, and the eventual placement on the LA Plaza Paseo walkway. - [“Wall Against Walls” Finds a Home at LA Plaza](https://lapca.org/wall-against-walls-finds-a-home-at-la-plaza/): LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes says the 12-foot, 2.7-ton section, offered to President Trump on 9 November 2019 by Berlin residents and Die Offene Gesellschaft, was erected on 7 February 2020 on its Historic Paseo Walkway, transport arranged by Altered LA, for an indefinite display. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-los-angeles/): 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. ### Los Angeles, CA – LMU - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/los-angeles/los-angeles-ca-lmu-a231 - Place: The Bluff, Loyola Marymount University, 1 LMU Drive, Los Angeles, California, United States - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 33.9725527, -118.4181452 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #184 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #231. Fragment 124, secured by a professor who wrote to the mayor of Berlin to mark the city's twinning with Los Angeles. Fragment number 124 stands on the Bluff between the Foley Building and the Malone Student Center, unveiled on 8 May 1997. Los Angeles holds more documented sites than any other city outside Berlin — the Wende Museum's run on Wilshire Boulevard, the museum itself, this campus fragment and several private holdings — and this is the one that came about because an individual asked. Provenance: In 1996 Dirk Verheyen, a political scientist then teaching at the university, wrote to the governing mayor of Berlin, Eberhard Diepgen, asking for a segment to mark the twinning of Berlin and Los Angeles. It was unveiled the following year. Sources: - [Los Angeles, CA – LMU — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/los-angeles-lmu-ca/): Verheyen's 1996 request to Mayor Diepgen on the basis of the Berlin–Los Angeles twinning. - [A symbol of freedom: how LMU secured a piece of the Berlin Wall — Los Angeles Loyolan](https://www.laloyolan.com/news/a-symbol-of-freedom-how-lmu-secured-a-piece-of-the-berlin-wall/article_116aa4e2-af75-5cfa-8f8e-52ef02b1e95c.html): Fragment number 124, the 8 May 1997 unveiling, and its position on the Bluff. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-los-angeles-2/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Los%20Angeles%2C%20CA%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20LMU): 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. ### Los Angeles, CA – Wilshire Blvd. - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/los-angeles/los-angeles-ca-wilshire-blvd-a232 - Place: 5900 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, United States - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 34.0501521, -118.2603768 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #268 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #232. Ten segments installed by the Wende Museum in 2009 — close to forty feet, the longest stretch of the Wall standing anywhere outside Berlin. The ten segments on Wilshire Boulevard are original, and were installed for the twentieth anniversary of the fall in 2009. Half of them were repainted by invited artists and half deliberately were not. The leftmost was left in its original state with an information panel; the second was painted by the Los Angeles artist Marie Astrid González, the third by the Californian artist Farrah Karapetian, and the fourth carries one of Thierry Noir's heads. Two more were given portraits of Kennedy and Reagan by the muralist Kent Twitchell. The four on the right were left as they were, except for a bear on the fourth by the Berlin street artist Bimer. In 2011 the installation was extended in a way few other sites have attempted: the east-facing side of nine segments — the face that looked onto the death strip and was never painted while the Wall stood, because nobody could get to it — was given to the Los Angeles street artist Retna, the British artist D*Face and the German duo Herakut. The result is a wall painted on both sides, which the real one never was. Provenance: Installed by the Wende Museum, which holds the segments. Sources: - [The Wall Project — Wende Museum via Google Arts & Culture](https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/the-wall-project/QQspCdVW): The museum's own account of the 2009 installation and the commissioned murals. - [The Wall Project – Behind the Berlin Wall — Street Art in LA](https://streetartinla.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/the-wall-project-behind-the-berlin-wall/): The 2011 Behind The Wall additions and the artists involved. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-los-angeles-3/): The ten segments installed on Wilshire Boulevard by the Wende Museum in 2009, the artists of the five repainted elements — Marie Astrid González, Farrah Karapetian, Thierry Noir and Kent Twitchell's Kennedy and Reagan portraits — the untouched segments and Bimer's bear, and the 2011 painting of the formerly east-facing sides of nine segments by Retna, D*Face and Herakut. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-los-angeles-3/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Los%20Angeles%2C%20CA%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Wilshire%20Blvd.): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Loveland - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/loveland/berlin-wall-loveland-f172 - Place: Hach Company North American headquarters, Loveland, Colorado, United States - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display at the main entrance); evidence: Listed - Position: 40.450137, -105.001524 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #172 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #233. One of a pair bought in 1993 for a Berlin factory yard, shipped to Colorado in 2017 so the two halves would join the company's two sites. In 2017 the Hach Company, which makes instruments for analysing water, installed a segment of the Berlin Wall in front of the main entrance of its North American headquarters at Loveland in Colorado. It is half of a pair. In 1993 Reinhard Lange, whose company merged with Hach in 2004, bought two segments to keep the memory of the division of Germany and Berlin alive, and for years they stood together on the site of the Dr. Bruno Lange GmbH in Berlin-Zehlendorf. When the Berlin staff wanted to keep the memory of that firm and its address alive in turn, they put one of the two on a ship to Colorado; it was installed in Loveland in August 2017, and the delivery was filmed. The result is a small and deliberate piece of symbolism, and unusually for this catalogue it is about the company rather than the country: two elements that once stood side by side in Berlin now stand seven thousand kilometres apart, one at each end of the same firm. Provenance: One of two segments bought in 1993 by Reinhard Lange for the Dr. Bruno Lange GmbH in Berlin-Zehlendorf, shipped to Colorado by the Berlin staff and installed in August 2017. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-loveland/): The installation of a segment at the Hach Company's Loveland headquarters in 2017, Reinhard Lange's purchase of two segments in 1993 and their siting at the Dr. Bruno Lange GmbH in Berlin-Zehlendorf, the merger with Hach in 2004, the shipment of one segment to Colorado by the Berlin employees, and the August 2017 installation. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-loveland/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Loveland%2C%20CO): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Lyndhurst - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/lyndhurst/berlin-wall-lyndhurst-f205 - Place: A private store at Lyndhurst, New Jersey, United States - Classification: Private / Limited Access; can it be seen today: In storage (In the owner's store; not publicly accessible); evidence: Listed - Position: 40.8120247, -74.1242816 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #205. The left half of Kiddy Citny's heart, which came off the USS Intrepid in 2006 and went into the artist-owner's depot — the heart having been sawn in two to make a sale in 1990. Two segments carrying one heart painted by Kiddy Citny were the first complete pieces of the Berlin Wall shipped officially and legally to the United States, in January 1990, under contracts between the GDR trade company Limex and the Berlin Wall Commemorative Group. The New Jersey building contractor Joseph Sciamarelli had beaten a field of other applicants to the exclusive American marketing rights, and after signing he engaged the Berlin-born pop artist Peter Max to stage a wall happening in New York harbour on 2 February 1990 — the opening of the American trade, from which the East German government hoped for substantial hard currency. Max added two peace doves and presented the result as his own work. Where the round anti-climb pipe had left the concrete grey he painted one; the other he cast in concrete and set on the top edge. The plan was to reproduce the whole thing as a miniature in an edition of 250 at 7,000 dollars each, but trading in original segments turned out to be far more profitable and the edition went nowhere. The concrete dove on the Intrepid segment had to be taken off later because visitors kept trying to steal it. Both segments, with the heart complete, stood on the museum ship USS Intrepid until the autumn of 1990. Then, as the journalist Sara Germano reconstructed in the Wall Street Journal in November 2019, the financial adviser Gordon Smith heard about them on the car radio, stopped at a phone box and called Sciamarelli to buy one: he was opening a children's museum in Raleigh, North Carolina, and wanted a real piece of the Wall in it. They agreed a price, and in the Journal's words Sciamarelli split the heart in two and put the right half on a flatbed truck to North Carolina in October 1990. The left half, which Sciamarelli says belonged to Peter Max personally, stayed on the Intrepid until 2006. When the ship went in for its refit the museum returned it to Max, and it was taken to his store at Lyndhurst, New Jersey, where it has been out of sight since. Citny painted two hearts across four elements on Waldemarstraße in 1984 and 1985. This catalogue can now account for all four: the halves of this one at Lyndhurst and in North Carolina, and the other two bought at the Monaco auction in June 1990 and standing on a private property near Basel. Provenance: Painted by Kiddy Citny on Waldemarstraße; shipped to the United States in January 1990 under the Limex contract with the Berlin Wall Commemorative Group; altered by Peter Max, displayed on the USS Intrepid until 2006, and returned to Max's store at Lyndhurst. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-lyndhurst/): The left half of Citny's heart on the USS Intrepid from 1990 to 2006 and its return to Peter Max and removal to his Lyndhurst depot, Sara Germano's Wall Street Journal investigation of November 2019, the January 1990 shipment as the first complete segments legally sent to the United States under the Limex and Berlin Wall Commemorative Group contracts, Joseph Sciamarelli's marketing rights, the wall happening of 2 February 1990, Peter Max's doves and the unsold edition of 250 miniatures, the theft attempts on the concrete dove, and Gordon Smith's purchase leading to the heart being split in October 1990. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-lyndhurst/): 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. ### Malibu, CA - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/malibu/malibu-ca-a245 - Place: Rosenthal – The Malibu Estate vineyard, Malibu, California, United States - Classification: Private / Limited Access; can it be seen today: On display (Reported in place); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 34.07954, -118.80799 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #245. Pieces of the Wall at a Malibu winery, bought at a private auction by its owner and shown to visitors of the vineyard. Rosenthal – The Malibu Estate says on its own site that visitors to its Vineyard Experience can see "Pieces of the Berlin Wall" ("come check out a part of history"). Guests book the experience in advance. The Malibu Times, reporting the winery's reopening in August 2025, says the piece "once was showcased" in the Pacific Coast Highway tasting room, that George Rosenthal bought it at a private auction, and that it had long been a conversation piece and a symbol of strength. The paper treats it as remarkable that the winery managed to save it. The winery says "pieces", the paper one piece; the Berlin Wall Archive lists two sections here. Where in Berlin they stood, when they were bought and where exactly on the estate they are now are not stated. Provenance: Bought at a private auction by the winery's owner, George Rosenthal, according to the Malibu Times; date not stated. Sources: - [Malibu Wine Tasting at Rosenthal Estate Wines — Rosenthal](https://rosenthalestatewines.com/): A photograph caption on the winery's home page says "Pieces of the Berlin Wall – come check out a part of history while you are at the Vineyard Experience". - [Rosenthal Estate reopens with a toast to resilience and renewal — Malibu Times, August 2025](https://malibutimes.com/rosenthal-estate-reopens-with-a-toast-to-resilience-and-renewal): The piece of the Berlin Wall once showcased in the winery's Pacific Coast Highway tasting room was saved; George Rosenthal bought it at a private auction and it had long been a conversation piece and a symbol of strength. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Malibu%2C%20CA): 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. ### McMinnville, OR - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/mcminnville/mcminnville-or-a250 - Place: Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum, McMinnville, Oregon, United States - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (Reported in place); evidence: Listed - Position: 45.2100367, -123.194463 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #250. A piece inside an aviation museum best known for holding the Spruce Goose. A piece inside the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum, whose main hall holds Howard Hughes's Spruce Goose. Like the Cosmosphere in Kansas and the Technik Museum Speyer, it is a collection about flight that keeps a piece of a land border — and in this case the aviation connection is real rather than incidental, because the first American response to the closing of Berlin was an airlift. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A piece of the Berlin Wall inside the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=McMinnville%2C%20OR): 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. ### Miami, FL – Miami Dade College - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/miami/miami-fl-miami-dade-college-a258 - Place: Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus, 300 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, Florida, United States - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display at the campus entrance); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 25.77843, -80.19058 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #258. A segment the German consul general gave Miami for the twenty-fifth anniversary, set at the main entrance of the downtown college campus. The Berlin Wall segment is at the Wolfson Campus of Miami Dade College, on NE Second Avenue. Germany's consul general for Florida, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, Jürgen Borsch, unveiled it and presented it to the city on 9 November 2014, twenty-five years to the day after the border opened. It is nearly ten feet tall. The college's own account says why it came here rather than to a park or a museum. Miami Dade calls itself Democracy's College, and it was judged a fitting place to remember the fall of a wall that had divided a city; a plaque at the site makes the case for democracy and resilience. Neither source says where in Berlin the segment stood or who painted it. Provenance: Presented to the City of Miami by the German consul general on 9 November 2014 and displayed at Miami Dade College. Sources: - [Miami's slice of the Berlin Wall — Miami Today, 5 November 2014](https://www.miamitodaynews.com/2014/11/05/miamis-slice-berlin-wall/): Consul General Jürgen Borsch would unveil an authentic segment of the Berlin Wall, nearly ten feet high, and present it to the City of Miami on 9 November 2014, to be displayed at the main entrance of Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus, 300 NE Second Avenue. - [Berlin Wall — Miami Dade College Library guide](https://libraryguides.mdc.edu/c.php?g=1442575&p=10719480): A fragment of the Berlin Wall donated to Miami Dade College in 2014 for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Wall's fall; MDC, as Democracy's College, deemed a fitting place; a plaque at the site. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Miami%2C%20FL%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Miami%20Dade%20College): 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. ### Miami, FL – Miami Ironside - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/miami/miami-fl-miami-ironside-a259 - Place: Miami Ironside, 7610 NE 4th Court, Upper Eastside, Miami, Florida, United States - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 25.8451977, -80.1882133 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #259. Four double-sided segments repainted by Thierry Noir during Art Basel 2013, standing outdoors at the entrance with no glass and no label. The entrance is to the Ironside design district in Miami's Upper Eastside, and the segments are not labelled as museum objects. Noir was among the first artists to paint the Wall while it stood, in 1984; repainting original elements decades later, in another country, on commission, makes this one of the clearer cases in the catalogue of the Wall's surface being treated as a living medium rather than as evidence. Provenance: Held in the Ironside public art collection, and previously shown temporarily elsewhere in Miami. Sources: - [Berlin Wall Art — Miami Ironside](https://www.miamiironside.com/ironsideart): The holder's own account of four double-sided original segments repainted by Thierry Noir. - [Miami, FL – Miami Ironside — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/miami-fl-miami-ironside/): Site record, the Art Basel 2013 repainting and the position at the entrance. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Miami%2C%20FL%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Miami%20Ironside): 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. ### Miami, FL – Temple House - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/miami/miami-fl-temple-house-a260 - Place: The Temple House, Miami Beach, Florida, United States - Classification: Former Location; can it be seen today: Gone (Temporary exhibition, ended); evidence: Documented - Position: 25.785841, -80.135221 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #260. Sections brought from Berlin for a single Porsche Design event and repainted on the spot by Thierry Noir. During Art Basel Miami Beach in December 2013, Porsche Design showed "two original pieces from the Berlin Wall" at the Temple House, an event venue in Miami Beach. The project, Heart of Freedom, was a collaboration with the Berlin artist Thierry Noir. The company's press release says the pieces were "shipped from Berlin for the event only" and were re-painted in Miami by Noir beforehand, as an homage to the paintings he began making on the Wall in 1984. Because the pieces came for the event alone, the record is kept as a former location. Where they went afterwards is not stated. The release speaks of two pieces, the Berlin Wall Archive's listing counts four, and the Miami Ironside record, for segments Noir repainted in the same week, also counts four; the figures are not reconciled here. Provenance: Shipped from Berlin for Art Basel Miami Beach 2013 and repainted by Thierry Noir in Miami. Sources: - [Porsche Design unveils its art collaboration with pop artist Thierry Noir at Temple House, Miami Beach — Europa Wire (Porsche Design release), 9 December 2013](https://news.europawire.eu/porsche-design-unveils-its-art-collaboration-with-pop-artist-thierry-noir-at-temple-house-miami-beach-87654321234567890/eu-press-release/2013/12/09/): Porsche Design showed two original pieces of the Berlin Wall at the Temple House in Miami Beach during Art Basel Miami Beach, shipped from Berlin for the event only and re-painted in Miami by Thierry Noir beforehand. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Miami%2C%20FL%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Temple%20House): 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. ### Mountain View, CA - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/mountain-view/berlin-wall-mountain-view-f185 - Place: Mountain View Public Library, 585 Franklin Street, Mountain View, California, United States - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 37.390653900425, -122.0835895261 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #185 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #272. Two segments outside the library, identified in 2015 by the Berliner who had painted one of them in 1990 as a farewell to a friend. Two segments outside the library, one with a cartoon Elvis, the other with a heart drawn around Wir lieben Dich, the name Polly, and the year 1990. In 2015 the painter found them: Robin Pohle, a Berliner, learned through his friend Christoph Schmidt that the section he and two friends had painted in 1990 was in California. They had painted it as a farewell to their friend "Polly" — Andrea von Coburg — who was moving to Munich, and had photographed themselves beside it and given her a framed print. Merkur later published a picture of von Coburg holding that photograph. She places the original site at the Engelbecken, the old Luisenstadt canal line along today's Bethaniendamm. Everything the atlas is for is in this record: an anonymous slab in a suburban car park, identified twenty-five years later by the people who painted it, with a dated photograph to prove it. Provenance: Donated to the city by the descendants of Frank Golzen, a German-born American businessman who had displayed them at his own office park. The city installed them outside the library on 22 August 2013; until then they had stood in a car park at 2685 Marine Way. The 2015 television report names Frank and Kunigunde Golzen themselves as the donors, the family account names their descendants; both are kept. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): The Golzen donation and the 2015 identification, citing the Merkur report. - [Slabs Of Berlin Wall At Mountain View Library Tell Story Of Friendship Written In Graffiti](https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/berlin-wall-mountain-view-graffiti/): Two slabs displayed outside the Mountain View library, given to the city by Frank and Kunigunde Golzen, who bought them soon after 1989; Robin Pohle, one of the original painters, identified the graffito (wir liebe dich, a heart, the name Polly) in July 2015 after a friend found a picture of the slabs online. - [Berlin Wall Segments to be Installed Thursday at Library](https://patch.com/california/mountainview/berlin-wall-segments-to-be-installed-thursday-at-library): Installation in front of the Mountain View Public Library on Thursday 22 August 2013; two segments given by the Golzen family, shipped to Oakland when one was expected, and kept since 1989 in a car park at 2685 Marine Way. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-mountain-view/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Mountain%20View%2C%20CA): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Nemacolin - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/nemacolin/berlin-wall-nemacolin-f216 - Place: Nemacolin Woodlands Resort, Farmington, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: Restricted access (On display in a vitrine); evidence: Documented - Position: 39.8747881, -79.929051815082 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #216 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #284. An Indiano segment in a vitrine on a hill at a Pennsylvania luxury resort, passed from Lord Palumbo to a local businessman. On one of the hills of the Nemacolin Woodlands Resort, in the woods of south-western Pennsylvania, an original segment stands inside a glass case. When and in what circumstances it arrived could not be established. The painting is by Jürgen Große, who signs himself Indiano, and was made on the Wall in 1990: *Change myself* and *Wake up* are parts of his Global Messages, the series he put on a number of segments. The 2.6-tonne piece came to Nemacolin as a gift from the Pennsylvania businessman Joseph Hardy, who had it in turn from Lord Peter Palumbo — one of six that Palumbo bought in London in 1994. A plaque beside it offers this as proof that freedom will prevail where people of courage and conviction press for it. Palumbo's purchase accounts for several of this catalogue's records, and two of them make an instructive pair: the Yorkshire Sculpture Park segment, from the same six, stands in the open air with its Indiano painting almost entirely washed away, while this one has been kept behind glass and can still be read. The resort's own art-collection blog says the section is on view along Hardy Boulevard near the animal habitats, is painted with Indiano's totems, and has a companion at Palumbo's Kentuck Knob. Provenance: A gift from the Pennsylvania businessman Joseph Hardy, who received it from Lord Peter Palumbo, one of six segments Palumbo bought in London in 1994. Painted in 1990 by Jürgen Große, known as Indiano. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-nemacolin/): The segment in a vitrine on a hill at the Nemacolin Woodlands Resort, the unknown circumstances of its arrival, the Indiano graffito and its Global Messages texts, its 2.6 tonne weight, the gift from Joseph Hardy who had it from Lord Peter Palumbo among six bought in London in 1994, and the wording of the plaque. - [Nemacolin Blog: Berlin Wall- A Gift of “Royal” Proportions!](http://nemacolinblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/berlin-wall-gift-of-royal-proportions.html): The resort's art-collection specialist writes that Lord Palumbo gave founder Joseph A. Hardy III one of two sections he owned, painted by Indiano (Jürgen Grosse) with his totems, and that it can be seen along Hardy Boulevard near the Animal Habitats; the other stands at Kentuck Knob. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-nemacolin/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Nemacolin%2C%20PA): 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. ### New York City, NY – Battery Park - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/new-york/new-york-city-ny-battery-park-a290 - Place: Kowsky Plaza, Battery Park City, New York, United States - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 40.71183, -74.01674 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #209 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #290. Two Potsdamer Platz segments handed over after a joint concert by Juilliard and the Hanns Eisler school, five days late because of the paperwork. On 14 November 2004 the Juilliard School and the Berlin Hanns Eisler school of music gave a joint friendship concert in New York under the proposition that politics builds walls and music joins peoples. After the Shostakovich and the Mendelssohn, two segments of the Berlin Wall were handed over to the public in Battery Park, not far from the Statue of Liberty, as a token of the tie between the two cities. The segments stood originally at Potsdamer Platz and were part of the Vorderlandmauer, the outer face that formed the actual boundary with West Berlin. On who painted them the sources part company: the Federal Foundation attributes the heads on them to Thierry Noir in 1990, while the New York research this record was first written from names Kiddy Citny and places their origin between Potsdamer Platz and Leipziger Platz. Both readings are kept here; the two painters worked side by side on the same stretches and are confused constantly. The handover was meant to fall on 9 November 2004, the fifteenth anniversary. The initiator, Tanja Dorn, a musician and artistic director of a New York piano house, had no difficulty getting the segments released by the Berlin Senate administration, and every difficulty with the transport and import formalities, which is why the ceremony slipped by five days. The Downtown Alliance, which looks after the district, gives a third reading of the painter: Thierry Noir, in 1997, and says the segment stood in the Federal Environment Ministry building before the gift. Provenance: Released by the Berlin Senate administration and installed at Battery Park in November 2004 on the initiative of the musician Tanja Dorn; from the Vorderlandmauer at Potsdamer Platz. Sources: - [Mapping the 5 Pieces of the Berlin Wall in NYC — Untapped New York](https://www.untappedcities.com/mapping-the-5-pieces-of-the-berlin-wall-in-nyc/): Dimensions, painter, origin stretch, and the 2004 installation. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-new-york-city-2/): The friendship concert of 14 November 2004 by the Juilliard School and the Hanns Eisler school, the handover of two segments in Battery Park, their origin in the Vorderlandmauer at Potsdamer Platz and their painting by Thierry Noir in 1990, Tanja Dorn's initiative, and the delay past the intended anniversary date caused by transport and import formalities. - [How a Piece of the Berlin Wall Ended Up in Lower Manhattan](https://downtownny.com/news/berlin-wall-downtown-nyc/): The Downtown Alliance reports the German Consulate gave the segment to New York in 2004 for the fifteenth anniversary; it came from between Potsdamer Platz and Leipziger Platz, stood in the Federal Environment Ministry building, and is 12 feet by 8 feet, 2.75 tons, painted by Thierry Noir in 1997. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-new-york-city-2/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=New%20York%20City%2C%20NY%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Battery%20Park): 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. ### New York City, NY – Madison Av. - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/new-york/new-york-city-ny-madison-av-a291 - Place: 520 Madison Avenue, New York, United States - Classification: Private / Limited Access; can it be seen today: Moved (Removed in 2015; now in storage in Connecticut); evidence: Listed - Position: 40.7609986, -73.9733102 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #291. Five Noir and Citny panels from Waldemarstraße, in the courtyard at 520 Madison Avenue until 2015 — now in a depot in Connecticut. Five segments painted by Thierry Noir and Kiddy Citny stood for years in the small courtyard beside the entrance at 520 Madison Avenue, the Tishman Speyer building. They were probably bought in the early 1990s by Jerry I. Speyer, though a competing account has Limex selling them to the Museum of Modern Art in 1990 for 500,000 marks, which the museum could not confirm. Outdoors, they decayed. In 2015 they were taken away to a warehouse in New Jersey for careful restoration, came back to Manhattan after about six months and were installed in the building's lobby, stood there roughly two years, and were then removed again to a depot in Connecticut, where they are now. This catalogue holds a separate record for that depot, which is how the unexplained listing filed under the state of Connecticut turns out to be identified. The panels themselves are among the most widely reproduced pieces of the Wall ever painted. Noir took the left part and Citny the right in October 1985, on Waldemarstraße in West Berlin; Liselotte and Armin Orgel-Köhne photographed them that year and the pictures were used everywhere for Berlin's 750th anniversary in 1987, and they are clearly visible in Wings of Desire, which Wim Wenders filmed the same year. Provenance: Given in 1990 by Jerry Speyer of Tishman Speyer. Sources: - [Mapping the 5 Pieces of the Berlin Wall in NYC — Untapped New York](https://www.untappedcities.com/mapping-the-5-pieces-of-the-berlin-wall-in-nyc/): The 1990 gift, the 2014 move indoors, and the later storage report. - [Berlin Wall piece in New York — Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berlin_Wall_piece_in_New_York.JPG): The panels on East 53rd Street between Fifth and Madison in Paley Park, later relocated to the lobby of the adjacent building. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-connecticut/): The five segments at 520 Madison Avenue until 2015, the competing accounts of their purchase by Jerry I. Speyer or MoMA, their decay outdoors, the 2015 removal to a New Jersey warehouse and return to the building lobby for about two years, their subsequent storage in Connecticut, and their painting by Noir and Citny on Waldemarstraße in October 1985 with the Orgel-Köhne photographs and the Wings of Desire appearance. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=New%20York%20City%2C%20NY%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Madison%20Av.): 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. ### New York City, NY – Ripley’s - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/new-york/new-york-city-ny-ripley-s-a293 - Place: 234 West 42nd Street, New York, United States - Classification: Former Location; can it be seen today: Gone (Attraction closed; present location of the section unconfirmed); evidence: Listed - Position: 40.756466, -73.9885078 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #293. One section from Waldemarstraße, part of sixteen shipped to the United States by barge and freighter after 1989. The Times Square attraction has since closed. The sixteen were ten-foot sections acquired by Edward Meyer shortly after 1989, shipped by barge to Hamburg, freighter to New Orleans, then trucked to Orlando for distribution — roughly 40,000 lb in total. Where this section went after the Times Square attraction closed is not established here. Provenance: From Waldemarstraße in Kreuzberg. Thierry Noir and Kiddy Citny painted that stretch in September 1985, and the photographers Liselotte and Armin Orgel-Köhne documented it in ten poster photographs — which makes it one of the few stretches whose pre-sale appearance can be checked against a dated image. Sources: - [Mapping the 5 Pieces of the Berlin Wall in NYC — Untapped New York](https://www.untappedcities.com/mapping-the-5-pieces-of-the-berlin-wall-in-nyc/): The Meyer acquisition, the shipping route, and the Waldemarstraße origin. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=New%20York%20City%2C%20NY%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Ripley%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%B4s): 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. ### New York City, NY – UN Building - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/new-york/new-york-city-ny-un-building-a294 - Place: United Nations Sculpture Garden, First Avenue, New York, United States - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: Restricted access (On display, garden generally closed to the public); evidence: Documented - Position: 40.750479924787, -73.966568933011 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #208 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #294. Three slabs from Leipziger Platz given to Kofi Annan in 2001 — a gift that was only allowed once Berlin promised to leave the rest of that stretch standing. Kofi Annan came to Berlin in 2001 and left with an honorary doctorate from the Free University and three segments of the Berlin Wall. They carry a graffito by Kani Alavi on one side and a Kiddy Citny on the other, and they were among the last pieces still standing on Leipziger Platz in Berlin-Mitte. The gift was contested. Erich Stanke, who had bought the ground and therefore regarded the wall on it as his property, tried to stop the removal — not over money, but because he wanted the few remaining pieces of the border left where they stood and placed under protection. The Senate chancellery took the view that Alavi's image of two people embracing across the Wall would be better off in New York. An agreement was reached when the Senate undertook that the remaining segments and the watchtower at Leipziger Platz would stay permanently in place, and the handover went ahead on 13 July 2001, with the Bundestag president Wolfgang Thierse and the Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit presenting them to Annan at the site itself. The slabs reached New York in the autumn of 2001 and were unveiled in the garden of the UN headquarters, where they still stand. They came with a round anti-climb pipe lettered Trophy of Civil Rights, which in fact belonged to a different wall graffito, painted by Thierry Noir at Potsdamer Platz — so the ensemble in the garden is an assembly of parts, and the visitor is not told. A glass panel explains the Wall in English as a gift from the people of Germany to the United Nations. The garden is generally closed to the public. Provenance: Three segments from Leipziger Platz, presented in Berlin to Kofi Annan on 13 July 2001 by Wolfgang Thierse and Klaus Wowereit, shipped to New York in the autumn of 2001 and unveiled in the UN garden. The anti-climb pipe delivered with them came from a different segment painted by Thierry Noir at Potsdamer Platz. Sources: - [Piece of Berlin Wall, a gift of Germany, unveiled at UN garden — UN News](https://news.un.org/en/story/2002/04/31462): The 2002 gift, the presenting and receiving officials, and the Annan quotation. - [The Pieces of the Berlin Wall in the United Nations Sculpture Garden — Untapped New York](https://www.untappedcities.com/the-pieces-of-the-berlin-wall-in-the-united-nations-sculpture-garden/): Kani Alavi's painted face and the arrangement of the slabs. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-new-york-city/): The three segments given to Kofi Annan in 2001 with graffiti by Kani Alavi and Kiddy Citny, their origin among the last pieces standing on Leipziger Platz, Erich Stanke's opposition and his wish to have the remains protected in place, the Senate's undertaking to leave the remaining segments and the watchtower standing, the handover on 13 July 2001 by Wolfgang Thierse and Klaus Wowereit, the arrival in New York in autumn 2001, the Trophy of Civil Rights anti-climb pipe belonging to a different Thierry Noir segment from Potsdamer Platz, and the glass panel text. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-new-york-city/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=New%20York%20City%2C%20NY%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20UN%20Building): 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. ### New York City, NY – USS Intrepid - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/new-york/new-york-city-ny-uss-intrepid-a295 - Place: Pier 86, West 46th Street, New York, United States - Classification: Former Location; can it be seen today: Moved (Loan ended in 2006; the segment is now in the owner's store at Lyndhurst, New Jersey); evidence: Documented - Position: 40.7647334, -74.0008398 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #295. The left half of Kiddy Citny's heart, on the museum ship from 1990 to 2006 — returned to Peter Max and now in his New Jersey store. The left half of the heart stood on the flight deck of the USS Intrepid. It belonged to the Berlin-born pop artist Peter Max, who lent it to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum after using it in the wall happening that opened the American trade in the Wall in New York harbour on 2 February 1990. Max treated the segment as his own material. He added two peace doves: one painted where the round anti-climb pipe had left the concrete grey, the other cast in concrete and set on the upper edge. The standing dove had to be taken off again because visitors kept trying to steal it. When the ship went in for its refit the museum returned the segment to Max, and it was taken to his store at Lyndhurst in New Jersey, where this catalogue now records it separately. Its other half — the right side of the same heart — was sawn off and sent to North Carolina in October 1990 to be sold. Provenance: Painted by Kiddy Citny; subsequently held by Peter Max, who altered it. Sources: - [Mapping the 5 Pieces of the Berlin Wall in NYC — Untapped New York](https://www.untappedcities.com/mapping-the-5-pieces-of-the-berlin-wall-in-nyc/): The Citny painting, Peter Max's carved dove, and the ended loan. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-lyndhurst/): The segment's display on the USS Intrepid from 1990 to 2006, its ownership by Peter Max and return to him before the ship's refit, its removal to his depot at Lyndhurst, the two doves he added and the theft attempts on the concrete one, the wall happening of 2 February 1990, and the splitting of the heart in October 1990 with the right half sent to North Carolina. - [Peter Max Biography](https://petermax.com/pages/peter-max-biography): The artist's own biography says that in 1990 he received a seven-thousand-pound section of the fallen Wall on board the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum on the Hudson, and carved a peace dove from the concrete. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=New%20York%20City%2C%20NY%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20USS%20Intrepid): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Newport News - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/newport-news/berlin-wall-newport-news-f224 - Place: Virginia War Museum, 9285 Warwick Boulevard, Newport News, Virginia, United States - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 37.019654284081, -76.453427819813 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #224 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #296. A three-metre section in Virginia's state war museum. A section about three metres across at the Virginia War Museum, whose collection runs from 1775 to the present. It sits with Fort Benning, Fort Knox, Fort Leavenworth and the Patton Museum in the American military cluster — institutions that keep a piece of the thing their own people stood opposite. In 2009 the museum built an exhibit for the twentieth anniversary of the fall around the piece it already held. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A 3 m section of the Wall on display at the Virginia War Museum. - [Va museum to display exhibit of Berlin Wall’s fall](https://www.victoriaadvocate.com/361mag/travel/va-museum-to-display-exhibit-of-berlin-walls-fall/article_4fdd9823-6b62-58e7-9995-8285ccbc5789.html): In 2009 the Virginia War Museum in Newport News built a twentieth-anniversary exhibit around a piece of the Wall already in its collection. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-newport-news/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Newport%20News%2C%20VA): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Orange - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/orange/berlin-wall-orange-f186 - Place: Liberty Plaza, Chapman University, One University Drive, Orange, California, United States - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 33.79338165, -117.85168957642 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #186 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #313. A twelve-foot piece standing in a reflecting pool, obtained in 1998 when Berlin had one piece left to give away. A twelve-foot piece stands in a shaded reflecting pool in Liberty Plaza, near Memorial Hall, where it arrived in 1998. The plaza was designed as a whole by the artist and professor emeritus Richard Turner, with the line Abraham Lincoln took from scripture — “a house divided cannot stand” — chiselled into the stone surrounding the pond. The segment has been defaced at least once since, which is a reminder that an object left outdoors and unglazed continues to accumulate history. Provenance: Chapman's president Jim Doti saw the Berlin Wall monument at the Reagan Presidential Library in 1996 and wrote to the mayor of Berlin; with help from Marilyn Harran the university obtained a piece at a point when the city had decided to keep what remained and had one left to give away. Sources: - [How Chapman University brought a piece of the Berlin Wall to campus — Chapman Newsroom](https://news.chapman.edu/2019/11/08/how-chapman-university-brought-a-piece-of-the-berlin-wall-to-campus/): The university's own account: the 1996 Reagan Library visit, the approach to Berlin, the 1998 arrival, Richard Turner's design and the Lincoln inscription. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-orange/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Orange%2C%20CA): 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. ### Orlando, FL – Hard Rock Cafe - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/orlando/berlin-wall-orlando-f174 - Place: Hard Rock Cafe, Universal CityWalk, Orlando, Florida, United States - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 28.474140879058, -81.46794917735 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #174 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #314. A segment outside a themed restaurant at a resort — the Wall as attraction frontage. A segment stands outside the Hard Rock Cafe at Universal Orlando. With the Prague hostel, the Las Vegas casino washroom and the Dallas hotel sculpture garden, it belongs to the category the catalogue should not be shy about: a good deal of the Wall ended up working as frontage for businesses, and the only difference between that and a memorial is who is charging admission. Local television found it in 2019 behind the restaurant, on the walkway to the Blue Man Group theatre, with a plaque on the Wall's history and some of its original graffiti still visible. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A segment of the wall outside the Hard Rock Cafe at Universal Orlando. - [Where to See a Piece of the Berlin Wall in Orlando](https://mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2019/11/08/where-to-see-a-piece-of-the-berlin-wall-in-orlando): In 2019 the piece stood behind Hard Rock Cafe Orlando at Universal CityWalk, on the walkway to the Blue Man Group theatre, with a plaque giving the history of the Wall and some original graffiti still on it. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-orlando/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Orlando%2C%20FL%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Hard%20Rock%20Cafe): 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. ### Orlando, FL – Ripley’s - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/orlando/orlando-fl-ripley-s-a315 - Place: Ripley's Believe It or Not!, International Drive, Orlando, Florida, United States - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (Reported in place); evidence: Listed - Position: 28.4462211, -81.4703885 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #315. A third Ripley's holding, in the city the whole sixteen-section consignment was trucked to for distribution. A section at the Orlando Ripley's, and the third of that company's holdings in this catalogue after Times Square and Niagara Falls. Orlando is where the whole consignment landed: Edward Meyer bought sixteen ten-foot sections shortly after 1989, roughly 40,000 lb in total, shipped by barge to Hamburg, freighter to New Orleans and then trucked here to be distributed around the attractions. One purchase accounts for three records on this map and an unknown number elsewhere. Provenance: From the sixteen-section Ripley's purchase, originating in Waldemarstraße in Kreuzberg. Sources: - [Mapping the 5 Pieces of the Berlin Wall in NYC — Untapped New York](https://www.untappedcities.com/mapping-the-5-pieces-of-the-berlin-wall-in-nyc/): The Meyer purchase of sixteen sections, the shipping route and the distribution from Orlando. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Orlando%2C%20FL%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Ripley%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%B4s): 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. ### Philadelphia, PA - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/philadelphia/philadelphia-pa-a326 - Place: The German Society of Pennsylvania, 611 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: Restricted access (Reported in place); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 39.96151, -75.14839 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #326. A section in a private garden on Spring Garden Street, visible from the pavement. The German Society of Pennsylvania unveiled a section of the Wall in its garden on 9 November 2014, twenty-five years after the border opened and during the society's own 250th anniversary. CBS Philadelphia, reporting the unveiling, said the garden is private but the section can be seen from the street, and that once the work was finished the piece was to stand on a platform turning every five minutes, with video and audio of East German history on one side and West German history on the other. The society still shows it: its page on hiring the Leidy Terrace has a photograph with "a section of the Berlin Wall" in the background. CBS did not say how the society obtained the section. The Wall Net, a tertiary listing, says the society's chairman, Hardy von Auenmüller, asked the Berlin Senate for a segment in 2013 and received two, the other going to the German-American Heritage Foundation's museum in Washington. Whether the rotating platform was built is not stated. Provenance: Reported by The Wall Net to have been requested from the Berlin Senate in 2013 by the society's chairman; not confirmed by the society or the press read here. Sources: - [Berlin Wall Section Unveiled At German Society — CBS Philadelphia](https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/philadelphia/news/berlin-wall-section-unveiled-at-german-society): An authentic section of the Berlin Wall was unveiled on 9 November 2014 in the garden of the German Society of Pennsylvania at 7th and Spring Garden Streets, as part of the society's 250th anniversary; the garden is private but the section is visible from the street; a rotating platform with video and audio was planned. - [Rental Spaces — The German Society of Pennsylvania](https://www.germansociety.org/rental-spaces): The society's page on the Leidy Terrace shows a photograph with a section of the Berlin Wall in the background. - [Philadelphia, PA — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/philadelphia-pa/): A segment was erected in the German Society's garden in November 2014; the chairman, Hardy von Auenmüller, asked the Senate for a segment and received two, the second going to the German-American Heritage Foundation museum in Washington. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Philadelphia%2C%20PA): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Portland - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/portland/berlin-wall-portland-f197 - Place: Long Wharf, Old Port, Portland, Maine, United States - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 43.65576, -70.25165 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #197 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #329. Privately owned slabs of the Hinterlandmauer on a working wharf, with a damaged authentication plaque and graffiti that is probably not original. Segments of roughly six by ten feet stand on the southern side of Long Wharf, near DiMillo's floating restaurant. They are recorded as pieces of the Hinterlandmauer — the inner wall, the one facing East Berlin, which was plain — and the painting on them is described in the source as the usual fabricated graffiti of peace and patriotism rather than original Berlin work. Together with the Fort Knox record this is one of two places in the catalogue where the concrete is accepted and the surface is not, which is worth stating because the surface is what almost every photograph is of. Provenance: Owned by Antonio “Toni” DiMillo, who holds much of Portland's port frontage, and reported to have been in his hands since the late 1990s. A damaged authentication plaque stands with them. Sources: - [Portland, ME — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/portland-me/): The DiMillo ownership, the Hinterlandmauer identification, the damaged authentication plaque and the note that the graffiti appears fabricated. - [Portland, Maine: Berlin Wall Slabs — Roadside America](https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/57274): Dimensions and position on Long Wharf. - [Deemed public safety risk, Portland’s Love Locks fence is coming down — Portland Press Herald](https://www.pressherald.com/2016/07/20/after-more-than-three-years-and-thousands-of-pledges-of-love-portlands-love-locks-fence-on-commercial-street-is-coming-down/): July 2016: the planned replacement for the Love Locks fence was to stand on the Long Wharf promenade, which the younger DiMillo said was probably near a section of the Berlin Wall that is permanently displayed on the DiMillo property. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-portland/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Portland%2C%20ME): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Presidio of Monterey - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/presidio-of-monterey/berlin-wall-presidio-of-monterey-f187 - Place: Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, Presidio of Monterey, California, United States - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: Restricted access (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 36.606984465112, -121.90717593181 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #187 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #338. Three segments at the US Army's language school, where its Russian and German linguists were trained. Three segments at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, the US military's language school. The fit is closer than at most of the American military sites in this catalogue: the institute is where the army taught its people Russian, German and Czech, and the Cold War was in large part an intelligence contest conducted by people who had been through this campus. The institute's own account says Walter Scurei donated them and they were dedicated on 2 November 2005, with Peter Robinson, who wrote Reagan's speech at the Brandenburg Gate, as keynote speaker. They honour the Cold War linguists who served at listening posts, and in 2024 the panels were cleaned and treated for the first time in nearly twenty years. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): Three segments on display at the U.S. Army Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. - [Cleaning and preserving history for the future](https://www.dliflc.edu/cleaning-and-preserving-history-for-the-future/): Three concrete Berlin Wall panels on the Presidio of Monterey campus, donated by Walter Scurei and dedicated in November 2005 with Peter Robinson, author of Reagan's Brandenburg Gate speech, as keynote speaker; they honour the roughly 49,000 DLIFLC students of the Cold War and were cleaned and treated in 2024. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-presidio-of-monterey/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Presidio%20of%20Monterey%2C%20CA): 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. ### Raleigh, NC - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/raleigh/raleigh-nc-a342 - Place: Exploris, now Marbles Kids Museum, downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, United States - Classification: Former Location; can it be seen today: Moved (Moved in 2015 to The Frontier, Research Triangle Park); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 35.7784, -78.6362 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #342. The Kiddy Citny segment now at The Frontier in Research Triangle Park was first shown in the Exploris children's museum in downtown Raleigh, by its present keeper's account. Hub RTP, the Research Triangle Foundation's development around the Frontier building in Durham, says of the segment lent to Frontier RTP by Gordon Smith that it was originally displayed in the Exploris Museum, now the Marbles Kids Museum, in Raleigh, before it came to the Frontier's atrium, where it sits today. Bob Geolas, the foundation's chief executive at the time, recalls Smith asking him what to do with the piece as Frontier RTP was opening, and suggesting it as a feature in the lobby. The Frontier's own announcement of 30 April 2015 thanks Smith and calls the piece the first section of the Wall ever sold. The Wall Net, whose entry the Berlin Wall Archive's listing follows, fills in the Raleigh end. The children's museum had an exhibition area representing regions of the world, and Berlin was represented by the segment, which comes from the Waldemarstraße in Kreuzberg and carries one half of a graffito by Kiddy Citny; the other half was at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York and is missing. Both segments came to New York in 1990 in a promotional campaign for the sale of the Wall in the United States by the East German trading company Limex and its American partner. Nothing read says when the segment went into the museum or when it left. The segment itself has its own record at The Frontier. Provenance: Lent by Gordon Smith; shown in the Exploris museum in Raleigh and, from early 2015, in the atrium of The Frontier, Durham. From the Waldemarstraße in Kreuzberg, with one half of a Kiddy Citny graffito, according to The Wall Net. Sources: - [Berlin Wall — Hub RTP](https://hub.rtp.org/berlin-wall/): The Research Triangle Foundation's Hub RTP page: a piece of the Berlin Wall was lent to Frontier RTP by Gordon Smith; it was originally displayed in the Exploris Museum, now the Marbles Kids Museum, in Raleigh before coming to the atrium of Frontier RTP, where it sits today; Bob Geolas, the foundation's former chief executive, recalls Smith asking about the piece's future as Frontier RTP was opening and suggesting it as a feature in the lobby. - [Berlin Wall — The Frontier, 30 April 2015](https://frontier.rtp.org/2015/04/berlin-wall/): The Frontier's announcement of 30 April 2015: thanks to the local philanthropist Gordon Smith, what it calls the first piece of the Wall ever sold is on display at The Frontier, 800 Park Offices Drive, Durham. - [Raleigh, NC — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/raleigh-nc/): Entry of 1 October 2014: one segment from the Waldemarstraße in Kreuzberg, with one half of a graffito by Kiddy Citny, was shown in the Marbles Kids Museum in an exhibition area representing regions of the world, Berlin among them, and has stood in The Frontier, Research Triangle Park, since spring 2015; the matching half was at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York and is missing; both segments came to New York in 1990 in a promotional campaign for the sale of the Wall in the United States by the East German trading company Limex and its American partner, the Berlin Wall Commemorative Group. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Raleigh%2C%20NC): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Rapid City - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/rapid-city/berlin-wall-rapid-city-f218 - Place: Downtown Rapid City, South Dakota, United States - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (Reported in place); evidence: Listed - Position: 44.086079707672, -103.22779452643 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #218 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #344. A section in downtown Rapid City. The two catalogue records for it sit about 50 m apart, which is as close as any cross-source pair in the whole inventory comes to agreeing — and a useful reminder that most of the 202 possible overlaps in the import are nothing like this clear. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A section of the Berlin Wall located near the downtown area. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-rapid-city/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Rapid%20City%2C%20SD): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Redmond - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/redmond/berlin-wall-redmond-f227 - Place: Microsoft Conference Center, Microsoft campus, Redmond, Washington, United States - Classification: Private / Limited Access; can it be seen today: Restricted access (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 47.642287843495, -122.13693667143 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #227 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #347. Given by Daimler-Benz to Bill Gates in February 1996, and in corporate hands ever since. A section held at the Microsoft Conference Center on the company's Redmond campus. It is among the small group of records in this catalogue in corporate rather than public hands, which is also the group whose current status is hardest to check: nothing obliges a company to say where an object has been moved to, or whether it is still there. The Seattle Times, reporting the private unveiling in August 1996, put it in the glass-walled employee cafeteria at Red Rock West, a satellite site, and gave its size as 11 feet by 3.5 feet and 3.5 tons. The list this record was first written from says Conference Center; neither source has been checked against a visit, and both readings are kept. Provenance: Recorded as a gift from Daimler-Benz AG to Bill Gates on 8 February 1996. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): An original part of the Berlin Wall given by Daimler-Benz AG to Bill Gates on 8 February 1996, now at the Microsoft Conference Center. - [Microsoft's Wall Can Be Viewed On The Web](https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19960812/2343760/microsofts-wall-can-be-viewed-on-the-web): Daimler-Benz gave the fragment to Bill Gates during his February 1996 visit to its German headquarters; 11 feet tall, 3.5 feet wide, 3.5 tons, permanently installed in the glass-walled employee cafeteria at Red Rock West, a Microsoft satellite campus in Redmond, and unveiled privately in August 1996. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-redmond/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Redmond%2C%20WA): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Reston - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/reston/berlin-wall-reston-f225 - Place: German Armed Forces Command, Reston, Virginia, United States - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: Restricted access (On display outside the command building); evidence: Documented - Position: 38.943915859347, -77.330308161715 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #225 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #351. Flown to Virginia by the German air force in 1991 for the opening of the Bundeswehr's American headquarters, from Waldemarstraße with Thierry Noir still faintly on it. A segment 3.20 metres high stands in front of the building of the German Armed Forces Command in Reston, Virginia, the Bundeswehr's representation in the United States. The Luftwaffe brought it over in 1991 and it was dedicated at the opening of the new offices. The commander, General Gero Schachthöfer, has described what it is for in two directions at once: for the soldiers and civilian staff who work in the building it is a daily warning and memorial, and for American visitors it stands for the Cold War, for the overcoming of the division of Germany and Europe, and for a piece of history that many of them personally helped to shape. A small English plaque at the foot records that the division of Berlin ended in November 1989 and dedicates the segment to the spirit of German-American friendship. It came from Waldemarstraße in Kreuzberg and still carries traces of Thierry Noir's painting — the same street that produced the Citny hearts now split between New Jersey, North Carolina and Basel, the Ibiza segment, the Hennessy fragment at Jarnac and the five in storage in Connecticut. No other address in Berlin has scattered so widely. The record was left as a bare listing until now because no institutional source could be found for it and the office keeps little public presence. The Federal Foundation's entry supplies one. Local press has it in front of the command on Sunrise Valley Drive in 2007 and 2014; the 2014 report dates the acquisition to 1990 and the command's arrival to 1991, which is compatible with the Foundation's account of a dedication at the opening. Provenance: Brought to the United States by the German air force in 1991 and dedicated at the opening of the new command building; from Waldemarstraße in Berlin-Kreuzberg, with traces of Thierry Noir's painting. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-reston/): The 3.20 metre segment in front of the German Armed Forces Command in Reston, its transport by the Luftwaffe in 1991 and dedication at the opening of the new building, General Gero Schachthöfer's statement, the wording of the English plaque, and the Waldemarstraße origin with traces of Thierry Noir's graffiti. - [A Bit of the Berlin Wall, Here in Reston](https://www.restonnow.com/2014/11/10/a-bit-of-the-berlin-wall-here-in-reston/): A four-foot-wide fragment outside the German Armed Forces Command at 11150 Sunrise Valley Drive, which the paper says was acquired in 1990 to commemorate reunification, the command opening its Reston office in 1991. - [‘Hiding’ in Reston Since 1991](https://m.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2007/apr/10/hiding-in-reston-since-1991/): In 2007 a piece of the Berlin Wall, a German flag and a Bundeswehr sign stood in front of the German armed forces command on Sunrise Valley Drive, the command having been in Reston since 1991. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-reston/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Reston%2C%20VA): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Saint Petersburg - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/saint-petersburg/berlin-wall-saint-petersburg-f175 - Place: St. Petersburg Clay Company, Saint Petersburg, Florida, United States - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display; visitors admitted); evidence: Documented - Position: 27.767032260222, -82.662759858896 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #175 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #362. The first monument sold by a Florida foundation that shipped 350 slabs of the Wall to Tampa Bay and hoped to place a hundred of them across North America. For the twentieth anniversary in 2009 the Florida-based Outdoor Art Foundation set out to build a hundred wall monuments across North America — the continent that already held the greatest concentration of the Berlin Wall outside Germany. Any community that could raise between fifty and a hundred thousand dollars was to have one. To supply them, about 350 concrete slabs from the Hinterlandmauer were delivered to Tampa Bay in July 2007. The foundation also bought a collection of some 115 wall pieces painted in 1990 by the Russian artists Tamara Dubinovskaya, Andrei Aksenov and Vladimir Smachin, which had been sold to the American collector Cal Worthington and were long thought lost. The plan failed. The foundation turned instead to exhibiting and selling the Russian-painted pieces, most of which have since travelled as the Berlin Wall Art Collection through museums and galleries in North America. Saint Petersburg — named by a nineteenth-century Russian railway entrepreneur after his birthplace — was the first community in Florida to buy a monument. It was set up in the spring of 2008 on the site of the St. Petersburg Clay Company, where visitors can see it. The three-hundred-and-fifty slabs are the part of this record that matters beyond the town. They are one of the largest single movements of the Wall recorded anywhere in this catalogue, and most of them were never placed. Public radio reported in 2026 that the section had stood outside the Morean Center for Clay for nearly twenty years, and that the collection had been acquired by the Outdoor Arts Foundation under Jay Goulde. Provenance: Bought from the Outdoor Art Foundation, which imported about 350 Hinterlandmauer slabs to Tampa Bay in July 2007; installed at the St. Petersburg Clay Company in spring 2008. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-saint-petersburg/): The Outdoor Art Foundation's plan for a hundred North American wall monuments at fifty to a hundred thousand dollars each, the delivery of about 350 Hinterlandmauer slabs to Tampa Bay in July 2007, the purchase of some 115 pieces painted in 1990 by Dubinovskaya, Aksenov and Smachin and earlier sold to Cal Worthington, the failure of the plan and the touring Berlin Wall Art Collection, and Saint Petersburg as the first Florida community to buy a monument, installed at the St. Petersburg Clay Company in spring 2008. - [Why a Bradenton doctor donated 130 tons of the East Berlin Wall to New College](https://www.wusf.org/arts-culture/2026-05-06/bradenton-doctor-donates-130-tons-east-berlin-wall-slabs-new-college): A small section of the Wall has been on display for nearly twenty years outside the Morean Center for Clay in St. Petersburg; the Outdoor Arts Foundation, headed by Jay Goulde, had acquired the Berlin Wall collection about twenty years earlier. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-saint-petersburg/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Saint%20Petersburg%2C%20FL): 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. ### San Bernardino, CA – Reagan Park - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/san-bernardino/san-bernardino-ca-reagan-park-a364 - Place: Ronald Reagan Park, San Bernardino, California, United States - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 34.1982178, -117.3644056 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #364. A three-ton slab dedicated in a municipal park during the Reagan centenary celebrations. The segment at Ronald Reagan Park was dedicated to mark a hundred years since Reagan's birth. Like the Madrid park and unlike most American sites, it is in an ordinary municipal park rather than an institution — though the park's name does the interpretive work that a museum label would do elsewhere. KPCC reported in October 2010 that supporters of the park had bought the slab, 11 feet by 4 feet and 6,000 pounds, through a German auction house for $2,500, that shipping nearly doubled the cost, and that a local artist had painted a silhouette of Reagan on the side that faced East Berlin. It expected the unveiling the following month, November 2010, whereas Wikipedia places the dedication in the Reagan centenary celebrations, which fell in February 2011, and gives the segment as four metres; the two accounts are not reconciled here. Provenance: Bought by supporters of the park through a German auction house for $2,500, with shipping costing nearly as much again. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A 4 m segment dedicated at Ronald Reagan Park during the Reagan centenary celebrations. - [3-ton slab of Berlin Wall debuts at Reagan Park — LAist (KPCC archive)](https://laist.com/news/kpcc-archive/inland-wall): October 2010: park supporters bought the 6,000-pound slab, 11 feet by 4 feet, through a German auction house for $2,500 with shipping nearly doubling the cost, a local artist added a silhouette of Reagan on the side that faced East Berlin, and an unveiling was planned for the following month. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=San%20Bernardino%2C%20CA%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Reagan%20Park): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Santa Barbara - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/santa-barbara/berlin-wall-santa-barbara-f188 - Place: Reagan Ranch Center, 217 State Street, Santa Barbara, California, United States - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 34.41427095, -119.69257879577 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #188 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #367. A 5,000 lb section in the exhibit galleries of the centre that interprets Reagan's mountain ranch, Rancho del Cielo. A section of about 5,000 lb stands in the exhibit galleries of the Reagan Ranch Center in downtown Santa Barbara, shown with Reagan's Jeep Scrambler and the patio table on which he signed the 1981 tax cut. The centre is run by Young America's Foundation, which bought Rancho del Cielo — Reagan's mountain ranch above the city — in 1998 and interprets it from this building. The segment is used to make a causal argument about Reagan's part in ending communist rule in Eastern Europe. Sources: - [Reagan Ranch Center — Young America's Foundation](https://yaf.org/reagan-ranch-center/): The foundation's own account: a 5,000 lb section of the Berlin Wall among the original artefacts in the exhibit galleries. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-santa-barbara/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Santa%20Barbara%2C%20CA): 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. ### Scott Air Force Base (near Belleville), IL - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/scott-air-force-base-near-belleville/scott-air-force-base-near-belleville-il-a380 - Place: Airlift/Tanker Association Walk of Fame, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, United States - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: Restricted access (On display on the base); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 38.54013, -89.86363 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #380. A piece of the Wall on the Airlift/Tanker Association's memorial walk at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois, still there in 2024. The walk is called the Walk of Fame, and the base lies east of St. Louis. When ground was broken there in August 2024 for a new monument to Operation Allies Refuge, the Air Force's own report listed what the new memorial would be joining: a piece of the Berlin Wall, a 9/11 memorial and memorial busts. That is as much as an official source says, and the record keeps to it. Accounts of how the slab got there — who gave it, when, how large it is — circulate without a primary source behind them, and are left out until one is found. Scott is an active installation, so the walk is not generally open to the public. The listing this record comes from pinned it ten kilometres west of the base. The pin now marks the memorial on Heritage Drive, as the Historical Marker Database records it. That database's transcription of the memorial's inscription says the piece of the Wall at its east end was furnished by the Luftbrücke chapter of the Airlift Association; it is a copy of the plaque rather than a primary source, and is given here as such. Provenance: Not established. Sources: - [Operation Allies Refuge monument groundbreaking — DVIDS, 5 September 2024](https://www.dvidshub.net/news/printable/480185): A groundbreaking ceremony at the Airlift/Tanker Association Walk of Fame at Scott Air Force Base on 28 August 2024, for a monument joining a piece from the Berlin Wall, the 9/11 memorial and memorial busts. - [Airlift Hall of Fame Memorial — The Historical Marker Database](https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=183847): A volunteer database's record of the memorial, placing it on Heritage Drive just east of Symington Drive on Scott Air Force Base with a measured coordinate, and transcribing its inscription: a piece of the Berlin Wall at the east end, furnished by the Luftbrücke chapter of the Airlift Association, beside a replica of the Berlin Airlift memorial. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Scott%20Air%20Force%20Base%20(near%20Belleville)%2C%20IL): 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. ### Scottsdale, AZ - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/scottsdale/scottsdale-az-a381 - Place: Matson Money West, 18760 N. Pima Road, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: Restricted access (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 33.65689, -111.88972 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #381. Two pieces of the Wall announced in 2016 for the Scottsdale headquarters of an investment firm, which presents them as symbols of capitalism. Matson Money, an investment adviser that moved from Mason, Ohio, opened its new headquarters at 18760 N. Pima Road, Scottsdale, as Matson Money West, with a grand opening on 14 October 2016. Two trade-press announcements, one of them in future tense and both in nearly the same words, say the building includes "two pieces of the Berlin Wall, which symbolize capitalism", beside a Free Market Museum for investors to visit. Neither says where in Berlin the pieces stood, who supplied them or how large they are, and nothing read since 2016 confirms that they are still there. They stand on a company's own premises, so the record treats access as restricted. Provenance: Not established. Sources: - [Matson Money moves its headquarters to Scottsdale — AZ Big Media, 14 October 2016](https://azbigmedia.com/business/financial-management/matson-money-moves-headquarters-scottsdale/): The new Matson Money West headquarters at 18760 N. Pima Road, Scottsdale, includes two pieces of the Berlin Wall, which symbolize capitalism. - [Matson Money Moves Its Headquarters to Scottsdale — Greater Phoenix In Business Magazine, 13 October 2016](https://inbusinessphx.com/just-in/matson-money-moves-headquarters-scottsdale): The new headquarters will include two pieces of the Berlin Wall, which symbolize capitalism, and a Free Market Museum for investors to visit. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Scottsdale%2C%20AZ): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Seattle - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/seattle/berlin-wall-seattle-f229 - Place: North 34th Street at Troll Avenue, Fremont, Seattle, Washington, United States - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 47.649347628503, -122.34755436861 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #229 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #382. A second Seattle section, on the corner of North 34th Street and Troll Avenue in Fremont, given to Boeing in 2001 and kept for fifteen years by a neighbourhood history museum. A second Seattle section stands on the corner of North 34th Street and Troll Avenue in Fremont, a short way down the slope from the Fremont Troll and beside Cafe Turko and Milstead & Co. It is twelve feet high and four feet wide. The Seattle Times reports that it arrived in 2001 as a gift to Boeing, in remembrance of the company’s part in the 1948 Berlin Airlift, and that it was officially dedicated in Fremont on 15 June 2001. Boeing donated it to History House, a now-closed nonprofit in Fremont, where it stood outside until 2016, when the building was razed for what is now the Data 1 Building. During construction it rested on the sidewalk outside Cafe Turko, and in 2017 it was resettled on the corner, in front of the new building. The record used to place it at History House itself, which is where the inventory listed it; the museum is a small one about the city’s neighbourhoods rather than about the Cold War. Seattle is one of a handful of cities in this catalogue holding more than one documented section. Provenance: Given to Boeing in 2001 in remembrance of the Berlin Airlift, and donated by Boeing to History House of Greater Seattle. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A section of the wall on display in Seattle in addition to the Seattle Center piece. - [In Fremont, a chunk of the Berlin Wall carries concrete evidence of freedom — The Seattle Times](https://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/in-fremont-a-chunk-of-the-berlin-wall-carries-concrete-evidence-of-freedom/): Pacific NW Magazine, 13 May 2024: the 12-foot by 4-foot piece arrived in 2001 as a gift to Boeing in remembrance of the Berlin Airlift and was dedicated on 15 June 2001; Boeing gave it to History House, where it stood outside until the building was razed in 2016; it waited on the sidewalk outside Cafe Turko during construction and in 2017 was resettled on the corner of North 34th Street and Troll Avenue, beside the Fremont Troll. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-seattle-2/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Seattle%2C%20WA%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20History%20House): 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. ### Seattle, WA – Seattle Center - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/seattle/seattle-wa-seattle-center-a383 - Place: Armory food hall, Seattle Center, 305 Harrison Street, Seattle, Washington, United States - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 47.621255, -122.349741 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #228 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #383. A three-ton slab in a food hall, its graffiti titled Bloody Erich. Donated to the city in January 1991 after the unification celebrations. A slab of about three tons stands in the Armory food hall at Seattle Center, recorded at roughly 12.5 feet tall and 4 feet wide, with a commemorative plaque beside it. The painted work on it carries a title, Bloody Erich — a reference to Erich Honecker, and one of the few records in this catalogue where the graffiti is a named work rather than anonymous marking. Like the Las Vegas slab it sits in a place people go for lunch rather than for history. Provenance: Donated by the German businessman Achim Becker in 1990 and recorded as having stood at Potsdamer Platz near Checkpoint Charlie. The plaque reads: “This trophy of freedom was donated to the City of Seattle in January 1991 after it was exhibited on Capitol Hill during the celebrations of German unification on 3 October 1990.” Sources: - [Seattle, WA – Seattle Center — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/seattle-wa/): The Achim Becker donation, the Potsdamer Platz origin, the plaque text and the Bloody Erich title. - [Seattle, WA — Food Court Berlin Wall — Roadside America](https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/72427): Dimensions and the segment's position in the food hall. - [Public Art](https://www.seattlecenter.com/explore/arts/public-art): Seattle Center's own page: a three-ton portion of the Wall donated by the German businessman Achim Becker in 1990, now in the Armory Food Hall, 12.5 feet tall and 4 feet wide, from Potsdamer Platz and Checkpoint Charlie. - [A Piece Of The Wall Is For Seattle Center](https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19901003/1096440/a-piece-of-the-wall-is-for-seattle-center): Reporting on 3 October 1990 that the Hamburg businessman Achim Becker would donate the three-ton slab, nicknamed Bloody Erich, to Seattle Center, with its final site undecided. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-seattle/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Seattle%2C%20WA%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Seattle%20Center): 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. ### Laurel Hill Park, Secaucus - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/secaucus/secaucus-nj-laurel-hill-park - Place: Laurel Hill Park, Laurel Hill Road, Secaucus, New Jersey, United States - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display in the open air); evidence: Documented - Position: 40.76131, -74.08789 A four-section piece given to Hudson County in 2007 by its German sister county and installed in the park in June 2025, after more than ten years of looking for a place for it. A concrete section of the Wall stands at the top of the amphitheatre in Laurel Hill Park, with a Cold War mural behind it. Hudson County's executive, Craig Guy, unveiled it on 2 June 2025. It weighs 26,156 lb and stands 11 ft 9 in tall, made of four sections each 3 ft 10 in wide, held together by a masonry coping. Visit Hudson, the county's visitor site, notes minimal graffiti and signs of bullet holes and weathering, and believes the piece stood on the eastern side. It came to the county in 2007 as a gift from its sister county, Oberhavel, just north of Berlin, arranged by Oberhavel's county executive Karl-Heinz Schröter and Hudson County's director of cultural affairs Bill LaRosa, and then waited for a site. Patch says the county had looked for one for more than a decade, and credits the gift to the city of Brandenburg; Visit Hudson and HudPost say Oberhavel, which is followed here. The Berlin Wall Archive lists four segments in Jersey City, and The Wall Net describes four segments given in 2007 under a partnership with Oranienburg, the seat of Oberhavel, with a memorial planned at Hudsonside in Jersey City that was not built. The count, the year and the German donor all match the Hudson County account, and nothing read puts any other section of the Wall in Jersey City, so that listing is very probably this piece. None of the sources about the Secaucus installation mentions Jersey City, though, so the two records are kept apart. Provenance: Given to Hudson County in 2007 by its sister county, Oberhavel in Brandenburg. The Wall Net adds that the pieces came from Klaus Grunske, whose recycling firm demolished the Wall in the northern part of Berlin in 1990. Sources: - [Hudson County Berlin Wall — Visit Hudson](https://www.visithudson.org/things-to-do/attractions/hudson-county-berlin-wall/): The section in Laurel Hill Park, Secaucus, was a gift from the sister county of Oberhavel obtained in 2007 through Karl-Heinz Schröter and Bill LaRosa; it is 11 ft 9 in tall in four sections each 3 ft 10 in wide, with minimal graffiti and signs of bullet holes and weathering, and was installed after a search of more than ten years. - [Berlin Wall Comes to Hudson County — HudPost, 4 June 2025](https://hudpost.com/berlin-wall-comes-to-hudson-county/): The section of more than 26,000 lb was unveiled in Laurel Hill Park on 2 June 2025 by County Executive Craig Guy; it was a gift from Oberhavel in 2007. - [A piece of the Berlin Wall is permanently installed in Laurel Hill Park — Patch, 4 June 2025](https://patch.com/new-jersey/secaucus/piece-berlin-wall-permanently-installed-laurel-hill-park): The 26,156 lb section is at the top of the amphitheatre in Laurel Hill Park with a Cold War mural behind it; the county had looked for a place to show it for more than a decade; Patch credits the 2007 gift to the city of Brandenburg. - [Jersey City, NJ — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/jersey-city-nj/): Four segments given in 2007 under a partnership with Oranienburg, supplied by Klaus Grunske, with a memorial planned at Hudsonside, Jersey City, that had not been realised. ### Berlin Wall — Simi Valley - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/simi-valley/berlin-wall-simi-valley-f191 - Place: Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, 40 Presidential Drive, Simi Valley, California, United States - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 34.259289088521, -118.81896687565 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #191 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #391. A 6,338 lb panel Reagan welcomed himself in 1991 — painted with a butterfly on one face, bare grey concrete on the other. A panel weighing 6,338 lb and standing about nine and a half feet high sits on the west side of the library entrance. It arrived in April 1991, seven months before the library opened, and Reagan welcomed it in person. The display works because of the two faces: one carries colour, including a butterfly painted before 1989, and the other is unadorned grey. Nobody could reach the eastern face to paint it. That contrast is the whole argument of the site, made without a label — and it is also the same fact the CIA is careful about at Langley, where the sections keep their Berlin orientation. Provenance: Received by the library in April 1991. The painted face has since been restored by artists, which puts this record alongside Fort Knox and Portland, Maine in the small group where the concrete is original and the surface has been worked on afterwards. Here the restoration is documented rather than silent. Sources: - [Butterfly reborn: Berlin Wall panel gets face-lift at Reagan Library — Simi Valley Acorn](https://www.simivalleyacorn.com/articles/butterfly-reborn-berlin-wall-panel-gets-face-lift-at-reagan-library/): The panel's weight and height, the April 1991 arrival, the butterfly, the plain eastern face and the later restoration. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-simi-valley/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Simi%20Valley%2C%20CA): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Spartanburg - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/spartanburg/berlin-wall-spartanburg-f217 - Place: Menzel Inc., off Business Interstate 85, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 34.970296643846, -81.994670454235 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #217 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #398. Two slabs on a factory lawn beside a South Carolina interstate, shipped over in 1991 hidden in a consignment of machinery. Two slabs more than twelve feet tall, marked with green and blue graffiti, stand on the front lawn of Menzel Inc., the oldest foreign-owned manufacturing company in South Carolina. The company added two flagpoles flying the German and American flags, and two plaques carrying quotations from John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. They are easily visible from Business Interstate 85, which makes this one of the most-seen and least-visited records in the catalogue. Provenance: Sent to the Spartanburg plant in 1991 with the help of a partner company in Germany, carried over in a shipment of machinery. Sources: - [German firm has Berlin Wall chunks in Spartanburg — The Washington Times](https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/19/german-firm-has-berlin-wall-chunks-in-spartanburg/): The two slabs, their height and graffiti, the 1991 machinery shipment, the flagpoles and the Kennedy and Reagan plaques. - [Spartanburg, SC — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/spartanburg-sc/): Site record for the Menzel segments. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-spartanburg/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Spartanburg%2C%20SC): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Stanford - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/stanford/berlin-wall-stanford-f192 - Place: Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States - Classification: Fragment; can it be seen today: On display (On display in the exhibition pavilion); evidence: Documented - Position: 37.427638476907, -122.16697768625 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #192. A fragment in the exhibition pavilion of an archive founded to collect the First World War, bought from the group that held the American sales rights. The Hoover Institution on the Stanford campus was set up in 1919 by the future president Herbert Hoover as an archive of First World War documents, and grew into one of the largest American collections on the political, social and economic upheavals of the twentieth century. Several small fragments of the Berlin Wall have gone into its German holdings. A larger one, now shown in the institution's exhibition pavilion, was bought in the early 1990s from the Berlin Wall Commemorative Group — the New Jersey company that had taken on the sale of the Wall in the United States for the East German government, and which also supplied the Grand Rapids, Hoover Library and Lyndhurst records in this catalogue. The record is short because the source is. What it establishes is that a piece of the Wall entered a research archive as a document rather than a monument, which is a different reason for keeping it than almost anything else here. Provenance: Bought in the early 1990s from the Berlin Wall Commemorative Group, which handled the sale of wall segments in the United States for the GDR government. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-stanford/): The founding and scope of the Hoover Institution, the small fragments of the Berlin Wall in its German holdings, and the larger fragment in the exhibition pavilion bought in the early 1990s from the Berlin Wall Commemorative Group. - [Hoover Archives Acquires Its Third Piece Of The Berlin Wall](https://www.hoover.org/news/hoover-archives-acquires-its-third-piece-berlin-wall): The Hoover Institution Library & Archives says the first of its three pieces of the Wall is on permanent display in the Herbert Hoover Memorial Exhibit Pavilion, the second is in the Radio Free Europe collection, and the third came as a gift in January 2016. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-stanford/): 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. ### Stony Point, NY - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/stony-point/stony-point-ny-a405 - Place: Stony Point Justice Court, Stony Point, New York, United States - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 41.2295386, -73.9870847 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #405. A section outside a town justice court in the Hudson Valley. The court is that of Stony Point, a town of about fifteen thousand on the Hudson. Like the Chicago railway station and the Spartanburg factory lawn, it is a piece of the Wall standing in front of an ordinary civic building that has no particular connection to it — which is most of what happened to the 45,000 elements, once the museums and capitals had taken theirs. The Town Board's minutes of 22 April 2014 confirm the piece on the grounds in front of the Justice Court, and record its approval of an Eagle Scout project there: a walkway, inscribed bricks, benches and a poster on the history of the Wall. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A section of the wall outside the Stony Point Justice Court. - [stony point town board meeting - april 22, 2014](https://www.stonypointny.gov/userfiles/file/4-22-14%20TB%20minutes(1).pdf): At the Town Board meeting of 22 April 2014 an Eagle Scout proposed improvements around the piece of the Berlin Wall on the grounds in front of the Justice Court building: a walkway, inscribed bricks, benches, shrubs and a poster on the Wall's history; the Board agreed. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Stony%20Point%2C%20NY): 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. ### Suwanee, GA - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/suwanee/suwanee-ga-a414 - Place: Town Center Park, Suwanee, Georgia, United States - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 34.0514898, -84.0712997 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #414. A segment in the town centre park of a small Georgia city. A segment in the town centre park at Suwanee, a city of about twenty thousand north-east of Atlanta. Georgia now accounts for three records in this catalogue — this one, the Atlanta International School and the sections in Freedom Park at Fort Eisenhower — which is more than most countries. A local magazine reported in August 2018 that the owners of Friends Suwanee Grill had bought it at a 2013 auction, shown it outside the restaurant, and given it to the city as public art. Sources: - [Berlin Wall segment, Suwanee, GA May 2021.jpg — Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABerlin_Wall_segment%2C_Suwanee%2C_GA_May_2021.jpg): A Berlin Wall segment at Suwanee, Georgia, photographed in May 2021 and released under CC0. - [Berlin Wall Art Piece Returns to Suwanee Town Center Park](https://suwaneemagazine.com/berlin-wall-art-piece-returns-to-suwanee-town-center-park/): A 12-foot, 7,000-pound authenticated section bought at a 2013 Town Center Stage auction by Ray Stanjevich and Suzanne Cartwright of Friends Suwanee Grill, shown outside their restaurant, then given to the city as public art and returned to Town Center Park in August 2018. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Suwanee%2C%20GA): 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. ### Syracuse, NY - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/syracuse/syracuse-ny-a416 - Place: Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science and Technology, Armory Square, Syracuse, New York, United States - Classification: Former Location; can it be seen today: Moved (Moved in 2026 to Le Moyne College); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 43.04703, -76.15534 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #416. A section that stood behind the science museum in Armory Square until it was moved to Le Moyne College in August 2026. The section stood behind the Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science and Technology, along its rear wall near West Jefferson Street. WRVO reported in 2014 that it had been in Syracuse since about 1990, obtained for the museum by BettyAnn Kram, a founding board member who had ties with a German company; WAER reported in 2015 that a peace garden had been created around it that year, funded by anonymous donors. Like the Cosmosphere and the Seattle food hall, it was a segment kept by an institution whose subject is not history, which is the commonest quiet fate of the pieces that went to the United States. On 28 August 2026 Le Moyne College announced that the section had arrived on its campus from the museum and now stands in front of Reilly Hall, next to Curtis Terrace, with a bronze plaque and landscaping to follow and a blessing ceremony planned. This record is kept as the former site. WRVO also reported smaller fragments inside the museum’s IMAX lobby in 2014, and whether they remain was not established. Provenance: Obtained in about 1990 for the museum by its founding board member BettyAnn Kram, who had ties with a German company. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A section behind the Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science and Technology in Armory Square. - [Section of Berlin Wall Arrives on Campus — Le Moyne College](https://www.lemoyne.edu/news/section-of-berlin-wall-arrives-on-campus/): 28 August 2026: a section of the Berlin Wall has arrived at Le Moyne College from the Museum of Science and Technology in downtown Syracuse and stands in front of Reilly Hall, next to Curtis Terrace, with a bronze plaque and landscaping to follow. - [Piece of history hides out in Syracuse’s Armory Square — WRVO Public Media](https://www.wrvo.org/regional-coverage/2014-11-12/piece-of-history-hides-out-in-syracuses-armory-square): November 2014: a 12-foot concrete slab along the rear wall of the museum, in Syracuse since about 1990, obtained through BettyAnn Kram, a founding board member who had ties with a German company; further fragments were reported inside the museum’s IMAX lobby. - [Peace Garden Behind the MoST Now Showcases Piece of German History — WAER](https://www.waer.org/arts-culture/2015-08-11/peace-garden-behind-the-most-now-showcases-piece-of-german-history): August 2015: the 12-foot sections behind the museum, obtained around 1989–90 through a colleague at a German company, with a peace garden created around them in 2015. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Syracuse%2C%20NY): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Washington D.C. - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/washington-d-c/berlin-wall-washington-d-c-f231 - Place: Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington D.C., United States - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 38.893952057863, -77.030770862234 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #231. A Daimler-Benz gift for the opening of the federal building named after Reagan — from the border at the Brandenburg Gate, its paint sprayed two days after the crossing opened. The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center is a very large object in a prominent place, on Pennsylvania Avenue between the White House and the Capitol. Its construction was decided during Reagan's presidency in 1987; Congress voted by a wide margin in 1995 to name it after him, and it opened on 5 May 1998 after eight years of building. It now houses federal agencies and international companies. Daimler-Benz gave a segment of the Berlin Wall as an opening present. The slab came from the former border at the Brandenburg Gate, and according to the panel beside it the coloured graffiti on it were sprayed on 11 November 1989 — two days after the crossing opened, which dates the paint to the week the object stopped working. The panel sets out the division of Berlin into sectors, the building of the Wall in 1961 to stop people leaving, Reagan's demand at the Brandenburg Gate in June 1987 that Gorbachev tear it down, and the opening two and a half years later. It is signed from the employees of Daimler-Benz and the citizens of Berlin. Washington holds more records with a Reagan connection than any other city — this building, the CIA monument at Langley, and further afield the Simi Valley library, Eureka College and the San Bernardino park — which makes the capital a good place to notice how completely the object has been absorbed into one national story about who ended the Cold War. This record was written here before the catalogue's own listing for the site had been read. A record was created for the building, and the Federal Foundation's entry for an unnamed Washington listing turns out to describe the same lobby, 110 metres away. The editorially created duplicate has been retired and the content moved onto the imported record, as with Truro and Bible Hill. Provenance: An opening gift from Daimler-Benz AG when the building was inaugurated on 5 May 1998; from the former border at the Brandenburg Gate, with graffiti sprayed on 11 November 1989. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A section of wall displayed in the lobby at 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-washington-d-c-2/): The building's history from the 1987 decision to the opening on 5 May 1998 and the 1995 congressional vote on the name, the segment given by Daimler-Benz as an inauguration present, its origin at the border by the Brandenburg Gate, the dating of the graffiti to 11 November 1989, and the text of the information panel. - [BERLIN WALL](https://rrbitc.com/berlin-wall/): The Ronald Reagan Building's operator says the segment was donated by the citizens of Berlin and the employees of Daimler-Benz, comes from an inner-city section near the Brandenburg Gate, and stands at the Woodrow Wilson Plaza entrance, over nine feet high and nearly three tons. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-washington-d-c-2/): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Washington D.C. - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/washington-d-c/berlin-wall-washington-d-c-f230 - Place: National Museum of American Diplomacy, Harry S. Truman Building, Washington D.C., United States - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: Restricted access (On permanent loan; on display at the museum entrance); evidence: Documented - Position: 38.894459929733, -77.048380704661 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #230 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #221. Twenty-seven signatures — Bush, Kohl, Gorbachev, Wałęsa, Merkel, Genscher — collected on one segment as it toured Europe, and lent to the State Department in 2015. The Signature Segment stands at the entrance of the National Museum of American Diplomacy, in the Harry S. Truman Building that houses the State Department, and has done since 2015. It carries the signatures of twenty-seven people who contributed in one way or another to the fall of the Wall or to German reunification. The first three were collected on 30 October 2009: George H. W. Bush, Helmut Kohl and Mikhail Gorbachev. Weeks later the Leipzig energy company VNG bought the segment at a televised charity gala, and its chairman Klaus-Ewald Holst tied it to 9 October 1989, when tens of thousands marched in Leipzig. The painting suited that: the Leipzig artist Michael Fischer-Art had covered it with scenes of the Peaceful Revolution and the words *Wir sind das Volk*. VNG then sent it on what it called an educational journey for democracy and freedom across Europe, and the signatures accumulated as it went. At the Leipzig book fair in 2010 the Leipzig pastor Christoph Wonneberger and Lech Wałęsa signed it. In Chemnitz the theologian Christoph Magirius added his name; in Munich the former Leipzig pastor Stephan Bickhardt, who spoke of the people who died at the Wall; in Essen Horst Teltschik, Kohl's adviser through the unification negotiations; in Stavanger in Norway, Hans-Dietrich Genscher. Angela Merkel signed, as did Rudolf Seiters, the last GDR prime minister Lothar de Maizière, the American secretary of state James A. Baker III, and Brent Scowcroft, who had advised President Bush through reunification. It was meant to end up in Leipzig. In 2014 VNG offered it instead to the Atlantic Council in recognition of its work on the transatlantic relationship; the council sent it for the twenty-fifth anniversary to the German embassy in Washington, where it was first displayed, and in 2015 it went to what was then called the Diplomacy Center. It remains VNG's property, on permanent loan. On 7 October 2015 the secretary of state John Kerry formally accepted it on the museum's behalf from the German president Joachim Gauck — who had signed it himself in October 2010, as a former East German civil rights campaigner and the first federal commissioner for the Stasi records. This is one of three Washington listings that carried nothing but the city name and could not be told apart. Its coordinates fall on the Truman Building, and the Foundation's entry for it describes this segment. Provenance: Bought by the Leipzig company VNG at a charity gala in 2009, painted by Michael Fischer-Art, signed by twenty-seven participants in the events of 1989 and 1990 during a European tour, offered to the Atlantic Council in 2014 and placed on permanent loan with the museum in 2015. It remains VNG property. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-washington-d-c/): The Signature Segment at the National Museum of American Diplomacy since 2015, the twenty-seven signatures beginning with Bush, Kohl and Gorbachev on 30 October 2009, VNG's purchase at the charity gala and Klaus-Ewald Holst's remarks, Michael Fischer-Art's painting, the European tour and the signatories at Leipzig, Chemnitz, Munich, Essen and Stavanger, the later signatures of Merkel, Seiters, de Maizière, Baker and Scowcroft, the 2014 offer to the Atlantic Council and the display at the German embassy, the permanent loan arrangement, and John Kerry's acceptance from Joachim Gauck on 7 October 2015. - [After 25 Years, Germans Present the Berlin Wall’s ‘Signature Segment’ to Atlantic Council and Washington](https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/germans-present-berlin-wall-segment-to-washington/): The three-ton segment bears the autographs of more than twenty figures including Gorbachev, George H. W. Bush, Kohl, Wałęsa, Masur and James Baker; it had been shown in Germany, Norway and Belgium, and its owner, Verbundnetz Gas of Leipzig, presented it to the Atlantic Council for Washington in 2014. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-washington-d-c/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Leipzig%2FWashington): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Washington D.C. - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/washington-d-c/berlin-wall-washington-d-c-f232 - Place: Former Johns Hopkins SAIS campus, Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington D.C., United States - Classification: Former Location; can it be seen today: Moved (Moved with the school to 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in 2023); evidence: Documented - Position: 38.907951629293, -77.037752991861 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #232. The courtyard where the SAIS segment stood from 1997 to 2023, chosen in a Berlin storage yard for a graffito its buyer misread as the German for free. Jack Janes, who directed German studies at the School of Advanced International Studies, went to Berlin in the summer of 1994 to buy his school a piece of the Wall. The Berlin Senate was willing to help, but there were no small fragments left — only complete segments — and the conference room he had in mind could not take two and a half tonnes. He went to look at what the Senate held in reserve anyway, and picked a segment because he could see a graffito on it beginning FR. He was confident it would read *frei*, the German for free, which would have been about as symbolic as an object can be. Back in Washington, examined properly, *frei* turned out to be *Fred*. Getting it there was harder than choosing it. Transport and installation had to be paid for; the dean, Paul Wolfowitz, later president of the World Bank, backed the project, as did Ted Baker of the university administration, and it was still too expensive. The university asked the Bundeswehr to carry it. Nothing was heard for a long time, until years later Janes took a call from the German military attaché telling him the segment had arrived at an air force base in Virginia. It was dedicated on 5 November 1997, four days before the eighth anniversary of the opening of the border. It stood in the courtyard on Massachusetts Avenue for a quarter of a century. In 2023 it moved with the school to 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW — the building that used to be the Newseum — where it stands in the atrium; this catalogue holds a separate record for it there. This record documents the place it left, which is why it is classified as a former location rather than duplicating the object. The two records were written from opposite ends: the current one from the university's own account of the move, this one from the Federal Foundation's entry, which was written while the segment was still here and preserves how it was bought. Provenance: Chosen by Jack Janes from the Berlin Senate's reserve stock in the summer of 1994, flown to Virginia by the Bundeswehr, and dedicated on 5 November 1997. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-washington-d-c-3/): Jack Janes's 1994 trip to Berlin and the Senate's support, the absence of small fragments and the weight problem, his choice of a segment for the FR graffito that proved to read Fred, the support of Paul Wolfowitz and Ted Baker, the request to the Bundeswehr and its eventual delivery to an air force base in Virginia, and the dedication on 5 November 1997. - [A new home for a piece of history — Johns Hopkins University Hub](https://hub.jhu.edu/2023/09/27/berlin-wall-fragment-new-home/): The segment's quarter-century in the courtyard on Massachusetts Avenue and its move to 555 Pennsylvania Avenue in 2023. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-washington-d-c-3/): 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. ### Johns Hopkins SAIS, Hopkins Bloomberg Center - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/washington-d-c/washington-dc-johns-hopkins-sais - Place: Hopkins Bloomberg Center, 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington D.C., United States - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: Restricted access (On display in the atrium); evidence: Documented - Position: 38.8945, -77.0193 A 7,000 lb fragment given by the Berlin Senate in 1997 — which moved in 2023 into the building that used to be the Newseum. A fragment 11 feet 10 inches high and weighing nearly 7,000 lb, given to the School of Advanced International Studies by the Berlin Senate and dedicated in 1997 by the German foreign minister Klaus Kinkel. It stood for a quarter of a century in the courtyard of the Nitze Building on Massachusetts Avenue, and in 2023 it moved with the school to 555 Pennsylvania Avenue, where it stands in the seven-storey atrium. That address is the point. 555 Pennsylvania Avenue was the Newseum, which until it closed on 31 December 2019 held the largest stretch of the Wall outside Germany — eight twelve-foot segments and a three-storey guard tower — and which put them into storage in Maryland when it shut. The building lost the largest collection in the country and then acquired a different piece of the same wall, carried in by its new tenant. Of everything in this catalogue, it is the neatest accident. Provenance: A gift from the Berlin Senate acknowledging the part SAIS and the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies played in post-war German-American relations. Its passage to Washington took years of planning and a German naval vessel to carry it. Sources: - [A new home for a piece of history — Johns Hopkins University Hub](https://hub.jhu.edu/2023/09/27/berlin-wall-fragment-new-home/): The 1997 Berlin Senate gift, the dimensions and weight, the dedication by Klaus Kinkel, the naval transport, and the 2023 move to 555 Pennsylvania Avenue. - [Our new home at 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW — Johns Hopkins SAIS](https://sais.jhu.edu/555-pennsylvania-avenue): The school's own account of the former Newseum building and the wall section visible in the atrium. ### The Newseum — eight segments and the BT-9 tower - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/washington-d-c/washington-dc-newseum - Place: Formerly 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington D.C., United States - Classification: Former Location; can it be seen today: In storage (In storage in Maryland since 2020); evidence: Documented - Position: 38.8933, -77.019 The largest stretch of Wall outside Germany — eight segments and a guard tower — held here until the museum closed on the last day of 2019, and now in storage in Maryland. The Newseum's eight segments were intact and twelve feet tall, and stood there until it closed on 31 December 2019, shown with a BT-9 guard tower — the type that stood over the death strip, and the same type preserved at the Günter Litfin memorial in Berlin. The segments had previously stood at Freedom Park in Rosslyn, Virginia. When the museum shut, objects it owned went into an art storage facility at an undisclosed location in Maryland, pending loans elsewhere; items on loan went back to their lenders. The Freedom Forum had sold the building to Johns Hopkins University for $372.5 million. This record is kept because an atlas whose subject is objects that move should treat a closure as an event rather than a correction: the largest collection in the country did not disappear, it went into a warehouse, and where it went is one of the more useful things this project can say. Provenance: Previously displayed at Freedom Park, Rosslyn, Virginia, before the Newseum acquired them. Ownership passed with the collection into storage. Sources: - [As the Newseum closes its doors, pieces of history and human remains to find a new resting place — The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/as-the-newseum-closes-its-doors-pieces-of-history-and-human-remains-to-find-a-new-resting-place/2019/12/31/b76d8cae-2bf6-11ea-bcd4-24597950008f_story.html): Eight intact twelve-foot sections and the BT-9 tower moved to an art storage facility in Maryland after the 31 December 2019 closure. - [Why the Berlin Wall Still Matters — Foreign Policy](https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/12/20/berlin-wall-still-matters-newseum-closure-exhibit/): The scale of the Newseum holding and its significance as the largest outside Germany. ### Berlin Wall — West Branch - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/west-branch/berlin-wall-west-branch-f181 - Place: Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum, West Branch, Iowa, United States - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display at the end of the exhibition); evidence: Documented - Position: 41.669306696603, -91.34775367159 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #181. A slab of the inner wall bought because four other presidential libraries had one — for the president whose food programmes fed German children twice. Herbert Hoover's connection to Germany is the reason this record exists. He organised food supplies for the Allied front when the United States entered the First World War, and afterwards ran the American Food Administration, which into the early 1920s also fed a starving German population. Elected president at the height of the Depression in 1929 and out of office in 1933, he returned to Germany in 1946 at the government's request to report on conditions, and what he found led to the Hoover school meals introduced across the western occupation zones in April 1947, which saved hundreds of thousands of children from malnutrition. He went back for the last time in December 1954 and was received warmly; in a speech in Bonn, in the library's own translation, he prayed that Germany might be given back the unity and complete freedom it needed. He died in 1964 and is buried at West Branch in Iowa, where his presidential library stands. The library was thoroughly renovated after 1989. Four other presidential libraries — Kennedy's, Ford's, Reagan's and Nixon's — had by then secured a piece of the Wall as what the Foundation calls a victory trophy of the Cold War, and the director, Richard Norton Smith, went after one as well, on the strength of Hoover's services to Germany. There was no room for a complete segment, so a small slab of the Hinterlandmauer was bought from the Berlin Wall Commemorative Group. It carries a landscape in green and red under white clouds, by an unknown hand, and was delivered on 2 April 1992. It now stands in a metal frame at the end of the exhibition on Hoover's life, with a line beside it: Herbert Hoover did not live to see the Berlin Wall crumble but he never doubted the ultimate triumph of freedom. Provenance: A slab of the Hinterlandmauer bought from the Berlin Wall Commemorative Group by the library's director Richard Norton Smith and delivered on 2 April 1992. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-west-branch/): Hoover's food relief work in Germany after both world wars and the Hoover school meals of April 1947, his 1954 visit and the quoted Bonn speech supplied by the library, his burial at West Branch, the renovation of the library after 1989, the wall pieces already held by the Kennedy, Ford, Reagan and Nixon libraries, Richard Norton Smith's purchase of a Hinterlandmauer slab from the Berlin Wall Commemorative Group, its delivery on 2 April 1992, its painting, and the text displayed beside it. - [Words and a Wall: Remembering the fall of the Berlin Wall](https://hoover.blogs.archives.gov/2019/11/20/words-and-a-wall-remembering-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall): A National Archives blog says pieces of the Wall were offered to the presidential libraries it runs, and that the Hoover Library displays its piece in the gallery on Hoover's post-war humanitarian work. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-west-branch/): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Wichita - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/wichita/berlin-wall-wichita-f195 - Place: Museum of World Treasures, 835 East First Street North, Wichita, Kansas, United States - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On loan and on display); evidence: Documented - Position: 37.687210373798, -97.327977901348 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #195. A twelve-foot, four-and-a-half-ton section owned by the archive of America's overseas schools and given by the alumni of Berlin American High School. A section twelve feet high and weighing four and a half tons stands on the museum's first floor, within an exhibit titled All Are Not Free. The museum does not own it: it is on long-term loan from the American Overseas Schools Historical Society, whose archives are also in Wichita. The provenance is the unusual part — the segment was given to that society by the Berlin BRATs, the alumni association of Berlin American High School, the school for the children of the American garrison in the divided city. It is one of the few records in this catalogue where the donors are people who grew up beside the Wall. Provenance: Donated to the American Overseas Schools Historical Society by the Berlin BRATs, the Berlin American High School alumni group, and received on 1 August 2005. Loaned to the Museum of World Treasures, which displays it. Sources: - [Berlin Wall — American Overseas Schools Historical Society](https://aoshs.org/collections/berlin-wall/): The owner's own record: a 12 ft, 4½ ton section donated by the Berlin BRATs, arriving 1 August 2005, now at the Museum of World Treasures. - [Berlin Wall — Museum of World Treasures](https://worldtreasures.org/exhibits/berlin-wall): The museum's own record of the loan from AOSHS and the All Are Not Free exhibit. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-wichita/): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Yorba Linda - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/yorba-linda/berlin-wall-yorba-linda-f193 - Place: Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, 18001 Yorba Linda Boulevard, Yorba Linda, California, United States - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 33.889442178629, -117.81933610826 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #193. A twelve-foot section in the museum of the president who opened relations with Moscow and Beijing, displayed beside a German flag. The argument the site makes is about détente rather than the fall: Nixon's presidency is remembered here for opening relations with Moscow and Beijing, and the segment is used as the endpoint of a policy rather than as the rubble of an event. It is one of four American presidential libraries in this catalogue holding a piece, alongside Kennedy, Ford and Bush. The Nixon Foundation dates the gift to 1992, from Carl and Margaret Karcher, and its visitor guide places the segment in the museum's Cold War exhibit. Provenance: Donated to the library's permanent collection in 1992 by Carl and Margaret Karcher. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A segment of the Berlin Wall on display at the Richard Nixon Library, comparable in size to the Reagan Library's. - [Business Leader, Nixon Friend Carl Karcher Dies at 90](https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2008/01/business-leader-nixon-friend-carl-karcher-dies-at-90/): The Nixon Foundation records that in 1992 Carl and Margaret Karcher donated an authentic 12-foot-high section of the Berlin Wall to the library's permanent collection, shown in the Structure of Peace gallery. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-yorba-linda/): 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. ## France ### Angers, F – Esplanade du Gaumont - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/france/angers/angers-f-esplanade-du-gaumont-a13 - Place: Forecourt of the Pathé cinema, formerly the Gaumont, Angers, France - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 47.479734067855, -0.55075424658972 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #1439 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #12 and #13. A Potsdamer Platz element released during the building of the Sony Center, wrapped in a thousand loudspeakers you could telephone, then set outside a cinema. Angers has one segment and two catalogue records naming different cinemas, which is explained by the object having been in two places. Sony and the City of Berlin gave it to the town in 2011; it had been part of the border installation at Potsdamer Platz and was released during the construction of the Sony Center. It was first used at the Accroche-Cœurs street arts festival, where the artist Benoît Maubrey built it into a participatory sound sculpture called The Speakers Wall — Le Mur Sonore: a wall of about a thousand recycled loudspeakers, radios and amplifiers enclosing the Berlin element, playing calls from anyone who rang a published number, who then had three minutes to talk to the Wall. The artist counted more than 900 calls. After the festival the mayor, Frédéric Béatse, had the segment installed in 2012 on the forecourt of the Pathé cinema, which used to be the Gaumont — hence both names in the catalogue. Provenance: A gift from Sony and the City of Berlin in 2011, from the border installation at Potsdamer Platz, released during construction of the Sony Center. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-angers/): The 2011 gift from Sony and the City of Berlin, the Potsdamer Platz origin and Sony Center construction, Benoît Maubrey's Speakers Wall at Accroche-Cœurs, and the 2012 installation outside the Pathé cinema, formerly the Gaumont, by Mayor Frédéric Béatse. - [Speakers Wall – Benoît Maubrey](https://benoitmaubrey.com/seakers-wall/): The artist's own account: Le Mur Sonore, an electroacoustic sculpture built around an original segment of the Berlin Wall with 1,000 recycled loudspeakers, radios and amplifiers for the Accroche-Cœurs festival in Angers in September 2011; callers could talk through it for three minutes, and more than 900 calls were registered. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-angers/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Angers%2C%20F): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Angers%2C%20F%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Esplanade%20du%20Gaumont): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Caen - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/france/caen/berlin-wall-caen-f112 - Place: Mémorial de Caen, Esplanade Général Eisenhower, Caen, France - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 49.1978383, -0.38374300338645 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #112 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #68. Two sections in the peace museum's Cold War wing, shown with the pipe that ran along the top to defeat grappling hooks. Two sections stand in the Cold War and peace wing that Jacques Chirac opened in 2002, in a room built around them with film and objects about life before and after the opening. The museum uses them to teach the structure rather than the symbolism: at the top of the 3.60 m element runs the smooth cement pipe, fitted so that a grappling hook or a pair of hands would find nothing to hold. Most records in this catalogue show the painted face; this one explains why the painted face was the only one anybody could reach. Provenance: The museum also holds a small piece collected by a city team in 1989, the day after the border opened — among the earliest documented acquisitions in the catalogue. Sources: - [Berlin at the heart of the Cold War — Mémorial de Caen](https://www.memorial-caen.com/museum/cold-war/berlin-heart-cold-war/): The museum's own account of the two sections, the 3.60 m height and the anti-climbing pipe. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-caen/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Caen%2C%20F): 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. ### Domaine de Luchin, LOSC training ground - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/france/camphin-en-pevele/camphin-en-pevele-domaine-de-luchin - Place: Domaine de Luchin, Camphin-en-Pévèle, Hauts-de-France, France - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: Restricted access (Reported in place); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 50.5976, 3.24612 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #223. A segment inside a football club's training ground, painted by C215 with a portrait of Eden Hazard. The ground is the Domaine de Luchin, the training ground of Lille OSC, and the artist is the French stencil artist C215 — Christian Guémy. The portrait is of the footballer Eden Hazard, who came through Lille and left for Chelsea in 2012. The club unveiled the piece on 11 January 2016: nearly four metres high, 1.15 metres wide and over two tonnes, with Hazard on one face and, on the other, one of Thierry Noir's figures, of the kind he painted on the Wall itself in the 1980s. It opened a year of cultural projects at Luchin that became the ART LIBERTÉ exhibition. In March 2024, when Hazard came back to Lille and the club named a pitch after him, the segment was moved to stand beside the new Terrain Eden Hazard. The club's announcement dates the fragment to 1961. Nothing else read here supports that, so the date is left out. It is the only record in this catalogue where the painted subject is a living sportsman, and one of very few where named artists worked on an element specifically for its new owner rather than for Berlin. The Berlin Wall Archive lists the segment under Lille, with a pin at the city's centre some fourteen kilometres away; its title follows the Wall Net's entry 'Lille, F', which places the one segment at the Domaine de Luchin with C215's Hazard on one face and Noir on the other, so that listing is carried on this page. Provenance: Installed at the Domaine de Luchin and painted by C215 and Thierry Noir in January 2016; moved within the grounds to the Terrain Eden Hazard in March 2024. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A segment decorated with a graffiti portrait of Eden Hazard by C215, inside the Domaine de Luchin at Camphin-en-Pévèle near Lille. - [Histoire et Street Art s’invitent au Domaine de Luchin — LOSC](https://www.losc.fr/actualites-foot-lille/histoire-et-street-art-s%E2%80%99invitent-au-domaine-de-luchin): A fragment nearly four metres high, 1.15 metres wide and over two tonnes installed at the Domaine de Luchin on 11 January 2016, painted by C215 with a portrait of Eden Hazard and by Thierry Noir with one of his characters, as the start of a year of cultural projects; the club dates the fragment to 1961. - [Inauguration du terrain Eden Hazard au Domaine de Luchin — LOSC](https://www.losc.fr/actualites/2024-03-06/inauguration-du-terrain-eden-hazard-au-domaine-de-luchin): The piece of the Berlin Wall painted in 2016 in honour of Eden Hazard as part of the ART LIBERTÉ exhibition was moved to beside the new Terrain Eden Hazard, inaugurated in March 2024. - [Lille, F — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/lille-f/): The entry whose title the Berlin Wall Archive's Lille listing follows: one segment at the Domaine de Luchin, Lille OSC's training ground, with a portrait of Eden Hazard by C215 on one side and a mural by Thierry Noir on the other. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Lille%2C%20F): 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. ### Colombes, F – Institution Jeanne d’Arc Colombes - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/france/colombes/colombes-f-institution-jeanne-d-arc-colombes-a84 - Place: Institution Jeanne-d'Arc, Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine, France - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: Restricted access (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 48.9255, 2.25202 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #113 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #84. Two segments a class of sixteen-year-olds bought themselves, after reading in a German newspaper that a building-materials firm in Teltow was selling them. Two segments were unveiled outside the Catholic school Institution Jeanne-d'Arc on 26 May 2015, in front of representatives of the German and Polish embassies in Paris, the mayor of Colombes Nicole Goueta, and Nicole Fontaine, a former President of the European Parliament. The pupils arranged it. In November 2014 a year-eleven German class read in a German newspaper that pieces of the Wall could be bought from the building-materials firm Klösters at Teltow, outside Berlin, and decided to mount what they called a peace action: they ran a painting competition in the school and raised the money to buy the two elements and bring them to France. It is the only record in this catalogue procured by schoolchildren out of their own fundraising — and it puts a name to one of the commercial routes the elements took, which is otherwise hard to document. The archive inventory lists the same school separately, so two records describe these segments. In May 2026 the school's own report of its Franco-German memorial day still described the two segments standing in its park, and credited the project, begun in 2015, to a former German teacher, M. Belleuvre, and his pupils. Provenance: Bought from the building-materials firm Klösters in Teltow, near Berlin, with money raised by pupils of the school in 2014–15. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-colombes/): The unveiling on 26 May 2015 and those present, the year-eleven class reading of Klösters in Teltow in a German newspaper in November 2014, the painting competition and the fundraising. - [Journée mémorielle : amitié franco-allemande et devoir de mémoire — Institution Jeanne d'Arc, Colombes](https://jeanne-darc-colombes.com/v2/journee-memorielle-amitie-franco-allemande-et-devoir-de-memoire/): Two sections of the Berlin Wall installed in the park of the Institution, a project begun in 2015 by M. Belleuvre, a former German teacher, with his pupils; published 12 May 2026. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-colombes/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Colombes%2C%20F%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Institution%20Jeanne%20d%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%B4Arc%20Colombes): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Deauville - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/france/deauville/berlin-wall-deauville-f114 - Place: A private estate near Deauville, Normandy, France - Classification: Private / Limited Access; can it be seen today: Restricted access (In place since 1993; the paint has weathered away); evidence: Listed - Position: 49.233988670352, 0.28026412373132 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #114 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #94. Bought by a German industrialist who had stood at Checkpoint Charlie in 1961 when the tanks faced each other. The rain has since washed the graffiti off. An original piece has stood since 1993 in the garden of an estate near Deauville belonging to Hans-Olaf Henkel, the industrialist and former president of the Federation of German Industries. It arrived covered in graffiti, and the Normandy rain has taken the paint off over the years — one of the few records in this catalogue where the surface has simply gone, without anybody repainting or restoring it. Henkel's reason for buying it is unusually direct. He was at Checkpoint Charlie in the autumn of 1961, weeks after the border was closed, when American and Soviet tanks stood muzzle to muzzle across the line; he lived in the divided city in 1962 and 1963 and began his career at IBM in Lankwitz, in the western sector. Most private owners in this catalogue are unexplained. This one watched it go up. Provenance: Bought by Hans-Olaf Henkel after the border opened in 1989 and installed at his Normandy property in 1993. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-deauville/): The piece in Henkel's garden since 1993, the graffiti washed off by rain, his presence at Checkpoint Charlie during the 1961 tank confrontation, and his years in West Berlin at IBM in Lankwitz. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-deauville/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Deauville%2C%20F): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Gonfreville-l’Orcher - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/france/gonfreville-l-orcher/berlin-wall-gonfreville-l-orcher-f1442 - Place: Nelson Mandela Promenade, Avenue du Chemin Vert, Gonfreville-l'Orcher, Seine-Maritime, France - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 49.50250780625, 0.22663704175059 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #1442 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #147. A segment laid on its side rather than stood upright, painted by schoolchildren from the East German town that has been twinned with this one since 1966. The segment on the Nelson Mandela Promenade at Gonfreville-l'Orcher, near Le Havre, does not stand. It has been tipped on its side and laid crosswise on a concrete block, which is a deliberate and unusual choice: almost every other record in this catalogue keeps the object upright, in the posture it had when it worked. It is painted with a peace slogan and with German and French flags, the work of five pupils from the youth art school of Teltow together with the artist Hans-Jürgen Brauer. Teltow, on the south-western edge of Berlin, offered the segment to its French twin in 2015. The two towns had been paired since 1966, in the GDR period, and the partnership turned fifty on the day the segment was inaugurated, 4 September 2016. The unveiling was folded into the town's annual commemoration of its liberation from German occupation, with the mayors of both towns present — Jean-Paul Lecoq for Gonfreville-l'Orcher and Thomas Schmidt for Teltow. Teltow recurs in this catalogue more than any place outside Berlin itself. The building materials firms whose yards there held the surviving elements supplied the segments that went to Colombes, to Uijeongbu in South Korea, and here — the town where the leftovers of the border were stored became, by default, its distribution point. Provenance: Offered by the twin town of Teltow in 2015 and inaugurated on 4 September 2016; painted by five pupils of the Teltow youth art school with the artist Hans-Jürgen Brauer. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-gonfreville-lorcher/): The segment laid on its side on a concrete block on the Nelson Mandela Promenade, its painting by five Teltow art school pupils with Hans-Jürgen Brauer, Teltow's 2015 offer, the fiftieth anniversary of the twinning on the inauguration day of 4 September 2016, the liberation commemoration, and the attendance of mayors Jean-Paul Lecoq and Thomas Schmidt. - [Gonfreville l'Orcher (76) : un morceau du mur de Berlin offert par la ville jumelle allemande](https://france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/normandie/gonfreville-l-orcher-76-un-morceau-du-mur-de-berlin-offert-par-la-ville-jumelle-allemande-1079633.html): France 3 Normandie, 6 September 2016: an authentic section of the Wall, decorated by an artist, given by the twin town of Teltow and installed on the Mandela promenade on 4 September. - [Magazine d'informations municipales de Gonfreville l'Orcher, n° 381, mai 2018](https://www.gonfreville-l-orcher.fr/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/actualit%C3%A9s-mai-2018.pdf): The town's own magazine: a procession on 6 April 2018 stopped beside the section of the Berlin Wall at the end of the Promenade Nelson-Mandela. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-gonfreville-lorcher/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Gonfreville%20l%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%B4Orcher%2C%20F): 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. ### Gournay-en-Bray, F - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/france/gournay-en-bray/gournay-en-bray-f-a149 - Place: Industrial zone, Gournay-en-Bray, Seine-Maritime, France - Classification: Private / Limited Access; can it be seen today: Restricted access (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 49.4824794, 1.7241534 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #149. Three damaged concrete panels on the grass inside the gate of a concrete-additives factory in Normandy, saved from being scrapped when the plant changed hands. Three reinforced-concrete panels covered in graffiti lie on the grass a few metres inside the entrance of a factory in the industrial zone at Gournay-en-Bray. France Télévisions' franceinfo reported on 8 November 2019 that a French business owner had brought a section back in 1989 hoping to put it in a museum, that it was forgotten until the factory was resold in 2000, and that the new management very nearly threw it out until the director bought it back for a symbolic euro. A German lorry driver, it adds, once recognised the panels as he drove past. ICI, the France Bleu network, named the factory in November 2023: it is Sika's, a maker of concrete additives, and the three panels, which it calls a triptych, had been recovered by Pierre Conso, head of Ciments Français, at the fall of the Wall and kept at that firm's old plant at Guerville, near Mantes-la-Jolie. Sika bought the plant in 2013 and an employee and a colleague then carried them to Gournay. ICI says they can be seen from outside the perimeter fence, with no plaque, and that the employee, Thierry Guillotin, takes visitors to them on guided visits. The two reports tell the story from different ends and do not contradict each other, but neither says where in Berlin the panels stood. Provenance: Recovered in 1989 by Pierre Conso of Ciments Français and kept at the firm's plant at Guerville; moved to Gournay-en-Bray after Sika bought the plant in 2013. Sources: - [Mur de Berlin : des vestiges exposés en Seine-Maritime — franceinfo](https://www.franceinfo.fr/monde/europe/allemagne/chute-du-mur-de-berlin/mur-de-berlin-des-vestiges-exposes-en-seine-maritime_3694595.html): 8 November 2019: three reinforced-concrete panels displayed behind the gates of an industrial site at Gournay-en-Bray; a French business owner brought them back in 1989, they were forgotten until the factory was resold in 2000 and nearly became waste before the director bought them back for a symbolic euro. - [Gournay-en-Bray abrite trois pans du mur de Berlin — ICI](https://www.ici.fr/infos/insolite/gournay-en-bray-abrite-trois-pans-du-mur-de-berlin-3955524): 9 November 2023: three panels stand on the grass at the Sika factory in Gournay-en-Bray, recovered by Pierre Conso of Ciments Français at the fall of the Wall, kept at Guerville until Sika bought that plant in 2013; visible from outside the fence, with no plaque, and shown on guided visits. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Gournay-en-Bray%2C%20F): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Jarnac - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/france/jarnac/berlin-wall-jarnac-f115 - Place: A private estate near Jarnac, Charente, France - Classification: Private / Limited Access; can it be seen today: Restricted access (In the tea house on the estate); evidence: Listed - Position: 45.686602353818, -0.1959386177935 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #115 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #190. Lot 81, the last piece in the Monaco catalogue, bought by a cognac heiress — and repainted years later by the artist, on camera, because the weather had ruined it. At the Monaco auction of 1990 the buyer was Ljiljana Hennessy, a former actress and heiress of the Hennessy cognac house. The fragment is 1.85 metres high, from Waldemarstraße, and carries certificate number 263. The catalogue attributed the red heart on it to Thierry Noir, which is wrong — it is a Kiddy Citny. The mistake was corrected in the most direct way available. In a 2009 documentary by Elke Sasse and Stefan Pannen, funded by the Federal Foundation and titled with the same question this atlas asks, Citny is filmed at the Hennessy estate near Cognac renewing his own painting. The segment had spent time outdoors and wind and rain had worn the picture badly; it is now back in the tea house on the estate. Hennessy says in the film that the fall of the Wall and the end of communist rule in central and eastern Europe meant something personal to her: in Yugoslavia, where she came from, much of life was governed by a comparable unfreedom until 1990. Provenance: Lot 81 of the 1990 Monaco auction, a 1.85 metre fragment from Waldemarstraße with certificate number 263, painted by Kiddy Citny and repainted by him at the estate for a 2009 documentary. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-jarnac/): Ljiljana Hennessy's purchase of lot 81 at the Monaco auction, the 1.85 metre Waldemarstraße fragment with certificate number 263, the catalogue's misattribution to Thierry Noir and the correct attribution to Kiddy Citny, Citny repainting it on camera for the 2009 Sasse and Pannen documentary, its weathering outdoors and return to the estate tea house, and Hennessy's account of what 1989 meant to her. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-jarnac/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Jarnac%2C%20F): 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. ### Marseille, F - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/france/marseille/marseille-f-a248 - Place: Mucem, 7 Promenade Robert Laffont, Marseille, France - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: Unknown (In the museum's collections; whether it is on show is not stated); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 43.29694, 5.36114 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #248. A gift from the Berlin Senate to Marseille's museum of Mediterranean civilisations, with no word from the museum on whether it is shown. The Mucem holds a section of the Wall. The museum's own question-and-answer page, written by the curator Frédéric Mougenot, asks what a piece of the Berlin Wall is doing in its collections, and answers that the section was donated to the Mucem by the Senate of the City of Berlin. It belongs to the third phase of the Wall, the Grenzmauer 75 decided in 1974, built of prefabricated blocks 3.6 metres high with an integrated base 1.2 metres wide, and on its west face artists painted works of protest against the restriction of freedom of movement. The page places the gift in the wider story of the divided city but does not say where in Berlin the section stood, when it was given, or whether it is on show. Another page of the museum says its collections are kept in the Conservation and Resource Centre, which can be visited on a tour once a month by reservation. Wikipedia's list says it is on display in the Gallery of the Mediterranean. Nothing the museum says in the passages read here confirms that, so the record does not claim it. Provenance: Donated to the Mucem by the Senate of the City of Berlin; the year is not given. Sources: - [Frequently asked questions — Mucem](https://mucem.org/en/questions-frequentes/): The museum's FAQ: a section of the Berlin Wall, part of the Grenzmauer 75 phase (3.6 m prefabricated blocks with a 1.2 m base), was donated to the Mucem by the Senate of the City of Berlin; answer by curator Frédéric Mougenot. The same page says all the collections are housed in the Conservation and Resource Centre, which offers monthly tours by reservation. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Marseille%2C%20F): 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. ### Paris, F – Esplanade du 9 nov. - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/france/paris/paris-f-esplanade-du-9-nov-a320 - Place: Esplanade du 9-Novembre-1989, Place de la Porte de Versailles, 15th arrondissement, Paris, France - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 48.832409878731, 2.2876051305451 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #117 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #320. A segment from Potsdamer Platz on a square Paris renamed for the date the Wall opened, two years before the segment arrived. A section stands on the central median of the Place de la Porte de Versailles. The square was named the Esplanade du 9-Novembre-1989 by order of the Paris city council on 18 January 2007 — the name came first, and the object arrived two years later, which is the reverse of the usual sequence in this catalogue. It was inaugurated in 2009 for the twentieth anniversary by the mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, and the governing mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit. The arrondissement's town hall confirms that the section is still the focus of its commemoration each 9 November. The Foundation's entry differs from the Wikipedia account on two points: it gives the segment's origin as the Senate's remaining stock at Berlin-Marzahn rather than Potsdamer Platz, and the inauguration as 9 November 2009 rather than 29 June. Provenance: Supplied by the Berlin Senate for the twentieth anniversary of the opening; recorded as from Potsdamer Platz by one account and from the Senate's stock at Berlin-Marzahn by the Foundation. Sources: - [Esplanade du 9-Novembre-1989 — Wikipédia](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esplanade_du_9-Novembre-1989): The 2007 naming by the city council, the 2009 inauguration by Delanoë and Wowereit, and the Potsdamer Platz origin. - [Where to find the Berlin Wall in Paris — French Moments](https://frenchmoments.eu/berlin-wall-in-paris/): The three Paris sites and their positions. - [Le 9 mai, célébrons l'Europe - Mairie du 15ᵉ](https://mairie15.paris.fr/pages/le-9-mai-celebrons-l-europe-21078): The 15th arrondissement's town hall, on its own site: every 9 November it marks the anniversary of the fall of the Wall with an exhibition at the mairie and a wreath-laying and concert on the esplanade du 9 novembre 1989 at the Porte de Versailles, in front of a section of the Berlin Wall. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-paris/): The Foundation's own entry for this listing: the segment near the entrance to the exhibition grounds at the Porte de Versailles, on the renamed esplanade, proposed by the mayor of the 15th arrondissement in 2003, the square renamed by the city in December 2006, the segment supplied by the Berlin Senate through the city partnership from its remaining stock at Berlin-Marzahn, transported in late 2008 and inaugurated on 9 November 2009. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-paris/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Paris%2C%20F%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Esplanade%20du%209%20nov.): 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. ### Paris, F – Maison de la Radio - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/france/paris/berlin-wall-paris-f118 - Place: Maison de la Radio, avenue du Président-Kennedy, 16th arrondissement, Paris, France - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: Restricted access (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 48.852704961217, 2.2800400985546 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #118 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #321. A segment Deutschlandradio gave its French counterpart in November 2009, now on the Seine side of the Maison de la Radio. The Maison de la Radio's segment is one of the few in this catalogue given by one broadcaster to another, and the only record here where the donor is a radio station — which is apt, since radio was the medium that crossed the border most easily while the Wall stood. The gift followed Radio France fait le Mur, twenty-four hours of live broadcasting that Radio France made from Berlin on 9 November 2009, the twentieth anniversary of the opening. Deutschlandradio's president, Willi Steul, then gave Radio France the section; it was delivered on 18 November and inaugurated the next day, alongside a photographic exhibition in the building's Galerie Seine. Since the renovation of the Maison de la Radio it has stood on the Seine side, beside the path from the RER C station to the main entrance. Provenance: A gift from Deutschlandradio, presented by its president Willi Steul to Radio France; delivered on 18 November 2009 and inaugurated on 19 November. Sources: - [Esplanade du 9-Novembre-1989 — Wikipédia](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esplanade_du_9-Novembre-1989): A section offered by Deutschlandradio in the gardens of the Maison de la Radio since 2009. - [Fragment du Mur de Berlin à la Maison de la radio](https://www.radiofrance.com/actualite/fragment-du-mur-de-berlin-la-maison-de-la-radio): Radio France's own account: after its twenty-four hours of live broadcasting from Berlin on 9 November 2009, Deutschlandradio's president Willi Steul gave Radio France a concrete section of the Wall, delivered on 18 November and inaugurated on 19 November 2009; after the building's renovation it was placed on the Seine side, by the path from the RER C to the main entrance. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-paris-3/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Paris%2C%20F%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Maison%20de%20la%20Radio): 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. ### Paris, F – Place de Coupole - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/france/paris/paris-f-place-de-coupole-a322 - Place: Place de la Coupole, La Défense, Paris, France - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 48.891853078537, 2.2419945306821 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #116 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #322. A segment standing among the towers of the business district, the least commemorative of the three Paris sites. A segment stands at La Défense, on the Place de la Coupole among the office towers. Paris holds three documented sites — this one, the Esplanade du 9-Novembre-1989 at the Porte de Versailles, and the Maison de la Radio — and they are usefully different in register: a business district, a renamed public square and a broadcaster's garden. Sources: - [Trente ans après sa chute, La Défense a conservé un morceau du Mur de Berlin — Defense-92](https://www.defense-92.fr/arts/trente-ans-apres-sa-chute-la-defense-a-conserve-un-morceau-du-mur-de-berlin-62453): The segment's presence and position at La Défense. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-paris-2/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Paris%2C%20F%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Place%20de%20Coupole): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Saumur - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/france/saumur/berlin-wall-saumur-f119 - Place: Musée des Blindés, 1043 route de Fontevraud, Saumur, France - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Listed - Position: 47.243757266209, -0.071722408087074 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #119 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #371. A segment in the Cold War room of the French army's tank museum. The Musée des Blindés is the French army's armour museum, and one of the largest tank collections in the world. As at Langelandsfort in Denmark and the Patton Museum at Fort Knox, the segment is shown among the machinery of the confrontation rather than among civic symbols — a reading of the Wall as equipment. The Foundation's entry, citing the museum, gives its route: a farewell gift from Berlin to the 11e Régiment de Chasseurs in 1994, when the French forces left the city, brought to Saumur after the French units in Germany were wound up in 1999. Provenance: By the Foundation's account, given by the city of Berlin to the 11e Régiment de Chasseurs on the withdrawal of the French forces from Berlin in 1994, and brought to Saumur after the units in Germany were disbanded in 1999. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A segment displayed in the Cold War room at the Musée des Blindés. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-saumur/): The Foundation's own entry for this listing: an original segment in the hall of Warsaw Pact vehicles, given by the city of Berlin to the 11e Régiment de Chasseurs in 1994 as thanks for forty-five years of French presence in West Berlin, when the French forces withdrew, and brought to the Saumur museum with other commemorative objects after the French units in Germany were disbanded in 1999, according to the museum's management. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-saumur/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Saumur%2C%20F): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Strasbourg - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/france/strasbourg/berlin-wall-strasbourg-f120 - Place: European Court of Human Rights, Allée des Droits de l'Homme, Strasbourg, France - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 48.5954486, 7.7741365 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #120 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #407. Four segments painted by Thierry Noir: one the GDR gave in 1990 for a planned human rights palace, three bought after the Monaco auction failed to sell them. They were raised outside the court in 1997. Four segments — recorded as numbers 125 to 128, about 4 m across and 3.60 m high — stand in the grounds of the European Court of Human Rights. They carry work by Thierry Noir, among the first artists to paint the Wall while it stood. Siting them at the court that hears human rights cases against forty-something states is an argument about what the Wall was: not a Cold War curiosity but a rights violation with a building full of lawyers now attached to it. Provenance: One segment was given in 1990 by the German Democratic Republic, at the request of the Council of Europe's secretary general, for a planned Palace of Human Rights in Strasbourg; three more were bought from the East German trading company Limex after failing to sell at the Monaco auction of June 1990. All four were kept in store until 1997, when they were erected in front of the court. Along with the three segments Lothar de Maizière handed over at Koblenz, the first is one of very few gifts in this catalogue made by the East German state itself rather than by Berlin after unification. Sources: - [Strasbourg, F — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/strasbourg-f/): Segments 125 to 128 from Kreuzberg: one requested from the GDR for a planned Palace of Human Rights in Strasbourg, three bought by the city from Limex after the Monte Carlo auction; the dimensions, Noir's painting and the 1997 erection. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-strassburg/): The request made in February 1990 by the Council of Europe's secretary general, Catherine Lalumière, for a Wall element for a planned Palace of Human Rights; the GDR Council of Ministers' approval of the gift in March 1990; the purchase of three more segments from Limex after they failed to sell at the Monaco auction of June 1990; their storage, and their erection in front of the Court in 1997, standing as they had in Kreuzberg. - [Le mur de Berlin est (en partie) à Strasbourg — Cotad](https://www.cotad.com/strasbourg/le-mur-de-berlin-est-en-partie-a-strasbourg/): 26 November 2019: four segments of the Berlin Wall stand in the gardens of the European Court of Human Rights in the Wacken district, painted by Thierry Noir; the architect Richard Rogers had tried to bring them inside the Palais des Droits de l'Homme. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-strassburg/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Strasbourg%2C%20F): 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. ### Tavaux, F - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/france/tavaux/tavaux-f-a420 - Place: Place des Droits de l'Homme, Tavaux, Jura, France - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display in the open air); evidence: Documented - Position: 47.0371, 5.40338 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #420. One element of the Wall installed in 2018 in a Jura industrial town, the most visible mark of its twinning with Friesenheim in Baden-Württemberg. The town of Tavaux, in the Jura, has been twinned with Friesenheim in Baden-Württemberg since June 1991, and its official page on the twinning lists what the exchange has produced. The most spectacular, it says, is an element of the Berlin Wall installed in 2018 on the Place des Droits de l'Homme; a caption on the same page says it was inaugurated in November 2018. The page says nothing else about the piece: not where in Berlin it stood, how it reached the Jura, how large it is, or who gave it. Wikipedia's French list of segments puts it on a roundabout of the same name. The town's page is the only source read. Sources: - [Jumelage — Site officiel de Tavaux](http://www.ville-tavaux.fr/jumelage.html): The town's own page on its twinning with Friesenheim: the most spectacular achievement is the element of the Berlin Wall installed in 2018 on the Place des Droits de l'Homme; a caption records an element of the Wall inaugurated in November 2018. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Tavaux%2C%20F): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Verdun - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/france/verdun/berlin-wall-verdun-f121 - Place: Centre Mondial de la Paix, Place Monseigneur Ginisty, Verdun, France - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 49.159401021277, 5.3814338154069 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #121. A Potsdamer Platz element in the gardens of Verdun's episcopal palace, given by Berlin and unveiled in 2014. An element 3.65 m high and 1.2 m wide stands in the eighteenth-century gardens of the episcopal palace at Verdun, which houses the Centre Mondial de la Paix. It was inaugurated on 17 March 2014 and the garden path is free to walk. Verdun is the site of the longest battle of the First World War and the place where Mitterrand and Kohl held hands in 1984; putting a piece of the German border there makes the segment an argument about Franco-German reconciliation rather than about communism, which is a reading almost no other record in this catalogue offers. Provenance: A gift from the city of Berlin. In November 1989 the element stood at Potsdamer Platz. Sources: - [Un fragment du Mur de Berlin offert au Centre Mondial de la Paix de Verdun — France 3 Grand Est](https://france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/grand-est/2014/03/17/un-fragment-du-mur-de-berlin-offert-au-centre-mondial-de-la-paix-de-verdun-55-434601.html): The dimensions, the gift from the city of Berlin, the Potsdamer Platz origin and the inauguration on 17 March 2014. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-verdun/): 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. ## Belgium ### Berlin Wall — Brussels - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/belgium/brussels/berlin-wall-brussels-f98 - Place: Mini-Europe, Bruparck, at the Atomium, Brussels, Belgium - Classification: Reconstructed; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 50.8465573, 4.351697 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #98. A model of the Wall beside a model Brandenburg Gate at the miniature park below the Atomium — filed by the Foundation as a reproduction, while the park's own guide says an authentic segment is shown as well. This record is, in the first instance, a model, and the catalogue should say so plainly. At Mini-Europe, the miniature park at the foot of the Atomium, a scale Brandenburg Gate stands between a scale Holstentor from Kiel and a scale Speyer cathedral, with a model of the Wall in front of it. People sit and walk on the model wall unbothered by border guards; behind it, model demolition machinery and low-loaders have begun carting the thing away. Even the Brezhnev–Honecker kiss is reproduced, although that graffito was painted on the East Side Gallery rather than here. The Foundation files it under a URL that begins „Nachbildung“ — reproduction — and that is what the model is. The park's own visitor guide, though, asks twice whether the visitor has „noticed the authentic segment of the Berlin Wall presented at Mini-Europe“, once under its Brandenburg Gate and again under the Wall itself, and its website offers the pleasure of knocking down a section of the model Wall by push-button. Whether a genuine element stands in the park beside the model, where it came from, and whether the Foundation's entry overlooked it or the guide overstates, is not established here. Both readings are kept, and the park is the one to ask. It is included because the inventories include it, and because a catalogue of where the Wall went is more useful if it also says where the Wall only appears to be — or might, after all, be. Provenance: Filed by the Foundation as a reproduction, with no original material recorded; the park's own guide says an authentic segment is presented at Mini-Europe, without saying where it came from. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/nachbildung-der-berliner-mauer-in-bruessel/): The miniature reproduction at Mini-Europe: a model Brandenburg Gate with a model wall, figures walking on it, demolition machinery behind, and a copy of the Brezhnev–Honecker graffito. - [A fascinating journey around Europe — Mini-Europe visitor guide](https://www.minieurope.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/EN_Catalogue-2022.pdf): The park's own guide: the Brandenburg Gate entry says the gate was part of the Berlin Wall after the war and asks „Did you notice the authentic segment of the Berlin Wall presented at Mini-Europe?“; the Berlin Wall entry asks the same of „the real segment“; the foreword cites the animation of the fall of the Wall. - [The park — Mini-Europe](https://www.minieurope.com/en/the-park/): The park's own description of its interactive animations, among them „Destroy a section of the Berlin wall“. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/nachbildung-der-berliner-mauer-in-bruessel/): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Brussels - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/belgium/brussels/berlin-wall-brussels-f1458 - Place: Visitor entrance to the plenary chamber, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display in protective cases); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 50.839250693152, 4.3762121330627 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #1458. Two segments collected from elsewhere in Brussels in 2021 and put under glass beside the plenary chamber entrance — conservation rather than display. The cubes are a pair, at the visitor entrance to the European Parliament. Both segments had stood elsewhere in Brussels beforehand and were gathered here in 2021 under a project to protect and preserve them, run jointly by the Belgian state, the Brussels-Capital Region and the Parliament. One of them is the element that came from Potsdamer Platz and spent years in Parc Léopold; the other was shown in the exhibition on the Place du Luxembourg for the twentieth anniversary in 2009 and bought by the Belgian state afterwards. This is the only record in the catalogue where segments have been enclosed expressly to stop them deteriorating. Everywhere else the object stands in the weather as it did in Berlin, and the paint goes the way paint goes. Putting the Wall in a vitrine is a decision about what it has become: not a structure any more but an artefact. Provenance: Assembled in 2021 from other Brussels locations: the Potsdamer Platz element given by the city of Berlin and shown in Parc Léopold from April 2004, and an element from the 2009 Place du Luxembourg exhibition acquired by the Belgian State. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-bruessel-4/): The 2021 installation of two segments in glass cubes at the Parliament's plenary entrance, the conservation project behind it, the Potsdamer Platz / Parc Léopold origin of one of them, and the other's origin in the 2009 Place du Luxembourg exhibition, after which the Belgian state bought it. - [Berlin Wall | Visiting | European Parliament](https://visiting.europarl.europa.eu/en/visitor-offer/brussels/berlin-wall): The Parliament's own visitor page: two original segments beside the visitors' entrance to the Hemicycle, the first donated by the city of Berlin from Potsdamer Platz and presented in Leopold Park on 22 April 2004, the second part of the 2009 exhibition on Place du Luxembourg and acquired by the Belgian State afterwards; both relocated here in 2021 under a protection project of the Belgian State, the Brussels-Capital Region and the Parliament. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-bruessel-4/): 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. ### Brussels, B – Elia Group - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/belgium/brussels/brussels-b-elia-group-a54 - Place: Elia Monnoyer site, by the Docks Bruxsel shopping centre, Brussels, Belgium - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 50.880772893814, 4.3802831568102 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #1445 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #54. Bought at a charity auction at the BRAFA art fair in 2020 and unveiled that September at the grid operator's engineering site by the canal, with a former President of the European Council present. A segment stands in view of the public at the Monnoyer site of Elia, the Belgian transmission system operator: its engineering department by the canal, near the Docks Bruxsel shopping centre, which the press of the day places in Schaerbeek. The Wikipedia list's Boulevard Reyers is not where the reports or the Foundation's pin put it. It was unveiled on 7 September 2020 in the presence of Herman Van Rompuy, the former President of the European Council, and Martin Kotthaus, the German ambassador to Belgium. Its route here is one the catalogue has not seen elsewhere. It is one of five segments sold at a charity auction at BRAFA, the Brussels art and antiques fair, at the beginning of 2020 — thirty years after the trade of 1990, and a reminder that elements are still changing hands at auction rather than only being given by governments. The press coverage adds the measurements and the money: a piece 3.6 m high and 1.2 m wide, part of the Hinterlandmauer — the inner wall on the East Berlin side of the border strip — bought for about €55,000, all of it to the cancer charity Kom op tegen Kanker. Van Rompuy unveiled it with Elia's chief executive Chris Peeters and read a haiku for the occasion: stones remain, but walls do not last; people bring them down. Provenance: Bought by the Elia Group at a charity auction of five segments held at the BRAFA art and antiques fair in Brussels in early 2020. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A segment recorded at the Elia Group headquarters. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-bruessel-3/): The Elia Group segment, the unveiling on 7 September 2020 with Van Rompuy and Ambassador Kotthaus, and its purchase at the BRAFA charity auction of five segments in early 2020. - [Stuk Berlijnse muur komt naar Brussel en brengt 55.000 euro op voor Kom Op Tegen Kanker — VRT NWS](https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2020/09/07/stuk-berlijnse-muur-brussel/): On 7 September 2020 Elia unveiled a segment about 3.6 m high and 1.2 m wide at its engineering department in Schaerbeek, bought for about €55,000 at the BRAFA charity auction of five segments, the proceeds going to Kom op tegen Kanker; Herman Van Rompuy unveiled it with Elia's chief executive Chris Peeters. - [Elia haalt stuk Berlijnse Muur naar Brussel — BRUZZ](https://www.bruzz.be/samenleving/elia-haalt-stuk-berlijnse-muur-naar-brussel-2020-09-07): The segment was placed on Elia's Monnoyer site, the engineering department near the Docks shopping centre; it was part of the Hinterlandmauer in Berlin, was bought at BRAFA in early 2020 where five fragments were auctioned, and was unveiled with a haiku by Herman Van Rompuy. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-bruessel-3/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Brussels%2C%20B%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Elia%20Group): 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. ### Brussels, B – European Commission - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/belgium/brussels/berlin-wall-brussels-f99 - Place: Esplanade of the Berlaymont, Rue de la Loi 200, Brussels, Belgium - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 50.843268761147, 4.3818846979606 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #99 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #55. The „Kennedy piece“ — a segment carrying a portrait of John F. Kennedy — inaugurated as a permanent exhibit on the Commission's esplanade on 9 November 2015. The segment on the esplanade of the Berlaymont, the Commission's headquarters, is the one the Commission calls the Kennedy piece, after the portrait of the former American president painted on it. The Commission's Daily News of 6 November 2015 announced its inauguration as a permanent exhibit for Monday 9 November, by the Vice-President Kristalina Georgieva, Commissioner Günther Oettinger and Wolfgang Schäuble, the German finance minister, to mark both the fall of the Wall and twenty-five years of German reunification — „a symbol of an enlarged and united Europe“. Where it had been before, and who gave it, the announcement does not say. The Federal Foundation's entry for the Parliament's glass cubes does: it was one of the elements shown on the Place du Luxembourg for the twentieth anniversary in 2009, and the Commission bought it after the exhibition. This record was mis-described until October 2026. The Federal Foundation lists it as the Commission's piece and pins it at the Berlaymont, but the page had been written from a photograph of the Parliament's segment half a kilometre away, dated it to November 2014 and placed it „near the European Parliament“. That photograph and its date now sit on the Parliament's own record. Provenance: Inaugurated on the Berlaymont esplanade on 9 November 2015, by the Commission's own announcement; its earlier history and its donor are not stated there. Sources: - [Daily News 06 / 11 / 2015 — European Commission](https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/MEX_15_6020): The Commission's announcement that Vice-President Kristalina Georgieva, Commissioner Günther Oettinger and Wolfgang Schäuble would inaugurate the permanent exhibit of the „Kennedy piece“ of the Berlin Wall, named after the former US President whose portrait features on it, on the Berlaymont esplanade on Monday 9 November 2015, commemorating the fall of the Wall and the 25th anniversary of German reunification. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry (European Parliament)](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-bruessel-4/): The so-called Kennedy segment on the Berlaymont esplanade since 2015 came from the exhibition on the Place du Luxembourg for the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall in November 2009 and was bought by the European Commission. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/segment-der-berliner-mauer-in-bruessel/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Brussels%2C%20B%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20European%20Commission): 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. ### Brussels, B – European Parliament - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/belgium/brussels/brussels-b-european-parliament-a56 - Place: Esplanade Solidarność 1980, Brussels, Belgium - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 50.83923, 4.37608 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #56. A section in front of the Paul-Henri Spaak building, part of the densest cluster of institutional Wall segments in any capital outside Germany. The segment at the European Parliament is one of a group. Brussels holds the densest cluster of institutional segments in Europe — the European Commission, this Parliament site, NATO headquarters, Leopold Park, the Elia site by the canal, and a temporary exhibition on Place du Luxembourg. The European institutions have assembled, without ever planning to, the largest collection of Cold War border material in any capital outside Germany. A photograph of the section taken on 2 November 2015 records, in its description, that it was placed on display in November 2014 for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the opening. Nothing institutional has yet been read on who gave it or when it became permanent. Belgian reporting from November 2014 explains the display: for the twenty-fifth anniversary a panel left over from the 2009 Place du Luxembourg exhibition was moved to the Parliament's esplanade and unveiled on 12 November 2014 by Martin Schulz with the mayor of Ixelles, while another already stood at the visitors' entrance on rue Wiertz. The Parliament's own page now describes only two segments on its premises, both beside the Hemicycle entrance since 2021, so the section photographed here in 2015 is very probably one of the pair now under glass; nothing read here settles which. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): Site-by-site listing of the Brussels segments, with references. - [Section of the Berlin Wall near the European Parliament building in Brussels in November 2015.jpg — Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASection_of_the_Berlin_Wall_near_the_European_Parliament_building_in_Brussels_in_November_2015.jpg): A photograph of 2 November 2015, taken beside the Parliament, of the section near the European Parliament building, whose description records it as placed on display in November 2014 to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Wall. - [Stukje Berlijnse Muur verplaatst naar Esplanade Europees Parlement](https://www.bruzz.be/samenleving/stukje-berlijnse-muur-verplaatst-naar-esplanade-europees-parlement-2014-11-10): Bruzz, 10 November 2014: the piece of the Wall shown on Place du Luxembourg since 2009 was moved to the Parliament's esplanade and unveiled on 12 November 2014 with Martin Schulz and the mayor of Ixelles, Willy Decourty, and was to move again in December 2014 to Leopold Park by the Parliament's visitors' entrance, where another piece of the Wall already stood, the two forming a permanent memorial; the European Commission held a third. - [Le mur de Berlin oublié en plein coeur de Bruxelles](https://www.rtbf.be/info/regions/detail_le-mur-de-berlin-oublie-en-plein-coeur-de-bruxelles?id=8398506): RTBF, 10 November 2014: three panels remained in Brussels from the exhibition held on Place du Luxembourg five years earlier — one at the Parliament's visitors' entrance on rue Wiertz, one moved to the Parliament's esplanade, and one with a Kennedy portrait being restored by the European Commission for the Berlaymont esplanade. - [Berlin Wall | Visiting | European Parliament](https://visiting.europarl.europa.eu/en/visitor-offer/brussels/berlin-wall): The Parliament's own visitor page describes two original segments beside the visitors' entrance to the Hemicycle, relocated there in 2021: one from Potsdamer Platz given by the city of Berlin and shown in Leopold Park from 2004, the other from the 2009 Place du Luxembourg exhibition, acquired by the Belgian State. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Brussels%2C%20B%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20European%20Parliament): 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. ### Brussels, B – NATO HQ - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/belgium/brussels/brussels-b-nato-hq-a57 - Place: Boulevard Léopold III, Brussels, Belgium - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: Restricted access (On display inside the security perimeter); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 50.880449062254, 4.4278068896482 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #100 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #57. Two Grenzmauer 75 elements chosen by the German foreign ministry and carried to Brussels by the THW, unveiled by Stoltenberg, Trump and Merkel in 2017. Two original elements stand inside the security perimeter at NATO's headquarters on the Boulevard Léopold III, by the main visitor entrance, reachable only by registered visitors. They were unveiled on 25 May 2017, the day of the first summit held at the new headquarters, alongside a memorial made from the World Trade Center — the only time Article 5 has been invoked. Jens Stoltenberg, Donald Trump and Angela Merkel all spoke. The pair were deliberately chosen to be unlike each other. Both are Grenzmauer 75 elements — the Stützwandelement UL 12.41, the last and most familiar design — but they did different jobs. The one nearer the path, carrying a graffito of red hands, was part of the outer border wall facing West Berlin; the paint was probably applied before the border opened and was later chipped at by Mauerspechte. Its original position is not known. The THW's own account, given to the Foreign Office's magazine the day after the unveiling, fills in the logistics: a request from the Auswärtiges Amt in mid-March 2017 to move two sections from Berlin and set them up in front of the new headquarters, the installation in April, and 2.7 tonnes apiece. One of the two bears the letters GORB. Chancellor Merkel's speech at the dedication is on the federal government's site and Jens Stoltenberg's on NATO's; in November 2019 the Secretary General was back at the memorial with the German permanent representative for the thirtieth anniversary, calling the elements „these pieces of the Berlin Wall here at the entrance to the NATO headquarters“. Provenance: A gift from the Federal Republic of Germany. The elements were selected by the Auswärtiges Amt on the advice of the Berlin Wall Foundation, which asked for pieces both authentic in their physical condition and representative of 1989 and 1990, and were transported from Berlin and erected by the Technisches Hilfswerk. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): Two segments recorded at NATO headquarters from 2017. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-bruessel-2/): The 25 May 2017 unveiling and speakers, the German federal gift, the THW transport, the Auswärtiges Amt selection advised by the Berlin Wall Foundation, the Grenzmauer 75 / UL 12.41 type, and the outer-wall origin of the red-hands element. - [Remarks by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the dedication of the Berlin Wall Memorial — NATO](https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/opinions_144088.htm): NATO's own transcript of the dedication of the Berlin Wall Memorial at its headquarters on 25 May 2017, where everyone entering the building passes it. - [NATO commemorates 30th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall — NATO](https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_170536.htm): On 6 November 2019 Stoltenberg and the German permanent representative Hans-Dieter Lucas held a ceremony at the Berlin Wall Memorial, „these pieces of the Berlin Wall here at the entrance to the NATO Headquarters“. - [Rede von Bundeskanzlerin Merkel bei der Einweihung des Berliner Mauerdenkmals am neuen NATO-Hauptquartier am 25. Mai 2017 in Brüssel — Die Bundesregierung](https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/aktuelles/rede-von-bundeskanzlerin-merkel-bei-der-einweihung-des-berliner-mauerdenkmals-am-neuen-nato-hauptquartier-am-25-mai-2017-in-bruessel-795210): The donor government's record of Chancellor Merkel's speech inaugurating the Berlin Wall memorial at the new NATO headquarters on 25 May 2017. - [Brimming with history — deutschland.de](https://www.deutschland.de/en/topic/politics/brimming-with-history): The THW's account, published 26 May 2017: a request from the Federal Foreign Office in mid-March 2017 to move two sections of the Wall from Berlin and install them in front of the new NATO headquarters, the installation in April, 2.7 tonnes per section, and the letters GORB on one of them. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-bruessel-2/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Brussels%2C%20B%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20NATO%20HQ): 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. ### Brussels, B – Parc Leopold - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/belgium/brussels/brussels-b-parc-leopold-a58 - Place: Parc Léopold, Brussels, Belgium - Classification: Former Location; can it be seen today: Moved (Moved in 2021 to the European Parliament); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 50.83955, 4.37624 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #58. A segment that stood in Leopold Park behind the European Parliament until it was moved in 2021. The Leopold Park segment has not vanished: it is one of the two elements now standing in glass cubes beside the visitor entrance to the Parliament's plenary chamber, placed there under a conservation project run by the Belgian state, the Brussels-Capital Region and the Parliament. This element came originally from Potsdamer Platz. The record is kept rather than folded into the new one, because a catalogue holding one position and no history of positions will be wrong within a few years. The Parliament's own page dates the element's arrival: given by the city of Berlin and presented to the Brussels public in the park on 22 April 2004, a few days before ten new member states joined the Union. Bruzz reported in November 2014 that a second element, left over from the 2009 Place du Luxembourg exhibition, was to join it in the park that December by the Parliament's visitors' entrance. Provenance: Donated by the city of Berlin; from Potsdamer Platz; presented in Leopold Park on 22 April 2004. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): The Leopold Park segment and its removal in 2021. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-bruessel-4/): The two segments placed in glass cubes at the Parliament in 2021, one of them the Potsdamer Platz element that had stood in Parc Léopold. - [Berlin Wall | Visiting | European Parliament](https://visiting.europarl.europa.eu/en/visitor-offer/brussels/berlin-wall): The Parliament's own visitor page: the first of its two segments was donated by the city of Berlin, came from Potsdamer Platz and was presented to the Brussels public in Leopold Park on 22 April 2004, before the accession of ten new member states; it was relocated to the Hemicycle visitors' entrance in 2021 under a protection project of the Belgian State, the Brussels-Capital Region and the Parliament. - [Stukje Berlijnse Muur verplaatst naar Esplanade Europees Parlement](https://www.bruzz.be/samenleving/stukje-berlijnse-muur-verplaatst-naar-esplanade-europees-parlement-2014-11-10): Bruzz, 10 November 2014: the piece of the Wall shown on Place du Luxembourg since 2009 was moved to the Parliament's esplanade and unveiled on 12 November 2014 with Martin Schulz and the mayor of Ixelles, Willy Decourty, and was to move again in December 2014 to Leopold Park by the Parliament's visitors' entrance, where another piece of the Wall already stood, the two forming a permanent memorial; the European Commission held a third. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Brussels%2C%20B%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Parc%20Leopold): 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. ### Brussels, B – Place du Luxembourg - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/belgium/brussels/brussels-b-place-du-luxembourg-a59 - Place: Place du Luxembourg, Brussels, Belgium - Classification: Former Location; can it be seen today: Moved (Temporary exhibition, ended; one segment stayed and is now at the European Parliament); evidence: Documented - Position: 50.8391637, 4.3728234 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #59. Sixteen segments shown on Place du Luxembourg in 2009 for the twentieth anniversary — a temporary exhibition, not an installation. The record exists to document that the display happened, not to direct a visit. The occasion was the anniversary of the opening, and the display was temporary rather than permanent. Not all of it left. RTBF and Bruzz reported in November 2014 that three panels had stayed in Brussels after the exhibition: one remained on the square itself until 7 November 2014, when it was moved to the Parliament's esplanade and unveiled there on 12 November with Martin Schulz and the mayor of Ixelles; one stood at the Parliament's visitors' entrance on rue Wiertz; and one, with a portrait of Kennedy, was restored by the European Commission for the Berlaymont. The Parliament's own page now says the Place du Luxembourg element was acquired by the Belgian State and has stood in a protective case beside the Hemicycle entrance since 2021. Both the element in its case at the Parliament and the Kennedy piece at the Berlaymont have records of their own. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): Sixteen segments exhibited on Place du Luxembourg in 2009. - [Le mur de Berlin oublié en plein coeur de Bruxelles](https://www.rtbf.be/info/regions/detail_le-mur-de-berlin-oublie-en-plein-coeur-de-bruxelles?id=8398506): RTBF, 10 November 2014: three panels remained in Brussels from the exhibition held on Place du Luxembourg five years earlier — one at the Parliament's visitors' entrance on rue Wiertz, one moved to the Parliament's esplanade, and one with a Kennedy portrait being restored by the European Commission for the Berlaymont esplanade. - [Stukje Berlijnse Muur verplaatst naar Esplanade Europees Parlement](https://www.bruzz.be/samenleving/stukje-berlijnse-muur-verplaatst-naar-esplanade-europees-parlement-2014-11-10): Bruzz, 10 November 2014: the piece of the Wall shown on Place du Luxembourg since 2009 was moved to the Parliament's esplanade and unveiled on 12 November 2014 with Martin Schulz and the mayor of Ixelles, Willy Decourty, and was to move again in December 2014 to Leopold Park by the Parliament's visitors' entrance, where another piece of the Wall already stood, the two forming a permanent memorial; the European Commission held a third. - [Berlin Wall | Visiting | European Parliament](https://visiting.europarl.europa.eu/en/visitor-offer/brussels/berlin-wall): The Parliament's own visitor page: one of the two segments now beside the Hemicycle visitors' entrance was part of the 2009 exhibition on Place du Luxembourg for the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall and was acquired by the Belgian State afterwards; it was moved to its present place in 2021. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry (European Parliament)](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-bruessel-4/): One of the two segments placed in glass cubes at the European Parliament in 2021 was shown in the exhibition on the Place du Luxembourg for the twentieth anniversary in November 2009 and bought by the Belgian state afterwards; the Kennedy segment on the Berlaymont esplanade since 2015 came from the same exhibition and was bought by the European Commission. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Brussels%2C%20B%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Place%20du%20Luxembourg): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Casteau bei Mons - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/belgium/casteau-bei-mons/berlin-wall-casteau-bei-mons-f101 - Place: Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, Casteau, Mons, Belgium - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: Restricted access (Reported in place); evidence: Listed - Position: 50.5898746, 3.893619 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #101 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #267. A fragment given to NATO's European headquarters in 1990, set in front of the building that had planned Allied access to Berlin. A fragment stands beside an oak on the military site at SHAPE, NATO's European command, which moved from France to Belgium in 1967. It was placed in front of the former Live Oak building — and that is the detail worth having, because Live Oak was the tripartite contingency planning staff set up by Britain, France and the United States in 1959 to work out what the West would do if access to Berlin were cut. A piece of the Wall outside the office that spent thirty years planning for the Wall is about as close as this catalogue gets to an object being returned to sender. Provenance: Donated by the German federal government to SHAPE in 1990, recorded as a gesture of gratitude. Sources: - [Mons, B — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/mons-b/): The 1990 German federal donation to SHAPE and its position in front of the former Live Oak building. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-casteau-bei-mons/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Mons%2C%20B): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Gent - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/belgium/gent/berlin-wall-gent-f102 - Place: Gravensteen, Ghent, Belgium - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 51.057549602662, 3.7207316583073 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #102. Five pieces built into an Amnesty International monument at the castle of the counts, with stones from Robben Island. Five pieces of the Wall are built into a monument at the Gravensteen, the castle of the counts of Flanders, whose dungeons held prisoners between 1407 and 1708 and now house a torture museum. Three of the pieces are set into the monument's foundation and two are visible. The work was made by Amnesty International with the Honest Arts Movement and unveiled on 3 May 1996: an aluminium-rod sculpture with a human silhouette cut out of it, on a stepped grey base. It also carries small stones from Robben Island. The argument at this site is about imprisonment rather than division, and it is made across five centuries in one object — a medieval prison, a German border, and the island where Nelson Mandela spent eighteen years. At the dedication, Ghent schoolchildren wrote letters to political prisoners. The artist, who works as MaRf, describes the piece on his own site as a symbolic grave for everyone who „disappeared“ for an opinion or a belief, made at Amnesty International's request; he says fragments of the Wall were left in the plinth, and that stones from the quarry where Mandela did forced labour were set into one corner of it. He does not give a count, so the Foundation's five — three in the foundation, two visible — stands on the Foundation alone. Provenance: Designed by Freddy de Vos of Drongen, who works as MaRf; the wall pieces were given by a German colleague of the artist. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-gent/): Five pieces at the Gravensteen, three set into the foundation, the Amnesty International and Honest Arts Movement monument unveiled 3 May 1996, the artist Freddy de Vos, the German donor, and the Robben Island stones. - [Home of MaRf](https://www.marf.be/): The artist's own account of the Gedenkbeeld vermiste personen at the Gravensteen, made at Amnesty International's request as a symbolic grave for the disappeared, with fragments of the Berlin Wall left in the plinth and stones from the quarry where Mandela did forced labour set into a corner of it. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-gent/): 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. ### Kemmel, B - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/belgium/kemmel/kemmel-b-a196 - Place: Command Bunker Kemmel, Kemmelberg, Heuvelland, Belgium - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 50.7828552, 2.8258709 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #196. A segment outside the underground air-defence bunker Western Europe built in the 1950s, now a Cold War museum. 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. Provenance: 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. Sources: - [Kemmel, B — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/kemmel-b/): A segment outside the former NATO command bunker. - [Command Bunker Kemmel — Toerisme Heuvelland](https://www.toerismeheuvelland.be/en/command-bunker-kemmel): The bunker's construction between 1952 and 1956, its Belgian headquarters role from 1963, abandonment in 1995 and reopening as a museum in 2010. - [Heuvelland herdenkt de val van de Berlijnse muur — Focus-WTV](https://www.focus-wtv.be/nieuws/heuvelland-herdenkt-de-val-van-de-berlijnse-muur): 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. - [Stuk Berlijnse muur in Heuvelland — Focus-WTV](https://www.focus-wtv.be/nieuws/stuk-berlijnse-muur-heuvelland): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Kemmel%2C%20B): 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. ### Ostende, B - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/belgium/ostende/ostende-b-a317 - Place: The Peer, harbour of Ostend, West Flanders, Belgium - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display in the harbour); evidence: Documented - Position: 51.2276689, 2.9220889 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #317. A painted element standing in the harbour of a Belgian seaside town, catalogued by the Berlin Wall Foundation with no account of how it got there. A wall element carrying a graffito stands in the harbour at Ostend, on the Belgian North Sea coast. The Berlin Wall Foundation catalogues it in MAUERSPUREN as MAU-767, photographed in 2022 and dated to the Grenzmauer 75 generation. That is the whole of what is established. The Foundation's directory records what stands there and where, and says nothing about how a piece of the Berlin border came to a Flemish fishing and ferry port, who brought it, or when. Nothing has been supplied here to fill the gap. The record was held back for a while for an unrelated reason worth noting: the image matcher offered a photograph for it that turned out to show a German field named Ostende at Glienicke/Nordbahn rather than the Belgian city. The listing was always genuine; only the picture was wrong. Provenance: Not established. Sources: - [MAU-767 Mauerelement am Peer in Oostende — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.mauerspuren.de/de/13541/mauerelement-am-peer-in-oostende/#mau-767): A wall element with a graffito standing in the harbour of Ostend in Belgium, catalogued as MAU-767, classified as a Mauerelement, dated from 1980 and photographed in 2022. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Ostende%2C%20B): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Zwevezele Wingene - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/belgium/zwevezele-wingene/berlin-wall-zwevezele-wingene-f104 - Place: Zwevezele, Wingene, West Flanders, Belgium - Classification: Private / Limited Access; can it be seen today: Restricted access (In a private collection); evidence: Documented - Position: 51.040071410389, 3.204793846916 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #104. Two elements held by a Belgian photographer who has been going back to Berlin since 1977, and who also owns four Trabants. The photographer is Lode Anseel. He first saw Berlin on a school trip in 1977 and never let the subject go; when the border opened in November 1989 he wanted to return at once, but did not manage it until the summer of 1990, in time to photograph the closing of Checkpoint Charlie on 22 June. He brought home small fragments bought from a street trader for four East German marks — the going rate, and a detail worth recording, because for a few months in 1990 the Wall was retail. His collecting grew past the Wall into the GDR generally, and particularly into Trabants: he has four, including one in National People's Army specification, a first-generation P 50 carrying the signatures of Gorbachev, Günter Schabowski and Katarina Witt, and one covered entirely in banknotes and coins from seventy-five countries. The two full elements reached him through that world rather than through the art market: he found a Berlin Trabant enthusiast's advertisement in the magazine Supertrabi. The regional broadcaster Focus-WTV caught up with him in October 2019, when he lent a 1959 Trabant to Heuvelland's thirtieth-anniversary exhibition at the Kemmel command bunker. It describes him as a bookkeeper from Zwevezele with a passion for the Wall, and quotes him saying he has „a piece of the Berlin Wall at home weighing 3,200 kg“ and a rich archive of photographs. One piece of 3,200 kg and the Foundation's two elements are not the same count, and both readings are kept here. Provenance: Acquired privately through a Berlin Trabant enthusiast contacted via the magazine Supertrabi. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-zwevezele-wingene/): Anseel's 1977 first visit, his summer 1990 return and the closing of Checkpoint Charlie on 22 June, the fragments bought for four East German marks, the exhibitions at Menen in 1995 and Wingene in 1999, the Trabant collection, and the two elements acquired via Supertrabi. - [Heuvelland herdenkt de val van de Berlijnse muur — Focus-WTV](https://www.focus-wtv.be/nieuws/heuvelland-herdenkt-de-val-van-de-berlijnse-muur): Lode Anseel of Zwevezele, described as a bookkeeper with a passion for the Wall since his 1977 visit, lent a 1959 Trabant to Heuvelland's 2019 exhibition and said he keeps a 3,200 kg piece of the Berlin Wall at home. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-zwevezele-wingene/): 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. ## United Kingdom ### Berlin Wall — Cosford - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-kingdom/cosford/berlin-wall-cosford-f124 - Place: Royal Air Force Museum Midlands, Cosford, Shifnal, Shropshire, United Kingdom - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display in the Cold War exhibition); evidence: Documented - Position: 52.645300506177, -2.3154102148663 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #124 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #86. An original segment built into a reconstructed border scene — a display that has the object right and the date wrong, because the concrete it shows did not exist in 1961. Two women and a man stand on ladders at the Wall, waving to relatives on the other side. Scenes like it were a daily sight in divided Berlin after 1961, when families, friends and neighbours were separated overnight, and the Royal Air Force Museum at Cosford has built a reconstruction of one. Set into the stylised wall is an original segment, with a map of the divided city beside it. The display contains a small mistake worth recording rather than smoothing over, because it is the commonest mistake made about the Wall anywhere. Neither the original segment nor the reconstruction could have existed in that form in 1961: the first barriers were provisional, and the familiar concrete elements only replaced them from the middle of the 1970s. The scene is true and the material is true; they are fifteen years apart. The segment reached Britain by the shortest possible institutional route. Before the British garrison left Berlin in September 1994, after forty-nine years, it was handed to them at their airfield at Berlin-Gatow. It was donated to the Royal Air Force Museum, kept in store, shown briefly in 2000, and given its permanent place in the Cold War exhibition that opened in February 2007. This record was held back from publication for some time. The available material described a reconstruction of a border crossing and no institutional source confirmed an original element, so it was left as a listing rather than written up on an assumption. The Federal Foundation's own entry settles it: the reconstruction is real, and so is the segment inside it. Provenance: Handed to the British garrison at RAF Gatow in Berlin before its withdrawal in September 1994, then donated to the Royal Air Force Museum. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-cosford/): The original segment embedded in the reconstructed border scene at the RAF Museum Cosford, the anachronism of showing 1970s concrete in a 1961 scene, the handover at RAF Gatow before the British withdrawal from Berlin in September 1994, the donation to the museum, its storage and brief display in 2000, and its final placement in the Cold War exhibition opened in February 2007. - [RAF Museum Midlands | Free Entry Air Museum in Cosford](https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/midlands/): The museum's own page: visitors to the National Cold War Exhibition can see a real piece of the Berlin Wall. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-cosford/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Cosford%2C%20GB): 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. ### Duxford, GB - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-kingdom/duxford/duxford-gb-a110 - Place: American Air Museum, Imperial War Museum Duxford, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 52.0947808, 0.1583392 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #110. A segment in the American Air Museum hangar, among a B-29 and an SR-71 Blackbird. A segment stands in the American Air Museum hangar at Duxford, among the aircraft — a Boeing B-29 Superfortress and a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird included. It is the second Imperial War Museum site in this catalogue, alongside the Indiano-painted segment outside IWM London, and the two make a useful pair: one museum holding the same object as a work of art in a park and as a piece of Cold War hardware in a hangar. Sources: - [Duxford, GB — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/duxford-uk/): A segment of the Berlin Wall in the American Air Museum hangar. - [American Air Museum — Imperial War Museums](https://www.iwm.org.uk/visits/iwm-duxford/american-air-museum): The museum's own account of the hangar and its collection. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Duxford%2C%20GB): 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. ### Berlin Wall element, Eastnor Deer Park - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-kingdom/eastnor/eastnor-deer-park - Place: Eastnor Deer Park, Eastnor, Herefordshire, United Kingdom - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display in the deer park); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 52.03956, -2.38285 A segment that spent years as farm equipment in Brandenburg before being set on the foundation of a 1944 American army hut below the Malvern Hills. An original segment from the north of central Berlin stands in open parkland at the edge of the Malvern Hills, on the foundation of a hut built for the United States Army in 1944. The Berlin Wall Foundation catalogues it as MAU-782, recorded in December 2025, and describes it as one of eight locations in Great Britain holding a piece of the Wall. What it did in between is the part worth knowing. After the border came down the segment was put to agricultural use near Meyenburg in Brandenburg. That is not an indignity, and it is not a coincidence either. The Grenzmauer 75 element was derived from a precast component farmers used to build open silos: an L-shaped section that stands on any firm ground without a foundation and holds back whatever is piled against it. The GDR adopted it because it was cheap, quick and presented a clean face to the west. When the border stopped being a border, a Brandenburg farm simply used the thing for what its shape was always for, and it went back to holding silage until somebody wanted it as history. Of the roughly 45,000 elements, this catalogue can follow only a few hundred. This one went from a state border to a field to an English deer park, and the middle stage is the one almost no record preserves. Provenance: From the north of central Berlin; used for agricultural purposes near Meyenburg in Brandenburg after the fall of the Wall, and later placed in the deer park on the foundation of a 1944 United States Army hut. Sources: - [MAU-782 Berliner Mauerelement im Eastnor Deer Park — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.mauerspuren.de/de/13699/mauerelement-eastnor-deer-park/#mau-782): An original segment from the north of central Berlin standing in open parkland at the edge of the Malvern Hills on the foundation of a former 1944 US Army hut, used for agricultural purposes near Meyenburg after the fall of the Wall, described as one of eight locations in Great Britain, catalogued as MAU-782 and recorded in December 2025. - [Niederkirchnerstraße — Landesdenkmalamt Berlin, Wall monuments](https://www.berlin.de/landesdenkmalamt/denkmale/highlight-berliner-mauer/mauer-denkmale/niederkirchnerstrasse-649750.en.php): The Grenzmauer 75 was made of L-shaped precast concrete sections of the kind farmers used to build open silos, standing without a foundation on any firm soil. ### Berlin Wall — Gillingham - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-kingdom/gillingham/berlin-wall-gillingham-f125 - Place: Royal Engineers Museum, Prince Arthur Road, Gillingham, Kent, United Kingdom - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 51.392333830321, 0.53794810000498 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #125 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #144. Three segments given to the very unit that demolished the Wall along the British sector, shown beside a V2 rocket and a Harrier. Three segments are held by the Royal Engineers Museum, displayed among the corps' large Cold War objects alongside a V2 rocket and a Harrier jump jet. The provenance is the point and it is nearly unique in this catalogue: 38 Squadron of the Royal Engineers dismantled the stretch of Wall running along the British sector of Berlin, and when the corps left the city in 1994 it was given three segments in thanks. Almost every other record here describes an object given to someone who wanted a symbol. This one was given to the people who took it down. Provenance: Presented to the Royal Engineers in recognition of their long presence in Berlin, after 38 Squadron demolished the Wall along the British sector. In Gillingham since the early 1990s. Sources: - [Gillingham, GB — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/gillingham-uk/): 38 Squadron's demolition of the British sector wall, the corps' 1994 departure and the gift of three segments. - [Royal Engineers Museum](https://www.re-museum.co.uk/): The museum's Cold War gallery and its large objects. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-gillingham/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Gillingham%2C%20GB): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Gloucester - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-kingdom/gloucester/berlin-wall-gloucester-f1457 - Place: Headquarters Allied Rapid Reaction Corps, Imjin Barracks, Innsworth, Gloucester, United Kingdom - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: Restricted access (On display outside the headquarters building); evidence: Documented - Position: 51.891502669042, -2.1990609506315 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #1457 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #145. A segment that followed a NATO headquarters from the Rhineland to Gloucestershire, and whose origin was traced thirty years later by the staff who walk past it. A segment stands in front of the main building of the Headquarters Allied Rapid Reaction Corps at Imjin Barracks in Innsworth, just outside Gloucester — a multinational NATO corps led by the United Kingdom, staffed from twenty-one nations, which since the end of 2020 has also carried the title NATO Warfighting Corps Headquarters and is the largest deployable headquarters in Britain. It was given by the German federal government to the British military in thanks for British support of the Federal Republic during the Cold War. It stood first at the Joint Headquarters at Rheindahlen in North Rhine-Westphalia, where the ARRC was based until 2010, and moved to Gloucestershire with the corps. The Foundation notes the aptness of the destination: more German troops are stationed here than anywhere else in the United Kingdom. For the thirtieth anniversary of the opening of the border, staff from the ARRC travelled to Berlin with Lieutenant Colonel Florian Raebel — who had experienced the divided city as a teenager in West Berlin — to find out where their own segment had come from. They established that it was taken from the British sector near the Brandenburg Gate, probably close to Niederkirchnerstraße. Its graffiti has faded. A plaque beside it explains the history of the Wall and NATO's part in German reunification in four languages. Provenance: A gift from the German federal government to the British armed forces, first sited at the Joint Headquarters Rheindahlen and moved to Innsworth with the ARRC in 2010. Traced in 2019 to the British sector near the Brandenburg Gate, probably near Niederkirchnerstraße. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-gloucester/): The segment in front of the HQ ARRC building at Imjin Barracks, Innsworth, the German federal government's gift to the British military, its earlier siting at JHQ Rheindahlen and the move with the corps in 2010, the 2019 research trip by ARRC staff with Lieutenant Colonel Florian Raebel, the British-sector origin near the Brandenburg Gate, and the four-language plaque. - [West of Berlin: How an iconic symbol of the Cold War came to be in Gloucester — the imjin, Autumn 2019](https://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/AA/00/06/29/68/00012/Autumn-2019.pdf): The ARRC's own magazine: the section stands outside the headquarters at Imjin Barracks; it was the German government's gift to the British military for UK support during the Cold War, stood first at JHQ Rheindahlen and came to Gloucester with the corps; it is known to come from the British Sector close to the Brandenburg Gate; and staff travelled to Berlin with Lieutenant Colonel Florian Raebel in 2019 to trace it. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-gloucester/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Gloucester%2C%20GB): 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. ### Berlin Wall — London - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-kingdom/london/berlin-wall-london-f129 - Place: Deutsche Schule London, Douglas House, Petersham Road, Richmond, London, United Kingdom - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: Restricted access (On the school grounds); evidence: Listed - Position: 51.445163773585, -0.30518247355968 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #129 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #353. A segment the German government gave to a development bank, which was refused permission to erect it and passed it to a school instead. An original segment has stood on the grounds of the German School London in Richmond since 1994, still carrying its original paint, which has never been renewed. It was not meant for the school. The German federal government gave it to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London, an institution founded because of the events the segment stands for: the EBRD's own account of itself names the fall of the Wall among the monumental events that led to its creation, its task being to support the rebuilding of eastern Europe. The bank had to give the gift up again — the local authority refused permission to erect the monument — and it was passed on to the German School. A German and English plaque records that the piece came from Bernauer Straße, the street where the Wall ran along the building line and where people jumped from upper windows in 1961. Richmond has been a district favoured by German emigrants since the nineteenth century, and the school is one of some 140 German schools abroad supported by the federal government. Provenance: A gift from the German federal government to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London, passed to the German School after the local authority refused permission to install it. The plaque names Bernauer Straße as its origin. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-london-3/): The original segment on the German School London site since 1994 with its original paint, the intended gift to the EBRD, the refusal of permission and the transfer to the school, and the bilingual plaque naming Bernauer Straße. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-london-3/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Richmond%2C%20GB): 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. ### London, GB – Imperial War Museum - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-kingdom/london/berlin-wall-london-f127 - Place: Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park, Lambeth Road, London SE1 6HZ, United Kingdom - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 51.496343757619, -0.10833819269206 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #127 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #226. Indiano's open mouth reading CHANGE YOUR LIFE, in the park outside the Imperial War Museum. From Leuschnerdamm in Kreuzberg, donated by Lord Palumbo in 1991. The segment in Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park, outside the Imperial War Museum, carries a painting by Jürgen Grosse, who works as Indiano: an open mouth in red with CHANGE YOUR LIFE across it in white block capitals. Grosse set himself the task of painting as many sections as he could before they were removed, and completed 223 of them in seven months. Provenance: The element came from Leuschnerdamm in Kreuzberg and was acquired by the museum in 1991, donated by Lord Palumbo. Palumbo is a thread worth following: he acquired several elements, reportedly at a 1994 sale at Fischer Fine Art in London, and placed them at this museum, at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, at Nemacolin Woodlands, and two at his Frank Lloyd Wright house at Kentuck Knob in Pennsylvania. One private collector therefore accounts for five documented sites on two continents. Sources: - [Berlin wall section — Imperial War Museums](https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30080724): The museum's own object record for the segment. - [Art And The Berlin Wall — IWM](https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/berlin-wall-30-art-and-the-berlin-wall): Indiano's authorship and the 223 sections painted in seven months. - [London, GB – Imperial War Museum — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/london-gb-2/): Origin at Leuschnerdamm and the Palumbo donation. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-london/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=London%2C%20GB%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Imperial%20War%20Museum): 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. ### London, GB – Migration Museum - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-kingdom/london/london-gb-migration-museum-a227 - Place: Formerly Lewisham Shopping Centre, London SE13, United Kingdom - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: Gone (Lewisham site closed; museum relocating); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 51.46169, -0.01175 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #227. Two segments painted directly by STIK and Thierry Noir for the museum's doorway — and now without a home, since the Lewisham site has closed. Two surviving segments, painted directly by the contemporary artists STIK and Thierry Noir for the Migration Museum's installation *WALL*, stood at the entrance to the museum in a shopping centre in Lewisham. The museum's director described the work as a doorway and a symbol of friendship to all without exception — a migration museum using a border wall as its front door. Noir is the link back to the original: between 1984 and 1989 he illegally painted more than five kilometres of the Wall in Berlin, to make it colourful and ridiculous and so remove some of its threat. Painting surviving elements again, four decades later, in a shopping centre in south London, is a continuation rather than a reproduction. The Lewisham site has since closed and the museum is moving to a permanent home in the City of London, so where these two segments are now is not established here. Provenance: Painted for the museum by STIK and Thierry Noir. Their position after the Lewisham closure has not been established. Sources: - [Wall — Migration Museum](https://www.migrationmuseum.org/exhibition/wall/): The museum's own account: two surviving Berlin Wall segments painted directly by STIK and Thierry Noir, and Noir's five kilometres painted between 1984 and 1989. - [Migration Museum, London — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration_Museum,_London): The Lewisham Shopping Centre site and the museum's relocation. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=London%2C%20GB%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Migration%20Museum): 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. ### London, GB – National Army Museum - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-kingdom/london/berlin-wall-london-f128 - Place: National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London SW3 4HT, United Kingdom - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display in the museum); evidence: Documented - Position: 51.48645504385, -0.16054467357617 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #128 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #228. A section in the museum's foyer since 2019, presented by the army's Berlin transport squadron; three were once reported outside the building. Three segments were reported outside the museum in Chelsea before its rebuilding of 2014 to 2017. Since the thirtieth anniversary of the opening, in 2019, the museum has shown one section, 3.6 metres tall and 2 metres wide, inside its foyer, beside a Fox armoured car of the kind British reconnaissance units used in Germany. Its bronze plaque records that it was presented by 62 Transport and Movements Squadron, The Royal Logistic Corps (Berlin), 1945–1994. Whether it is one of the three, and where the other two went, the museum's pages do not say. London holds an unusual density of documented sites — this museum, the Imperial War Museum in Southwark, a Ripley's attraction and the pair at the Migration Museum in Lewisham — which reflects both the British garrison's half-century in Berlin and the London art market of the early 1990s. Provenance: Presented to the museum by 62 Transport and Movements Squadron, The Royal Logistic Corps (Berlin), whose plaque dates the squadron 1945–1994. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): Three segments displayed outside the National Army Museum in Chelsea. - [Berlin Wall installed at National Army Museum to mark 30th anniversary of its fall](https://www.nam.ac.uk/press/berlin-wall-installed-national-army-museum-mark-30th-anniversary-its-fall): The museum's press release for the thirtieth anniversary in 2019: a section of the Wall, 3.6 m tall and 2 m wide, now stands in the museum's Foyer beside a Fox armoured car lent by The Tank Museum. - [Section of the Berlin Wall, 1994 (c) | Online Collection | National Army Museum, London](https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=2008-12-166-1): The museum's catalogue entry, NAM. 2008-12-166-1, located in the Foyer: its bronze plaque records that it was presented by 62 Transport and Movements Squadron, The Royal Logistic Corps (Berlin), 1945–1994. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-london-2/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=London%2C%20GB%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20National%20Army%20Museum): 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. ### London, GB – Ripley’s - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-kingdom/london/london-gb-ripley-s-a225 - Place: Ripley's Believe It or Not!, London, United Kingdom - Classification: Former Location; can it be seen today: Gone (Attraction closed; present location of the section unconfirmed); evidence: Documented - Position: 51.4897366, 0.1445857 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #225. A fourth Ripley's holding, from the same sixteen-section purchase as Times Square, Niagara Falls and Orlando; the London attraction closed in 2017 and the section's whereabouts are unrecorded. A section at the London Ripley's, and the fourth of that company's holdings in this catalogue. Edward Meyer bought sixteen ten-foot sections shortly after 1989 — about 40,000 lb — and shipped them by barge to Hamburg, freighter to New Orleans and lorry to Orlando for distribution around the attractions. Four of those sixteen are now accounted for here, on two continents, from a single purchase. The attraction closed with immediate effect on 25 September 2017; the company said it was looking for a new London site, and nothing read here records where the section went. Provenance: From the sixteen-section Ripley's purchase, originating in Waldemarstraße in Kreuzberg. Sources: - [Mapping the 5 Pieces of the Berlin Wall in NYC — Untapped New York](https://www.untappedcities.com/mapping-the-5-pieces-of-the-berlin-wall-in-nyc/): The Meyer purchase of sixteen sections, the shipping route and the distribution from Orlando. - [Ripley's Believe It or Not! announces closure of London site](https://www.groupleisureandtravel.com/news-and-views/ripleys-believe-it-or-not-announces-closure-of-london-site/5493.article): Group Leisure & Travel, 26 September 2017: the London attraction closed with immediate effect on 25 September 2017, the company saying it was looking for a new London site; the report does not mention the Wall section. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=London%2C%20GB%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Ripley%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%B4s): 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. ### IWM North, Trafford Wharf - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-kingdom/manchester/manchester-iwm-north - Place: IWM North, Trafford Wharf Road, Manchester M17 1TZ, United Kingdom - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 53.4703, -2.2989 A section in the main exhibition space at IWM North, among the Cold War displays. The displays there cover 1946 to 1990. It is the third Imperial War Museum site in this catalogue, after the Indiano segment outside IWM London and the section in the American Air Museum at Duxford. This record was shorter than it used to be. It previously described the section as shown with a Berlin Wall searchlight and with Jock McFadyen's paintings Die Mauer and Christmas in Berlin, on the strength of an IWM page about McFadyen's 1990 Berlin commission. That page has since been withdrawn, and nothing else read here supports those details, so they have been removed rather than left standing on a citation that no longer resolves. Sources: - [Section of Berlin wall — Imperial War Museums](https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30080919): The museum's own object record for the section. ### Berlin Wall — Wakefield - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-kingdom/wakefield/berlin-wall-wakefield-f130 - Place: Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bretton Hall, West Bretton, Wakefield, United Kingdom - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: On display (On display in the open air); evidence: Listed - Position: 53.615492727557, -1.5639151676338 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #130. A segment among the Moores and Goldsworthys at Bretton Hall, its painted message almost entirely washed off by Yorkshire rain. The eighteenth-century landscape park at Bretton Hall now holds one of the largest open-air displays of modern sculpture anywhere, with work by Henry Moore, Andy Goldsworthy, Eduardo Paolozzi and Sophie Ryder. Late in the 1990s the British patron Lord Palumbo gave the park one of the segments he had bought in London in 1994, and it has stood outdoors ever since. What it says is disappearing. The graffito was painted in 1990 on the Wall at Niederkirchnerstraße by Jürgen Große, who signed himself Indiano, as part of a series he called his Global Messages. Rain has washed it almost completely away; the words Fight your inner can still just be made out, and the rest of the sentence is gone. That makes this one of the clearest records in the catalogue of what open-air display costs. The same donor's London purchase of 1994 also produced the segment at the Nemacolin Woodlands Resort in Pennsylvania, where an Indiano painting from the same series is kept in a vitrine and is still legible. Provenance: Given to the sculpture park in the late 1990s by Lord Palumbo, from segments he bought in London in 1994. Painted at Niederkirchnerstraße in 1990 by Jürgen Große, known as Indiano. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-wakefield/): The segment given to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park by Lord Palumbo in the late 1990s from his 1994 London purchase, its open-air siting, and the weathering of Jürgen Große's Global Messages graffito painted at Niederkirchnerstraße in 1990. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-wakefield/): 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. ## South Korea ### Daejeon (Taejon), ROK - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/south-korea/daejeon-taejon/daejeon-taejon-rok-a89 - Place: Expo Science Park, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, South Korea - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 36.377, 127.385 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #89. A German gift to the city at its 1993 Expo, which Korean newspapers report fenced in, scrawled on and little known. Pieces of the Wall have stood in Daejeon's Expo Science Park since the city held the 1993 World Expo. Chungcheong Today, in May 2018, says the city received them from the German government as a gift at the Expo, with the hope of Korean reunification in mind, and that they stand in the Expo Science Park, scrawled with decades of graffiti and with reinforcing steel showing. Officials told the paper that cleaning off the graffiti risked damaging the concrete. The Daejeon Marketing Corporation, the city's agency for the Expo site, managed the park without the means to care for the pieces, and few residents knew they were there. The Daejeon Ilbo returned to it in February 2020 and counted seven concrete blocks, standing behind metal fencing with a small information board in front of the Daejeon Expo Memorial Hall, with no plan to preserve them or to use them for culture or tourism. The Berlin Wall Archive's listing gives six. In May 2022 the Geumgang Ilbo placed the piece inside the park's Unification Hall, saying it had been moved to its present indoor place after years outdoors had left it weathered and vandalised. The reports therefore disagree about the count and about whether the pieces stand inside or outside, and the most recent is not necessarily the right one; the page rests on press accounts, and no holder's page has been found. Provenance: A gift from the German government at the 1993 Daejeon Expo, as Chungcheong Today reports it. Sources: - [존재감 없는 대전 베를린장벽… 낙서로 얼룩 흉물 전락 — 충청투데이](https://www.cctoday.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=1134530): 2 May 2018: Daejeon received pieces of the Berlin Wall as a gift from the German government at the 1993 Expo; they stand in the Expo Science Park, covered in graffiti with exposed steel, managed by the Daejeon Marketing Corporation, and little known. - [대전 베를린 장벽 수십년째 흉물 방치 — 대전일보](https://www.daejonilbo.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=1408193): 5 February 2020: seven concrete blocks brought to Daejeon in 1993 stand fenced, with a small information board, in front of the Daejeon Expo Memorial Hall in the Expo Science Park; the Daejeon Marketing Corporation is responsible; no preservation or use plan exists. - [대전의 ‘베를린 장벽’ 아시나요 — 금강일보](http://www.ggilbo.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=912178): 12 May 2022: a piece of the Berlin Wall shown at the 1993 Expo now stands in the Daejeon Unification Hall in the Expo Science Park, moved to its indoor place after exposure caused deterioration and vandalism. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Daejeon%20(Taejon)%2C%20ROK): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Dorasan - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/south-korea/dorasan/berlin-wall-dorasan-f256 - Place: Dorasan station, Paju, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: Restricted access (On display on the Platform of Reunification); evidence: Listed - Position: 37.898968708124, 126.70978542694 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #256 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #100. A Potsdamer Platz segment standing at the last station before North Korea, between a panel marking a division that ended and a clock counting one that has not. A segment left Berlin on 22 July 2015 for one of the most pointed destinations in this catalogue. It was among the last of the thirty-five segments that Sony transferred to the Land of Berlin in 2005 for non-commercial use, and the Berlin Senate sent it to South Korea, to the Platform of Reunification at Dorasan station — the northernmost point of the South Korean rail network, on the border with the North. It was inaugurated on 14 October 2015 by the German president Joachim Gauck, the South Korean unification minister Hong Yong-pyo and the president of the railway company KORAIL, Choi Yeon-hye. Gauck and Hong unveiled a copper plate carrying appeals from both heads of state: from President Park Geun-hye, create a reunified Korea and help the world become more peaceful; from Gauck, together for a life in freedom. Choi produced a map with a rail line that might one day run from Korea to Berlin, and said that Gauck's visit to one of the few countries still divided would give Koreans hope. What makes the installation work is what stands either side of it. On the left a panel records that the German division ended on 3 October 1990. On the right a clock counts the Korean one, which has not. Provenance: One of thirty-five segments transferred by Sony to the Land of Berlin in 2005 for non-commercial use, sent to South Korea by the Berlin Senate in July 2015. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-dorasan/): The segment's departure on 22 July 2015 as one of the last of the thirty-five Sony segments given to the Land of Berlin in 2005, its installation on the Platform of Reunification at Dorasan station, the inauguration on 14 October 2015 by Joachim Gauck, Hong Yong-pyo and Choi Yeon-hye, the copper plate with the appeals of Park Geun-hye and Gauck, the KORAIL map, and the two panels with the date of German reunification and the clock of Korean division. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-dorasan/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Dorasan%2C%20ROK): 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. ### Goseong, ROK - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/south-korea/goseong/goseong-rok-a148 - Place: DMZ Museum, near the Goseong Unification Observatory, Gangwon-do, South Korea - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #148. Two segments set up in 2018 beside the Korean demilitarised zone, a few kilometres from a border that has not opened. Two segments were set up in May 2018 in the outdoor exhibition at the DMZ Museum, close to the Goseong Unification Observatory at the north-eastern end of the demilitarised zone. The museum uses them to show the German unification process to visitors standing a few kilometres from the Korean border. It is the sharpest placement in the catalogue: everywhere else the Wall is a closed chapter, and here it is displayed as an argument about a border that is still shut. This record has no pin. The museum gives its address as Tongiljeonmangdae-ro 369 in Hyeonnae-myeon, but the listing came without coordinates and no checked coordinate for the museum was found. Provenance: Shipped to South Korea with the organisational help of the Hanns Seidel Foundation's Korea office. Sources: - [Goseong, ROK — The Wall Net](http://en.the-wall-net.org/goseong-rok/): Two segments set up at the DMZ Museum in May 2018 with help from the Hanns Seidel Foundation Korea. - [야외전시 — 베를린 장벽 및 경계 철책 (DMZ Museum)](https://www.dmzmuseum.com/museum/exhibitions/openair): The DMZ Museum's own outdoor exhibition list includes 'Berlin Wall and boundary fence' (베를린 장벽 및 경계 철책). The page gives no count, date or donor. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Goseong%2C%20ROK): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Jeju-si - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/south-korea/jeju-si/berlin-wall-jeju-si-f257 - Place: Memorial park for the victims of the 1948 uprising, Jeju-si, Jeju Island, South Korea - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 33.451138, 126.618941 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #257 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #191. Two Potsdamer Platz segments, a length of inner-German fence and several artists' pieces, at the memorial to a massacre the Cold War produced on a Korean island. On the morning of 3 April 1948 farmers and fishermen on the island of Jeju rose against the police stations and government offices of the central authority in Seoul, and for a short time held the island. The retaliation by the South Korean security services and army was without mercy: more than half of all settlements were burned, their people abducted or shot, and between twenty-five and thirty thousand islanders were killed over the following months while the American occupation forces looked on. When North Korea invaded in 1950, supposed insurgents were arrested and shot again. Fifty years of silence followed. The taboo was broken only in 1992, when some of the dead were allowed to be taken out of mass graves and buried. The memorial park that now records this holds two segments of the Berlin Wall, given by the City of Berlin in 2007. Youngmin Kwon, a former ambassador to Berlin and chancellor of the Jeju Peace Institute, worked with the island administration to obtain them. The institute's director of planning, Jae-hawn Kim, explained the reasoning: the Berlin Wall and the Jeju uprising were both products of the confrontation between the blocs, and both were in the end overcome peacefully, which made the island a fitting place for them. The two elements stood on the Sony site at Potsdamer Platz until they were handed to the Berlin Senate in 2005, and carry a plaque recording them as Sony's gift to the capital. They are not the only border on the site. The Grenzlandmuseum in the Thuringian Eichsfeld contributed a piece of the inner-German frontier — about two metres of the expanded metal fencing used along the barriers facing the Federal Republic — which has stood in the park since 2007. Two years before that, the French gallerist Sylvestre Verger brought his wall exhibition to Jeju-si under the title From the DMZ to the Berlin Wall, showing work by international artists who had painted parts of the Wall. Korean artists were given concrete blocks for the occasion and their pieces are still on the island: Jung Hyun Kim hung a complete element of the Hinterlandmauer in a frame and lettered it DMZ; Suk Won Park joined a black element to a white one with the word one; and Sung Mook Choi marked a last piece with a left-facing swastika, which in Korea is a symbol of love. The listing came without coordinates; the pin is the memorial park's own, and where in the park the segments stand is not stated. Provenance: Two segments from the Sony site at Potsdamer Platz, handed to the Berlin Senate in 2005 and given to Jeju by the City of Berlin in 2007 at the instance of Youngmin Kwon and the island administration. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-jeju-si/): The 1948 Jeju uprising and its suppression with twenty-five to thirty thousand dead, the fifty-year silence and the 1992 exhumations, the two Berlin Wall segments given by the City of Berlin in 2007 through Youngmin Kwon and the island administration, Jae-hawn Kim's reasoning, their Potsdamer Platz and Sony provenance and the 2005 transfer to the Berlin Senate, the inner-German fence section contributed by the Grenzlandmuseum Eichsfeld in 2007, and the 2005 Sylvestre Verger exhibition and the works left by Jung Hyun Kim, Suk Won Park and Sung Mook Choi. - [제주 4·3평화공원 — 상징조형물 (Jeju 4·3 Peace Foundation)](https://jeju43peace.or.kr/kor/sub04_02_02.do): The Jeju 4·3 Peace Foundation's page on the park's symbolic structures: Berlin donated part of the Wall in 2007 to mark the creation of the park, and the page ties the division it stands for to the history of the 1948 uprising. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-jeju-si/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Jeju%2C%20ROK): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Seoul - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/south-korea/seoul/berlin-wall-seoul-f1384 - Place: National Institute for Unification Education, Seoul, South Korea - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: Restricted access (On the institute grounds); evidence: Documented - Position: 37.642472965103, 127.00325034725 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #1384. Two segments on the lawn of the South Korean state institute that teaches reunification, shipped from Potsdamer Platz in 2021 after Berlin ended the permit under which South Korea's cultural centre had shown them there. Two segments of the Berlin Wall stand on the grounds of the National Institute for Unification Education in Seoul, the South Korean state body that trains teachers and officials in the question of reunification. Of the four sites recorded in this catalogue in and around Seoul, it is the one whose purpose is nearest to the object's own. The Federal Foundation's entry for the site is a placeholder that records the two segments without saying where they came from. Korean press reports on the institute's first full public opening, in May 2025, fill the gap: the two concrete blocks had stood at Potsdamer Platz since 2015, shown beside a pavilion called Tongiljeong, the Unification Pavilion, which the Korean Cultural Centre in Germany put up there. The Berlin authorities ended the permit at the end of 2020, the blocks were shipped to Korea, and they were set up on the institute's lawn in February 2021. Who first gave them to the cultural centre, and from which stretch of the Wall they came, the reports do not say. The record is published because the identification is settled. It had been held back as one of a group of Seoul records that could not be told apart — a city with at least four sites and several records carrying nothing but the city name — and the Foundation's own entry for this listing names the institute. Provenance: Shown at Potsdamer Platz from 2015 beside the Korean Cultural Centre's Unification Pavilion; shipped to Korea after Berlin ended the permit at the end of 2020 and installed in February 2021 (Korean press). The Foundation's entry gives no origin. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-seoul-3/): Two segments of the Berlin Wall on the grounds of the National Institute for Unification Education in Seoul; the entry is explicitly a placeholder pending further information. - [독일분단 상징 '베를린장벽'이 어떻게 서울에? 통일교육원 실물 전시](https://www.nocutnews.co.kr/news/6338680): CBS NoCut News: two concrete blocks stood at Potsdamer Platz from 2015 beside a pavilion put up by the Korean Cultural Centre in Germany; the Berlin authorities ended the permit at the end of 2020; the blocks reached Korea by ship in February 2021 and stand on the institute's lawn at Suyu-dong, opened to the public in May 2025. - ["베를린장벽 보러오세요"..통일교육원 첫 전면개방](https://www.fnnews.com/news/202505131333029193): Financial News, 13 May 2025: a part of the real Berlin Wall was brought by ship from Germany in February 2021 and set up on the institute's lawn. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-seoul-3/): 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. ### Seoul, ROK – Cheonggyecheon - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/south-korea/seoul/seoul-rok-cheonggyecheon-a385 - Place: Berlin Square, Cheonggyecheon, near the Samilgyo bridge, Seoul, South Korea - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 37.5686, 126.9872 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #259 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #385. Three sections with a Berlin street lamp and a painted Berlin bear, a gift from Berlin's governing mayor when the plaza opened in 2005. The three sections stand beside the Samilgyo bridge on the restored Cheonggyecheon stream, and the Berlin bear is painted with the Namdaemun and the Brandenburg Gate. The plaza opened in October 2005. The framing is unambiguous and official: a gift from a city that was divided to a city in the last divided country. Provenance: A gift from the governing mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit. Sources: - [Berlin square — Trazy](https://www.trazy.com/spot/257/berlin-square): The plaza's contents and its October 2005 opening. - [Seoul, ROK – Cheonggyecheon — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/seoul-rok/): Site record and the Wowereit gift. - [독일이 서울시에 기증한 ‘베를린 장벽’ 그라피티로 훼손](https://www.khan.co.kr/article/201806102058001): Kyunghyang Shinmun, 2018: three sections of the original Wall at Berlin Square, Cheonggyecheon, given by the Berlin Senate in 2005 with the completion of the stream restoration, damaged by graffiti. - [[거리 미술관] 6. 서울 베를린 광장(Berlin Platz)](https://culture.seoul.co.kr/news/newsView.php?id=20210706500114): Seoul Shinmun: Berlin Square at the south end of the Samilgyo bridge, established with Berlin funding in 2005; original Wall segments, a Berlin bear and old German street lamps. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-seoul-2/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Seoul%2C%20ROK%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Cheonggyecheon): 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. ### Seoul, ROK – Dobong-gu - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/south-korea/seoul/seoul-rok-dobong-gu-a386 - Place: Peace Culture Bunker, 932 Madeul-ro, Dobong-gu, Seoul, South Korea - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 37.65066, 127.03011 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #386. Three sections at the Peace Culture Bunker, a converted military position in the northern district of Dobong-gu, opened in 2017 and credited to Berlin on the plaque. Three original sections of the Wall stand at the Peace Culture Bunker (Pyeonghwa Munhwa Jinji) at Madeul-ro 932 in Dobong-gu, a former military position converted into a cultural space that opened on 31 October 2017; the sections stand behind an anti-tank wall. The district's tourism page says the Wall was received free of charge from Germany. The plaque says three pieces were received as a donation from the city of Berlin and set up in Dobong-gu in the hope of peace, while the city of Seoul's own account of the site credits the German businessman Elmar Prost. The sources differ on the donor and both readings are kept. Provenance: Three sections installed at the Peace Culture Bunker for its opening in 2017; the plaque names the city of Berlin as donor, the city of Seoul's account the German businessman Elmar Prost. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A Berlin Wall segment recorded in Dobong-gu, Seoul. - [베를린 장벽이 무너진 지 32년 '평화문화진지'에서 희망을 찾다 (Seoul Metropolitan Government)](https://mediahub.seoul.go.kr/archives/2003121): The city of Seoul's communication portal: three real sections of the Wall on display at the Peace Culture Bunker, Madeul-ro 932, Dobong-gu, credited to a donation by the German businessman Elmar Prost. - [문화예술/공간 > 평화문화진지 (Dobong-gu culture and tourism)](https://tour.dobong.go.kr/Contents.asp?code=10007287): The district's tourism page: the Peace Culture Bunker opened on 31 October 2017, with the German Berlin Wall received as a free donation and installed as a symbol of the wish for peace. - [도봉구에 세워진 진짜 베를린 장벽 조각... 나는 부끄러웠다](https://www.ohmynews.com/NWS_Web/Series/series_premium_pg.aspx?CNTN_CD=A0002910401): OhmyNews: three authentic sections behind an anti-tank wall at the Peace Culture Bunker; the plaque says three pieces were received as a donation from the city of Berlin. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Seoul%2C%20ROK%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Dobong-gu): 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. ### Seoul, ROK – Konkuk University - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/south-korea/seoul/seoul-rok-konkuk-university-a387 - Place: Konkuk University, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, South Korea - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (Reported in place); evidence: Listed - Position: 37.540801619385, 127.07934810409 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #258 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #387. One of Seoul's further sites, on the Konkuk University campus in Gwangjin-gu. The object is a segment. Seoul holds at least four documented sites — Berlin Square on the Cheonggyecheon stream, Dobong-gu, this campus and two more at the DMZ Museum near Sokcho that are not yet in the catalogue. No other capital outside Europe holds as many, which follows from the framing the Berlin Square record makes explicit: a gift from a city that was divided to a city in the last divided country. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A Berlin Wall segment recorded at Konkuk University in Seoul. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-seoul/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Seoul%2C%20ROK%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Konkuk%20University): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Uijeongbu - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/south-korea/uijeongbu/berlin-wall-uijeongbu-f260 - Place: Uijeongbu Station Neighborhood Park, Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 37.69122010319, 127.04714908721 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #260. Five segments, ten tonnes, from a builders' yard in Teltow to a park thirty kilometres from the North Korean border — with a model Brandenburg Gate between them. The mayor of Uijeongbu found the wall elements himself, on a visit to Germany, stacked in a builders' yard at Teltow on the south-western edge of Berlin. Five of them, about ten tonnes in all, went to his city — thirty kilometres from the North Korean border — and were set up in the Uijeongbu Station Neighborhood Park, which is being converted step by step into a peace park. How they came to be in a builders' yard is the part of this record worth keeping. In the early 1990s the VEB Betonwerke bought wall elements from the National People's Army in order to use them as bins for loose material: the steles that had held a state in were repurposed as the sides of rubble bays. The building materials firm Klösters later took over the 160 elements still standing on the Teltow site, and in 2011 its managing director Elmar Prost started a campaign inviting professional artists and amateurs to paint them. One of the five sent to Korea carries a Thierry Noir. The symbolic handover to the South Korean consul general Eon-wook Heo took place on 30 September 2013, with Noir, Prost and the mayor of Teltow, Thomas Schmidt, present; the official inauguration followed on 19 March, opened by the mayor of Uijeongbu before some five hundred guests, among them Schmidt, the German actor Bruno Eyron standing in for Thierry Noir, and Tobias Dollase of the Federal Foundation. A replica of the Brandenburg Gate stands between the five segments, with illustrated panels in Korean and English and a film about the Peaceful Revolution. Edaily's interview with the city's mayor, Ahn Byeong-yong, speaks of five pieces in the station-front park installed in 2014 with German help, one of which, he says, had earlier been shown at Potsdamer Platz. The Foundation's account has all five coming from the Teltow yard; both readings are kept. Provenance: Five elements from the 160 held by the building materials firm Klösters at Teltow, originally bought from the National People's Army by the VEB Betonwerke for use as material bins; handed over on 30 September 2013 and inaugurated the following March. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-uijeongbu/): The mayor of Uijeongbu's discovery of the elements at Teltow, the five segments of about ten tonnes installed in the Uijeongbu Station Neighborhood Park, the city's distance from the North Korean border, the VEB Betonwerke's purchase of elements from the National People's Army for use as material bins, the 160 elements taken over by the Klösters firm and Elmar Prost's 2011 painting campaign, the Thierry Noir element, the handover of 30 September 2013 and the inauguration with its named guests, and the Brandenburg Gate replica, panels and film. - [안병용 의정부시장 "의정부에 베를린장벽 있듯 독일 평화의소녀상도 존치해야"](https://edaily.co.kr/News/Read?mediaCodeNo=257&newsId=03670326625933576): Edaily, interview with the mayor: five Berlin Wall pieces in Uijeongbu's station-front park, installed in 2014 as a gift via the German government, one of them previously shown at Potsdamer Platz. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-uijeongbu/): 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. ## Canada ### Berlin Wall — Bible Hill - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/canada/bible-hill/berlin-wall-bible-hill-f165 - Place: Cobequid Trail, Dalhousie Agricultural Campus, Bible Hill, Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 45.3718441, -63.264146 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #165 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #35. Six weathered sections lent to the town by a local businessman in 2000, argued over, and eventually moved to a trail on the agricultural campus. Six large sections stand along the Cobequid Trail behind the Dalhousie Agricultural Campus at Bible Hill, some of them beside a pollinator garden. Six is a substantial holding — more than most national capitals in this catalogue — for a town of about twelve thousand people. They spent years before that on an undeveloped open lot at the western edge of Truro, exposed to the weather. The concrete is badly worn: what is left of the original graffiti is hard to make out, and the elements are chipped where Mauerspechte got at them. The businessman Martin S. Young lent the six to his home town in the spring of 2000, the town treasurer put up 2,500 Canadian dollars, and the display was meant to be temporary. When the year was up there was no plan for what to do next, and owner and council fell out over it. The move to the trail is the resolution. Provenance: Owned by the businessman Martin S. Young and lent to the town of Truro in spring 2000. Sources: - [Berlin Wall Sections, Truro — visitor documentation](https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g181762-d2241839-Reviews-Berlin_Wall_Sections-Truro_Nova_Scotia.html): Six sections on the Cobequid Trail at the Dalhousie Agricultural Campus, and the earlier siting in a lot in central Truro. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-bible-hill/): Six sections on an open lot at the western edge of Truro from 2000, their weathering and Mauerspecht damage, Martin S. Young's loan, the 2,500 Canadian dollars from the town treasurer, and the dispute that followed the one-year term. - [German visitor surprised to discover panels of the former Berlin Wall in Bible Hill — Truro Daily News (SaltWire)](https://www.saltwire.com/lifestyles/german-visitor-surprised-to-discover-panels-of-the-former-berlin-wall-in-bible-hill-206102/): 30 April 2018: six sections of the former Berlin Wall stand on the grounds of the Dalhousie Faculty of Agriculture in Bible Hill, as a visitor from West Berlin found. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-bible-hill/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Bible%20Hill%2C%20CDN): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Halifax - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/canada/halifax/berlin-wall-halifax-f166 - Place: World Peace Pavilion, Dartmouth waterfront, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada - Classification: Fragment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 44.662902541758, -63.567801876744 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #166. Small pieces set among stones from seventy countries, dedicated by the G7 foreign ministers in 1995. Small pieces of the Wall are encased at the World Peace Pavilion on the Dartmouth waterfront, looking across the harbour to Halifax. The pavilion is a low concrete amphitheatre holding stones and bricks donated by more than seventy countries — a brick from the Great Wall of China among them — on a bed of Nova Scotian sand. It was conceived by Metro Youth for Global Unity and dedicated on 17 June 1995 by the foreign ministers attending the Halifax G7 summit. It has since drawn criticism as a monument to the triumphalism of the moment that produced it, which is a fair reading and worth recording alongside the object. Sources: - [Dartmouth's World Peace Pavilion and the delusions of triumphant capitalism — Halifax Examiner](https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/environment/dartmouths-world-peace-pavilion-and-the-delusions-of-triumphant-capitalism/): The pavilion's contents, its 1995 dedication by the G7 foreign ministers, and the critical reading of it. - [World Peace Pavilion — Robert Parker Associates](https://robertparkerassociates.com/projects/world-peace-pavilion/): The designers' account: the amphitheatre form, the triangle concept and the stones from more than seventy countries. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-halifax/): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Lunenburg - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/canada/lunenburg/berlin-wall-lunenburg-f167 - Place: Duke Street, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 44.376846008395, -64.318758886896 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #167 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #240. A large piece standing on a street in a UNESCO-listed Nova Scotian fishing town. A large piece stands on Duke Street in Lunenburg, a fishing town of about two thousand people on the Nova Scotia coast whose old town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is among the smallest places in the catalogue to hold a piece, and a good illustration of how little correlation there is between the significance of a site and the size of the town that ended up with one. Royal Canadian Legion Branch 23 records that James J. Kinley brought the segment to Lunenburg in the late 1990s and put it on display at the entrance to the Lunenburg Foundry, wanting to honour the German heritage of the area, and that in June 2020 it was moved to the front of the Legion. Provenance: Brought to Lunenburg in the late 1990s by James J. Kinley and first shown at the entrance to the Lunenburg Foundry. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A large piece of the wall situated on Duke Street in Lunenburg. - [Moving the Berlin Wall to the new location at the Lunenburg Legion — Royal Canadian Legion Branch 23](https://www.branch23lunenburg.ca/moving-the-berlin-wall-to-the-new-location-at-the-lunenburg-legion): The Legion branch’s own account, 12 June 2020: James J. Kinley brought the segment to Lunenburg in the late 1990s and displayed it at the entrance to the Lunenburg Foundry to honour the area’s German heritage; it was moved to the front of the Lunenburg Legion the day before, with Demone Monuments providing labour and equipment. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-lunenburg/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Lunenburg%2C%20CDN): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Montreal - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/canada/montreal/berlin-wall-montreal-f168 - Place: Centre de Commerce Mondial, 747 Square Victoria, Montréal, Canada - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 45.502482158951, -73.560926167743 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #168 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #268. One segment from near the Brandenburg Gate, in the atrium of the World Trade Centre, given to the city for its 350th birthday in 1992. The segment in the Centre de Commerce Mondial is indoors and publicly accessible, and it is well documented in photographs. The City of Montréal’s public-art register lists it as city property, a gift from the City of Berlin for Montréal’s 350th anniversary in 1992, 3.6 metres high, 1.2 metres wide and 15 centimetres thick, "apparently" from near the Brandenburg Gate and of the fourth generation of the Wall. Provenance: A gift from the City of Berlin to Montréal for its 350th anniversary in 1992; apparently from near the Brandenburg Gate. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): The 1992 gift for the city's 350th anniversary and the Brandenburg Gate origin. - [The Berlin Wall, World Trade Centre Montreal — Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:The_Berlin_Wall,_World_Trade_Centre_Montreal): Photographic documentation of the segment in the atrium. - [Berlin Wall segment — Art Public Montréal (Ville de Montréal)](https://artpublicmontreal.ca/en/%C5%93uvre/berlin-wall-segment/): The City of Montréal’s public-art register lists the segment as owned by the Ville de Montréal, a gift from the City of Berlin for the 350th anniversary in 1992, 3.60 by 1.20 by 0.15 metres, apparently from near the Brandenburg Gate and of the fourth generation of the Wall, at 747 Square-Victoria in the Centre de commerce mondial. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-montreal/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Montreal%2C%20CDN): 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. ### Niagara Falls, CDN - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/canada/niagara-falls/niagara-falls-cdn-a297 - Place: Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (Reported in place); evidence: Listed - Position: 43.0919813, -79.0762605 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #297. A section at the Niagara Falls Ripley's — the second Ripley's holding in this catalogue. Ripley's Edward Meyer acquired sixteen ten-foot sections shortly after 1989 — roughly 40,000 lb, shipped by barge to Hamburg, freighter to New Orleans and then trucked to Orlando for distribution around the attractions. The Times Square one has since closed; this is where another of that consignment went. Provenance: Part of the sixteen-section purchase made for Ripley's after 1989, from Waldemarstraße in Kreuzberg. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A section of the Berlin Wall at the Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum in Niagara Falls. - [Mapping the 5 Pieces of the Berlin Wall in NYC — Untapped New York](https://www.untappedcities.com/mapping-the-5-pieces-of-the-berlin-wall-in-nyc/): The Meyer purchase of sixteen sections, the shipping route and the distribution from Orlando. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Niagara%20Falls%2C%20CDN): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Ottawa - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/canada/ottawa/berlin-wall-ottawa-f169 - Place: Canadian War Museum, 1 Vimy Place, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On permanent display); evidence: Documented - Position: 45.417268860952, -75.716931073024 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #169 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #319. A German gift to Canada that stood for years in the building where the Two Plus Four framework was agreed in 1990. A segment on permanent display among the museum's Cold War collection. Its earlier address is the interesting part: for years it stood in the Government Conference Centre in downtown Ottawa, the building that hosted the 1990 international meeting at which the framework for peaceful German reunification was settled. The object spent its Canadian life in the room where the diplomacy happened, and was then moved to a museum — a rare case in this catalogue of a segment that was, for a while, sited on the strength of what was decided there rather than what it had been. Provenance: A gift from the German government to the Canadian people. Transferred to the Canadian War Museum in 2009, when the move was announced by Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Sources: - [Piece of Berlin Wall symbolizes Cold War tension and triumph — Canadian War Museum](https://www.warmuseum.ca/articles/piece-of-berlin-wall-symbolizes-cold-war-tension-and-triumph): The museum's own account: the German gift, the years at the Government Conference Centre and the 1990 summit held there, and the 2009 transfer. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-ottawa/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Ottawa%2C%20CDN): 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. ### Steinbach, CDN - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/canada/steinbach/steinbach-cdn-a403 - Place: Mennonite Heritage Village, 231 PTH 12 North, Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 49.5512, -96.6853 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #403. A section in the outdoor village of a museum about Russian Mennonites — a community that had already left the Soviet Union once. A section stands in the outdoor village at the Mennonite Heritage Village, among the windmill and the heritage buildings. The museum's subject is the Russian Mennonites who left the Soviet Union for Canada, which makes the object less incongruous than it first appears: the community that built this museum had its own experience of a state deciding who could leave, decades before the Wall was poured. Provenance: Bought in Germany after the Wall came down by Martin Bergen of Winnipeg, and donated to the museum. Sources: - [Monuments at Mennonite Heritage Village — MySteinbach](https://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/4841/monuments-at-mennonite-heritage-village/): The permanent display, the purchase in Germany by Martin Bergen of Winnipeg, and the donation. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Steinbach%2C%20CDN): 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. ### Freedom Arches, Nathan Phillips Square - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/canada/toronto/toronto-freedom-arches - Place: Freedom Arches, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Classification: Fragment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 43.6525, -79.3839 A block set into the base of a city-hall arch, flown over by the German consulate in 1991 for the Black Ribbon Day Committee. A block of the Wall is embedded at the base of the centre Freedom Arch on the south side of Nathan Phillips Square, with a plaque. The arches over the square were dedicated to freedom in 1989 and the block was added afterwards. The organising body is the part worth recording: the Black Ribbon Day Committee, the Eastern European diaspora campaign that marks the anniversary of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. The object is German, the square is Canadian, and the argument being made is about the Baltic states and the pact that delivered them to Moscow. Provenance: Bought by Marcus Hess, an engineer from Kitchener, and flown to Canada by the German consulate in 1991. The naming of the arches and the placement of the block were a project of Hess and the Black Ribbon Day Committee. Sources: - [Freedom Arches — Toronto LocalWiki](https://localwiki.org/toronto/Freedom_Arches): The block at the base of the centre arch, the Hess purchase, the 1991 consulate flight and the Black Ribbon Day Committee's role. - [What's there at Nathan Phillips Square — City of Toronto](https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/venues-facilities-bookings/booking-city-facilities/city-squares/nathan-phillips-square/whats-there-at-nathan-phillips-square/): The city's own listing of the square's features, including the arches. ## Poland ### Elblag, PL - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/poland/elblag/elblag-pl-a112 - Place: Company premises on ulica Mazurska, Elbląg, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland - Classification: Private / Limited Access; can it be seen today: Restricted access (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 54.1558708, 19.4044583 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #112. Fragments shown on a company's land, which a councillor asked in 2016 to move somewhere more visible. Fragments of the Wall are shown on the grounds of a firm on ulica Mazurska in Elbląg. The local news site info.elblag.pl, on 10 November 2016, reported that the councillor Robert Turlej of Civic Platform had written to the city's president, Witold Wróblewski, asking him to talk to the owner about moving the exhibition to a more prominent place and signing it properly, so that it could become a tourist attraction. The article names the company, Cleaner, and calls the exhibition one of fragments of the original Wall, without giving a number or a date of arrival. It is the only report read here, and it is ten years old; whether the councillor's request produced anything, and whether the fragments are still on the firm's land, is not known. The land is the company's, so nothing here should be taken as an invitation to enter it. Sources: - [Mur Berliński stanie się atrakcją turystyczną... Elbląga?](https://www.info.elblag.pl/37,47933,Mur-Berlinski-stanie-sie-atrakcja-turystyczna-Elblaga.html): 10 November 2016: on the premises of the company Cleaner on ulica Mazurska there is an exhibition of fragments of the original Wall; councillor Robert Turlej asks the city president to discuss moving it to a more prominent place and marking it with information. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Elblag%2C%20PL): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Gdańsk - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/poland/gdansk/berlin-wall-gdansk-f142 - Place: Plac Solidarności 1, Gdańsk, Poland - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 54.358048593652, 18.647049531312 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #142 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #139. One segment in the Roads to Freedom exhibition, where the Gdańsk shipyard strike of 1980 is placed nine years before the Wall opened. The exhibition is at the European Solidarity Centre. The argument the site makes is chronological: the strike at the Lenin Shipyard in August 1980 came nine years before the Wall opened. A German object in a Polish museum, used to say that the sequence usually told in the West runs backwards. The Federal Foundation records the piece differently: brought by the governing mayor of Berlin, Eberhard Diepgen, as his gift to the twentieth anniversary of the August Agreements on 29 August 2000, and standing outdoors just outside the shipyard at the corner of Wały Piastowskie and Kupiecka, on a paved square with a rust-coloured relief of Europe and a small plaque in three languages. Which of the two describes the segment today is for a visit or the Centre to settle. Local reporting from July 2000 fills in the arrival: the segment was brought to the shipyard by a Gdańsk transport firm as a donation, kept in a workshop hall at first and shown from 29 August 2000 near the BHP hall, with the director of the Checkpoint Charlie museum, Rainer Hildebrandt, among those involved. Provenance: By the Federal Foundation's account, a gift from the governing mayor of Berlin, Eberhard Diepgen, handed over at the shipyard on 29 August 2000. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A segment in the Roads to Freedom exhibition, Gdańsk. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-gdansk/): A segment brought by the governing mayor of Berlin, Eberhard Diepgen, and handed over on the shipyard grounds on 29 August 2000 for the twentieth anniversary of the August Agreements; it now stands just outside the shipyard at the corner of ul. Wały Piastowskie and ul. Kupiecka, on a paved square with a rust-coloured relief of Europe and a plaque in Polish, English and German. - [Mur Berliński w Stoczni Gdańskiej](https://gdansk.naszemiasto.pl/mur-berlinski-w-stoczni-gdanskiej/ar/c1-5214571): A report of 14 July 2000 on the arrival of the segment at the Gdańsk shipyard for the twentieth anniversary of the August 1980 strike: brought as a donation by the transport firm PKS Gdańsk-Oliwa, kept at first in a workshop hall, to be shown near the BHP hall from 29 August 2000 as part of the anniversary exhibition and the collection of the planned Solidarity centre, with the mayor Paweł Adamowicz and Rainer Hildebrandt of the Checkpoint Charlie museum committed to the commemoration. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-gdansk/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Gdansk%2C%20PL): 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. ### Gniezno, PL - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/poland/gniezno/gniezno-pl-a146 - Place: Instytut Kultury Europejskiej UAM, ul. Kostrzewskiego 5–7, Gniezno, Greater Poland, Poland - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: On display (Reported in place); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 52.53278, 17.58333 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #146. Two segments in an installation by the collector Ludwik Wasecki, handed to the university's institute on 4 June 2014, the 25th anniversary of Poland's first partly free elections. The Institute of European Culture is the Gniezno branch of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, on the Collegium Europaeum campus on the Kostrzewskiego Street, next to the Museum of the Origins of the Polish State. For 4 June 2014, twenty-five years after the first partly free elections in post-war Poland, it invited the town to a Święto Wolności, a festival of freedom, whose programme its own page sets out: at 9.30 the students' project Ścieżka do wolności in the institute's gallery, from 10.30 a conference on Poles' struggle for freedom and the history of the Berlin Wall, and at 14.00 the handing over by Dr Ludwik Wasecki and the Fundacja Mury of an artistic installation with a fragment of the Wall — by which, the invitation says, Gniezno would join Fátima, Washington and the Vatican as an owner of the symbol of post-war Europe. The local news site Moje Gniezno described the work the week before: original segments of the Wall, tilted and being bored through by a huge drill, as a symbol of the overthrow of the totalitarian system and the division of Europe, designed and made by Wasecki, a performance artist and collector, and sited by Professor Yoshimi Hashimoto of the sculpture department of the Berlin university. The organisers were the Fundacja Mury, the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation, the institute and the district authority, with the partner district of Teltow-Fläming among the partners. The Wall Net, whose entry the Berlin Wall Archive's listing follows, found two segments in front of the institute when it wrote the place up in April 2016, and two is the count both give. No later page from the institute about the installation was found. Provenance: Made by Ludwik Wasecki from original segments and handed over, with the Fundacja Mury, to the institute on 4 June 2014. Sources: - [Ścieżka do wolności — Instytut Kultury Europejskiej UAM w Gnieźnie](https://ike.amu.edu.pl/studenci-2/dialog/sciezka-do-wolnosci/): The institute's own invitation to the Święto Wolności of 4 June 2014 at its gallery, ul. Kostrzewskiego 5–7: the students' project Ścieżka do wolności at 9.30, a conference on Poles' struggle for freedom and the history of the Berlin Wall from 10.30, and at 14.00 the handing over by Dr Ludwik Wasecki and the Fundacja Mury of an artistic installation with a fragment of the Berlin Wall, by which Gniezno would, alongside Fátima, Washington and the Vatican, become an owner of the symbol of post-war Europe; organised by the Fundacja Mury, the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation and the institute. - [„Nad podziałami”, czyli 25 lat od pierwszych wolnych wyborów w Polsce — Moje Gniezno](https://moje-gniezno.pl/46332/nad-podzialami-czyli-25-lat-od-pierwszych-wolnych-wyborow-w-polsce/): Andrzej Bukowski, 28 May 2014: the programme for 4 June 2014 at the institute's gallery on the Collegium Europaeum campus included the handing over of an artistic installation with original segments of the Berlin Wall, tilted and being broken through by a huge drill as a symbol of the overthrow of the totalitarian system and the division of Europe, designed and made by Dr Ludwik Wasecki, performance artist and art collector, and sited according to Professor Yoshimi Hashimoto of the sculpture department of the Berlin university; the campus adjoins the Museum of the Origins of the Polish State; the organisers were the Fundacja Mury, the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation, the institute and the district authority, with the partner district of Teltow-Fläming among the partners. - [Gniezno, PL — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/gniezno-pl/): Entry of 20 April 2016: two segments; in spring 2014, for the coming 25th anniversary of the fall of the Wall, a memorial by the Polish artist Ludwik Wasecki was set up in front of the Institute of European Culture, inaugurated during the events 'The victory of freedom over totalitarianism' organised by the institute of the Adam Mickiewicz University with the district of Teltow-Fläming and the foundation Mury. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Gniezno%2C%20PL): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Krzyzowa - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/poland/krzyzowa/berlin-wall-krzyzowa-f143 - Place: Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe, Krzyżowa, Lower Silesia, Poland - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 50.797198481457, 16.533707798754 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #143 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #206. An original segment at the Kreisau meeting centre, unveiled twenty years to the month after Kohl and Mazowiecki held their reconciliation mass on the same estate. An original segment and a commemorative plaque were unveiled at the International Youth Meeting Centre at Krzyżowa on 11 December 2009, in the presence of the president of the German Bundestag, Norbert Lammert, and Bronisław Komorowski, then Marshal of the Sejm and later president of Poland. The segment stands on a small open space between the manor house and the farm buildings that belong to the Kreisau Foundation. Twenty years earlier, almost to the day, the estate had been the setting for one of the sharpest coincidences of 1989. Chancellor Helmut Kohl was on a state visit to Poland when the border opened in Berlin on 9 November; moved by what was happening, he and the Polish prime minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki decided on the spot to hold a mass of reconciliation here on 12 November. Krzyżowa was already a place where German resistance to dictatorship is remembered. As Kreisau it was the Moltke family estate, where the group around Helmuth James von Moltke and Peter Yorck von Wartenburg met three times in 1942 and 1943 to plan a democratic Germany after National Socialism. Many of them, Moltke included, were executed for it. The permanent exhibition in the manor house sets that resistance alongside opposition to the other twentieth-century dictatorships, and the wall segment belongs to the second half of that argument. Six months before it arrived, a piece of the Gdańsk shipyard wall had been unveiled on the north-east side of the Reichstag in Berlin — the same exchange running the other way. Provenance: Unveiled on 11 December 2009 at the Krzyżowa meeting centre, twenty years after the reconciliation mass of 12 November 1989. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-krzyzowa/): The unveiling of the segment and plaque on 11 December 2009 with Norbert Lammert and Bronisław Komorowski, its siting between the manor house and the farm buildings, the 12 November 1989 reconciliation mass, the history of the Kreisau Circle, and the Gdańsk shipyard wall piece unveiled at the Reichstag on 17 June 2009. - [MAU-774 Mauerelement im Park von Schloss Kreisau — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.mauerspuren.de/de/13609/mauerelement-im-park-von-schloss-kreisau/#mau-774): An element in the park in front of the manor house at Kreisau/Krzyżowa, in memory of the reconciliation mass of 12 November 1989 attended by Tadeusz Mazowiecki and Helmut Kohl; catalogued as MAU-774. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-krzyzowa/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Krzyzowa%2C%20PL): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Międzyrzec Podlaski - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/poland/miedzyrzec-podlaski/berlin-wall-miedzyrzec-podlaski-f274 - Place: Międzyrzec Podlaski, Powiat Bialski, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 51.984112783977, 22.77650686544 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #274. The third of the slabs a German district gave its Polish partner county in 2009, in a town hoping the monument would bring visitors to a remote border region. One of three monuments that travelled from the German district of Oberhavel to the Polish county of Biała Podlaska at the end of March 2009, on the initiative of the district administrator Karl-Heinz Schröter. The others went to the commune of Terespol, where Lech Wałęsa attended an unveiling in August of that year. The Polish county administrator, Tadeusz Łazowski, was candid about what he wanted from them: more tourist interest in a region that lies well off any route. That is worth recording plainly, because most of the catalogue's monuments are explained only in the language of commemoration, and the two motives usually travel together. The concrete itself came from the border between the Oberhavel municipality of Glienicke and the Berlin district of Reinickendorf — the ring around West Berlin rather than the inner-city Wall. A national paper, reporting the gift in March 2009, counted two sections rather than three — one for Międzyrzec Podlaski and one for Kobylany — and recorded the Biała Podlaska mayor's dry remark that Poland had had Solidarity before the Wall came down. Provenance: A gift from the German district of Oberhavel; from the Glienicke–Reinickendorf section of the border. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-miedzyrzec-podlaski/): The slab set up at Międzyrzec Podlaski as one of the three 2009 Oberhavel gifts, Tadeusz Łazowski's hope of attracting tourism, and the Glienicke–Reinickendorf origin. - [Berliński mur stanie na wschodniej granicy](https://wiadomosci.dziennik.pl/wydarzenia/artykuly/142505,berlinski-mur-stanie-na-wschodniej-granicy.html): Dziennik, 18 March 2009: two sections of the Wall weighing 3.2 tonnes together, a gift from Karl-Heinz Schröter, head of the partner district of Oberhavel, to be set up in Międzyrzec Podlaski and in Kobylany near Terespol within days, with the county head Tadeusz Łazowski and the mayor of Biała Podlaska, Andrzej Czapski, who remarked that Poland had Solidarity before the Wall fell. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-miedzyrzec-podlaski/): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Sosnówka - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/poland/sosnowka/berlin-wall-sosnowka-f145 - Place: A private property at Sosnówka, in the commune of Twardogóra, about 40 km north of Wrocław, Lower Silesia, Poland - Classification: Private / Limited Access; can it be seen today: Restricted access (On private land; visitors rarely reach the village); evidence: Documented - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #145 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #397. Some forty segments standing in a Silesian meadow north of Wrocław — the largest private collection anywhere, begun with six bought for a 7,000 mark donation. In the spring of 1990 a gold-painted Trabant could be seen chugging across a meadow in the Silesian village of Sosnówka, wedged between pieces of the Berlin Wall. It was the first work of Ludwik Wasecki, a Berlin dentist and art collector who had found an artistic vocation in the events of the previous November. A second installation followed, in which a giant aluminium fork punched through a wall rebuilt in wood and papier mâché, its tines driven into a plain wooden table. He called it Wolfshunger, after the stamped aluminium cutlery he remembered from East Berlin in the 1970s, where he met his parents and friends after leaving Poland in 1972 and emigrating to Sweden. A Berlin newspaper editor noticed the work in 1990 and Wasecki was put in touch with Rainer Hildebrandt of the Mauermuseum at Checkpoint Charlie, who wanted to show the installations on the museum roof and suggested adding original segments. Wasecki could not afford the going rate of tens of thousands of marks apiece, so Hildebrandt arranged it: in October 1990 Wasecki was allowed to pick six segments from the dismantled stock held for sale, and against a donation of 7,000 marks had them loaded onto a low-loader and driven to Sosnówka. Through the museum's contacts with Hagen Koch — the former border soldier and Stasi officer whom the GDR government had appointed special commissioner for dismantling the border in the spring of 1990 — more followed. Among them are eight brightly painted segments sold at the first great Monaco auction in June 1990 and never collected. One, blue with an orange woman's head, had been knocked down to Japanese buyers for 40,000 marks before they changed their minds. It stands in the meadow today among about forty others, forty-two by the Federal Foundation's count, alongside work by Kiddy Citny, Keith Haring and Thierry Noir — Noir came to Sosnówka himself to put his heads on segments that had never been painted, and repainted Wasecki's bathroom and barn while he was there. Wasecki kept building: an oversized coffee grinder crushing lumps of wall, huge red boxing gloves strung between the slabs for the piece he called the Knockout, wooden stick figures walking towards a grey segment in a work named for the search for the way out. The collection has been shown — at the Wrocław architecture museum in October 1992, again on the Wrocław market square seven years later, and in Germany in 1991 for the thirtieth anniversary of Hildebrandt's museum — and one piece, an enormous drill uncomfortably reminiscent of dental equipment, has stood since the summer of 2009 beside the theatre in Gniezno. The rest sits on private land at Sosnówka, in the commune of Twardogóra some forty kilometres north of Wrocław, in a village few people find, although the commune lists the collection among its sights and says Wasecki opens it to visitors. No other private owner in this catalogue holds anything like forty standing segments. This record has no pin. Both inventories placed it in other villages called Sosnówka, one in Podlaskie and one in the Karkonosze, and those positions have been withheld; the meadow is private land, and no position for it is published here. Provenance: Six segments chosen from the dismantled stock in October 1990 against a 7,000 mark donation, arranged by Rainer Hildebrandt of the Mauermuseum; more acquired afterwards through the museum's contacts with Hagen Koch, including eight painted segments sold at the June 1990 Monaco auction and never collected by their buyers. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-sosnowka/): Ludwik Wasecki's biography and installations, the 1990 gold Trabant and Wolfshunger works, Rainer Hildebrandt's intervention, the six segments for a 7,000 mark donation in October 1990, the Hagen Koch contacts, the eight uncollected Monaco auction segments including the one sold to Japanese buyers for 40,000 marks, the 43 segments now on the meadow, the works by Citny, Haring and Noir, the 1992 and 1999 Wrocław exhibitions, and the drill installed beside the theatre in Gniezno in 2009. - [Der Mauersammler Ludwik Wasecki](https://www.porta-polonica.de/de/atlas-der-erinnerungsorte/der-mauersammler-ludwik-wasecki?page=2): Porta Polonica, 2018: Hagen Koch helped Wasecki obtain the first six segments against a donation to Rainer Hildebrandt's museum, and a sixteen-tonne load went to his private meadow at Sosnówka in the Oleśnica district, forty kilometres north of Wrocław; he later bought unclaimed Monte Carlo auction segments and others until he had about forty. - [Kolekcja Muru Berlińskiego - Twardogóra - serwis informacyjny miasta i gminy](https://www.twardogora.pl/strona-462-kolekcja_muru_berlinskiego.html): The town and commune of Twardogóra presents Ludwik Wasecki's collection of Berlin Wall segments on his property at Sosnówka among its own sights: about forty segments (thirty, in its opening line), which Wasecki opens to visitors. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-sosnowka/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Sosn%E2%88%9A%E2%89%A5wka%2C%20PL): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Terespol - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/poland/terespol/berlin-wall-terespol-f144 - Place: Wrota Wolności monument, beside the main road to the Belarusian border, Kobylany, Gmina Terespol, Powiat Bialski, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 52.054714864937, 23.566424830394 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #144 and #272 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #34. A slab from the outer ring of the Wall, built into a monument with bricks from the Gdańsk Shipyard and unveiled by Lech Wałęsa in 2009 beside the main road to Belarus. The Federal Foundation lists it twice, under Kobylany and under Terespol. At the end of March 2009 three wall monuments left the German district of Oberhavel for its Polish partner county of Biała Podlaska, on the initiative of the district administrator Karl-Heinz Schröter. By the Federal Foundation's account one went to the commune of Międzyrzec Podlaski, one to Kobylany, a village in the rural commune of Terespol, and a third was unveiled in Terespol in August in the presence of Lech Wałęsa and Schröter. The Foundation gives the Kobylany and the Terespol monument an entry each, with the same text on both. The commune's own bulletin describes one monument, not two. On Sunday 23 August 2009, at the county harvest festival in Kobylany and the day after the commune made him an honorary citizen, Wałęsa unveiled a monument called Wrota Wolności, the Gates of Freedom: bricks from the Gdańsk Shipyard, where Solidarność began, and the fragment of the Berlin Wall given by Oberhavel, painted 1989–2009 with the Solidarność logo breaking through it. Words of John Paul II on solidarity are cut into it, and a plaque below carries Wałęsa's line that without Solidarność there would be no ruins of the Berlin Wall. The bulletin mentions one fragment only, and the Wall Net names two places for the county's Oberhavel segments, Międzyrzec Podlaski and Kobylany. The Terespol unveiling in the Foundation's account is this one, so its two entries are treated here as one monument; if a second slab turns up in the commune, they will be separated again. The stated purpose was a sign of a division overcome and a memorial to peaceful coexistence between peoples — the kind of formula that reads as boilerplate until you notice where it was placed. The monument stands beside the main road to the Belarusian border, at the eastern edge of the European Union, and Wałęsa called the placing deeply symbolic. The county administrator of Biała Podlaska, Tadeusz Łazowski, hoped openly that the monuments would draw visitors to a remote region, and wished them to carry the message of European unification eastward rather than the fact of division. The concrete comes from the stretch of Wall that separated the Oberhavel municipality of Glienicke from the Berlin district of Reinickendorf: the outer ring, not the inner-city border that appears in the photographs. The Berlin Wall Archive's listing for the county, 'Biala Podlaska, PL', is carried on this page. Its title follows the Wall Net's entry, which describes the Oberhavel gift at both Międzyrzec Podlaski and Kobylany but counts one segment and places its map pin on this monument; the listing's own position was the county town's centre, 29 km to the west, and is not shown. Provenance: A gift from the German district of Oberhavel, arranged by its administrator Karl-Heinz Schröter, who had already given monuments to two other partner districts, Tampere in Finland and Hudson County in the United States; from the Glienicke–Reinickendorf section of the border. Built into the Wrota Wolności monument with bricks from the Gdańsk Shipyard and unveiled by Lech Wałęsa on 23 August 2009. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry (Kobylany)](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-powiat-bialski-2/): The three monuments sent to Powiat Bialski at the end of March 2009 on Karl-Heinz Schröter's initiative: one each for Międzyrzec Podlaski and Kobylany, and a third unveiled in Terespol in August 2009 in the presence of Lech Wałęsa and Schröter; their stated purpose, the Glienicke–Reinickendorf origin, the earlier gifts to Tampere and Hudson County, and Tadeusz Łazowski's hopes for the region. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry (Terespol)](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-powiat-bialski/): The Foundation's entry for the Terespol monument, which carries the same text as its Kobylany entry. - [Biuletyn Informacyjny Urzędu Gminy Terespol, wydanie specjalne 2009: Lech Wałęsa w Gminie Terespol](https://www.gminaterespol.pl/downloads.php?cat_id=15&file_id=98): The commune of Terespol's own bulletin: on Sunday 23 August 2009, at the county harvest festival in Kobylany and the day after the commune made him an honorary citizen, Lech Wałęsa unveiled the Wrota Wolności monument, made of bricks from the Gdańsk Shipyard and a fragment of the Berlin Wall given by the district of Oberhavel, painted 1989–2009 and inscribed with words of John Paul II, beside the main road to the Belarusian border. - [Biuletyn Informacyjny Urzędu Gminy Terespol, wydanie specjalne sierpień 2009](https://www.gminaterespol.pl/downloads.php?cat_id=15&file_id=97): The commune's announcement: to mark twenty years of free Poland it has put up in the border commune of Terespol a monument of bricks from the Gdańsk Shipyard and a fragment of the Berlin Wall given by the district of Oberhavel, to be unveiled by Lech Wałęsa on 23 August 2009. - [Biala Podlaska, PL — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/biala-podlaska-pl/): The Oberhavel segments in the county of Biała Podlaska stand in two places, Międzyrzec Podlaski and Kobylany, set up in 2009; the inauguration in August 2009 was attended by Lech Wałęsa, and a plaque carries words of Wałęsa and John Paul II. The entry counts one segment, and its embedded map pin lies on the Kobylany monument. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-powiat-bialski/): 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. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-powiat-bialski-2/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Biala%20Podlaska%2C%20PL): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Warsaw - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/poland/warsaw/berlin-wall-warsaw-f146 - Place: Museum of John Paul II, Temple of Divine Providence, Wilanów, Warsaw, Poland - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display at the museum entrance); evidence: Documented - Position: 52.1586129, 21.072104317251 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #146. A segment unveiled on what would have been John Paul II's hundredth birthday, given by the German embassy to the museum that tells his part in the end of communist rule. A segment was unveiled at the entrance of the Museum of John Paul II, inside the Temple of Divine Providence in Wilanów, on 18 May 2020 — the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Karol Wojtyła. The German embassy in Warsaw donated it; the piece came from a German private collector, and the museum belongs to the Warsaw archdiocese. The segment comes from the front row of the Wall between the centre of Berlin and Treptow, and the Federal Republic paid for it. At the ceremony the ambassador handed the deed of gift to the Polish prime minister, and the segment was taken under the dome of the Temple straight afterwards. Like the segment installed at the Vatican in 1990, it argues that the Polish pope helped end communist rule and the division of Europe. The museum's director, Marcin Adamczewski, pointed at the unveiling to Wojtyła's 1979 visit to Poland, when something like ten million people came to see him and he became a figure of political resistance; the Polish prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, pointed to Solidarność, founded the year after that visit. The German ambassador, Rolf Nikel, said the segment was meant to express German gratitude to Poland and to the Polish pope for their part in ending the division of Germany. This is not Warsaw's only piece of the Wall. Four sections are built into the Solidarity memorial at the junction of Świętokrzyska and Kopernika, inaugurated in 2021, with quotations from Reagan and John Paul II set into the concrete. That site has no record in this catalogue yet; this record was held back for a time because it was thought to be a bad position for the memorial, and the Foundation's own entry shows instead that it is a second Warsaw site, nine kilometres south. Provenance: Given by the German embassy in Warsaw, acquired from a German private collector, and unveiled on 18 May 2020 for the centenary of John Paul II's birth. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-warschau/): The unveiling on 18 May 2020 at the Museum of John Paul II in the Temple of Divine Providence, the German embassy's donation of a segment from a German collector, the comparison with the Vatican segment of 1990, and the remarks of Marcin Adamczewski, Mateusz Morawiecki and Rolf Nikel. - [Fragment muru berlińskiego trafił do Mt 5,14 | Muzeum Jana Pawła II i Prymasa Wyszyńskiego](https://archwwa.pl/aktualnosci/fragment-muru-berlinskiego-trafil-do-mt-514-muzeum-jana-pawla-ii-i-prymasa-wyszynskiego/): The Archdiocese of Warsaw, 18 May 2020: on the centenary of John Paul II's birth a fragment of the Wall was given to the museum at Wilanów; the German ambassador, Rolf Nikel, handed the deed of gift to the prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, with Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz present, and the fragment was then taken under the dome of the Temple of Divine Providence, where the museum is. - [Fragment Muru Berlińskiego trafi do Muzeum Jana Pawła II i Prymasa Wyszyńskiego](https://www.niedziela.pl/artykul/53407/Fragment-Muru-Berlinskiego-trafi-do): Niedziela, 18 May 2020: the original fragment, handed over in front of the Temple of Divine Providence with Ambassador Rolf Nikel and Cardinal Nycz present, comes from the front row of the Wall between central Berlin and Treptow and was paid for by the Federal Republic of Germany. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-warschau/): 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. ## Japan ### Berlin Wall — Hikone - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/japan/hikone/berlin-wall-hikone-f248 - Place: Maruho Co. Ltd. works, Hikone, Shiga Prefecture, Japan - Classification: Private / Limited Access; can it be seen today: Restricted access (In the entrance hall of the works); evidence: Documented - Position: 35.254276, 136.215376 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #248 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #175. Segment 28 from Checkpoint Charlie, bought through a Berlin partner firm as a seventieth birthday present, and held at Japanese customs while officials decided whether it was rubble or art. Jiro Takagi was chairman of the pharmaceutical firm Maruho Co. Ltd. at Hikone for several decades. Watching the border open on television in November 1989, he decided that his company should have a share in what was happening — chiefly for the sake of his younger employees, as a symbol of freedom and, as the Foundation records his intention, as something that might also prompt thought about Japan's own recent history in the Second World War. When the GDR began selling wall elements in the spring of 1990, Takagi approached his partner firm Dr. Kade in Berlin-Kreuzberg. The two companies had done business together since 1923, the year after the Berlin firm's breakthrough on the world market. Kade acted at once, and in April 1990 bought segment number 28, from the former crossing at Checkpoint Charlie, from the GDR trading company Limex. It was meant as a present for Takagi's seventieth birthday and reached the port of Kobe in June. There it stopped. Japanese customs refused to release the freight because nobody could say whether duty was payable on building rubble or on a work of art — a question the whole trade in the Wall raises and mostly avoids. The segment was finally unveiled in the Maruho garden on 20 November 1990. It was moved indoors later to keep the weather off it, and stands in the entrance hall with a map explaining in Japanese the line the Wall took between the Brandenburg Gate and Checkpoint Charlie. The Limex certificates of authenticity, in Japanese and German, hang beside it. The position of this record is withheld. The imported coordinates put it near Osaka, about ninety kilometres from Hikone; the catalogue's other Hikone record carries the correct position for the town. Maruho's own website tells it a little differently. It calls the segment a gift (kizō) from Dr. Kade in June 1990, the 28th wall counted from Checkpoint Charlie, and says it now stands in a corner of the factory building, facing west, as a symbol of the value of life, a society without war, and freedom. The Foundation has Kade buying it for the chairman's birthday and the piece standing in an entrance hall. The two readings of the purchase and of the present position are kept. Provenance: Segment 28, from the former Checkpoint Charlie crossing, bought from Limex in April 1990 by the Berlin firm Dr. Kade for its Japanese partner Maruho, as a seventieth birthday present for the chairman Jiro Takagi. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-hikone/): Jiro Takagi's decision after watching the border open, the long business relationship between Maruho and Dr. Kade dating to 1923, the purchase of segment 28 from Checkpoint Charlie from Limex in April 1990, its arrival at Kobe in June and the customs dispute over rubble or art, the unveiling in the works garden on 20 November 1990, and the later move into the entrance hall with the map and Limex certificates. - [Maruho Arts — ベルリンの壁 (Maruho Co., Ltd.)](https://www.maruho.co.jp/stories/article/maruho_art.html): Maruho's own account: the 28th wall from Checkpoint Charlie, a gift from Dr. Kade of Berlin in June 1990, now standing in a corner of the Maruho factory building facing west, as a symbol of the value of life, a society without war and freedom. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-hikone/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Hikone%2C%20J): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Nagoya - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/japan/nagoya/berlin-wall-nagoya-f249 - Place: Protestant community centre, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan - Classification: Fragment; can it be seen today: On display (Set into the wall beside the entrance); evidence: Listed - Position: 35.090284200821, 136.9652148806 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #249. A cross made from fragments sold by the gram at a church bazaar, the proceeds going to famine relief in Africa. When the Protestant community centre in Nagoya was opened, it had four crosses: one on the roof, one in the prayer room, one beside the entrance, and a small wooden one handed to every visitor. The cross beside the entrance is set into the wall and made of tiny fragments of the Berlin Wall. The idea was the missionary Erhard Hottenbacher's, who led the congregation for many years, and his account of how the fragments got to Japan is the reason this record matters more than its size suggests. In the autumn of 1989 the congregation held its annual charity bazaar in what was then a small wooden chapel, popular locally for its genuinely German goods — one of several ways, along with German lessons, concerts and German evenings, of interesting Japanese neighbours in the country. A few weeks before the bazaar the border opened. They saw a newspaper photograph of the German foreign minister Genscher handing the American president a stone from the Wall, and asked their son Friedemann, then a student in Berlin, to send some stones and fragments. They sold them at the bazaar by the gram. The rush, Hottenbacher says, was overwhelming, and the proceeds went in full to a Christian famine relief organisation working in Africa. Most of this catalogue records tonnes of concrete moved by governments and companies. This is the other half of the dispersal: a suitcase of rubble, sold by weight at a parish sale on the other side of the world, and set afterwards into a wall as a cross. Provenance: Fragments collected in Berlin in late 1989 by Friedemann Hottenbacher and sent to his parents' congregation in Nagoya, where they were sold by the gram at a charity bazaar for African famine relief. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-nagoya/): The four crosses at the Nagoya community centre and the one beside the entrance made of wall fragments, Erhard Hottenbacher's authorship of the idea, and his own account of the autumn 1989 bazaar, the Genscher photograph, the fragments sent by his son from Berlin, their sale by the gram and the donation of the proceeds to African famine relief. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-nagoya/): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Osaka - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/japan/osaka/berlin-wall-osaka-f250 - Place: Toukokuji Temple, Chausuyama-chō, Tennōji-ku, Osaka, Japan - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 34.650752609571, 135.51187646907 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #250 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #316. Two segments given by two Koreans to a Korean Buddhist temple in Japan, with a request for Korean reunification attached. Two segments have stood at the Toukokuji Temple since 1998. The temple belongs to the Association of Korean Buddhists in Japan and performs Korean rites; by tradition it traces back to Korean immigrants who settled here in the seventh century. The segments were given by two Koreans, with an explicit request attached: that the two halves of their own country be reunited. It is the clearest case in the catalogue of a recipient community using a German object to talk about a border that has not opened — the same argument Seoul's Berlin Square makes officially, made here by two private citizens in a third country. The temple's own page says the piece was given in September 1998 by a member of the congregation, who said that placing it at Toukokuji, for the unification of the Korean people, was best, and it closes with a prayer that a day of unification will come as it did for Germany. It speaks of the piece in the singular, with its West German face to the front; the listing's count of two segments from two donors is kept alongside it. Provenance: Donated in 1998: in September, by a member of the congregation, according to the temple; by two Koreans, according to the listing. Sources: - [Osaka, J — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/osaka-j/): Two segments at the temple since 1998, the Korean donors and their reunification request, and the temple's Korean Buddhist affiliation. - [ベルリンの壁 (Toukokuji temple)](https://toukokuji.com/berlin_wall/): The temple's own page: the Berlin Wall in its pre-collapse size, given by a member of the congregation in September 1998, who said that Toukokuji was the best place for it, for the unification of the Korean people; the front face in the photograph is the West German side. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-osaka/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Osaka%2C%20J): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Togitsu - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/japan/togitsu/berlin-wall-togitsu-f251 - Place: Nihon Bisoh factory, Togitsu, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan - Classification: Private / Limited Access; can it be seen today: Restricted access (At the works, shown to visitors on the factory tour); evidence: Listed - Position: 32.8338049, 129.830303 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #251 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #426. The only wall element with a door known outside Germany — bought with its keys by a firm that builds façade cradles, for a museum of exterior walls that was never built. Segment B008, a piece of the Berlin Wall from the Brandenburg Gate, was offered for sale by Limex in 1990. A board member of Nihon Bisoh, a Tokyo firm that maintains building façades, bought it; the present owners could not say what was paid. It arrived in Japan in the summer of 1990 with a certificate of authenticity, two bronze Limex seals, and the keys to the door. The plan was to make it the foundation stone of a museum of exterior walls. The board saw a moral obligation in it: a company that makes the cradles suspended down the sides of buildings ought also to engage with what walls mean. The museum was never built. The segment went instead to the company's factory at Togitsu in Nagasaki Prefecture, where it is explained to employees and visitors on the works tour; the door and its two keys are shown as a rarity, which is exactly what they are. Why a wall would have a door in it is the better part of the story. From the middle of the 1970s the GDR leadership had the border rebuilt with the L-shaped concrete elements now recognised everywhere, the Grenzmauer 75. Three years in, the border troops found they had made a mistake: in the inner city the elements had been set back from the actual boundary, leaving a narrow strip of GDR territory on the western side. The new wall could not be climbed from the west — and could not be crossed from the east either, so the guards could no longer reach their own ground. The commander of the Berlin-Mitte border command raised it. In the autumn of 1978 it was decided to fit doors, partly against surprises from the western side and above all so that the graffiti being painted on the west face could be scrubbed off. The position of this record is withheld: the imported coordinates put it near Osaka, 557 kilometres from Togitsu, and the catalogue's other Togitsu record carries the right one. Provenance: Segment B008, from the Brandenburg Gate, bought from Limex in 1990 by a board member of Nihon Bisoh, and delivered with a certificate of authenticity, two bronze Limex seals and the door keys. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-togitsu/): Segment B008 as the only known wall element with a door outside Germany, its purchase from Limex by a Nihon Bisoh board member, the certificate, seals and keys, the unbuilt museum of exterior walls and the board's stated reasoning, its present place at the Togitsu factory, and the history of the Grenzmauer 75 and the 1978 decision to fit doors so that the border troops could reach the forward strip and remove graffiti. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-togitsu/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Togitsu%2C%20J): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Ueno - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/japan/ueno/berlin-wall-ueno-f252 - Place: German Culture Village, Ueno, Miyako-jima, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (In the local museum); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 24.719336, 125.322647 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #252 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #261. Elements 166 and 167, bought for six million yen by a fishing village that built a German theme village to remember a shipwreck rescue of 1873. On 2 July 1873 a typhoon drove the German merchant ship R. J. Robertson onto the coast of the Japanese island of Miyako-jima. The people of the small coastal village of Ueno put out into a heavy sea and saved all eight crew, took them in, and a month later saw them onto a ship for the mainland and home. Kaiser Wilhelm I was so struck by the rescue that he had a memorial stone made for it, which still stands in the harbour at Hirara. More than 120 years later the village turned that episode into a German culture village. The idea was raised in the local administration in 1987; descendants of the fishermen travelled to Germany for ideas, came back impressed by Schloss Mainau on Lake Constance, and built a hotel whose sea-facing windows look out at the reef that wrecked the ship. Inland there is a children's house built in the shape of a church, and two original elements of the Berlin Wall were set up in its courtyard. There is also a row of half-timbered houses copied from Stade in Lower Saxony, and a replica of the Marksburg on the Rhine — considerably cheaper, the Foundation notes drily, than the purchase of the original castle that was first considered. The municipality went after the segments as soon as the border opened. Representatives travelled to East Berlin and bought elements 166 and 167 from Limex for six million yen, then about 60,000 marks, and shipped them home. Sun and heavy rain took their toll and the pieces were later moved into the local museum, where they stand with their certificates and two Limex seals. The village's own site now shows a piece of the Wall in the Kinderhaus, the children's house, giving it as 3.6 metres high and 2.6 tonnes. The listing came without coordinates, and the Foundation's entry gives the site rather than a position; the pin is the culture village's own. Provenance: Elements 166 and 167, bought from Limex in East Berlin by the municipality of Ueno for six million yen, about 60,000 marks, shortly after the border opened. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-ueno/): The 1873 wreck of the R. J. Robertson and the rescue by the villagers of Ueno, Wilhelm I's memorial stone at Hirara, the founding of the German culture village from 1987 and its buildings, the purchase of elements 166 and 167 from Limex for six million yen, their siting in the courtyard of the children's house and later move into the local museum with the certificates and Limex seals. - [博愛記念館＆キンダーハウス — うえのドイツ文化村](https://www.hakuaiueno.com/kinenkan.html): The culture village's own page on the Hakuai Kinenkan and the Kinderhaus: the Kinderhaus displays a genuine piece of the Berlin Wall, 3.6 metres high and 2.6 tonnes, with related material and photographs of the period. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-ueno/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Miyako-jima%2C%20J): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Yokohama - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/japan/yokohama/berlin-wall-yokohama-f253 - Place: German School Tokyo Yokohama, Tsuzuki-ku, Yokohama, Japan - Classification: Fragment; can it be seen today: Restricted access (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 35.511165319274, 139.6153139576 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #253. A small segment given to the German school in 2016, after years in the hands of a Japanese menswear retailer. The school is the German School Tokyo Yokohama, and the donation was made on 18 May 2016. Its previous owner was Aoki Holdings, a Japanese clothing retailer — one of several records in this catalogue where a segment spent years in corporate hands before reaching an institution that would show it. The local paper Town News reported the ceremony on 26 May 2016. AOKI's vice-chairman handed over a section the company had bought and kept since the Wall fell, hoping it would be a sign of friendship, before diplomatic representatives of Germany, Austria and Switzerland; the day, 18 May, was chosen for its place in German history. Provenance: Previously owned by the Japanese clothing retail group Aoki Holdings, and donated to the school on 18 May 2016. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A small segment at the German School of Tokyo Yokohama, previously owned by Aoki Holdings and donated on 18 May 2016. - [AOKIホールディングス ベルリンの壁を独逸学園へ 日独友好の思い込めて](https://www.townnews.co.jp/0104/2016/05/26/333335.html): Town News (Tsuzuki edition), 26 May 2016: AOKI Holdings gave a section of the Wall it had bought and kept since 1989 to the German school on 18 May 2016, a date chosen for its German significance; the vice-chairman handed it over before German, Austrian and Swiss representatives. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-yokohama/): 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. ## Netherlands ### Arnheim, NL - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/netherlands/arnheim/arnheim-nl-a18 - Place: Stadsblokkenwerf, Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: Unknown (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 51.984257, 5.9108573 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #18. A four-tonne segment brought up the Rhine by a historic Arnhem ship in 2014, first set beside the John Frost Bridge and since early 2016 in a shipyard garden across the river. A three-metre segment weighing four tonnes was set on the Rijnkade in Arnhem, close to the John Frost Bridge, on 9 November 2014, exactly twenty-five years after the Wall opened. The historic Arnhem ship Ebenhaëzer had brought it from Berlin. The initiator, Jan Trooster, told Omroep Gelderland why the place suited it: the Wall and the bridge at Arnhem are both icons of the consequences of the Second World War. Residents were to be invited over the following year to submit artwork and text about peace in the world, and the two best were to be shown on the wall itself. It did not stay on the quay. The Stadsblokkenwerf, the shipyard on the south bank, wrote in June 2016 that the segment had stood on the Rijnkade until early 2016 and was now in the yard's own garden on the other side of the river. That is the last report read; whether the yard's garden is open to visitors is not stated. Provenance: One of four elements brought from Berlin in the summer of 2014 for Stichting Muurbrekers; the Arnhem one came on the Ebenhaëzer at the initiative of the Stichting Historische Schepen Arnhem. Sources: - [Deel Berlijnse Muur bij John Frostbrug in Arnhem — Omroep Gelderland](https://www.gld.nl/nieuws/2074274/deel-berlijnse-muur-bij-john-frostbrug-in-arnhem): 6 November 2014: a 3-metre, 4-tonne segment is to be placed on the Rijnkade near the John Frost Bridge on 9 November, brought from Berlin by the historic ship Ebenhaëzer; initiator Jan Trooster on the link between the Wall and the Arnhem bridge; residents to be invited to submit art and text on world peace. - [Stukje Berlijnse muur in Arnhem — Omroep Gelderland](https://www.gld.nl/nieuws/2074416/stukje-berlijnse-muur-in-arnhem): 9 November 2014: the segment, 3 metres long and 4 tonnes, has been set up on the Rijnkade by the John Frost Bridge. - [Trabantjes bezoeken Berlijnse muur in Arnhem — Stadsblokkenwerf](http://www.stadsblokkenwerf.nl/locatie/trabantjes-bezoeken-berlijnse-muur-in-arnhem/): 27 June 2016: the 4-tonne segment, delivered on 9 November 2014 by the Arnhem historic ship Ebenhaëzer, stood on the Rijnkade until early 2016 and is now in the yard's garden (werftuin) on the other side of the river. - [Verscheepte Berlijnse Muur in Nederland tentoongesteld — Zeilen](https://www.zeilen.nl/actueel/verscheepte-berlijnse-muur-op-vier-locaties-nederland): 4 November 2014: the Stichting Historische Schepen Arnhem placed the wall piece on the Rhine embankment, one of four segments brought from Berlin for Stichting Muurbrekers. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Arnheim%2C%20NL): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Best - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/netherlands/best/berlin-wall-best-f1377 - Place: Museum Bevrijdende Vleugels, Best, North Brabant, Netherlands - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display on the museum grounds); evidence: Documented - Position: 51.517306574772, 5.4408581973822 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #1377 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #33. Five segments that stood for years at a demolition firm's yard in Breda, brought to a Dutch museum of the 1944 liberation in September 2023. Five segments of the Berlin Wall stand on the grounds of the Museum Bevrijdende Vleugels — Wings of Liberation — at Best in North Brabant, a museum of the Allied airborne operations that liberated this part of the Netherlands in September 1944. They arrived on Wednesday 13 September 2023. A submitted notice printed by the local weekly in neighbouring Son en Breugel says the five had belonged to the Heezen family, who took them over by agreement with heirs of the Stolwerk family, and that for many years they had stood on the yard of Stolwerk's demolition business on the Tilburgseweg in Breda. The same notice says Stolwerk was the only Dutch firm to help demolish the Wall; nothing read here confirms that, and it is recorded as the museum's account rather than as established. The Federal Foundation's entry for the site is still a placeholder: it records the five segments and the museum, and says further information will follow. Where in Berlin they came from is not known. Five is a substantial holding — more than most national capitals in this catalogue — and for thirty years it stood on a contractor's yard rather than in a museum, which is where a good deal of the Wall spent the time. Provenance: Brought to the museum on 13 September 2023 from the Heezen family, who had taken the five segments over from heirs of the Stolwerk family; they had stood for years at Stolwerk's demolition yard on the Tilburgseweg in Breda. Their origin in Berlin is not recorded. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-best/): Five segments of the Berlin Wall on the grounds of the Museum Bevrijdende Vleugels at Best; the entry is explicitly a placeholder pending further information. - [(Regio) Uniek stuk Berlijnse muur komt naar museum Bevrijdende Vleugels in Best — DeMooiSonenBreugelKrant](https://www.mooisonenbreugel.nl/ingezonden/ingezonden/34528/-regio-uniek-stuk-berlijnse-muur-komt-naar-museum-bevrijdende): A submitted notice of 15 September 2023: the museum received five Berlin Wall segments on 13 September 2023 from the Heezen family, who had taken them over from heirs of the Stolwerk family; they had stood for many years on Stolwerk's yard on the Tilburgseweg in Breda, and the notice says Stolwerk sloopwerken helped demolish the Wall. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-best/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Best%2C%20NL): 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. ### Breda, NL - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/netherlands/breda/breda-nl-a48 - Place: Stolwerk sloopwerken, Tilburgseweg, Breda, North Brabant, Netherlands - Classification: Former Location; can it be seen today: Moved (Moved in 2023 to Museum Bevrijdende Vleugels, Best); evidence: Documented - Position: 51.5887845, 4.7760237 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #48. Seven metres of painted Wall stood for some twenty-five years on a demolition contractor's yard in Breda, until five segments went to a museum at Best in 2023. Toon Stolwerk's demolition firm in Breda kept a section of the Wall on its yard for most of a quarter of a century. Omroep Brabant described it in 2011 and again in August 2014 as about seven metres wide and more than three metres high, with graffiti added by various artists at the firm's request, and Stolwerk said hundreds of people a year came to look, some from Poland and Germany, school groups among them. His account of how it came to be there is that the firm helped to take the Wall down in 1989 because it had the only machine in Europe able to cut through its concrete and steel; the 2014 report quotes him saying the Russians asked him to. That is the firm's own telling, and nothing read here confirms it. The piece is no longer on the yard. A submitted notice printed in 2023 by a local weekly in Son en Breugel says the five segments that reached the Museum Bevrijdende Vleugels at Best on 13 September 2023 had stood for many years on Stolwerk's yard on the Tilburgseweg in Breda, and that the Heezen family had taken them over by agreement with heirs of the Stolwerk family. The museum has its own page in this atlas. The news reports give one stretch seven metres wide and the notice gives five segments; the sources do not say how the two descriptions fit, and the record does not guess. Provenance: Said by the firm to have come from the 1989 demolition, in which it took part; later owned by the Heezen family, who passed five segments to the museum at Best in 2023. Sources: - [Sloopbedrijf Breda werkte mee aan val Berlijnse muur — Omroep Brabant](https://www.omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/876815/sloopbedrijf-breda-werkte-mee-aan-val-berlijnse-muur): 11 August 2011: the Breda demolition firm Stolwerk keeps a section of the Wall, seven metres wide and over three metres high with graffiti by various artists made at its request, on its premises; the firm says its cutting machine helped to demolish the Wall in 1989; visitors, including school groups, still come. - [Berlijnse Muur voor het eerst naar Nederland, of toch niet? ‘Hij staat al jaren hier in Breda hoor’ — Omroep Brabant](https://www.omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/1894133/berlijnse-muur-voor-het-eerst-naar-nederland-of-toch-niet-hij-staat-al-jaren-hier-in-breda-hoor): 28 August 2014: the piece has stood on Toon Stolwerk's property in Breda for almost twenty-five years, seven metres wide and over three metres high; he says the Russians asked his firm to help because it alone in Europe had a machine that could cut the Wall's concrete and steel; hundreds of people a year come to see it. - [(Regio) Uniek stuk Berlijnse muur komt naar museum Bevrijdende Vleugels in Best — DeMooiSonenBreugelKrant](https://www.mooisonenbreugel.nl/ingezonden/ingezonden/34528/-regio-uniek-stuk-berlijnse-muur-komt-naar-museum-bevrijdende): A submitted notice of 15 September 2023: five Berlin Wall segments reached the Museum Bevrijdende Vleugels at Best on 13 September 2023 from the Heezen family, who had taken them over from heirs of the Stolwerk family; they had stood for many years on Stolwerk's yard on the Tilburgseweg in Breda. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Breda%2C%20NL): 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. ### Grou, NL - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/netherlands/grou/grou-nl-a156 - Place: Museum Bescherming Bevolking (Commandopost Grou), Grou, Friesland, Netherlands - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: Unknown (Reported in place); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 53.08353, 5.82725 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #156. A 3.5-tonne segment, shifted free of charge by a local contractor, outside a civil-defence museum in Friesland. The Museum Bescherming Bevolking at Grou keeps a section of the Wall on its grounds, a museum of the Cold War and of civil defence. Its own website records one stage of the piece's life: it was moved from the car park to a new place at the museum by Loonbedrijf Sjoerd Nauta of Grou, who did the job with a heavy shovel and charged nothing, and the post gives the weight as 3.5 tonnes. It dates the move only as a Friday, 8 February, without a year, so it is not dated here. Omrop Fryslân, reporting on the museum's exhibition for the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall in November 2019, says that various things connected with the Wall are to be found in and around the museum. Two directories of Dutch museums and Cold War sites also list the segment; one says that an original segment and a Trabant can be seen there all year round. Nothing read here says where the segment came from, when it arrived or whether a ticket is needed to see it, and the museum's post does not either. Sources: - [Segment Berlijnse muur verplaatst te Grou — Museum Bescherming Bevolking](https://www.museumbeschermingbevolking.nl/segment-berlijnse-muur-verplaatst-te-grou/): The museum's own post: the Berlin Wall segment was moved from the car park to its new place at the museum by Loonbedrijf Sjoerd Nauta of Grou, free of charge, with a heavy shovel; the segment weighs 3.5 tonnes. The post gives the day as Friday 8 February, without a year. - [Een blik achter de Berlijnse muur in Grou — Omrop Fryslân](https://www.omropfryslan.nl/nl/nieuws/918406/een-blik-achter-de-berlijnse-muur-in-grou): 9 November 2019: the museum in Grou shows an exhibition for the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall, and various things connected with the Wall are found in and around the museum. - [Museum Bescherming Bevolking Grou — Koudeoorlog.nl](https://koudeoorlog.nl/locaties/museum-bescherming-bevolking-grou/): A directory of Cold War sites in the Netherlands: an original segment of the Berlin Wall and a Trabant can be seen at the museum all year round. - [Bescherming Bevolking — Museum.frl](https://www.museum.frl/musea/bescherming-bevolking/): A directory of Frisian museums: on the grounds are a number of vehicles and a segment of the Berlin Wall. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Grou%2C%20NL): 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. ### Heerlen, NL - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/netherlands/heerlen/heerlen-nl-a169 - Place: Avantis business park, on the border between Heerlen and Aachen, Limburg, Netherlands - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: Unknown (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 50.83444, 6.01917 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #169. A segment of about three tonnes set on the Dutch–German border by a maker of care and sports aids, as a symbolic foundation stone for its new building. In November 2014, for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the fall of the Wall, a segment was placed on the premises of the company Arion at Avantis, the business park that straddles the Dutch–German border at Heerlen. Arion, which makes aids for health care and sport, was building a factory and office there and wanted the piece placed exactly on the border with Germany, symbolically as a kind of first stone. L1 Nieuws, the Limburg broadcaster, reported on 4 November 2014 that it measured 5 metres by 3.70 and weighed about 3,000 kilograms, and that it was to be placed on 11 November. The sailing-magazine report of the same week dates the Heerlen display to 10 November. The two dates are given as the sources give them. The company bought it from a foundation that had acquired four pieces; the other three went to Amsterdam, Arnhem and Zierikzee. Nothing later than the 2014 reports has been read, so whether it is still on the premises, and whether anyone outside the company can see it, is not established here. Provenance: One of four elements brought from Berlin in the summer of 2014 by historic sailing ships for Stichting Muurbrekers, and bought from that foundation by Arion. Sources: - [Stuk Berlijnse muur naar Avantis in Heerlen — L1 Nieuws](https://www.l1nieuws.nl/nieuws/1288403/stuk-berlijnse-muur-naar-avantis-in-heerlen): 4 November 2014: Arion, building a factory and office at Avantis, wants the piece placed precisely on the border with Germany as a kind of symbolic first stone; it measures 5 m by 3.70 m, weighs about 3,000 kg and is to be placed on 11 November; it was bought from a foundation that acquired four pieces, the others going to Amsterdam, Arnhem and Zierikzee. - [Verscheepte Berlijnse Muur in Nederland tentoongesteld — Zeilen](https://www.zeilen.nl/actueel/verscheepte-berlijnse-muur-op-vier-locaties-nederland): 4 November 2014: four historic sailing ships brought four wall segments from Berlin in the summer for Stichting Muurbrekers, shown at Amsterdam, Zierikzee, Arnhem and Heerlen; at Heerlen, on 10 November, Arion placed its segment on the German–Dutch border. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Heerlen%2C%20NL): 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. ### Soesterberg, NL - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/netherlands/soesterberg/soesterberg-nl-a394 - Place: Nationaal Militair Museum, Verlengde Paltzerweg 30, Soest, Netherlands - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display beside the museum); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 52.13139, 5.27622 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #394. Two segments under the canopy of the Dutch national military museum — one given by Germany after 1989, one sailed back from Berlin in 2014. Two original segments stand under the canopy of the Nationaal Militair Museum, on the former air base at Soesterberg. Each is nearly four metres tall and weighs more than 2,500 kilograms, and one of them is covered in graffiti. They arrived twenty-five years apart. The first came to the Legermuseum, the army museum the NMM replaced, soon after the Wall came down, when the German government was handing out pieces. The second came in 2014, when the Stichting Muurbrekers sailed historic boats to Berlin and brought four sections of the Wall back to the Netherlands by water. The museum does not say which of the two is which, or where in Berlin either stood. Provenance: One segment given by the German government to the Legermuseum after 1989 and inherited by the Nationaal Militair Museum; the second brought from Berlin by the Stichting Muurbrekers in 2014. Sources: - [Val Berlijnse Muur — Nationaal Militair Museum](https://www.nmm.nl/nl/stories/val-berlijnse-muur/): Two original pieces of the Berlin Wall under the museum's canopy, each over 2,500 kg and nearly four metres high; one reached the Legermuseum soon after the fall of the Wall when the German government gave out pieces, the second came in 2014 when the Stichting Muurbrekers sailed historic boats to Berlin to fetch four sections; one carries graffiti. - [Berlijnse Muur — Nationaal Militair Museum, secondary schools](https://www.nmm.nl/nl/bezoek/scholen/voortgezet-onderwijs/koude-oorlog/berlijnse-muur/): The pieces of the Berlin Wall stand on the outdoor grounds beside the museum. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Soesterberg%2C%20NL): 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. ## Spain ### Berlin Wall — Cala Vadella, Ibiza - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/spain/cala-vadella-ibiza/berlin-wall-cala-vadella-ibiza-f155 - Place: Private property near Cala Vadella, Ibiza, Balearic Islands, Spain - Classification: Private / Limited Access; can it be seen today: Restricted access (In private hands; the position is not published); evidence: Listed - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #155. Bought at a German auction in 2005 for 7,000 euros and taken to Ibiza by a father who wanted his Spanish-raised children to see the thing itself. A segment from Waldemarstraße in West Berlin, painted with a Kiddy Citny graffito, reached the Balearic island of Ibiza in 2005. It belongs to Olaf Stölt, who paid 7,000 euros for it at an auction in Germany. Its route there is a small record of the trade's failures. The slab was taken down in the spring of 1990 on the orders of the GDR government and passed to Limex and to the LeLé agency to be sold at a profit; no buyer was found. It sat, with three others from the same stock, until the lot was put up to the highest bidder fifteen years later. Stölt has explained plainly why he bought it. He wanted to bring recent German history closer to children who were mostly born and raised in Spain, and to have visible proof of it — not only of the post-war division, but of what caused it, since the Wall was in the end a consequence of the Hitler dictatorship. He also describes the reaction it gets, which is the most useful line in the record: people who hear that someone brought the Berlin Wall to Ibiza picture a lump broken out of it, not a whole element, and the first thing they say when they see it is that they had not understood how big it is. Each time, he says, a conversation about German history follows. This record has no pin. That is not a gap in the sources: the object is on private land and its position has not been published. Provenance: Taken down in spring 1990 for sale through Limex and the LeLé agency, unsold, and bought by Olaf Stölt at a German auction in spring 2005 for 7,000 euros. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-cala-vadella-ibiza/): The Waldemarstraße origin and Kiddy Citny painting, the 1990 dismantling for sale through Limex and LeLé and the failure to find a buyer, the auction of four segments in spring 2005, Olaf Stölt's purchase for 7,000 euros, and his own account of his motives and of visitors' reactions. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-cala-vadella-ibiza/): 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. ### Madrid, E – Museo de Aeronáutica y Astronáutica - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/spain/madrid/madrid-e-museo-de-aeronautica-y-astronautica-a241 - Place: Museo de Aeronáutica y Astronáutica, Cuatro Vientos, Madrid, Spain - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 40.368552158122, -3.7806659107052 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #157 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #241. Madrid's second site, at the air and space museum at Cuatro Vientos — distinct from the segments in the Parque de Berlín. Madrid holds two documented sites and they are easy to conflate. This one is a section at the Spanish air and space museum; the better known is the trio of segments in the pond at the Parque de Berlín in Chamartín, unveiled on the first anniversary in 1990, which is a separate record about 12 km north-east of here. The two also arrived nearly thirty years apart. This section is one of the slabs the Berlin artist Patrice Lux has painted and passed on to institutions around the world. Lux gave it to the ILA air show in Berlin in April 2018, and in May the show presented it to the Patrulla Águila, the Spanish Air Force's aerobatic team, after its display there; the museum made it its featured piece for the first quarter of 2020. The front carries an inverted S that turns from the colours of the Berlin flag into those of Spain, between the Berlin bear and the badge of the Patrulla Águila, with the ILA 2018 logo in a painted sky. Provenance: Painted by the Berlin artist Patrice Lux, who gave it to the ILA air show in Berlin in April 2018; in May 2018 the show presented it to the Spanish Air Force's Patrulla Águila aerobatic team, and it passed to the museum. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A Berlin Wall section recorded at the Museo de Aeronáutica y Astronáutica. - [Pieza destacada. Primer trimestre 2020. Muro de Berlín](https://ejercitodelaireydelespacio.defensa.gob.es/EA/museodelaire/actividades/pieza/1T2020.pdf): The museum's featured piece for the first quarter of 2020: an original reinforced-concrete section of the Wall, painted in 2018 by Patrice Lux, who gave it to the ILA air show in Berlin in April 2018; in May 2018 the show presented it to the Spanish Air Force's Patrulla Águila. Describes both painted faces. - [Últimas novedades al Museo de Aeronáutica y Astronáutica](https://ejercitodelaireydelespacio.defensa.gob.es/EA/museodelaire/novedades.html): The museum lists a section of the Berlin Wall, painted by Patrice Lux, among its new acquisitions: given by its owner to the ILA air show in Berlin in April 2018, which presented it to the Patrulla Águila. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-madrid-2/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Madrid%2C%20E%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Museo%20de%20Aeron%E2%88%9A%C2%B0utica%20y%20Astron%E2%88%9A%C2%B0utica): 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. ### Madrid, E – Parque de Berlin - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/spain/madrid/madrid-e-parque-de-berlin-a242 - Place: Parque de Berlín, Chamartín, Madrid, Spain - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 40.45128, -3.67507 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #156 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #242. Three segments at the centre of a pond in Chamartín, unveiled on 9 November 1990 — among the earliest permanent installations outside Germany. The unveiling fell on the first anniversary of the opening. The pond is in the Chamartín district, and the segments are one of very few installations outside Germany placed in an ordinary municipal park rather than an institution. Provenance: Brought to Madrid in 1990 in an operation arranged by the mayor of the time, Agustín Rodríguez Sahagún. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): Three segments unveiled in the Parque de Berlín on 9 November 1990. - [Los restos del muro de Berlín en España](https://www.eldiario.es/cultura/restos-muro-berlin-espana_1_1266829.html): An EFE report of 8 November 2019: the Parque de Berlín keeps three L-shaped fragments of the Wall in a pond at the north of the park, with an inscription; they arrived in Madrid in 1990, their arrival arranged by the then mayor, Agustín Rodríguez Sahagún. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-madrid/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Madrid%2C%20E%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Parque%20de%20Berlin): 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. ### Redondela, E - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/spain/redondela/redondela-e-a348 - Place: Paseo da Xunqueira, opposite the Multiusos, Redondela, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display under glass); evidence: Documented - Position: 42.28356, -8.60916 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #348. Two blocks of the Wall under glass on a promenade in a Galician town, donated to the council by the uncle of an emigrant who brought them from Germany. Two blocks of the Wall stand in a glass case on the Paseo da Xunqueira in Redondela, in front of the Multiusos hall. They are about two metres long and one wide each. Atlántico, the Vigo daily, reported in April 2011 that Jacinto Suárez had given them to the council; his nephew Manuel Figueroa, an emigrant, had acquired them in Germany in the early 1990s. For fifteen years they had been fixed, little noticed, to a pillar of the old viaduct at the Subida á Estación. The local artist Jesús Cameselle cleaned them, taking off rust and oxidation, and methacrylate panels now protect them from weather and vandals. Metropolitano.gal in November 2019 and El Debate in May 2025 tell the same story, with the glass case dated to early 2011. The position this listing was imported with fell in the province of León, some 160 kilometres from Redondela; the position here is the town's. Provenance: Brought from Germany in the early 1990s by the emigrant Manuel A. Figueroa and given to the town council by his uncle, Jacinto Suárez. Sources: - [Esquirlas del muro que se cayó a pedazos — Atlántico](https://www.atlantico.net/vigo/esquirlas-muro-cayo-pedazos_1_20110405-1149032.html): 5 April 2011: Redondela's two blocks of the Wall, given to the council by Jacinto Suárez, whose nephew Manuel Figueroa acquired them in Germany; fifteen years attached to the pillars of the old viaduct; cleaned by Jesús Cameselle and now behind methacrylate panels near the Multiusos at A Xunqueira. - [Los restos del muro de Berlín se pueden ver en Redondela — Metropolitano.gal](https://metropolitano.gal/enfoque/el-muro-de-berlin-esta-en-redondela/): 9 November 2019: two blocks of about two metres by one, in a glass case since early 2011 on the Paseo da Xunqueira before the Multiusos; brought by the emigrant Manuel A. Figueroa and donated to the council by his uncle Jacinto Suárez; previously over fifteen years at a pillar of the old viaduct on the Subida á Estación. - [La curiosa historia de cómo dos bloques del Muro de Berlín llegaron a Redondela — El Debate](https://www.eldebate.com/espana/galicia/pontevedra/20250505/curiosa-historia-como-dos-bloques-muro-berlin-llegaron-redondela_291258.html): 5 May 2025: the two blocks are in a glass case on the Paseo da Xunqueira facing the Multiusos; Manuel A. Figueroa brought them from Germany and his uncle Jacinto Suárez gave them to the council to be shown as testimony to the end of the Cold War. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Redondela%2C%20E): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Seville - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/spain/seville/berlin-wall-seville-f158 - Place: Isla Mágica, Isla de la Cartuja, Seville, Spain - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 37.40548779883, -5.9990872444782 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #158 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #388. A section in a theme park built on the site of Expo '92, the fair held to mark 1492. The park is Isla Mágica, on the Isla de la Cartuja. With Europa-Park at Rust it is one of two amusement parks in this catalogue holding original wall, which is a smaller number than the commercial pattern elsewhere would suggest — casinos, hotels, hostels and cafés are better represented than fairgrounds. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A section of wall standing in the Isla Mágica theme park. - [Los restos del muro de Berlín en España](https://www.eldiario.es/cultura/restos-muro-berlin-espana_1_1266829.html): An EFE report of 8 November 2019 lists Isla Mágica in Seville among the places in Spain that hold fragments of the Berlin Wall. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-sevilla/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Sevilla%2C%20E): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Utrera - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/spain/utrera/berlin-wall-utrera-f159 - Place: Plaza outside the Santuario de Consolación, Utrera, Seville, Spain - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display; unexplained); evidence: Documented - Position: 37.1869305, -5.7734746 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #159. Two badly damaged segments standing among orange trees in the shadow of an Andalusian church tower, with nothing at all to say why. Two pieces of the Berlin Wall stand on the orange-tree-lined square in front of the Santuario de Consolación, at the north-western edge of the Andalusian town of Utrera, in the shadow of the church tower. They are badly damaged, and the local tourist office says they are original. Nothing at the site explains them. There is no plaque, no date, no donor. They have been there since the end of the 1990s and are looked at mainly by people leaving Mass and by the occasional visitor who has found the way. The record is worth keeping for exactly that reason. Most of this catalogue consists of objects that arrived with a ceremony, a speech and a text panel, and the ones that did not are the harder case: two tonnes of a European border standing unlabelled outside a Spanish sanctuary, with no one left who is saying how they got there. Spanish reporting tells a different story about a different place. In 2024 Telecinco described four fragments in the town's Parque de la Libertad, said officially to have come from the German pavilion at Expo 92 in Seville after a young man from Utrera working there saw they were to be thrown away; it found no document of authenticity, an architect doubting the material, the German consulate unable to confirm, and a theory that they were replicas made for the exhibition, their plaque since destroyed. Sevilla Actualidad placed them in the same park in 2025. Whether these are the two pieces the Foundation photographed outside the sanctuary, moved and recounted, or another set, nothing read here establishes. Provenance: Not established. The local tourist office reports the segments outside the sanctuary as original; Spanish press in 2024 and 2025 describes four fragments in the Parque de la Libertad as coming from the German pavilion at Expo 92, their authenticity undocumented. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-utrera/): Two badly damaged segments on the square in front of the Santuario de Consolación, reported as original by the local tourist information, in place since the late 1990s, with no explanatory sign. - [¿Por qué en Utrera hay restos del muro de Berlín?](https://www.telecinco.es/noticias/curioso/20241027/por-que-utrera-tiene-restos-muro-berlin-be5m_18_013602746.html): Telecinco, 27 October 2024: four fragments in Utrera's Parque de la Libertad, said officially to have come from the German pavilion at Expo 92 in Seville when a young local worker saw they were to be discarded; no documentation of authenticity, doubts from an architect about the material, the German consulate unable to confirm, a theory that they were replicas made for the exhibition, and an identification plaque destroyed by vandals. - [El municipio de Sevilla que guarda un trozo del Muro de Berlín y el alma más flamenca de Andalucía](https://www.sevillaactualidad.com/provincia/581843-el-municipio-de-sevilla-que-guarda-un-trozo-del-muro-de-berlin-y-el-alma-mas-flamenca-de-andalucia/): Sevilla Actualidad, 23 October 2025: fragments of the Berlin Wall in Utrera's Parque de la Libertad, donated after the fall of the Wall. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-utrera/): 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. ## Mexico ### Mexico-City, MEX – Lomas Verdes - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/mexico/mexico-city/mexico-city-mex-lomas-verdes-a255 - Place: Colegio Alemán Alexander von Humboldt, Lomas Verdes, Naucalpan, Mexico City, Mexico - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: Restricted access (On the school grounds); evidence: Documented - Position: 19.514117158658, -99.264960193816 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #237 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #255. One of two segments unveiled at Mexico City's German schools on the day of German reunification, bought from an advertisement in the Economist for 30,000 marks instead of 100,000. Two segments were unveiled in Mexico City on 3 October 1990, the day the two German states were reunited — one at each of the two German schools of the Colegio Alemán Alexander von Humboldt, at Xochimilco in the south of the city and here at Lomas Verdes in the north. Founded in 1884, it is among the largest German schools abroad. The choir sang Beethoven's Ode to Joy in German, Mexican folk music was played, and the headmaster Philipp Fabry gave the address; the Mexican president Carlos Salinas de Gortari and the education minister Manuel Bartlett Díaz attended, as did Hartmut Hempel, at that point still deputy mayor of East Berlin. The idea came to Gerhart E. Reuss, chairman of the school board, while reading the Economist early in 1990: the West Berlin agency LeLé had advertised wall segments whose proceeds were to go to charitable purposes in the GDR. Reuss, a board member of Allianz's Mexican branch, found two sponsors in the German-Mexican entrepreneurs Erich and Kurt Vogt, and went to East Berlin to buy the pieces himself. His account of the transaction is the clearest description in this catalogue of how the trade actually worked. The market price, he was told, was 100,000 marks for two blocks of 3.60 metres and two and a half tonnes each — but as these were for German schools, 30,000 would be accepted. The money would go to the Charité, and a certificate was promised and duly delivered at handover. He asked to choose the pieces himself. Of course, he was told: come back tomorrow and an officer of the People's Police will take you to the storage yard. The catalogue holds a second record for this school under its archive listing, whose coordinates were withheld as demonstrably wrong — they fell in the state of Veracruz, 224 kilometres away. Both records are attached to this account. A 2019 BBC Mundo report, republished in El Universal, confirms the pair at the two Humboldt schools and says they carry the heads Thierry Noir painted on Waldemarstraße. Provenance: Bought from the West Berlin agency LeLé in 1990 by Gerhart E. Reuss for the Colegio Alemán Alexander von Humboldt, at a reduced price of 30,000 marks for two segments, with Erich and Kurt Vogt as sponsors; unveiled on 3 October 1990. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-mexiko-stadt/): The two segments unveiled on 3 October 1990 at the Humboldt schools in Xochimilco and Lomas Verdes, the ceremony and its attendees including Carlos Salinas de Gortari and Hartmut Hempel, Gerhart E. Reuss's discovery of the LeLé advertisement in the Economist, the Vogt brothers' sponsorship, and Reuss's own account of the negotiation, the reduction from 100,000 to 30,000 marks, the Charité certificate and the visit to the storage yard. - [30 años de la caída del Muro de Berlín: el extraño destino de algunos de sus trozos (BBC Mundo, republished by El Universal)](https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/mundo/el-extrano-destino-de-algunos-de-los-trozos-del-muro-de-berlin/): Reports two Berlin Wall sections in Mexico City, by the Alexander von Humboldt schools in the north and south, carrying the heads painted by Thierry Noir on Waldemarstraße. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-mexiko-stadt/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Mexico-City%2C%20MEX%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Lomas%20Verdes): 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. ### Mexico-City, MEX – Museo de Historia Moderna - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/mexico/mexico-city/mexico-city-mex-museo-de-historia-moderna-a254 - Place: Formerly the Museo de Historia Moderna, Tepic 41, Colonia Roma, Mexico City, Mexico - Classification: Former Location; can it be seen today: Moved (Museum closed; the segment is now at the Museo Memoria y Tolerancia); evidence: Documented - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #254. The first Mexican home of fragment 266, bought by the museum's director in 1990 and shown for about ten years. It is now at the Museo Memoria y Tolerancia. Luis Alonso Sordo Noriega, who directed the Museo de Historia Moderna in Mexico City, bought a section of the Wall in June 1990, catalogued as fragment 266, and had it shipped from Hamburg to Mexico. Milenio says it landed at Veracruz on 31 July 1990. The museum showed it for about a decade, as a reminder of the reunification of two countries and of the political changes in the nations that had been behind the Iron Curtain. El Universal, reporting in May 2017, places the museum in the old house at Tepic 41 in the Colonia Roma and says it had closed some ten years earlier; the fragment belonged to Sordo, and was offered at the Casa Morton auction on 27 May 2017 at a starting price of 600,000 pesos. The Museo Memoria y Tolerancia bought it and inaugurated it in April 2018 (Milenio). It stands at that museum's entrance, which has its own page in this catalogue. The two papers differ on the details: June 25 or 26 for the purchase, and 2.7 or 3 tonnes for the weight, so neither figure is used here. This record has no pin: the listing came without coordinates, and no checked coordinate for the house at Tepic 41 was found. Provenance: Bought in June 1990 by the museum's director, Luis Alonso Sordo Noriega; sold at auction in May 2017 and bought by the Museo Memoria y Tolerancia. Sources: - [Muro Berlín. Cómo llegó un fragmento a México, en Memoria y Tolerancia — Milenio, 13 August 2020](https://www.milenio.com/cultura/muro-berlin-fragmento-mexico-memoria-tolerancia): Luis Alonso Sordo Noriega, director of the Museo de Historia Moderna, acquired fragment 266 in June 1990 and shipped it from Hamburg to Veracruz, where it arrived on 31 July 1990; the museum showed it for a decade; the owner auctioned it through Casa Morton in May 2017 and the Museo Memoria y Tolerancia bought it and inaugurated it in April 2018. - [Un pedazo del Muro de Berlín, a subasta en México — El Universal, 22 May 2017](https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/cultura/confabulario/2017/05/23/un-pedazo-del-muro-de-berlin-subasta-en-mexico/): The fragment, formerly shown at the Museo de Historia y Arte Moderno in Mexico City's Colonia Roma, which had closed ten years earlier, belonged to Luis Alonso Sordo Noriega and was offered at the Morton auction house on 27 May 2017 at 600,000 pesos; the museum was in the old house at Tepic 41, Colonia Roma. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Mexico-City%2C%20MEX%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Museo%20de%20Historia%20Moderna): 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. ### Mexico-City, MEX – MuseoMyT - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/mexico/mexico-city/mexico-city-mex-museomyt-a256 - Place: Museo Memoria y Tolerancia, Plaza Juárez, Centro Histórico, Mexico City, Mexico - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 19.43415, -99.14467 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #256. A segment at the entrance of a museum about genocide and intolerance, in a city with no freely licensed photograph of any of its five sites. The Museo Memoria y Tolerancia is dedicated to genocide, discrimination and intolerance. Mexico City holds five catalogue records, more than almost any city outside Berlin and the United States, and it is also the largest holding anywhere with no freely licensed photograph of any of its sites — the reason it keeps the placeholder drawing on the front page while smaller cities show a picture. Mexican press accounts give the piece a fuller biography than most. It is fragment 266, three tonnes, bought in June 1990 by Luis Alonso Sordo Noriega, then in charge of the Museo de Historia Moderna, and shipped from Hamburg to Veracruz. It was shown at the Museo de Historia Moderna for ten years; its previous owner sold it at auction through Casa Morton in May 2017, and it was inaugurated here in April 2018 in the presence of the then president, Enrique Peña Nieto. Conservators from the ENCRyM began studying it in March 2018 and treated it on site from January 2019. Provenance: Fragment 266, acquired in June 1990 by Luis Alonso Sordo Noriega, shipped via Hamburg to Veracruz, sold at auction through Casa Morton in May 2017 and installed at the museum in April 2018. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A segment displayed at the entrance of the Memory and Tolerance Museum. - [Muro Berlín. Cómo llegó un fragmento a México, en Memoria y Tolerancia](https://www.milenio.com/cultura/muro-berlin-fragmento-mexico-memoria-tolerancia): Milenio: fragment 266, acquired in June 1990 by Luis Alonso Sordo Noriega, then in charge of the Museo de Historia Moderna, where it was shown for ten years; shipped from Hamburg to Veracruz, auctioned by Casa Morton in May 2017 and inaugurated at the museum in April 2018 with the then president present; shown in the vestibule. - [Restauran fragmento del Muro de Berlín exhibido en el Museo Memoria y Tolerancia](https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/cultura/restauran-fragmento-del-muro-de-berlin-exhibido-en-mexico/): El Universal: the museum's fragment No. 266, a fourth-generation element; restoration studied from March 2018 and carried out on site from January 2019 in the museum atrium. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Mexico-City%2C%20MEX%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20MuseoMyT): 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. ### Mexico-City, MEX – Xochimilco - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/mexico/mexico-city/mexico-city-mex-xochimilco-a257 - Place: Colegio Alemán Alexander von Humboldt, Xochimilco, Mexico City, Mexico - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: Restricted access (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 19.3871621, -99.0219738 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #257. One of two segments unveiled at the German schools of Mexico City on the day of German reunification, bought from a small advertisement in the Economist. A segment at the German school in Xochimilco, in the south of Mexico City — one of a pair. The other went to the same school's Lomas Verdes campus in the north, and both were unveiled on 3 October 1990, the day the two German states were reunited, with the school choir singing Beethoven's Ode to Joy in German and the Mexican president Carlos Salinas de Gortari in attendance. They were bought by the chairman of the school board, Gerhart E. Reuss, who had seen the West Berlin agency LeLé advertising wall segments in the Economist early in 1990. The asking price was 100,000 marks for two blocks of 3.60 metres and two and a half tonnes each; because these were for German schools, 30,000 was accepted, with the proceeds going to the Charité and a certificate promised and delivered. Two German-Mexican businessmen, Erich and Kurt Vogt, sponsored the purchase. The catalogue's record for the Lomas Verdes segment carries the fuller account. A 2019 BBC Mundo report, republished in El Universal, confirms the pair at the two Humboldt schools and says they carry the heads Thierry Noir painted on Waldemarstraße. Provenance: Bought in 1990 through the West Berlin agency LeLé by Gerhart E. Reuss for the Colegio Alemán Alexander von Humboldt, at a reduced price of 30,000 marks for the pair, with Erich and Kurt Vogt as sponsors; unveiled on 3 October 1990. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A large segment at the Colegio Alemán Alexander von Humboldt in Xochimilco. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-mexiko-stadt/): The two segments at the Xochimilco and Lomas Verdes campuses of the Colegio Alemán Alexander von Humboldt unveiled on 3 October 1990, the ceremony and its attendees, Gerhart E. Reuss's purchase after seeing the LeLé advertisement in the Economist, the Vogt brothers' sponsorship and the reduction from 100,000 to 30,000 marks with the proceeds going to the Charité. - [30 años de la caída del Muro de Berlín: el extraño destino de algunos de sus trozos (BBC Mundo, republished by El Universal)](https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/mundo/el-extrano-destino-de-algunos-de-los-trozos-del-muro-de-berlin/): Reports two Berlin Wall sections in Mexico City, by the Alexander von Humboldt schools in the north and south, carrying the heads painted by Thierry Noir on Waldemarstraße. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Mexico-City%2C%20MEX%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Xochimilco): 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. ### Tijuana, MX - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/mexico/tijuana/tijuana-mx-a423 - Place: Parque de la Amistad (Friendship Park), Playas de Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display in the open air); evidence: Documented - Position: 32.534576, -117.122353 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #423. A three-tonne section unveiled in August 2023 as "Un mundo sin muros", a few steps from the US border fence. A section of the Wall was unveiled in Playas de Tijuana on 13 August 2023, at the Binational Friendship Park beside the place where the US border fence meets the Pacific. Its title is "Un mundo sin muros", A World Without Walls. N+ gives it as about three metres tall and three tonnes, and Telemundo as about 6,000 lb. Tijuana's mayor, Montserrat Caballero, spoke at the unveiling with the former Mexican foreign secretary Marcelo Ebrard. Infobae quotes the plaque as hoping the piece will teach a society to tear down walls and build bridges of solidarity. The donor is Marcos Cline-Márquez, a Los Angeles producer. El Financiero reports that he offered the piece to the Trump administration in 2017, was refused, and took it around the United States before placing it here, beside the construction of the replacement fence at San Diego; the segment at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, elsewhere in this catalogue, has a similar story, but the sources read here do not link the two. Infobae dates the installation to 19 August and the other outlets to 13 August; the record follows the majority. Nothing read says where in Berlin the piece stood. Provenance: Given by the producer Marcos Cline-Márquez, who had offered it to the Trump administration in 2017 according to El Financiero. Sources: - [Colocan fragmento del Muro de Berlín en Tijuana — N+](https://www.nmas.com.mx/baja-california/estilo-de-vida/lugares/fragmento-del-muro-de-berlin-es-colocado-en-tijuana/): A fragment of the Berlin Wall, about three metres tall and three tonnes, given by Marcos Cline-Márquez, was unveiled as "Un mundo sin muros" in Playas de Tijuana on 13 August 2023, with the mayor Montserrat Caballero speaking. - [Muro de Berlín en Tijuana: la protesta de México en la frontera con Estados Unidos — El Financiero, 3 September 2023](https://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/nacional/2023/09/03/muro-de-berlin-en-tijuana-la-protesta-de-mexico-en-la-frontera-con-estados-unidos/): The three-tonne section was unveiled on 13 August 2023 at Friendship Park, Tijuana, near a bullring, a lighthouse and the US border wall; the donor had offered it to the Trump administration in 2017 and been refused, and then moved it across the United States. - [Colocan pedazos del muro de Berlín en la frontera de México con EE.UU. — Telemundo, 3 September 2023](https://www.telemundo.com/noticias/noticias-telemundo/inmigracion/muro-berlin-frontera-mexico-tijuana-san-diego-biden-parque-amistad-rcna103174): A three-ton (about 6,000 lb) piece of the Berlin Wall was installed in Tijuana on 13 August 2023 near the border fence, with Marcelo Ebrard at the inauguration and the mayor Montserrat Caballero speaking. - [Instalan segmento de muro de Berlín en la fronteriza ciudad mexicana de Tijuana — Infobae, 20 August 2023](https://www.infobae.com/america/agencias/2023/08/20/instalan-segmento-de-muro-de-berlin-en-la-fronteriza-ciudad-mexicana-de-tijuana/): The segment, installed at the Parque Binacional de la Amistad in Playas de Tijuana, is titled "Un mundo sin muros" and its plaque speaks of building bridges of solidarity; this agency report dates the installation to 19 August. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Tijuana%2C%20MX): 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. ## Italy ### Berlin Wall — Albinea - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/italy/albinea/berlin-wall-albinea-f133 - Place: Outside the primary school, Albinea, Reggio Emilia, Italy - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 44.62779795, 10.613030477062 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #133 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #6. A segment fetched from Berlin on a low-loader by the photographer whose work twinned an Italian town with a Berlin district, over the execution of a German officer who helped the Resistenza. Hans Schmidt was born in 1914 in what is now the Berlin district of Treptow-Köpenick. Stationed in Italy in 1944 as a young German officer, he and four other soldiers made contact with the Italian resistance. They were betrayed; Schmidt was condemned to death by a German court martial and executed. On 25 March 1995 the northern Italian commune of Albinea made him an honorary citizen posthumously. The story was documented by the photographer and amateur historian Mario Crotti, whose exhibition on the resistance in Albinea was shown in Treptow a year later and opened the way to a town twinning. Crotti had other Berlin connections. In 1963 he met three refugees from East Berlin in Albinea, who described the divided city to him; he went to Germany and photographed life with the Wall, and the work was shown across Italy. He returned after the border opened and made a photo-reportage about the city that was walled in, which was exhibited at Treptow town hall and then in Italy, elsewhere in Europe, and as far as Australia. It was Crotti's idea to put a segment in his own town. The district mayor of Treptow, Siegfried Stock, supported it, and in September 1999 Crotti drove to Berlin with a low-loader and was handed one. It had stood near a children's farm on Adalbertstraße in Kreuzberg, in West Berlin, and still carries traces of graffiti by Christophe Bouchet and Thierry Noir. A year later it was given its place in front of the Albinea primary school and inaugurated on 28 October 2000 with representatives of both administrations present. A small plaque describes it as a symbol of peace and of the hope of peaceful coexistence. In October 2023 the comune lent it for four months to the Fondazione Palazzo Magnani's exhibition on the band CCCP at the Chiostri di San Pietro in Reggio Emilia, where it stood outside the cloisters among chevaux de frise. The loan was extended to 10 March 2024, and the mayor, Nico Giberti, said that when the exhibition closed it would come home to the school. Provenance: Given by the Berlin district of Treptow and collected in person from Berlin by Mario Crotti in September 1999; previously sited near a children's farm on Adalbertstraße in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-albinea/): Hans Schmidt's execution and 1995 honorary citizenship, Mario Crotti's exhibitions and the resulting twinning with Treptow, his collection of the segment in September 1999, its earlier position on Adalbertstraße in Kreuzberg, the Bouchet and Noir graffiti, and the inauguration outside the primary school on 28 October 2000. - [Il Muro di Berlino trasloca per quattro mesi ai Chiostri di San Pietro per la mostra “Felicitazioni! CCCP – Fedeli alla Linea”](https://www.comune.albinea.re.it/il-muro-di-berlino-trasloca-per-quattro-mesi-ai-chiostri-di-san-pietro-per-la-mostra-felicitazioni-cccp-fedeli-alla-linea/): The comune's own account, 4 October 2023: the segment given by its twin district in Berlin in 1999, which Mario Crotti fetched from Berlin by lorry, has stood in front of the Pezzani primary school; it was lent for four months to the CCCP exhibition at the Chiostri di San Pietro in Reggio Emilia, and the mayor said it would return when the exhibition closed. - [Il nostro Muro di Berlino resterà a Reggio fino al 10 marzo](https://www.comune.albinea.re.it/il-nostro-muro-di-berlino-restera-a-reggio-fino-al-10-marzo/): The comune extended the loan to the Reggio Emilia exhibition to 10 March 2024. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-albinea/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Albinea%2C%20I): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Merone - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/italy/merone/berlin-wall-merone-f134 - Place: Cement works, Merone, Como, Italy - Classification: Private / Limited Access; can it be seen today: Restricted access (In the works garden); evidence: Listed - Position: 45.783392473144, 9.2432614922105 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #134 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #253. Bought at the Monaco auction for 20,000 marks by a cement works director, for a factory art museum that no longer exists. When collectors and dealers gathered in Monaco in June 1990 for the first great auction of wall segments, the managing director of the Italian cement works Cementeria di Merone was among them. He paid 20,000 marks for a segment that the German weekly Stern judged to be extraordinarily ugly, and set it up in front of the factory's own art museum. Both of those institutions have since changed. The Cementeria di Merone was sold to the international building materials group Holcim during the 1990s, and the art museum was wound up. An enquiry established that the segment is still there. It stands in the garden of the works — a tonne of concrete bought as art, outliving the museum it was bought for. Provenance: Bought for 20,000 marks by the managing director of Cementeria di Merone at the Monaco auction of June 1990. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-merone/): The purchase for 20,000 marks at the June 1990 Monaco auction by the director of Cementeria di Merone, Stern's verdict on the segment, its siting at the works art museum, the sale of the company to Holcim and the dissolution of the museum, and its present position in the works garden. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-merone/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Merone%2C%20I): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Modena - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/italy/modena/berlin-wall-modena-f135 - Place: Galleria Europa, Palazzo Comunale, Modena, Italy - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display in the town hall); evidence: Documented - Position: 44.6458955, 10.9261736 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #135 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #262. Bought by the Italian Communist Party for the last Festa dell'Unità it ever held, and handed to the city nineteen years later. An original segment reached Emilia-Romagna as early as September 1990, bought in Modena by the Italian Communist Party. It was to be shown at the Festa Nazionale de l'Unità, the party's annual summer festival, on a site of 360,000 square metres laid out specially to the north of the city, and to mark the first anniversary of the opening of the border. The festivities ran from 1 to 23 September with political debates, exhibitions and concerts, among them a David Bowie performance marking twenty-five years of his career. They were the last of their kind. The PCI dissolved shortly afterwards and reconstituted itself as the Democratic Party of the Left, which in 2009, for the twentieth anniversary of the fall, formally made the segment over to the city of Modena. It now stands in a conspicuous place: the ground-floor entrance of the Galleria Europa inside the Palazzo Comunale, the town hall, which houses the Europe Direct information centre supported by the European Commission. The object passed from a communist party to a European Union information office in the same building where it had been a festival exhibit. Provenance: Bought by the Italian Communist Party in Modena in September 1990 for the Festa Nazionale de l'Unità, and transferred to the city by its successor party in 2009. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-modena/): The PCI's purchase of the segment in September 1990, its display at the last Festa Nazionale de l'Unità from 1 to 23 September including the Bowie concert, the party's dissolution, the 2009 transfer to the city, and the present position in the Galleria Europa of the Palazzo Comunale. - [Servizi di informazione Piazza Grande](https://www.comune.modena.it/argomenti/accesso-allinformazione/servizi-di-informazione-piazza-grande): The city's own page for the Piazza Grande information services, which include Europe Direct: an original portion of the Berlin Wall stands in the Galleria Europa. - [Nuovi modenesi, 212 bambini diventano cittadini onorari](https://www.comune.modena.it/novita/comunicati/2024/3/nuovi-modenesi-212-bambini-diventano-cittadini-onorari): A city press release of March 2024: an original fragment of the Wall stands in the Galleria Europa as a testimony to the values on which the European Union is founded. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-modena/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Modena%2C%20I): 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. ### Spilamberto, I - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/italy/spilamberto/berlin-wall-spilamberto-f136 - Place: Rocca Rangoni, Spilamberto, Province of Modena, Italy - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (Three of ten segments on display); evidence: Documented - Position: 44.532848722453, 11.026113250701 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #136 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #400. Painted segments given to a small town near Modena on Valentine's Day 2008 by one of its own citizens, out of ten he had bought at an auction in Berlin. Spilamberto is a town of some twelve thousand people. On 14 February 2008 one of its citizens, the young property entrepreneur Carlo Accorsi, gave it segments from a set of ten he had bought at an auction in Berlin. The accounts differ on how many came and how many are shown: one has all ten delivered and three standing in the garden of the Rocca Rangoni, while the Federal Foundation records four, given and now standing in the park of the Rocca. The town frames the display as an assertion of its self-declared identity as a town of diversity. Each segment is recorded at 3.6 m high, 1.2 m wide and about 3 tonnes — the standard Grenzmauer 75 dimensions, and a useful check against the nearly 2 m width published for the Canberra section. Il Resto del Carlino, reporting the purchase a few days before the delivery, gave a third count: seven segments, four of them for the town and three kept by Accorsi, bought at Deutsche Grundstücksauktionen in Berlin with certificates, and at that stage intended for a park in the Pesa Vecchia quarter rather than the Rocca. Provenance: Given to the town by one of its own citizens, Carlo Accorsi, from ten segments he bought at an auction in Berlin, rather than through a state or institutional donation — an unusual route in this catalogue. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): Ten segments delivered on Valentine's Day 2008 by a citizen working abroad; dimensions and weight; three displayed at the Rocca Rangoni. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-spilamberto/): Four painted segments given to the town on 14 February 2008 by Carlo Accorsi, a 27-year-old property entrepreneur from Spilamberto, out of a set of ten he bought at an auction in Berlin; they now stand in the park of the Rocca Rangoni. - [Un pezzo di muro di Berlino arriva a Spilamberto](https://www.ilrestodelcarlino.it/modena/2008/02/09/63916-pezzo_muro_berlino_arriva_spilamberto.shtml): Il Resto del Carlino's report of 9 February 2008: seven segments weighing about twenty tonnes in all, bought at the Berlin auction house Deutsche Grundstücksauktionen AG by Carlo Accorsi, a 27-year-old from Spilamberto working in property in Estonia and eastern Germany, each 360 by 120 centimetres with original graffiti and a certificate; four to be given to the town, which planned to place them in a park in the Pesa Vecchia area, the other three kept by Accorsi. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-spilamberto/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Spilamberto%2C%20I): 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. ## Argentina ### Berlin Wall — Buenos Aires - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/argentina/buenos-aires/berlin-wall-buenos-aires-f240 - Place: Former America '92 exhibition grounds, old port, Buenos Aires, Argentina - Classification: Former Location; can it be seen today: Gone (Exhibition ended; present whereabouts not established here); evidence: Listed - Position: -34.649289883815, -58.384689862451 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #240. Twenty metres of wall, fifty tonnes, shipped to Argentina in 1991 for the Columbus quincentenary — aboard a ship called the Leningrad. For the five-hundredth anniversary of Columbus's crossing, Buenos Aires staged America '92 on exhibition grounds at the old port, with a full-scale replica of the Santa María at anchor, a rebuilt Maya pyramid, national pavilions and a dolphinarium. Twenty running metres of the Berlin Wall were brought over to sit alongside all that, on the argument that 1492 and 1989 were the two events the hemisphere should be thinking about. The fifty-tonne load crossed the Atlantic in 1991 aboard a ship named — the Foundation's own account does not let this pass — the Leningrad. It was moved from the dock on twenty lorries. The artistic director Rafael Jijena Sánchez staged it hard: two segments hung from a crane above the entrance, standing for the iron curtain coming down; inside the pavilion, photographs of divided Berlin projected onto a wall built of segments; and for the braver visitor, a passage under two slabs meant to approximate an escape tunnel. Provenance: Imported in 1991 with the support of Editorial Perfil, the largest publishing house in the Spanish-speaking world — which is also why a segment stands at Perfil's own headquarters in the city. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-buenos-aires-2/): The America '92 exhibition, the twenty metres and fifty tonnes, the 1991 crossing aboard the Leningrad, the twenty lorries, Rafael Jijena Sánchez's staging and Editorial Perfil's support. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-buenos-aires-2/): 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. ### Buenos Aires, RA – Editoria Perfil - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/argentina/buenos-aires/buenos-aires-ra-editoria-perfil-a65 - Place: Editorial Perfil, Buenos Aires, Argentina - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: Restricted access (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: -34.64915, -58.38466 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #65. A segment at the headquarters of the Perfil publishing group — one of the few held by a news organisation rather than a state or museum. Buenos Aires holds at least two documented sites; this one is unusual in the global inventory for being held by a news publisher rather than a government, museum or university. Perfil's own account dates the idea to 9 November 1989, the day the Wall opened, when the group was about to launch the magazine Noticias and its chief executive, Jorge Fontevecchia, asked the East German ambassador in Buenos Aires whether a piece could be had. The answer, as Perfil tells it, was that pieces were not being given out but an exception could be made if the publisher paid for a school in Germany, then about 10,000 dollars. Twenty metres of wall came by sea, a business Perfil says took 500 days and a hundred people. It stood first at the company's old building on Chacabuco 271 and now stands at its headquarters at California 2715 in Barracas; small pieces were broken off and given to readers of Noticias with certificates of authenticity. The Federal Foundation records that Perfil supported the shipment of twenty running metres of the Wall to Buenos Aires in 1991 for America '92, the Columbus quincentenary exhibition at the old port, which has its own record here. The two accounts give the same length and the same year; neither mentions the other's display. Provenance: Brought from Berlin by Editorial Perfil on the initiative of Jorge Fontevecchia, who began the request on 9 November 1989; 20 metres in all, installed at the company's headquarters in Barracas. Sources: - [Buenos Aires, RA – Foreign Ministry — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/buenos-aires-ra-2/): Site records for the Buenos Aires segments, including Editorial Perfil. - [Así fue la caída del Muro de Berlín y la gesta de traer al país el mayor bloque fuera de Alemania: está en Editorial Perfil](https://www.perfil.com/noticias/sociedad/asi-fue-la-caida-del-muro-de-berlin-y-la-gesta-de-traer-al-pais-el-mayor-bloque-fuera-de-alemania-esta-en-editorial-perfil.phtml): Perfil's own report: Jorge Fontevecchia conceived the project on 9 November 1989; 20 metres of wall came by ship in a process of 500 days and 100 people; fragments were distributed to readers of Noticias; the main section stands at the California 2715 headquarters in Barracas. - [La increíble historia del fragmento del Muro de Berlín que llegó a Argentina: es el más grande fuera de Alemania](https://tageblatt.com.ar/historia-fragmento-muro-berlin-argentina-mas-grande-fuera-alemania/): Argentinisches Tageblatt: 20 metres of wall obtained through the East German ambassador in return for a donation for a school in Germany, first installed at the former office on Chacabuco 271 and moved to California 2715, Barracas. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry (America '92)](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-buenos-aires-2/): With the support of Editorial Perfil, twenty running metres of the Wall, fifty tonnes, were brought from Berlin to Buenos Aires in 1991 for the America '92 exhibition. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Buenos%20Aires%2C%20RA%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Editoria%20Perfil): 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. ### Buenos Aires, RA – Foreign Ministry - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/argentina/buenos-aires/buenos-aires-ra-foreign-ministry-a66 - Place: Palacio San Martín, Arenales 761, Buenos Aires, Argentina - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: Restricted access (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: -34.594031316667, -58.377860954167 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #239 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #66. A segment in the garden of Argentina's foreign ministry, given by the Berlin Senate for the tenth anniversary of the opening. A segment stands in a garden inside the Palacio San Martín, the ceremonial headquarters of Argentina's foreign ministry. Access follows the building rather than the object: this is a working diplomatic site, opened to the public only for guided visits. The ministry's own page for the piece adds that the fragment comes from Marzahn, in East Berlin, and was presented on 10 November 1999, the tenth anniversary of the opening; the plaque says it shows the friendship between the two countries and reminds Argentines that freedom, democracy and human rights are never secure unless citizens strive to defend them. The ministry names the German government as giver; the listings and a 2019 BBC Mundo report name the Berlin Senate, and both readings are kept here. Provenance: Donated by the Berlin Senate for the tenth anniversary of the fall of the Wall, presented as an expression of German-Argentine friendship. Sources: - [Buenos Aires, RA – Foreign Ministry — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/buenos-aires-ra-2/): A segment in the garden of the San Martín Palace, donated by the Berlin Senate for the tenth anniversary. - [Muro de Berlín en la Cancillería — Museo de la Diplomacia Argentina](https://www.cancilleria.gob.ar/es/institucional/patrimonio/museo-de-la-diplomacia-argentina/muro-de-berlin-en-la-cancilleria): The foreign ministry's own page: a fragment from Marzahn, in East Berlin, presented by the German government on 10 November 1999 (the tenth anniversary of the opening) and standing in the Palacio San Martín; the plaque speaks of friendship between the two countries. - [El Muro de Berlín en Cancillería: un símbolo de la libertad y la democracia](https://www.perfil.com/noticias/actualidad/el-muro-de-berlin-en-cancilleria-un-simbolo-de-la-libertad-y-la-democracia.phtml): Perfil, October 2022: the fragment came from Marzahn and was given on the tenth anniversary of the fall; the plaque reads that it shows the friendship between the Federal Republic and Argentina; it is shown at the Museum of Diplomacy. - [30 años de la caída del Muro de Berlín: el extraño destino de algunos de sus trozos (BBC Mundo, republished by El Universal)](https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/mundo/el-extrano-destino-de-algunos-de-los-trozos-del-muro-de-berlin/): Describes the fragment in a garden of the Palacio San Martín as given by the Berlin Senate in 1999. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-buenos-aires/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Buenos%20Aires%2C%20RA%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Foreign%20Ministry): 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. ## Denmark ### Langelandsfort, DK - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/denmark/langeland/berlin-wall-langeland-f106 - Place: Koldkrigsmuseum Langelandsfort, Vognsbjergvej 4b, Bagenkop, Langeland, Denmark - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 54.75288, 10.71603 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #106 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #211. An element from Potsdamer Platz at a decommissioned NATO coastal fort, displayed among a submarine, a minesweeper and a MiG-23. An element of about 2.5 tonnes stands at Langelandsfort, the coastal fort that watched the Baltic approaches for NATO from 1953 until the Cold War ended and has been a museum since 1997. The setting is unusually literal: the segment is displayed among the hardware of the confrontation it belonged to — the submarine Springeren, the minesweeper Askø and a Soviet MiG-23. Most recipients place a segment among civic symbols; this one places it among weapons. It was inaugurated on 13 August 2011, the fiftieth anniversary of the building of the Wall, by the Danish climate minister, Lykke Friis. In the autumn of 2019 it went on tour, starting in Copenhagen at the Golden Days festival, before coming back to the fort. Since 2024 the museum has also shown a block from the first Wall of August 1961, lent by the Berlin Wall Foundation, in its exhibition on escapes across the Baltic. Provenance: Given in 2011 — by the Berlin Senate, in the Danish press's account, and handed over by the Berlin Wall Foundation, in the museum's own. Recorded as originally standing at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin-Mitte. Sources: - [Langelandsfort, DK — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/langelandsfort-dk/): A wall segment at the museum since 2011, a gift of the Berlin Senate, originally from Potsdamer Platz. - [The Cold War Museum Langelandsfort — VisitLangeland](https://www.govisitlangeland.com/langeland/plan-journey/the-cold-war-museum-langelandsfort-gdk612377): The fort's Cold War role and the other exhibits the segment stands among. - [Unikt stykke Berlinmur til Danmark](https://via.ritzau.dk/pressemeddelelse/13794817/unikt-stykke-berlinmur-til-danmark): Langelands Museum's own press release, 19 March 2024: the Berlin Wall Foundation, which in 2011 handed the museum a whole section of the final-generation Wall that has since toured Denmark and been shown at the National Museum, has now lent it a block of the first Wall of August 1961, shown from the 2024 season in the exhibition Frihedens hav – Flugten over Østersøen. - [Berlinmuren tager på Danmarksturné](https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/berlinmuren-tager-paa-danmarksturne): DR, 7 September 2019: Langelandsfort's section, 3.6 metres high and 2.5 tonnes, from Potsdamer Platz, received in 2011 for the fiftieth anniversary of the Wall's construction as a gift from the Berlin Senate, begins a tour of Denmark in Copenhagen. - [Berlinmur på Langeland](https://www.tv2fyn.dk/langeland/berlinmur-pa-langeland): TV 2 Fyn, 13 August 2011: the museum has received a section of the Berlin Wall as a gift from the Berlin Senate, inaugurated that day by the climate minister Lykke Friis for the fiftieth anniversary of the Wall's construction. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-langeland/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Langelandsfort%2C%20DK): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Nykøbing - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/denmark/nyk-bing/berlin-wall-nyk-bing-f107 - Place: Holtets Plads, Nykøbing, Denmark - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Listed - Position: 55.92441283657, 11.670730488974 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #107. A dove cut out of a granite stele, beside a king who signed Denmark's first constitution on the ninth of November. The monument Muren 89 was unveiled on the central Holtets Plads for the fifteenth anniversary of the opening. It is a six-armed fountain with a reddish granite stele at the end of it, and the silhouette of a dove cut clean out of the middle: the bird flies through the wall into freedom, and the water running everywhere it can makes the same argument in a second material. The siting is the sharpest thing about it. The statue beside it is Frederik VII, who signed Denmark's first constitution on 9 November 1849 — the same date, a hundred and forty years earlier, as the night the border opened. Two ninths of November, one square. Provenance: Designed by the Danish stonemason Hother Nielsen, who had made the model in 1991; the mayor saw it in Nielsen's studio and the town council backed building it in 2004. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-nykobing/): The Muren 89 monument on Holtets Plads, unveiled for the fifteenth anniversary, Hother Nielsen's 1991 model and its realisation in 2004, the fountain and dove design, and the adjacent statue of Frederik VII. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-nykobing/): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Odense - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/denmark/odense/berlin-wall-odense-f108 - Place: Jens Galschiøt's studio garden, Odense, Denmark - Classification: Private / Limited Access; can it be seen today: Restricted access (In the artist's garden; the intended monument was never made); evidence: Listed - Position: 55.4198, 10.3633 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #108 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #308. Two fragments a Danish sculptor obtained by writing to both mayors of Berlin in November 1989 — for a monument he never built. Two fragments about two metres high, shot through with rusting steel grid, stand in the garden of the sculptor Jens Galschiøt. They were meant to be assembled into a monument to the opening of the border and never were. The timing explains the rest. Galschiøt was so struck by the pictures from 9 November 1989 that he wrote that same month to both mayors of the divided city asking for some segments, and both were willing. In December the East German government decided instead to sell what was left of the border at a price — the beginning of the trade that scattered the elements in this catalogue — and the moment when a sculptor could simply ask for a piece and be given one had closed, a matter of weeks after it opened. Provenance: Requested directly from the two mayors of Berlin in November 1989, before the GDR began selling the remaining elements commercially. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-odense/): The two fragments in Galschiøt's garden, the monument that was never assembled, his November 1989 approach to both Berlin mayors and their willingness, and the GDR's December decision to sell the remains. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-odense/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Odense%2C%20DK): 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. ## Greece ### Athens, GR – (relocated) - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/greece/athens/athens-gr-relocated-a20 - Place: German Embassy, Athens, Greece - Classification: Former Location; can it be seen today: Moved (Returned to Lüdinghausen; two segments form a memorial there since 2020); evidence: Documented - Position: 37.97945, 23.71622 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #20. Segments painted by Alfred Gockel stood in the German embassy's garden from the Wall's twentieth anniversary until about 2015; two of them are now a memorial in Lüdinghausen. The Arbeitsstelle Gerechtigkeit und Frieden, the Lüdinghausen association that keeps two painted segments on the Ruth-Weiss-Platz there, says on its own page that they stood originally in Athens and were designed by the Lüdinghausen artist Alfred Gockel. The Berlin Wall Archive lists the Athens display as relocated, with three segments. Where in Athens they stood rests on The Wall Net, whose entry the Archive's listing follows. On the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall, it says, three segments were set up in the garden of the German Embassy before almost a thousand Greek guests, designed by Gockel: Deutsche Einheit, on the two German states as playthings of the superpowers; Soldat Schuhmann, on the East Germans' urge for freedom; and Europäische Vision, on the democratic roots of Europe in Greece. It gives Gockel as its source and says the segments went back to his studio in Lüdinghausen in 2016. Its own Lüdinghausen entry dates the loan differently, from 2010 to 2015, and says the two segments had been bought in 2007 from the stock of Baumedia GmbH in Lünen and that Gockel brought them back when the embassy no longer had room for them; both readings are given here. Two segments make up the Lüdinghausen memorial inaugurated in 2020, which has its own record; what became of a third, if there were three, is not said. No page of the embassy itself about the display was found. Provenance: By The Wall Net's account, two segments from the stock of Baumedia GmbH in Lünen, painted by Alfred Gockel, lent to the German Embassy in Athens and returned to Lüdinghausen, where they have been a memorial since 2020. Sources: - [AK Friedensräume — Arbeitsstelle Gerechtigkeit & Frieden](https://guf-lh.de/ak-friedensraeume/): The association's own page: the two pieces of the Berlin Wall on the Ruth-Weiss-Platz in Lüdinghausen stood originally in Athens, were designed by the artist Alfred Gockel and have recalled the overcoming of borders in Lüdinghausen since 2020. - [Athens, GR – (relocated) — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/athens-gr-relocated/): Entry of 3 February 2019: on the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall, three segments were set up in the garden of the German Embassy in Athens before almost a thousand Greek guests; designed by Alfred Gockel as Deutsche Einheit, Soldat Schuhmann and Europäische Vision, with Gockel given as the source; in 2016 the segments returned to Gockel's studio in Lüdinghausen. - [Lüdinghausen — The Wall Net](https://the-wall-net.org/luedinghausen/): Entry of 2 November 2020: the two segments were bought in 2007 from Baumedia GmbH in Lünen, lent to the German embassy in Athens from 2010 to 2015 and painted by the Lüdinghausen artist Alfred Gockel, who brought them back when there was no longer room for them in Athens; the Arbeitsstelle Gerechtigkeit und Frieden then bought them and set up the memorial in front of the police station on the Seppenrader Straße in October 2020. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Athens%2C%20GR%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20(relocated)): 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. ### Lagadas, GR - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/greece/lagadas/lagadas-gr-a209 - Place: Sister Cities Square, Lagadas spa, Thessaloniki regional unit, Greece - Classification: Former Location; can it be seen today: Moved (Moved in 2015 to the Goethe-Institut in Thessaloniki); evidence: Documented - Position: 40.7435204, 23.0106094 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #209. A segment given by a Berlin district in 2012 and taken down in 2015 because the spa town's authorities felt it had nothing to do with Greek history; it now stands in Thessaloniki. On 3 October 2012 a segment of the Wall was unveiled in a new Sister Cities Square (Plateia Adelfopoiiseon) in the spa district of Lagadas, a gift from the Berlin district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf, with which the Lagadas municipality had become twinned. Aftodioikisi, a Greek local-government news portal, reported the announcement the day before and described it as a symbol of the fall of the lines that divide nations and peoples; the mayor spoke of building bridges of cooperation and reconciliation. It did not last. The Thessaloniki magazine Parallaxi reported in 2018 that three years later, during a redesign of the square, the municipality decided the piece did not fit the history, architecture and look of the spa town. After talks with the German consulate it was moved to the garden of the Goethe-Institut in Thessaloniki, where it now stands; that site has its own page in this atlas. Provenance: A gift from the Berlin district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf to the municipality of Lagadas, 2012. Sources: - [Κομμάτι από το Τείχος του Βερολίνου στο Δ. Λαγκαδά — Aftodioikisi.gr](https://www.aftodioikisi.gr/ota/dimoi/kommati-apo-to-teixos-tou-verolinou-sto-d-lagkada/): 2 October 2012: a segment of the Berlin Wall is to be placed in the newly made Sister Cities Square in the Lagadas spa district on 3 October 2012, a gift from Steglitz-Zehlendorf to the municipality of Lagadas. - [Έχει η Θεσσαλονίκη τείχος του Βερολίνου; — Parallaxi](https://parallaximag.gr/thessaloniki-news/echei-thessaloniki-teichos-tou-verolinou): 9 November 2018: the Lagadas piece, installed in 2012 after the twinning with Steglitz-Zehlendorf, was judged unsuited to the spa town during the square's redesign three years later and was transferred to the garden of the Goethe-Institut in Thessaloniki after talks with the German consulate. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Lagadas%2C%20GR): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Thessaloniki - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/greece/thessaloniki/berlin-wall-thessaloniki-f123 - Place: Goethe-Institut, Vasilissis Olgas, Thessaloniki, Greece - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 40.610188518526, 22.953339023094 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #123 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #422. Put up in a Greek town near Thessaloniki in 2012, dismantled because it made no sense there, and re-erected in the Goethe-Institut garden in 2015. A segment stands in the Goethe-Institut garden as a sign of freedom gained together. It got there by being rejected somewhere else: it was first erected in October 2012 in the municipality of Lagadas — at a spa, by one account, and on a newly laid-out square in Sochos, by the Federal Foundation's — through a partnership with the Berlin districts of Steglitz and Zehlendorf, and the Lagadas authorities then concluded that the monument had no thematic connection to their town and dismantled it. The move to Thessaloniki was agreed between a Berlin ministry, the Greek Ministry of the Interior and the Goethe-Institut. Very few records in this catalogue document a recipient deciding the object did not belong to them. The Thessaloniki magazine Parallaxi, in 2018, places it in the institute's garden on Vasilissis Olgas street and gives the Lagadas site as a square of twin towns laid out for it. Provenance: Erected at Lagadas in 2012 via a partnership with Steglitz-Zehlendorf, dismantled by the local authority, and re-erected at the Goethe-Institut in Thessaloniki in 2015. Sources: - [Thessaloniki, GR — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/thessaloniki-gr/): The 2012 Lagadas installation, the reason for its removal, the parties to the transfer and the 2015 re-erection. - [Berliner Mauer in Thessaloniki — Die Berliner Mauer in der Welt](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-thessaloniki/): The unveiling in October 2012 on a newly laid-out square in Sochos, in the municipality of Lagadas, with the German consul and a delegation from Steglitz-Zehlendorf; local opposition; its removal in 2015, when a new mayor judged it out of keeping with the town; and its re-erection in the Goethe-Institut garden in Thessaloniki. - [Έχει η Θεσσαλονίκη τείχος του Βερολίνου;](https://parallaximag.gr/thessaloniki-news/echei-thessaloniki-teichos-tou-verolinou): Parallaxi's report of 9 November 2018: the segment stands in the garden of the Goethe-Institut on Vasilissis Olgas street; it came to the municipality of Lagadas in 2012 under its twinning with Steglitz-Zehlendorf and stood on a square of twin towns laid out for it, and in 2015 the municipality judged it out of keeping with the area's history and moved it to the Goethe-Institut with the German consulate. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-thessaloniki/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Thessaloniki%2C%20GR): 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. ## Hungary ### Budapest, H – House of Terror - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/hungary/budapest/budapest-h-house-of-terror-a61 - Place: Andrássy út 60, Budapest, Hungary - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 47.49839, 19.07483 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #162 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #61. A segment on Andrássy út outside the House of Terror, given to Budapest in November 2010 for the twentieth anniversary of German reunification. A segment stands on Andrássy út in front of the House of Terror, the museum in the building used successively by the Hungarian fascist and communist security services. It was unveiled on 11 November 2010 in the presence of Hungarian and German politicians, a gift to Budapest for the twentieth anniversary of German reunification. It stands near a monument to the Iron Curtain made largely of rusted chain — two borders, two materials, one argument. Provenance: Given to Budapest for the twentieth anniversary of German reunification and unveiled on 11 November 2010. This record has named the donor as the Hohenschönhausen memorial, the former Stasi remand prison in Berlin, but none of the sources now cited does: the Hungarian news agency says only that the piece was given to the city. Sources: - [Budapest, H – House of Terror — The Wall Net](http://en.the-wall-net.org/budapest-h/): The segment standing before the House of Terror since November 2010, beside the Iron Curtain monument. - [Kiállították a berlini fal egy darabját a Terror Házánál - ORIGO](https://www.origo.hu/itthon/2010/11/kiallitottak-a-berlini-fal-egy-darabjat-a-terror-hazanal): MTI in Origo, 11 November 2010: an original piece of the Berlin Wall was unveiled that Thursday in front of the House of Terror on Andrássy út, in the presence of German and Hungarian politicians, given to Budapest for the twentieth anniversary of German reunification. - [Terror Háza - Betonfüggöny az Andrássy úton](https://www.terrorhaza.hu/hu/aktualitasok/hirek/2019-12-16-betonfuggony-az-andrassy-uton): The museum's own article of 16 December 2019: a piece of the Wall stands in front of the House of Terror Museum at Andrássy út 60. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-budapest/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Budapest%2C%20H%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20House%20of%20Terror): 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. ### Budapest, H – Malteser Caritas - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/hungary/budapest/budapest-h-malteser-caritas-a62 - Place: Hungarian Charity Service of the Order of Malta, Budapest, Hungary - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: Restricted access (In the charity's garden since 2004); evidence: Documented - Position: 47.48138955, 19.146094126912 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #161 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #62. Two segments the GDR gave away free to a Hungarian opposition party weeks before it dissolved — which vanished from a Buda park in 2004 and turned up in the garden of the charity that housed the refugees of 1989. Hungary opened the Iron Curtain on 27 June 1989, months before the Wall came down, and the Austrian-Hungarian border became the way out for thousands of East Germans that summer. At home the party had already turned: János Kádár was removed, a reform wing took over, and new parties were permitted, among them the Alliance of Free Democrats, founded in 1988. Expecting to do well in the first free elections since 1947, the Free Democrats announced a public festival on Heroes' Square in Budapest for 31 March 1990, and wanted pieces of the Berlin Wall there as a sign that freedom had won. They approached Limex, the East Berlin firm handling the sales, and balked at a price of several thousand marks a segment. So they wrote to the GDR culture minister asking for twelve segments free of charge. The request reached the prime minister, Hans Modrow, two weeks before the Hungarian election, by which time Modrow himself had only days left in office after the East German poll of 18 March. The foreign ministry was asked for an opinion. The official who wrote it had little enthusiasm for a group the old cadres declined to recognise as a party at all, but advised approval on foreign policy grounds, since the applicants' insistence could not be brushed off. Two segments were agreed instead of twelve, and the newly elected GDR government formally resolved it on 6 April 1990 — after the festival. The segments came anyway. Gábor Demszky of the Free Democrats became mayor of Budapest that year, and the gift was set up on the hill in the Tabán park in Buda, where it stood until 2004 and then disappeared. In 2009 the district administration could say only that the pieces had been carted away; when and where, nobody knew. They were traced with the help of the German embassy in Budapest to the garden of the Hungarian Maltese Charity Service, where they had been erected in 2004 at the instigation and under the direction of Father Imre Kozma. Of all the recipients in this catalogue, the charity has the strongest claim to have helped cause the event the object commemorates. On 14 August 1989 it opened the first camp for East German refugees, in the garden of the church at Zugliget in Budapest, after the West German embassy had to close through overcrowding; over three months it cared for some 48,600 people. Kozma, who set that camp up, is remembered for the sentence: the gate stands open, and more than that, the heart. The exodus through Hungary is generally counted among the pressures that forced the border open in November, and Helmut Kohl said the first brick of the Wall was knocked out by the Hungarians. German visitors come to the garden to see the segments. Provenance: Two segments granted free of charge by the outgoing GDR government by resolution of 6 April 1990, after a request from the Alliance of Free Democrats for twelve; set up in the Tabán park in Buda in 1990 and moved in 2004 to the garden of the Hungarian Maltese Charity Service at the instigation of Father Imre Kozma. Sources: - [Hungary: the day the fall of the iron curtain changed history — Sovereign Military Order of Malta](https://www.orderofmalta.int/news/hungary-the-day-the-fall-of-the-iron-curtain-changed-history/): The camp opened at Zugliget on 14 August 1989 and the care of some 48,600 East German refugees over three months. - [Milestones — Hungarian Charity Service of the Order of Malta](https://nemzetkozi.maltai.hu/en/about-us/milestones/): The charity's own account of its 1989 refugee operation. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-budapest-2/): Hungary's opening of the Iron Curtain on 27 June 1989 and the political changes that preceded it, the Free Democrats' planned festival of 31 March 1990 and their approach to Limex, the request to the GDR culture minister for twelve free segments and its passage to Hans Modrow, the foreign ministry opinion, the grant of two segments resolved on 6 April 1990, the erection of the gift in the Tabán park until 2004 and its disappearance, and the German embassy's identification of the segments in the garden of the Hungarian Maltese Charity Service, erected there in 2004 under Father Imre Kozma. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-budapest-2/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Budapest%2C%20H%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Malteser%20Caritas): 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. ### Sopron, H - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/hungary/sopron/sopron-h-a396 - Place: Pan-European Picnic Memorial Park, Sopronpuszta, near Sopron, Győr-Moson-Sopron, Hungary - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display in the open air); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 47.75678, 16.62103 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #396. Given by Elmar Prost and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and inaugurated at the Hungarian memorial to the 1989 Picnic, thirty years on. A piece of the Wall was inaugurated on 18 August 2019 at Sopronpuszta, next to the remains of the Iron Curtain, to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Pan-European Picnic, the peace demonstration held on the Austro-Hungarian border in August 1989. The Pan-European Picnic's own site, which carries the news, says it was given to Sopron by Elmar Prost and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Christian Hirte, a German government state secretary, spoke, as did Sopron's mayor Tamás Fodor and the justice minister Judit Varga; Hirte said that this piece of the Berlin Wall was a symbol of the Picnic as the starting point of the fall of the Iron Curtain. The page gives no dimensions and does not say where in Berlin the piece stood. The Berlin Wall Archive lists Sopron with no segment count, and its pin was in the middle of the town, about nine kilometres from the memorial; the position here is the memorial park's. Provenance: Given to the town of Sopron by Elmar Prost and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, 2019. Sources: - [A piece of the Berlin Wall was inaugurated — Pan-European Picnic](https://www.paneuropaipiknik.hu/en/news/a-piece-of-the-berlin-wall-was-inaugurated): 18 August 2019: a piece of the Berlin Wall was inaugurated at Sopronpuszta close to the former Iron Curtain for the thirtieth anniversary of the Pan-European Picnic, donated to Sopron by Elmar Prost and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation; Christian Hirte, Mayor Tamás Fodor and Justice Minister Judit Varga spoke. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Sopron%2C%20H): 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. ## Romania ### Bucharest, RO - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/romania/bucharest/bucharest-ro-a60 - Place: Romanian Academy, Calea Victoriei, Bucharest, Romania - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: Unknown (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 44.44631, 26.09 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #60. Three to four metres of painted concrete brought by the Academy's own institute, and said in 2025 still to stand in its courtyard. A segment of the Wall was unveiled on 7 November 2019, thirty years after the Wall opened, at the Romanian Academy in Bucharest. The prime minister Ludovic Orban spoke, with the German ambassador Cord Meier-Klodt, Romania's ambassador to Germany Emil Hurezeanu and the former prime minister Petre Roman among those present. Orban said that artificial divisions and political errors were still part of the world, and that walls were now built not of concrete but of manipulation. The Academy's Institute of Political Sciences and International Relations, named for Ion I. C. Brătianu, brought the piece to Romania. The press reports differ on its size: Mediafax gives about four metres and 3.5 tonnes, Digi24 three metres and three tonnes. They also differ on the setting, the Academy's park in one and its courtyard in the other. In May 2025 Dan Dungaciu, who directed the institute at the time, told a talk show that the Academy had bought a genuine segment, which he gave as 4 tonnes and 3 metres, with the help of European companies, with a receipt and authentication. He had wanted it in a public square devoted to anti-communism, but the capital's authorities showed no interest, and he said it was still in the courtyard of the Academy, forgotten. Provenance: Bought by the Romanian Academy's Institute of Political Sciences and International Relations, with the support of European companies, and brought to Bucharest for the thirtieth anniversary in 2019. Sources: - [30 de ani de la căderea Zidului Berlinului: O bucată din zid, dezvelită şi amplasată în Parcul Academiei Române — FOTO, VIDEO](https://www.mediafax.ro/life-inedit/30-de-ani-de-la-caderea-zidului-berlinului-o-bucata-din-zid-dezvelita-si-amplasata-in-parcul-academiei-romane-foto-video-18551805): 7 November 2019: a piece of the Wall, about 4 m tall and 3.5 tonnes, unveiled in the Romanian Academy park by Prime Minister Ludovic Orban with the German ambassador Cord Meier-Klodt, the Romanian ambassador Emil Hurezeanu and Petre Roman; brought largely through the Academy's Institute of Political Sciences and International Relations ‘Ion I. C. Brătianu’. - [Fragment din Zidul Berlinului, expus la Academie. L. Orban: Şi azi sunt tentative de construit ziduri, nu din beton, ci din manipulări](https://www.digi24.ro/stiri/actualitate/politica/fragment-din-zidul-berlinului-expus-la-academie-l-orban-si-azi-sunt-tentative-de-construit-ziduri-nu-din-beton-ci-din-manipulari-1212916): 7 November 2019: a fragment 3 metres high and 3 tonnes shown in the courtyard of the Romanian Academy, given by the Institute of Political Sciences and International Relations ‘Ion I. C. Brătianu’; Prime Minister Orban on artificial divisions and walls of manipulation. - [Dan Dungaciu: „Am adus o bucată de 4 tone din zidul Berlinului. Am pus-o în Piața Victoriei și nu a băgat-o nimeni în seamă”](https://www.gandul.ro/emisiuni/marius-tuca-show/dan-dungaciu-am-adus-o-bucata-de-4-tone-din-zidul-berlinului-am-pus-o-in-piata-victoriei-si-nu-a-bagat-o-nimeni-in-seama-20510837): May 2025: Dan Dungaciu says a genuine 4-tonne, 3-metre segment was bought with the help of European companies, with a receipt and authentication, and shown in the courtyard of the Romanian Academy, where it is still; the Bucharest authorities ignored it. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Bucharest%2C%20RO): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Pitești - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/romania/pitesti/berlin-wall-pitesti-f148 - Place: Pitești Prison Memorial, Pitești, Argeș, Romania - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On permanent loan; part of the outdoor exhibition); evidence: Documented - Position: 44.865017009279, 24.864154851453 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #148. Three Hinterlandmauer elements lent by the Berlin Wall Foundation to the memorial at the prison where the Securitate tried to torture prisoners into new men. Between 1949 and 1952 the Romanian security service ran what became known as the Pitești experiment: an attempt to re-educate political prisoners into communist new men through torture and humiliation, in which more than a thousand people were killed. It took its name from the prison in Pitești, in southern Romania, which stayed in use until 1977. The private Pitești Prison Memorial opened on the site in 2014, with a permanent exhibition on the communist dictatorship in Romania that concentrates on the systematic physical and psychological methods used here. In December 2019, for the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the dictatorship, the Berlin Wall Foundation placed three elements of the Hinterlandmauer — the inner wall, the one that faced the prisoners of the border rather than the cameras — with the memorial as a permanent loan. They have been part of the outdoor exhibition since. A panel beside them explains the history of the Wall in Romanian and English. The arrangement is worth distinguishing from most of this catalogue. These elements were not sold in 1990, nor given as a diplomatic present. They were lent, by the German state institution that holds and interprets the Wall at Bernauer Straße, to a memorial that documents a different dictatorship — and they can be recalled. It is a third mode of dispersal, later and more deliberate than the other two. The Romanian press reported the placing of the loan on 10 December 2019; both Adevărul and the agency Agerpres speak of a single fragment, where the Foundation counts three elements. Provenance: A permanent loan from the Berlin Wall Foundation in December 2019, for the thirtieth anniversary of the end of communist rule in Romania. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-pitesti/): The Pitești experiment and its death toll, the prison's use until 1977, the opening of the private memorial in 2014 and its permanent exhibition, the loan of three Hinterlandmauer elements by the Berlin Wall Foundation in December 2019, their place in the outdoor exhibition, and the bilingual panel. - [Despre Fenomenul Piteşti, 70 de ani mai târziu. Un fragment din Zidul Berlinului, va fi plasat în curtea Memorialului Închisoarea Piteşti](https://adevarul.ro/stiri-locale/pitesti/despre-fenomenul-pitesti-70-de-ani-mai-tarziu-un-1988921.html): Adevărul's report of 10 December 2019: on the evening of that day, marking seventy years since the start of the Pitești experiment and thirty since the fall of communism, a fragment of the Berlin Wall was placed in the memorial's courtyard as part of its permanent open-air exhibition, with guests from the Berlin Wall Memorial present. - [Preşedintele AFDPR despre Fenomenul Piteşti: Cele mai oribile lucruri din lumea comunistă europeană](https://www.agerpres.ro/cultura/2019/12/10/presedintele-afdpr-despre-fenomenul-pitesti-cele-mai-oribile-lucruri-din-lumea-comunista-europeana--417895): Agerpres's report of 10 December 2019 on the commemoration, recording that a fragment of the Berlin Wall, a witness to the fall of communism in Europe, was placed in the courtyard of the Pitești Prison Memorial. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-pitesti/): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Timișoara - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/romania/timisoara/berlin-wall-timisoara-f149 - Place: Memorialul Revoluției, Strada Oituz, Timișoara, Romania - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 45.760136861255, 21.231510563639 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #149 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #424. A fragment at the memorial in the city where the Romanian revolution began, five weeks after the Wall opened. A fragment stands at the Revolution Memorial, the foundation established on 26 April 1990 to document the December 1989 rising that began in Timișoara and ended the Ceaușescu regime. The placement makes a claim about sequence: the Wall opened on 9 November 1989 and Timișoara rose five weeks later, and the memorial sets the German object in its courtyard, beside a collection about the Romanian dead. Of all the recipients in this catalogue, this is the one whose own revolution came closest in time. The piece came late. The memorial asked Berlin for it in 2012; it arrived by special lorry in December that year, two and a half tonnes of it, and was shown to the public on 20 December 2012, at the opening of a photographic exhibition. Local business people and the Rotary Club of Timișoara paid for the transport. Provenance: A gift from the city of Berlin, which the memorial requested in 2012; local business people and the Rotary Club of Timișoara paid for its transport. Sources: - [Timișoara Revolution Memorial — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timi%C8%99oara_Revolution_Memorial): The foundation's establishment in April 1990 and its collection, including an authentic fragment of the Berlin Wall donated by a German foundation. - [Zidul Berlinului în curtea Memorialului](https://memorialulrevolutiei.ro/zidul-berlinului-in-curtea-memorialului/): The memorial's own account: it received a piece of the Wall from the city of Berlin, brought by special lorry from Germany and set in its courtyard to stay on permanent display; local business people and the Rotary Club of Timișoara made the transport possible, and it was to be shown to the public on 20 December. - [FOTO Zidul Berlinului, de două tone şi jumătate, a ajuns la Timişoara](https://adevarul.ro/stiri-locale/timisoara/foto-zidul-berlinului-de-doua-tone-si-jumatate-a-1390417.html): Adevărul, 7 December 2012: a piece of the Wall weighing two and a half tonnes and more than three metres tall, a gift from the city of Berlin, has arrived at the Revolution Memorial and been placed in its courtyard, to be presented to the public on 20 December at the opening of a photographic exhibition. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-timisoara/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Timisoara%2C%20RO): 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. ## Switzerland ### Berlin Wall — Basel - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/switzerland/basel/berlin-wall-basel-f152 - Place: A private property near Basel, Switzerland - Classification: Private / Limited Access; can it be seen today: Restricted access (On private land); evidence: Listed - Position: 47.5581077, 7.5878261 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #152 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #30. Half of Kiddy Citny's twin hearts, bought in Monaco for over 100,000 marks and delivered to a quiet Swiss suburb — the other half had already gone to America. On 23 June 1990 the LeLé Berlin Wall Verkaufs- und Wirtschaftswerbung GmbH auctioned eighty-one pieces of the Berlin Wall at the Hotel Metropole Palace in Monaco, before about a hundred collectors and dealers. The proceeds were to go in full to the failing health service of the GDR, which still existed. The organisers took trouble over the setting: a lavish catalogue was printed whose gold cover showed a segment painted with half a red heart, and whose first page showed the whole ensemble it came from — two large hearts spread across four elements, painted by Kiddy Citny in 1984 on Waldemarstraße in West Berlin. Two of those four were already in the United States by the time of the auction: the halves of the second heart, which was later sawn apart, one going to Durham in North Carolina and the other to Peter Max's store at Lyndhurst, New Jersey. The remaining two stood at the entrance of the Monaco hotel, greeting the bidders. They were lots 33 and 34, described as original motif well preserved, with edge breaks on the right; the red had faded a little since 1984 and a few later marks had been added. They were bought by the Swiss entrepreneur Pascal Märki, who paid over 100,000 marks plus duty and transport. Stern reported the delivery to the family's property near Basel and the stir the arrival caused in a quiet settlement at the edge of the woods. Märki, whose main residence was then in Monaco, described the pieces as art objects and as a sign that people cannot be kept in tutelage for ever. He later bought two more segments, painted by Jürgen Große, who signed himself Indiano. All four are still on the property. Provenance: Lots 33 and 34 of the Monaco auction of 23 June 1990, bought by Pascal Märki for over 100,000 marks; painted by Kiddy Citny on Waldemarstraße in West Berlin in 1984. Two further segments painted by Jürgen Große were bought later. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-basel/): The Monaco auction of 23 June 1990 at the Hotel Metropole Palace, its eighty-one lots and the destination of the proceeds, the catalogue and its cover, Kiddy Citny's two hearts across four elements painted on Waldemarstraße in 1984, the two already in the United States at Durham and Lyndhurst, lots 33 and 34 and their catalogue description, Pascal Märki's purchase for over 100,000 marks, the delivery near Basel reported by Stern, and the two further Indiano segments. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-basel/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Basel%2C%20CH%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20private%20property): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Emmen - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/switzerland/emmen/berlin-wall-emmen-f153 - Place: Spectators' area, Emmen military airfield, Emmen, Lucerne, Switzerland - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 47.0989244, 8.3076814 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #153 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #114. An L-shaped element of the Grenzmauer 75, given to a Swiss aerobatic team as a thank-you for an air show and painted with their formation. In June 2010 the organisers of the Berlin air show gave the Swiss air force's aerobatic team, the Patrouille Suisse, an unusual thank-you for their display and for Switzerland's role as partner country: an original L-element of the Grenzmauer 75, the fourth and final generation of the border fortifications. It weighs about 2.7 tonnes. It had been painted by the Berlin artist Jakob Wagner, who called the work Formation in homage to the flying. The handover took place in the presence of the managing director of Messe Berlin, Raimund Hosch, the Swiss defence attaché Colonel Jörg Köhler, and the team with its ground crew from Emmen. The segment was first shown in the entrance hall of the Swiss embassy in Berlin, then shipped to Switzerland a few weeks later and set up in the spectators' area of the Emmen military airfield, the team's base. It was inaugurated on 23 July 2010 with Wagner, the publisher Jan Sötje and the crew present, and can be seen by the public. By 2014 the painting had faded and Wagner came back and remade it. That is worth noting beside the records where the paint has simply been allowed to wash off: Wakefield keeps a ghost, Emmen keeps a picture, and the two choices are equally defensible. The Luzerner Zeitung confirmed in January 2026 that the element still stands in the spectators' area of the airfield. Provenance: A gift from the organisers of the ILA air show in Berlin to the Patrouille Suisse in June 2010, painted by Jakob Wagner and repainted by him in 2014. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-emmen/): The June 2010 gift of an original L-element of the Grenzmauer 75 to the Patrouille Suisse, the handover party, Jakob Wagner's painting Formation, the display at the Swiss embassy in Berlin, the transport of the 2.7 tonne element to Emmen, the inauguration on 23 July 2010, and the repainting in 2014. - [Wieso steht dieses Stück Berliner Mauer beim Emmer Militärflugplatz?](https://www.luzernerzeitung.ch/zentralschweiz/stadt-region-luzern/berliner-mauer-dieses-stueck-steht-beim-emmer-militaerflugplatz-ld.4097045): The Luzerner Zeitung, 4 January 2026: the 2.7 tonne L-element has stood in the spectators' area of the Emmen military airfield since 2010, a gift to the Patrouille Suisse; the rest of the report is behind a paywall. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-emmen/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Emmen%2C%20CH): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Genf Le Grand-Saconnex - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/switzerland/genf-le-grand-saconnex/berlin-wall-genf-le-grand-saconnex-f154 - Place: Ecumenical Centre, Grand-Saconnex, Geneva, Switzerland - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: Restricted access (On display in the garden); evidence: Listed - Position: 46.2296722, 6.1289668 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #154 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #140. Two segments in the garden of the World Council of Churches, obtained by a body that had spent the Cold War talking across the line the concrete drew. Two segments have stood in the garden of the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva since 1991, one of them laid flat. The lying element was painted by Thierry Noir; the standing one carries graffiti of unknown authorship, now largely faded. The initiative came from the Conference of European Churches, which was based at the centre until 2014 and wanted to act, in its own phrase, as an ecumenical Mauerspecht — a wall woodpecker. Founded after the Second World War by leading church figures, the conference had spent four decades trying to keep the churches in contact across the political division of Europe and to mediate between the two systems, and the segments were meant to point at that as much as at the event itself. Getting them took two goes at the German state. The conference first approached the board set up in the spring of 1990 by the last GDR government to direct the proceeds of the Limex wall sales to the East German health service. In the end it was the defence ministry in Bonn, which after reunification was responsible for distributing what was left of the border, that arranged for the two elements to come to Switzerland; the centre had only to find about 7,000 Swiss francs for transport and installation. They were inaugurated on 23 September 1991, during a meeting of the central committee of the World Council of Churches, in a short service led by four representatives of international church bodies — Emilio Castro of the World Council of Churches, Jean Fischer of the Conference of European Churches, Sarah Stephens of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and Kaanaeli Makundi of the Lutheran World Federation — and blessed by Aram Keshishian of the Armenian Apostolic Church. What the clergy spoke about was not the wall that had come down but the visible and invisible ones still standing between people everywhere. Provenance: Arranged through the German defence ministry in Bonn, which after reunification distributed the remaining wall elements, at the request of the Conference of European Churches; the centre paid about 7,000 Swiss francs for transport and installation. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-genf/): The two segments in the Ecumenical Centre garden since 1991 and the Thierry Noir painting on the recumbent one, the Conference of European Churches' initiative and its Cold War role, the approach to the GDR proceeds board and the eventual arrangement by the defence ministry in Bonn, the 7,000 Swiss franc cost, and the inauguration service of 23 September 1991 with its named participants. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-genf/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Geneva%2C%20CH): 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. ## Australia ### Berlin Wall — Canberra - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/australia/canberra/berlin-wall-canberra-f265 - Place: Harmonie German Club, 49 Jerrabomberra Avenue, Narrabundah, Canberra, Australia - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: -35.338900671869, 149.15125850937 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #265 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #70. One 3.5 tonne section in front of the German club, unveiled on 3 October 1992 and said to have stood at Potsdamer Platz. The section at the Harmonie German Club is recorded at 3.5 tonnes, 3.6 m high and nearly 2 m wide, and said to have stood at Potsdamer Platz near the Brandenburg Gate. The published width is a useful dimensional check: 2 m is well above the 1.2 m normally quoted for a Grenzmauer 75 element, which is either a measuring error in the source or evidence that "a segment" covers more than one product. Worth resolving against a physical measurement before either figure is asserted. Provenance: Reported as having stood at Potsdamer Platz near the Brandenburg Gate. Sources: - [Harmonie German Club](https://harmonieclub.com.au/about/): The club's own account of the segment, its dimensions and the 1992 unveiling. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-canberra/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Canberra%2C%20AUS): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Sydney - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/australia/sydney/berlin-wall-sydney-f266 - Place: Goethe-Institut, 90 Ocean Street, Woollahra, Sydney, Australia - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: -33.883320043102, 151.2385150004 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #266 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #415. Shipped to Australia in the early 1990s and then forgotten in a Blacktown warehouse for seventeen years. Its graffiti reads Jeder hat Kraft — everyone is powerful. A slab of concrete and steel almost four metres tall and weighing 2.4 tonnes stands outside the Goethe-Institut in Woollahra, its original graffiti reading “Jeder hat Kraft” — everyone is powerful. It was inaugurated on 23 November 2019 for the thirtieth anniversary. The interesting part is the gap: it reached Australia in the early 1990s and then sat in a warehouse in Blacktown for about seventeen years before anyone put it anywhere. Most records in this catalogue describe an object that was wanted; this one describes an object that was imported and then mislaid. Provenance: Shipped to Australia in the early 1990s by the German-Australian businessman Peter Kubiak, and stored in western Sydney until it was installed in 2019. Sources: - [A slab of the Berlin Wall now on display in Sydney reminds us that 'everyone is powerful' — ABC News](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-23/berlin-wall-on-display-in-sydney-after-being-forgotten/11728808): Dimensions and weight, the Kubiak shipment, the seventeen years in a Blacktown warehouse, the graffiti text and the 2019 inauguration. - [Berlin Wall inauguration press release — Goethe-Institut Australien](https://www.goethe.de/resources/files/pdf187/berlin_wall_inauguration_pressrelease29102019b1.pdf): The institute's own announcement of the installation and its date. - [MAU-773 Berlin Wall Sydney — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.mauerspuren.de/de/13606/berlin-wall-sydney/#mau-773): The segment reading “Jeder hat Kraft”, long forgotten until it was rediscovered by chance for the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall, now standing in front of the Goethe-Institut in Sydney; catalogued as MAU-773. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-sydney/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Sydney%2C%20AUS): 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. ## Bulgaria ### Plovdiv, BG - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/bulgaria/plovdiv/plovdiv-bg-a327 - Place: Gladstone Street, Plovdiv, Bulgaria - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 42.1418541, 24.7499297 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #327. A 2.5 tonne segment painted by Thierry Noir for Plovdiv, carrying a message he wrote to future generations. A fragment 3.6 m high and weighing 2.5 tonnes, painted by the French artist Thierry Noir, was unveiled in front of Exhibition Hall 2019 on Gladstone Street on 19 December 2019 — as Plovdiv's year as European Capital of Culture closed, and in the thirtieth anniversary year of the opening. It carries a message Noir wrote for the city: “A message to future generations – let us not repeat the mistakes of the past.” It was intended as the basis for a monument to the freedom of the new Europe. Noir painted the Wall while it stood; this is one of the few segments he painted after it fell, for a specific recipient. Provenance: Unveiled in the presence of the former president Petar Stoyanov, the mayor of Plovdiv Zdravko Dimitrov, and the German ambassador Christoph Eichhorn. Sources: - [Painted fragment of Berlin Wall to be unveiled in Bulgaria's Plovdiv on December 19 — The Sofia Globe](https://sofiaglobe.com/2019/12/18/painted-fragment-of-berlin-wall-to-be-unveiled-in-bulgarias-plovdiv-on-december-19/): The dimensions, weight, Noir's authorship and message, the date, the venue and the attendees. - [Berlin Wall section to be put on permanent display in Bulgaria's Plovdiv — The Sofia Globe](https://sofiaglobe.com/2019/07/26/berlin-wall-section-to-be-put-on-permanent-display-in-bulgarias-plovdiv/): The plan for permanent display and the intended monument. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Plovdiv%2C%20BG): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Sofia - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/bulgaria/sofia/berlin-wall-sofia-f105 - Place: Park of the National Palace of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 42.686031855498, 23.320801221032 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #105 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #395. A section behind the chapel and memorial to the victims of communism, whose plaque carries some ten thousand names. A section stands near one entrance to the park of the National Palace of Culture, behind a small Bulgarian Orthodox chapel and a memorial to the victims of the communist regime whose plaque carries some ten thousand names. The palace itself was opened in 1981 by the regime the memorial commemorates, which makes the park an unusually compressed piece of ground: the state's own monument to itself, a list of its dead, and a fragment of someone else's border, within a few metres of each other. The city's own monument register dates the ensemble to 2006 and gives the concrete at 3.60 metres. The Foundation records it as a gift of the Berlin Senate, requested in March 2006 at the initiative of the Nasledstvo foundation and handed over on 20 June 2006 by Klaus Wowereit to Boyko Borisov, on a plaza designed by the architect Boyko Kadinov. In December 2015 municipal workers painted over the original graffiti in grey because they found it ugly; after the German Embassy objected, restorers were set to recover it. Provenance: A gift of the Berlin Senate in 2006 at the request of Sofia Municipality; by the Foundation's account, handed over on 20 June 2006 by Klaus Wowereit to Boyko Borisov. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A section forming part of a memorial in the park in front of the National Palace of Culture. - [„Берлинската стена”, архитектурен ансамбъл, НДК](https://registersofia.bg/index.php?view=monument&option=com_monuments&formdata%5Bid%5D=1164&Itemid=140): Sofia's register of monuments, kept by the Sofia History Museum for the municipality: the Berlin Wall architectural ensemble at the NDK, dated 2006, in the first part of the South Park, built of concrete blocks 3.60 metres high. - [Боядисали парчето от Берлинската стена в София, автентичните надписи били "грозни"](https://news.bg/bulgaria/boyadisali-parcheto-ot-berlinskata-stena-v-sofiya-avtentichnite-nadpisi-bili-grozni.html): News.bg's report of 4 December 2015: the piece in the park of the National Palace of Culture arrived in Sofia in 2006 after an official request from the municipality to Berlin; municipal workers painted over its original graffiti in grey, the German Embassy asked for the original state to be preserved, and restorers were set to recover it. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-sofia/): The Foundation's own entry for this listing: a gift of the Berlin Senate requested on 1 March 2006 at the initiative of the Bulgarian foundation Nasledstvo, approved by Sofia's city council on 13 April 2006 and handed over on 20 June 2006 by Klaus Wowereit to Boyko Borisov, set on a black stone plaza designed by the architect Boyko Kadinov with bilingual plaques. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-sofia/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Sofia%2C%20BG): 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. ## Chile ### Santiago de Chile, RCH – German Embassy - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/chile/santiago/santiago-de-chile-rch-german-embassy-a368 - Place: German Embassy, Vitacura, Santiago, Chile - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: Restricted access (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: -33.396479361263, -70.575522859362 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #243 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #368. Chilean students in Berlin were given a piece and shipped it home free of charge; the embassy bought it from them on the dockside at Valparaíso. A segment stands outside the German embassy in Vitacura, unveiled on 3 October 1991 — German Unity Day. Its route is the most unusual in this catalogue. Berlin gave the piece to students from the Universidad de Chile who were studying in the city; the Ultramar shipping agency carried it to Chile free of charge; and when it reached the port of Valparaíso the embassy offered to buy it from them, paying money towards their project in the name of the Federal Republic. Almost every other segment here moved by state gift or private purchase. This one was a student souvenir that a government then acquired. Chilean press confirms the outline and complicates the dates. BioBioChile (2012) says the piece reached Chile around 1991 through Universidad de Chile students and the shipping company Ultramar, and describes a roughly two-tonne segment bearing the work Think Global by the artist Indiano. La Tercera tells it from the students' side: psychology students led by Patricio García wrote to a German foundation that raised money by giving away pieces of the Wall; moved by their plan for a psychological clinic in Pudahuel, it gave a piece it valued at 100,000 dollars, and the businessman Wolf von Appen paid for the shipping from Hamburg to Valparaíso in October 1991. La Tercera has it shown at the Museo de Bellas Artes in March 1992, which sits uneasily with an unveiling at the embassy on 3 October 1991; that date is the listing's, and is kept here without being settled. Provenance: Given by Berlin to Chilean students in the city, shipped by Ultramar to Valparaíso, and bought from them by the German embassy on arrival. La Tercera adds that a German foundation gave it for the students' clinic project and that Wolf von Appen paid for the shipping. Sources: - [Santiago de Chile, RCH – German Embassy — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/santiago-de-chile-rch/): The students' acquisition, the free Ultramar shipping, the embassy's purchase at Valparaíso and the unveiling on 3 October 1991. - [Embajada de Alemania exhibe fragmento del muro de Berlín en Santiago](https://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/2012/04/10/embajada-de-alemania-exhibe-fragmento-del-muro-de-berlin-en-santiago.shtml): BioBioChile, 2012: the fragment reached Chile about 1991 through a group of Universidad de Chile students and the shipping company Ultramar; a roughly two-tonne segment at the embassy entrance, Las Hualtatas 5677, Vitacura, carrying the work "Think Global" by Indiano. - [El pedazo del muro de Berlín que llegó a Chile](https://www.latercera.com/revista-que-pasa/6-1250-9-el-pedazo-del-muro-de-berlin-que-llego-a-chile/): La Tercera (Qué Pasa): psychology students led by Patricio García obtained the piece from a German foundation to fund a clinic in Pudahuel; Wolf von Appen paid for shipping from Hamburg to Valparaíso in October 1991; shown at the Museo de Bellas Artes in March 1992. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-santiago-de-chile/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Santiago%20de%20Chile%2C%20RCH%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20German%20Embassy): 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. ### Santiago de Chile, RCH – Museo de la Moda - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/chile/santiago/santiago-de-chile-rch-museo-de-la-moda-a369 - Place: Museo de la Moda, Avenida Vitacura, Santiago, Chile - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On loan); evidence: Listed - Position: -33.39765, -70.58645 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #369. A segment on loan from the German embassy to a fashion museum, in an exhibition opened by Kate Moss. The museum is the Museo de la Moda in Santiago. The exhibition opened in April 2018, presented by the museum's founder Jorge Yarur Bascuñán with the model Kate Moss. It is the only record in this catalogue where a piece of border fortification has been placed in a fashion collection, and a reminder that the object's meaning is set entirely by whoever is holding it. Provenance: On loan from the German embassy in Santiago. Sources: - [Santiago de Chile, RCH – Museo de la Moda — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/santiago-de-chile-rch-museo-de-la-moda/): The loan from the German embassy and the April 2018 opening by Jorge Yarur Bascuñán and Kate Moss. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Santiago%20de%20Chile%2C%20RCH%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Museo%20de%20la%20Moda): 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. ## Czechia ### Prague, CZ - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/czechia/prague/prague-cz-a337 - Place: A&O Hostel, Strašnice, Prague, Czech Republic - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 50.0596288, 14.4464593 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #337. A section unveiled outside a newly opened hostel in 2018 — a segment used as commercial frontage rather than as a memorial. The hostel is the A&O in Strašnice. The placement is a German hostel chain marking a new building in a former Eastern bloc capital — a category worth keeping visible alongside the museums and embassies, because a good deal of the Wall ended up working as frontage. It was unveiled on 4 October 2018, the day after the anniversary of German reunification, by the chain's founder, Oliver Winter, who grew up in the GDR; he said the company had bought the piece and asked Berlin artists to paint it, so that people would remember they had not always been free. One face carries a portrait of Hans-Dietrich Genscher, who announced from the balcony of the West German embassy in Prague in September 1989 that the East Germans crowded into its garden could leave for the West. Provenance: Bought by A&O Hostels and painted by Berlin artists at the company's request; unveiled by its founder, Oliver Winter, on 4 October 2018. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A section unveiled outside the newly opened A&O Hostel in Strašnice in 2018. - [Část berlínské zdi v pražských Strašnicích zdobí i portrét ministra Genschera – Pražský deník](https://prazsky.denik.cz/podnikani/cast-berlinske-zdi-v-prazskych-strasnicich-zdobi-i-portret-ministra-genschera/): ČTK in Pražský deník, 4 October 2018: a segment about four metres high was unveiled that day by Oliver Winter, founder of A&O Hostels, in front of the company's newly opened hotel in Strašnice; Winter said the company had bought it and asked Berlin artists to paint it, and one side carries a portrait of Hans-Dietrich Genscher. - [A Piece of the Berlin Wall Now Permanently Installed In Prague](https://www.expats.cz/czech-news/article/a-piece-of-the-berlin-wall-now-permanently-installed-in-prague): Expats.cz, 9 October 2018: Oliver Winter unveiled a section of the Wall in front of the newly opened A&O Hostel in Strašnice on 4 October, the day after the anniversary of German reunification. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Prague%2C%20CZ): 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. ### Pribram, CZ - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/czechia/pribram/pribram-cz-a340 - Place: Památník Vojna, Lešetice, near Příbram, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display in the memorial grounds); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 49.63967, 14.00172 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #340. A panel of the Wall among the exhibits of the preserved communist labour camp at Vojna, run by the Příbram mining museum, 5 km south-east of the town. The camp at Vojna lies in the woods about five kilometres south-east of Příbram, on the boundary of the villages of Lazsko, Lešetice and Zavržice, and takes its name from the hill at whose foot it stands. German prisoners of war built it as a labour camp in 1947–1949, records the Hornické muzeum Příbram, the mining museum that runs it; after the communist takeover it became, in the account of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, the largest forced-labour camp of the Czechoslovak uranium industry, holding nearly two thousand prisoners in 1959, political prisoners among them, who mined uranium for the Soviet Union in two adjoining shafts. The camp closed in 1961, the army used the site until 2000, sixteen of its buildings survive, and it has been a cultural monument since 2001. The institute's visitor's guide of August 2023 lists what there is to see besides the buildings: Jiří Sozanský's sculpture Vzestup, the ORBIS PICTUS: Evropa gallery with its canvas by twenty painters from across Europe, Vladimír Paleček's Zoufalství, and “a preserved panel of the famous Berlin Wall”. A photograph on Wikimedia Commons taken on 12 July 2012 shows that panel: a single element standing upright on the grass beside the camp road, almost bare of paint, with a plaque headed BERLÍNSKÁ ZEĎ. It had therefore been there for at least a decade when the institute wrote. Nothing read says when it came or who gave it, and the museum's own pages for the memorial do not mention it. The Wall Net, whose entry the Berlin Wall Archive's listing follows, counts one segment, which is what the photograph shows. Provenance: Not established. The panel was at the camp by 12 July 2012, when it was photographed; nothing read says when it came or who gave it. Sources: - [Vojna, unikátní památník utrpení politických vězňů u Příbrami — Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů](https://www.ustrcr.cz/vojna-unikatni-pamatnik-utrpeni-politickych-veznu-u-pribrami/): The institute's visitor's guide of 25 August 2023 (Jakub Šafránek): the former Vojna camp lies a few kilometres beyond Příbram in the woods by Lešetice, began after the war as an internment camp for German prisoners of war and became the largest forced-labour camp of the Czechoslovak uranium industry, with nearly two thousand prisoners in 1959, who mined uranium for the Soviet Union in two adjoining shafts; the army used the site after the camp closed in 1961 until 2000, sixteen buildings survive, it has been a cultural monument since 2001, and among the things to see are Jiří Sozanský's sculpture Vzestup, the ORBIS PICTUS: Evropa gallery with a canvas by twenty painters from across Europe, a preserved panel of the famous Berlin Wall and Vladimír Paleček's Zoufalství; the memorial is about eight kilometres from Příbram by road 66 towards Milín. - [Památník Vojna Lešetice — Hornické muzeum Příbram](https://www.muzeum-pribram.cz/pamatnik-vojna/): The museum's own page for its branch: the camp stands in the woods 5 km south-east of Příbram at 582 m, on the boundary of the cadastres of Lazsko, Lešetice and Zavržice, was built as a labour camp by German prisoners of war in 1947–1949 and was named after the nearby hill Vojna; the page does not mention the Wall panel. - [File:Tábor Vojna. Díl Berlínské zdi.jpg — Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:T%C3%A1bor_Vojna._D%C3%ADl_Berl%C3%ADnsk%C3%A9_zdi.jpg): Photograph by ŠJů taken on 12 July 2012 (CC BY-SA 3.0): a single element of the Wall, almost bare of paint, standing upright on grass beside the camp's gravel road with a plaque headed BERLÍNSKÁ ZEĎ; geotagged 49.63967, 14.00172. - [Pribram, CZ — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/pribram-cz/): Entry of 20 January 2016: one segment at the Vojna Memorial, Lešetice; the camp was a forced-labour camp from 1949 to 1951 and then a prison for political prisoners until it closed on 1 June 1961, was used by the army until 2000, was proclaimed a National Cultural Monument in January 2001 and opened to the public in 2005 after reconstruction. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Pribram%2C%20CZ): 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. ## Dominican Republic ### Berlin Wall — Santo Domingo - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/dominican-republic/santo-domingo/berlin-wall-santo-domingo-f1446 - Place: Garden of the Hotel Embajador, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - Classification: Former Location; can it be seen today: Moved (Moved to the Plaza de la Cultura in 2022); evidence: Documented - Position: 18.470379887738, -69.909777386698 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #1446. Spotted in a Berlin company’s yard by a visiting foreign minister in 2019, shipped over in two months, painted through a public competition, and since February 2022 in the Plaza de la Cultura. A two and a half tonne segment was presented at the Hotel Embajador, in whose garden the Foundation places it. It is among the most recently placed records in the catalogue and it happened quickly: the Dominican foreign minister Miguel Vargas was visiting Germany in February 2019, his delegation called at a Berlin company, someone noticed original segments standing in the yard, and the idea of giving one to the Dominican Republic started there. After a two-month journey it was presented on 9 November 2019, the thirtieth anniversary, with the foreign minister present. The German embassy and the Dominican foreign ministry then announced an art competition to decide how it should be painted, opened on 10 December 2019 — International Human Rights Day. Most segments in this catalogue arrived already painted, by whoever reached them in Berlin. This one arrived bare and had its surface decided by a public competition thirty years later. It no longer stands at the hotel. The German embassy’s account, as printed by Diario Libre and Acento in November 2024, says it was first placed at the monument to Fray de Montesinos, where the sea air quickly damaged the printed design, and that in February 2022 it was moved to its definitive place in the Plaza de la Cultura, where it was restored for the thirty-fifth anniversary. The sources do not say when it left the hotel, so the Foundation’s garden and the embassy’s monument are both kept here, and the Hotel Embajador is recorded as the former site. Provenance: Noticed in the yard of a Berlin company during Foreign Minister Miguel Vargas's visit in February 2019, and shipped over the following two months. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-santo-domingo/): The February 2019 visit and the discovery in a Berlin company yard, the two-month journey, the 2.5 tonne segment presented on 9 November 2019 at the Hotel Embajador, and the art competition announced on 10 December 2019. - [Renuevan fragmento del Muro de Berlín en la Plaza de la Cultura — Diario Libre](https://www.diariolibre.com/revista/cultura/2024/11/09/renuevan-fragmento-del-muro-de-berlin-en-la-plaza-de-la-cultura/2906888): 9 November 2024: donated by the then ambassador Volker Pellet in 2019 and presented at the Hotel Embajador in November 2019; first placed at the monument to Fray de Montesinos, where sea salt damaged it, and moved to its definitive place in the Plaza de la Cultura in February 2022; restored by CENACOD for the 35th anniversary. - [Embajada de Alemania celebra el Día de la Unidad Alemana y el 35 aniversario de la caída del Muro de Berlín — Acento](https://acento.com.do/sociales/embajada-de-alemania-celebra-el-dia-de-la-unidad-alemana-y-el-35-aniversario-de-la-caida-del-muro-de-berlin-9422604.html): 16 November 2024: an original fragment of the Wall is today in the Plaza de la Cultura in Santo Domingo, restored and retouched for the 35th anniversary. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-santo-domingo/): 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. ### Santo Domingo, DOM - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/dominican-republic/santo-domingo/santo-domingo-dom-a370 - Place: Museo Nacional de Historia y Geografía, Plaza de la Cultura Juan Pablo Duarte, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: On display (On display in the museum garden); evidence: Documented - Position: 18.47116, -69.90963 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #370. Painted with a design by the Dominican artist Martín López, it was moved in 2022 from the seafront to the garden of a national museum. A whole segment of the Wall reached Santo Domingo in 2019 as a gift from Germany. Diario Libre says it was donated by the German ambassador at the time, Volker Pellet, and reached Santo Domingo after two months at sea. A competition for a design to cover it was won by the Dominican artist Martín López with "Tótem: por los derechos humanos, la democracia y la libertad", which draws on resistance figures including Fray Antonio de Montesinos and the Mirabal sisters; the German company Wallprint applied it with a concrete printer. It was inaugurated in May 2021 at the monument to Montesinos on the Malecón. The salt air damaged it, and in February 2022 the Culture Ministry and the municipality moved it to the front garden of the Museo Nacional de Historia y Geografía in the Plaza de la Cultura (Listín Diario). On 9 November 2024, the thirty-fifth anniversary of the fall, it was shown again after restoration by conservators of CENACOD, working with the German embassy and the Culture Ministry (Diario Libre). Neither paper says where in Berlin the segment stood. Provenance: Given to the Dominican Republic by the German embassy in 2019; the surface printed with López's design. Sources: - [Muro de Berlín: el fragmento que donó Alemania a RD fue trasladado a la Plaza de la Cultura — Listín Diario, 19 October 2022](https://listindiario.com/la-vida/2022/10/19/744047/muro-de-berlin-el-fragmento-que-dono-alemania-a-rd-fue-trasladado-a-la-plaza-de-la-cultura_154013.html): The fragment given by Germany, inaugurated in May 2021 at the Fray Antonio de Montesinos monument, was damaged by salt and moved in February 2022 to the front garden of the Museo Nacional de Historia y Geografía in the Plaza de la Cultura; Martín José López Reyes made the work "Tótem" on it. - [Celebran 35 aniversario caída Muro de Berlín con un fragmento renovado en la Plaza de la Cultura — Diario Libre, 9 November 2024](https://www.diariolibre.com/revista/cultura/2024/11/09/renuevan-fragmento-del-muro-de-berlin-en-la-plaza-de-la-cultura/2906888): The fragment was donated in 2019 by the then ambassador Volker Pellet after a two-month sea journey; Martín López won the design competition; Wallprint applied his design; and on 9 November 2024 it was shown restored by CENACOD conservators with the German embassy and the Culture Ministry. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Santo%20Domingo%2C%20DOM): 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. ## Finland ### Berlin Wall — Kuopio - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/finland/kuopio/berlin-wall-kuopio-f110 - Place: A window and door factory, Kuopio, Finland - Classification: Private / Limited Access; can it be seen today: Restricted access (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 62.896410995003, 27.705624844315 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #110 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #208. An original element in a Finnish window factory since 1990, its exact position deliberately unpublished because the company does not want visitors. The element stands on the grounds of a factory in Kuopio that makes windows and doors. Its exact position is not published here, for the reason the Foundation gives: the company does not want visitors. That is not the same as a secret — Finland's public broadcaster YLE reported on the piece for the twenty-fifth anniversary in 2014, and a technical manager explained on the record how it got there. The firm's former managing director was serving as honorary consul in Berlin in November 1989 when he was offered the element, and took it. Finland's own history with its eastern neighbour is the reason the offer landed: a country that had fought the Soviet Union and then spent the Cold War managing its proximity did not need the object explained. YLE's report gives the piece as about 3.5 metres tall and 70 to 80 centimetres wide, with holes where souvenir chips were drilled out for visiting guests, each given a certificate, and describes the former managing director as Germany's honorary consul who was in Berlin in 1989. Provenance: Offered to the company's former managing director while he was honorary consul in Berlin in November 1989. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-kuopio/): The element on a window and door factory site since 1990, the withheld exact position at the company's request, the 2014 YLE report, and the former managing director's acquisition as honorary consul in Berlin in November 1989. - [Kuopiosta löytyy yli kolmemetrinen kappale Berliinin muuria](https://yle.fi/a/3-7607076): YLE's report of 9 November 2014: a piece over three metres tall on the grounds of a door factory in Kuopio, obtained in 1989 by the firm's former managing director, who was Germany's honorary consul and was in Berlin as the Wall came down; about 3.5 metres by 70–80 centimetres by 20 centimetres, brought by ship and lorry, with holes where souvenirs were drilled out for visiting guests. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-kuopio/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Kuopio%2C%20FIN): 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. ### Berlin Wall — Tampere - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/finland/tampere/berlin-wall-tampere-f111 - Place: Tampere, Finland - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: In storage (Not on permanent public display); evidence: Documented - Position: 61.502989612348, 23.760626751827 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #111 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #419. Given to the city in 2008 and shown at first in its museum centre, then kept for a decade lying in the museums' store, and outside a library for a fortnight in 2019. A concrete segment about 1.5 m wide and nearly 4 m tall, given to the city in 2008 through its mayor, Timo P. Nieminen, and shown at first in the Vapriikki museum centre. By the spring of 2019 it had lain for about ten years on the floor of the Tampere museums' collection store at Rusko, and the museums were looking for somewhere to show it again; that year it was put up in front of a local library with a photographic exhibition, for two weeks. That is about the whole of its public life, and it makes the record useful: a segment can be owned by a city, be entirely genuine, and still be something almost nobody has seen. Provenance: A gift from Karl-Heinz Schröder, district administrator of Oberhavel in Brandenburg, to the city of Tampere, arranged through its mayor, Timo P. Nieminen. Oberhavel also supplied the segment given to the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy in Taipei the following year. Sources: - [Tampere, FIN — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/tampere-fin/): A segment of the Hinterlandmauer set up at the Vapriikki museum centre in 2008, a gift from Karl-Heinz Schröder, district administrator of Oberhavel, to Timo Nieminen. - [Miten pala Berliinin muuria päätyi Tampereelle? – Osa kylmän sodan kuuluisinta rajalinnoitusta on maannut varastossa vuosia, nyt huippuarvokas pala betonia halutaan esille](https://www.aamulehti.fi/kulttuuri/art-2000007580467.html): Aamulehti, 22 May 2019: the city of Tampere was given the piece in 2008 thanks to its mayor, Timo P. Nieminen; it was shown at the time in the Vapriikki museum centre, had since lain for about ten years on the floor of the Tampere museums' collection store at Rusko, and a new place to show it was being sought. - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): In 2019 the segment was put on display in front of a local library, with a photographic exhibition, for two weeks. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-tampere/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Tampere%2C%20FIN): 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. ## Qatar ### Berlin Wall panel, Georgetown University in Qatar - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/qatar/doha/doha-georgetown-university-qatar - Place: Georgetown University in Qatar, Education City, Al Rayyan, Qatar - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: Restricted access (On display in the atrium); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 25.31799, 51.44368 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #254 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #99. An original graffiti-covered panel in the atrium of Georgetown's Qatar campus, one of two sections Germany gave Qatar for the 2017 year of culture. An original panel of the Berlin Wall stands in the atrium of Georgetown University in Qatar, in the Education City campus on the western edge of Doha. It was unveiled on 11 December 2018 by Qatar Foundation, Qatar Museums and the university's dean: just over a metre wide and more than three and a half metres high, steel-reinforced concrete sprayed with graffiti. The Federal Foundation's entry gives the panel a history. It is one of fifteen segments painted in 2007 by pupils of the Carl-Zeiss-Oberschule in Berlin-Lichtenrade under the direction of Thierry Noir, in the Kreuzberg yard of the builders' merchant Dämmisol, which had bought the elements and paid for the school project. Six of the pupils' segments were sold to the company Veloform when Dämmisol gave up the site in 2008; Qatar Foundation acquired this one, painted with a coloured figure, and shows it on loan from the Qatar Museums Authority. Among those who spoke at the unveiling was the university's deputy dean, Kai-Henrik Barth, who with his wife described growing up on opposite sides of the Wall. Qatar Museums tells it more simply: one of two sections the German embassy gave to Qatar Museums as part of the Qatar–Germany Year of Culture 2017, the other standing in the exhibition hall of the Qatar National Convention Centre nearby. Both readings are kept. Two inventory listings describe this panel and are carried on this page. The Federal Foundation publishes one text, covering both Education City sites, on each of its two Doha entries; the first entry is pinned within fifty metres of this atrium and the second near the convention centre, and the two listings are assigned on that basis. The Berlin Wall Archive's Doha listing follows the Wall Net's entry of the same title, which places its one segment in this atrium. The local press report of the unveiling gives the panel as two metres thick, which cannot be right for a wall element and is left out here. Provenance: By the Federal Foundation's account, painted in 2007 by pupils of the Carl-Zeiss-Oberschule under Thierry Noir at the Dämmisol yard in Berlin-Kreuzberg, sold to Veloform in 2008 and acquired by Qatar Foundation, on loan from the Qatar Museums Authority; by Qatar Museums' account, given by the German embassy for the Qatar–Germany Year of Culture 2017. Unveiled at Georgetown University in Qatar on 11 December 2018. Sources: - [Sections of the Berlin Wall — Qatar Museums, public art](https://qm.org.qa/en/visit/public-art/berlin-wall/): Two sections of the Berlin Wall in Qatar, one in the atrium of Georgetown University in Qatar described as an original part of the wall, both gifted by the German embassy as part of the Qatar–Germany Year of Culture 2017. - [Qatar Museums brings a piece of Berlin Wall to GU-Q — The Peninsula, 11 December 2018](https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/11/12/2018/Qatar-Museums-brings-a-piece-of-Berlin-Wall-to-GU-Q): The panel unveiled in the GU-Q atrium on 11 December 2018 by Machaille Al Naimi of Qatar Foundation, Abdulrahman Al Ishaq of Qatar Museums and Dean Ahmad Dallal; just over a metre wide and over 3.5 metres high, steel-reinforced concrete with spray-painted graffiti. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry (Doha)](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-doha/): The unveiling of a painted segment in the atrium of Georgetown University in Qatar on 11 December 2018 and the speakers, including Kai-Henrik Barth; the 2007 Carl-Zeiss-Oberschule project with Thierry Noir at the Dämmisol yard and the fifteen segments; the sale of six to Veloform in 2008; Qatar Foundation's acquisition of this piece, on loan from the Qatar Museums Authority. The entry's map pin lies within fifty metres of the atrium. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, second Doha site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-doha-2/): The Foundation's second Doha entry carries the same text as the first, covering both Education City sites; its map pin lies near the Qatar National Convention Centre, so that listing is carried on the convention centre's page rather than here. - [Doha, Qatar — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/doha-qatar/): The entry whose title the Berlin Wall Archive's Doha listing follows: one segment, in the atrium of Georgetown University in Qatar, unveiled in December 2018. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-doha/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Doha%2C%20Qatar): 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. ### Berlin Wall section by Thierry Noir, Qatar National Convention Centre - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/qatar/doha/doha-qatar-national-convention-centre - Place: Qatar National Convention Centre, Exhibition Hall, Education City, Al Rayyan, Qatar - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: Restricted access (On display in the exhibition hall); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 25.32195, 51.43748 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #255. A section painted by Thierry Noir in 2007 in the exhibition hall of Doha's convention centre, a German gift for the 2017 year of culture. A section of the Berlin Wall stands in the exhibition hall of the Qatar National Convention Centre in Education City, carrying a design by Thierry Noir completed in 2007 — long after the Wall came down, so this is Noir painting a piece of it again rather than a survival of his 1980s work on the west face. That is Qatar Museums' account: one section, given by the German embassy in 2017 as part of the Qatar–Germany Year of Culture, together with a second, original panel that now stands in the atrium of Georgetown University in Qatar under a kilometre away. The Federal Foundation counts two segments here, not one, and gives them a longer story. Both were among the fifteen painted in 2007 by pupils of the Carl-Zeiss-Oberschule in Berlin-Lichtenrade under Noir's direction, in the Kreuzberg yard of the builders' merchant Dämmisol, and each carries a large eye. The German foreign ministry bought them from Veloform, which had taken six of the pupils' segments when Dämmisol gave up the site in 2008, after Sheikha Al-Mayassa, chair of the Qatar Museums Authority, had asked the foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel for pieces of the Wall during his visit to Doha in July 2017. Gabriel handed them over symbolically in Berlin that November, and they were installed in the entrance hall of the convention centre's extension and inaugurated in June 2019. Qatar understands them, the Foundation notes, as a statement against the blockade imposed on the emirate by several neighbouring states in 2017 and lifted at the beginning of 2021. Both counts are kept. The Foundation publishes one text, covering both Education City sites, on each of its two Doha entries. The second entry is pinned within two hundred metres of the convention centre and is the listing carried on this page; the first, pinned at the Georgetown atrium, is carried there. Provenance: By Qatar Museums' account, painted by Thierry Noir in 2007 and given by the German embassy to Qatar Museums in 2017 for the Qatar–Germany Year of Culture; by the Federal Foundation's, two segments painted by Berlin pupils under Noir in 2007, bought from Veloform by the German foreign ministry, handed over in November 2017 and inaugurated in June 2019. Sources: - [Sections of the Berlin Wall — Qatar Museums, public art](https://qm.org.qa/en/visit/public-art/berlin-wall/): A section of the Berlin Wall in the Exhibition Hall of the Qatar National Convention Centre, designed by Thierry Noir in 2007 and gifted by the German embassy to Qatar Museums in 2017 as part of the Qatar–Germany Year of Culture. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, second Doha site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-doha-2/): Two further segments from the 2007 Carl-Zeiss-Oberschule project, each painted with a large eye, bought from Veloform by the German foreign ministry after Sheikha Al-Mayassa's request to Sigmar Gabriel in July 2017, handed over symbolically in Berlin in November 2017 and inaugurated in the entrance hall of the convention centre's extension in June 2019, with the Foundation's note on the blockade. The entry's map pin lies within two hundred metres of the convention centre. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry (Doha)](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-doha/): The Foundation's first Doha entry carries the same text as the second; its map pin lies at the Georgetown atrium, so that listing is carried on the Georgetown page rather than here. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-doha-2/): 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. ## Singapore ### Singapore, SGP – Bedok Park - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/singapore/singapore/singapore-sgp-bedok-park-a393 - Place: Bedok Reservoir Park, Singapore - Classification: Former Location; can it be seen today: Gone (Returned to its owners in 2013; a new mural wall stands in its place); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 1.3421314, 103.9258921 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #393. Four panels lent by an American couple stood in the park from 2010 to 2013, painted with Kings of Freedom; the park now has a new mural wall in their place. Four panels of the Wall were shown at Bedok Reservoir Park from 2010 to 2013, to mark the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall. Mothership, the Singapore news site, wrote in 2015 that graffiti artists had painted the four panels and that they were returned to their owner, Robert A. Hefner III, in 2013. The space was then left empty until the original artists were invited back, and in September 2015 the former foreign minister George Yeo unveiled a new mural wall in the same place, again called Kings of Freedom; Yeo said it would be permanent, with the reverse side left for students of Temasek Polytechnic to paint. Where the panels went is not stated in that report. The University of Virginia's magazine said in 2014 that four panels lent by Robert and MeiLi Hefner, with Dennis Kaun's Kings of Freedom on their west face, had been unveiled on its campus; the university's pages do not mention Singapore, and Mothership does not mention Virginia, so the connection is the match of owner, number and title rather than a stated fact. The record keeps the Singapore listing as a former location. Its imported position fell in Kansas; the pin now marks the park. Provenance: Lent by Robert and MeiLi Hefner; returned to Robert A. Hefner III in 2013. Sources: - [George Yeo unveils Berlin Wall inspired artwork, media asks him about GE2015 instead — Mothership](https://mothership.sg/2015/09/george-yeo-unveils-berlin-wall-inspired-artwork-media-asks-him-about-ge2015-instead/): 19 September 2015: four Berlin Wall panels spray-painted by graffiti artists were displayed at Bedok Reservoir from 2010 to 2013 for the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall and returned to their owner Robert A. Hefner III in 2013; a new mural, Kings of Freedom, was unveiled there by George Yeo. - [Kings of Freedom — Virginia Magazine (University of Virginia)](https://uvamagazine.org/articles/kings_of_freedom): Summer 2014: the Berlin Wall panels at the University of Virginia are on loan from Robert and MeiLi Hefner; the article does not mention Singapore. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Singapore%2C%20SGP%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Bedok%20Park): 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. ### Singapore, SGP – UTown - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/singapore/singapore/singapore-sgp-utown-a392 - Place: Garden behind Tembusu College, NUS University Town, Singapore - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On loan and on display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 1.3051448569029, 103.77399703703 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #261 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #392. Two four-tonne panels on loan from Singapore's foreign ministry, given by a German building-materials firm for fifty years of relations. Two panels stand in a garden behind Tembusu College at NUS University Town, unveiled on 18 October 2016 by Singapore's foreign minister Vivian Balakrishnan, the German ambassador Michael Witter and Tommy Koh, the college's rector. Each weighs about four tonnes and measures 3.6 m high, 1.2 m across and 27 cm thick, on a base 2.1 m wide. That thickness is the most precise structural figure anywhere in this catalogue, and it is worth having: a Grenzmauer 75 element is not a wall in the domestic sense but a pre-cast L-shaped slab about the depth of a paving kerb, which is why two men with a crane could load one onto a ship. Provenance: A gift to Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs from Elmar Prost and his building-materials company Lagerhaus KW GmbH, marking fifty years of diplomatic relations between Germany and Singapore. Loaned by the ministry to the university for at least five years. Sources: - [Historic Berlin Wall panels at NUS University Town — NUS News](https://news.nus.edu.sg/historic-berlin-wall-panels-at-nus-university-town/): The university's own account: the 18 October 2016 unveiling, those present, the Prost donation for fifty years of relations, the loan terms and the panel dimensions. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-singapur/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Singapore%2C%20SGP%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20UTown): 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. ## Albania ### Berlin Wall — Tirana - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/albania/tirana/berlin-wall-tirana-f96 - Place: Postbllok, Blloku, Tirana, Albania - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 41.32104, 19.82012 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #96 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #425. Unveiled in 2013 in the Blloku district, standing with a concrete bunker and pillars from the Spaç labour camp — the least severe object in the group. Unveiled in 2013 in the Blloku district — the compound that was closed to ordinary Albanians until 1991 — as part of a memorial to the victims of the communist regime. It stands with a concrete bunker and pillars from the Spaç labour camp. It is one of the few sites where a Berlin segment is deliberately placed as the least severe object in the group. Sources: - [Berlin Wall Fragment Joins Albanian Memorial — BIRN](http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/berlin-wall-fragment-installed-in-albania-memorial): The 2013 unveiling at Postbllok and the memorial's other elements. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-tirana/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Tirana%2C%20AL): 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. ## Austria ### St. Christoph, A - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/austria/st-christoph/st-christoph-a-a401 - Place: Arlberg Hospiz Hotel, St. Christoph am Arlberg, St. Anton am Arlberg, Tyrol, Austria - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: Unknown (Not confirmed since 2012); evidence: Documented - Position: 47.127712, 10.2135362 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #401. Five painted elements, lent by the LuxPopArt Group to the hotel's art venture and set up on its car park in November 2012. VOL.AT, the Vorarlberg news site, reported on 22 November 2012 that five elements of the Berlin Wall had been set up the day before in front of the Arlberg Hospiz Hotel at St. Christoph, in time for the opening of the Arlberg ski season on the first weekend of December. They are a permanent loan from the LuxPopArt Group, an atelier which, the report says, presents painted original elements of the Wall to collections and institutions in collaboration with leading Wall artists, to the Kunstquartier Hospiz, the hotel's art venture; the report values the five at a million euros in all. It describes them as elements of type UL 12.41, almost four metres high and three tonnes each, standing on a foundation 2.10 metres deep, among the last parts of the former border wall, taken down in 1990 from the inner-city border, at Potsdamer Platz for example. The painters it names are Jakob Wagner, Chor Booky and Michael Würthle, and the Cineam for Peace Foundation, as it spells them; The Wall Net gives the artists as Jakob Wagner of Berlin, Chor Boogie of Los Angeles and Michael Wuerthle of Vienna. Patrice Lux of LuxPopArt called a hotel with so many art activities an ideal place for the pieces, and the hotelier Florian Werner, who started the Kunstquartier, said the Visible Walls suited the house's international outlook and would welcome art lovers and guests from the car park onwards. The Wall Net, whose entry the Berlin Wall Archive's listing follows, counted the same five, on loan, in 2017 and adds that the hotel's 1,400-square-metre gallery had been opened in 2008 by Werner, hotelier and artist. Nothing later was found, and whether the elements still stand on the car park has not been confirmed. Provenance: On permanent loan from the LuxPopArt Group to the Kunstquartier Hospiz since November 2012; said by the report to come from the inner-city border, dismantled in 1990. Sources: - [Ein Stück Berliner Mauer in St. Christoph am Arlberg — VOL.AT](https://www.vol.at/ein-stueck-berliner-mauer-in-st-christoph-am-arlberg/3416780): VOL.AT, 22 November 2012: five elements of the Berlin Wall were set up on Wednesday in front of the Arlberg Hospiz Hotel in St. Christoph, in time for the Arlberg season opening on the first December weekend; painted by Jakob Wagner, Chor Booky and Michael Würthle and by the Cineam for Peace Foundation; a permanent loan from the LuxPopArt Group, which presents original elements with leading Wall artists to collections and institutions, to the Kunstquartier Hospiz; valued at a million euros in all; the elements, type UL 12.41, are almost four metres high and three tonnes each, stand on a 2.10-metre foundation, belong to the last parts of the former border wall and were dismantled in 1990 from the inner-city border, for example at Potsdamer Platz; Patrice Lux of the LuxPopArt atelier and the hotelier and Kunstquartier initiator Florian Werner are quoted, and the pieces have been visible on the hotel car park since 22 November 2012. - [St. Christoph, A — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/st-christoph-a/): Entry of 7 April 2017: five segments on loan at the Arlberg Hospiz Hotel, given as a loan in 2012 by Patrice Lux of the LuxPopArtGroup; the hotel's 1,400 m² gallery was opened in 2008 by the hotelier and artist Florian Werner; the segments were designed by Jakob Wagner (Berlin), Chor Boogie (Los Angeles) and Michael Wuerthle (Vienna). - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=St.%20Christoph%2C%20A): 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. ## Bahamas ### Berlin Wall — Nassau - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/bahamas/nassau/berlin-wall-nassau-f234 - Place: Lyford Cay, Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas - Classification: Private / Limited Access; can it be seen today: Restricted access (Reported in place); evidence: Listed - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #234 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #289. A segment on a private plot in a gated Bahamian millionaires' estate. Nobody has established who owns it or when it arrived. A segment stands on private ground at Lyford Cay, the gated estate at the western end of New Providence where a good number of the world's wealthiest people keep houses, and which is largely screened from everyone else. Who owns the segment and when it reached the Bahamas could not be established by the Foundation; its own reading is that an American most likely had it shipped. It is the least visible record in this catalogue and one of the most useful, because it marks the far end of a range. At one end the Wall is a public memorial with a plaque and an anniversary; at the other it is an ornament on a lawn behind a gatehouse, belonging to somebody whose name is not recorded. This record has no pin. Lyford Cay is a gated estate and the plot is private; no position is published. Provenance: Not established. The Foundation considers it likely that an American arranged the shipment. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-nassau/): A segment on a private plot in the Lyford Cay district of Nassau, with owner and date of arrival undetermined and an American purchaser considered likely. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-nassau/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=New%20Providence%2C%20BS): 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. ## Bangladesh ### Dhaka, BD - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/bangladesh/dhaka/dhaka-bd-a96 - Place: Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts, Dhanmondi, Dhaka, Bangladesh - Classification: Former Location; can it be seen today: Gone (Temporary display, ended); evidence: Listed - Position: 23.7644025, 90.389015 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #96. A segment shown for a single day in 2010 — the shortest recorded appearance in the catalogue. A segment was put on temporary display at the Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts in Dhanmondi on 23 May 2010. It is the briefest appearance recorded anywhere in this catalogue, and the record is kept because a temporary showing is still a place the object has been — the same reason the Place du Luxembourg exhibition in Brussels and the closed Newseum are held rather than deleted. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A segment temporarily displayed on 23 May 2010 at the Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts in Dhanmondi. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Dhaka%2C%20BD): 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. ## Bolivia ### Berlin Wall — Sucre - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/bolivia/sucre/berlin-wall-sucre-f241 - Place: Casa de la Libertad, Sucre, Bolivia - Classification: Fragment; can it be seen today: In storage (Held by the museum, not currently exhibited); evidence: Documented - Position: -19.04749648536, -65.260161782702 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #241. Three small fragments given by a German ambassador to the building where Bolivia's first free government met — and currently not on show. Three small fragments are kept at the Casa de la Libertad in Sucre. The building was the Jesuit college where many of the leaders of Latin American independence were educated, and where the first free Bolivian government assembled in July 1825; Bolivia's congress went on meeting in it until 1898. It is now a museum of the independence movement, and the name means House of Freedom. The record carries a caveat the Foundation itself supplies and the atlas should not smooth over: the fragments are not currently in the exhibition. The museum holds them and has said it is considering showing them again. A visitor going to Sucre to see them today would not. Provenance: Given to the Casa de la Libertad in the early 1990s by Hermann Saumweber, then German ambassador to Bolivia. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-sucre/): Three smaller fragments given by Ambassador Hermann Saumweber in the early 1990s, still held by the museum but not currently displayed. - [30 años de la caída del Muro de Berlín: a dónde fueron a parar sus pedazos (y cuáles están en América Latina) — Semana (BBC Mundo)](https://www.semana.com/mundo/articulo/30-anos-de-la-caida-del-muro-de-berlin-a-donde-fueron-a-parar-sus-pedazos-y-cuales-estan-en-america-latina/639343/): 6 November 2019: three segments are kept at the Casa de la Libertad in Sucre, donated by the German ambassador Hermann Saumweber in 1990, but are not on public display. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-sucre/): 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. ## Brazil ### Berlin Wall — Mogi Mirim - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/brazil/mogi-mirim/berlin-wall-mogi-mirim-f242 - Place: Banda Lyra Mogimiriana music school, Mogi Mirim, São Paulo, Brazil - Classification: Former Location; can it be seen today: Moved (Moved in 2026 to the Club Transatlântico, São Paulo); evidence: Documented - Position: -22.442050318227, -46.960720110373 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #242 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #263. An element painted by Brazilian and German schoolchildren together in Berlin, then shipped to São Paulo state — the only record here made by children — and moved in 2026 to a club in São Paulo. An element stood at the Banda Lyra Mogimiriana music school in Mogi Mirim, in the state of São Paulo, for a decade. It got there through a children's project rather than a government or a collector. The Berlin association MyTheo e. V., founded by Sylvia Hahnisch around a cartoon character called Theo Tintenklecks, had been running exchanges between the school and the Niederheide primary school in Hohen Neuendorf since 2011, including video lessons between the two classrooms. In 2015 the association started a wall project under its programme Die Erde mein Zuhause — the earth my home — in which children and artists in different countries painted parts of the Wall as a statement about a shared future. Michael Schleusener of Berlin coordinated it, flying to Mogi Mirim with a small delegation to paint a miniature wall as a start; that September a party of ten Brazilians travelled to Berlin, where pupils of both schools painted one side of a real element together. It is, as far as this catalogue records, the only segment anywhere whose surface was decided by eleven-year-olds from two continents. O Regional reported that it reached the port of Santos in late May 2016 and was first shown to the public on 6 July 2016, during the town’s winter festival, giving it as 3.6 metres high and about four tonnes. In May 2026 the trade paper Panrotas reported that it was leaving the school’s headquarters for the Club Transatlântico in São Paulo, to be installed permanently there on 16 May 2026, and gave it as three metres and three tonnes. Mogi Mirim is therefore recorded as its former site. Provenance: Organised by MyTheo e. V. of Berlin under its Die Erde mein Zuhause programme, coordinated by Michael Schleusener, and painted jointly by pupils of the Mogi Mirim music school and the Niederheide primary school in Hohen Neuendorf in September 2015. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-mogi-mirim/): The MyTheo e. V. wall project, the partnership with the Hohen Neuendorf school since 2011, Michael Schleusener's coordination, the miniature wall painted in Brazil and the real element painted in Berlin in September 2015. - [Único na América do Sul, fragmento do Muro de Berlim ficará exposto em Mogi Mirim — O Regional](https://oregional.net/unico-na-america-do-sul-fragmento-do-muro-de-berlim-ficara-exposto-em-mogi-mirim-60321): 2016: the only fragment of the Wall in South America belongs to the Lyra Mojimiriana music school, 3.60 m high and about four tonnes, reached the port of Santos in late May 2016 and was first shown on 6 July 2016 during the town’s winter festival. - [Fragmento original do Muro de Berlim ficará exposto no Club Transatlântico — Panrotas](https://www.panrotas.com.br/mercado/encontros/2026/05/fragmento-original-do-muro-de-berlim-ficara-exposto-no-club-transatlantico_228225.html): 5 May 2026: the fragment, 3 m high and 3 tonnes, previously at the Lyra Mojimiriana headquarters in Mogi Mirim for ten years, was to be installed permanently at the Club Transatlântico in São Paulo on 16 May 2026. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-mogi-mirim/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Moji%20Mirim%2C%20BR): 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. ## Costa Rica ### Berlin Wall — San José - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/costa-rica/san-jose/berlin-wall-san-jose-f235 - Place: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Barrio Amón, San José, Costa Rica - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: Restricted access (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 9.9371955997837, -84.072776006861 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #235 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #365. A fragment on the north-east side of Costa Rica's foreign ministry, in the country that abolished its army in 1948. The fragment stands at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and it is worth noting where. Costa Rica abolished its standing army in 1948 and spent the Cold War as an unarmed state in a region full of proxy conflicts, which makes it an unusual address for a piece of military border fortification. La Nación gives the piece a history. It stands in the north-east garden of the Casa Amarilla, on Calle 13 in Barrio Otoya, about three metres high and one wide, and was received in 1994 through Hans-Dietrich Genscher, who was fond of Costa Rica and an honorary citizen of it, at the request of the Costa Rican foreign minister, Bernd Niehaus. When the paper looked, it sat neglected in an empty fountain, half hidden by fencing and vegetation, with no public access and no plaque to speak of; an architect it quoted called that anti-urban. Provenance: Received in 1994 through Hans-Dietrich Genscher at the request of the Costa Rican foreign minister Bernd Niehaus. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A fragment displayed on the north-east side of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. - [Un fragmento de Berlín yace en el olvido josefino](https://www.nacion.com/el-mundo/terrorismo/un-fragmento-de-berlin-yace-en-el-olvido-josefino/PBFZ2WCSKFHVJLHXH3OTXJFDPI/story/): La Nación: a fragment 3 m high and 1 m wide in the north-east garden of the Casa Amarilla on Calle 13, Barrio Otoya; received in 1994 through Hans-Dietrich Genscher at the request of the Costa Rican foreign minister Bernd Niehaus; found neglected in an empty fountain without public access. - [30 años de la caída del Muro de Berlín: el extraño destino de algunos de sus trozos (BBC Mundo, republished by El Universal)](https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/mundo/el-extrano-destino-de-algunos-de-los-trozos-del-muro-de-berlin/): Lists a segment 3 m high and 1 m wide behind the Costa Rican chancellery, donated in 1994. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-san-jose/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=San%20Jos%E2%88%9A%C2%A9%2C%20CR): 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. ## Croatia ### Berlin Wall — Zagreb - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/croatia/zagreb/berlin-wall-zagreb-f137 - Place: German Embassy, Zagreb, Croatia - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: Restricted access (Reported in place); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 45.79911326182, 15.969590597348 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #137. A segment unveiled outside the German embassy in 2009, for the twentieth anniversary. Embassies recur through this catalogue as recipients — Santiago, Buenos Aires, San José — and they form a consistent pattern: the object is public in the sense that it faces the street, and restricted in the sense that the ground it stands on is not. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A segment unveiled in 2009 outside the German embassy in Zagreb. - [Über uns - Auswärtiges Amt](https://zagreb.diplo.de/hr-de/botschaft): The German Embassy in Zagreb's own page: in front of the embassy building stand two flagpoles and a painted piece of the Berlin Wall. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-zagreb/): 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. ## Estonia ### Berlin Wall — Tallinn - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/estonia/tallinn/berlin-wall-tallinn-f109 - Place: Toompea 8, on the Kaarli puiestee side, Tallinn, Estonia - Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 59.432607446569, 24.739590496938 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #109 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #418. One element from Potsdamer Platz, given by the Senate of Berlin in 2014 to a museum about the occupation of Estonia, where it is read as evidence about the occupier. One element at the Museum of Occupations, which documents the Soviet and Nazi occupations of Estonia. The segment is used there as evidence about the occupier rather than about Germany — a recipient reading the object for its own history, which is the pattern across most of this catalogue. The Government Office of Estonia, which arranged the display with the museum and the German Embassy, and the broadcaster ERR both record the opening on 9 November 2014 on the Kaarli puiestee side of the museum, and give the element's origin as the corner of Leipziger Straße and Stresemannstraße at Potsdamer Platz. The museum has since been renamed Vabamu, the Museum of Occupations and Freedom. Provenance: A gift from the Senate of Berlin to the Republic of Estonia, opened on 9 November 2014; from the corner of Leipziger Straße and Stresemannstraße at Potsdamer Platz. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): Gift from the Senate of Berlin in November 2014, originally from Potsdamer Platz. - [Tallinnas saab näha Berliini müüri originaalelementi](https://riigikantselei.ee/uudised/tallinnas-saab-naha-berliini-muuri-originaalelementi): The Government Office of Estonia's announcement of 9 November 2014: an original element gifted by the Berlin Senate to the Republic of Estonia, which had stood at the corner of Leipziger Straße and Stresemannstraße on Potsdamer Platz, opened beside the Museum of Occupations on the Kaarli puiestee side for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the fall of the Wall, arranged by the Government Office, the museum and the German Embassy. - [Tallinnas saab näha Berliini müüri](https://www.err.ee/523990/tallinnas-saab-naha-berliini-muuri): ERR's report of 9 November 2014 on the opening beside the Museum of Occupations on the Kaarli puiestee side: a gift from the Berlin Senate, from the corner of Leipziger Straße and Stresemannstraße at Potsdamer Platz, with the German ambassador Christian Matthias Schlaga calling it a sign of Estonian–German friendship. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-tallinn/): The Foundation's own entry for this listing: a white-painted segment from the corner of Leipziger Straße and Stresemannstraße at Potsdamer Platz, a gift of the Berlin Senate to the Republic of Estonia, unveiled on 9 November 2014 in front of what is now the Vabamu Museum of Occupations and Freedom, alongside a touring exhibition shown at the museum until February 2015. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-tallinn/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Tallinn%2C%20EST): 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. ## Georgia ### Berlin Wall — Tbilisi - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/georgia/tbilisi/berlin-wall-tbilisi-f122 - Place: Europe Square, Tbilisi, Georgia - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 41.691243128973, 44.811085561887 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #122 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #421. Given to Georgia in 2017 for twenty-five years of diplomatic relations and unveiled on Europe Square, in a country whose own borders are drawn by its neighbour. Germany was the first member of the European Community to recognise Georgian independence, and the two countries opened diplomatic relations in 1992 — helped by the standing in Germany of Eduard Shevardnadze, who as Soviet foreign minister had been part of the settlement that allowed German reunification. In 2017, for the twenty-fifth anniversary of both independence and those relations, the German federal government gave Georgia a piece of the Berlin Wall. The prime minister, Giorgi Kvirikashvili, accepted it during a visit to Germany as a symbol of German-Georgian friendship. It was unveiled on Europe Square in Tbilisi on 9 November 2017, the twenty-eighth anniversary of the opening of the border, with the prime minister, government officials, the German ambassador Heike Peitsch and the Georgian ambassador to Germany present. Kvirikashvili called it the high point of the German-Georgian year. The siting carries more weight here than the usual formula about overcoming division. Georgia sits on the line between Europe and Asia, with Turkey to the south and Russia to the north, and its relationship with the northern neighbour has run from annexation by the Tsarist empire through the Red Army's occupation in 1921 to the incorporation into the Soviet Union. Independence was declared again on 9 April 1991, and was followed by wars in Abkhazia and South Ossetia; Russian forces remain in both, and Russia recognises them as independent states. A monument to a border that came down stands in a capital whose own borders are held open by someone else. Provenance: A gift from the German federal government in 2017 marking twenty-five years of diplomatic relations, received by Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili in Germany and unveiled on 9 November 2017. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-tiflis/): The 2017 gift from the German federal government for the twenty-fifth anniversary of Georgian independence and of diplomatic relations, its acceptance by Giorgi Kvirikashvili, the unveiling on Europe Square on 9 November 2017 with Heike Peitsch present, Germany's early recognition of Georgian independence and Shevardnadze's standing, and the history of Georgia's relations with Russia including Abkhazia and South Ossetia. - [MAU-768 Mauerelement in Tiflis, Georgien — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer](https://www.mauerspuren.de/de/13555/mauerelement-in-tiflis-georgien/#mau-768): The element standing as a monument on Europe Square in Avlabari, Tbilisi, given in 2017 as a sign of German-Georgian friendship to the then prime minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili; catalogued as MAU-768. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-tiflis/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Tbilisi%2C%20GE): 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. ## Guatemala ### Berlin Wall — Guatemala City - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/guatemala/guatemala-city/berlin-wall-guatemala-city-f236 - Place: Plaza Berlín, Avenida Las Américas, Guatemala City, Guatemala - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 14.5700678, -90.525648810028 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #236 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #157. Three fragments in a square named for Berlin at the end of Avenida Las Américas. The Plaza Berlín is at the southern end of that avenue. As in Madrid and Seoul, the square carries Berlin's name and the fragments explain why — the naming and the object arrive as a pair. A 2019 BBC Mundo report, republished in El Universal, dates the plaza's three fragments to 1995. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): Three fragments displayed at the Berlin Square at the end of Las Américas Avenue. - [30 años de la caída del Muro de Berlín: el extraño destino de algunos de sus trozos (BBC Mundo, republished by El Universal)](https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/mundo/el-extrano-destino-de-algunos-de-los-trozos-del-muro-de-berlin/): Reports three fragments installed in Plaza Berlín, Guatemala City, in 1995. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-guatemala-stadt/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Guatemala-City%2C%20GCA): 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. ## Iceland ### Berlin Wall — Reykjavík - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/iceland/reykjavik/berlin-wall-reykjavik-f132 - Place: Höfði, Borgartún, Reykjavík, Iceland - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 64.145751386008, -21.904850037549 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #132 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #352. One segment installed in 2015 at Höfði, where Reagan and Gorbachev met in 1986 — an argument about causation, made in concrete. The piece at Höfði was put in the car park on 3 October 2015. The Reagan–Gorbachev summit at Höfði in October 1986 failed publicly and is generally read as the turning point towards the treaties that followed. Placing a piece of the Wall at that address is an argument about causation, made in concrete. The city's own announcement and the Reykjavík Art Museum, which lists the segment in its collection of public art, record it as a section from Potsdamer Platz painted by the street artist Jakob Wagner for Neu West Berlin's 2011 exhibition on the Spree, about four tonnes and 3.6 metres high, received for the city by the mayor, Dagur B. Eggertsson; the Foundation adds that Wagner came back in 2017 to restore the weathered painting. Provenance: Gifted by the Neu West Berlin art centre for the twenty-fifth anniversary of German reunification; from Potsdamer Platz, painted by Jakob Wagner in 2011. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): Installed 3 October 2015 at Höfði, a gift from the Neu West Berlin gallery. - [Hluti úr Berlínarmúrnum settur upp við Höfða](https://reykjavik.is/frettir/2015/hluti-ur-berlinarmurnum-settur-upp-vid-hofda): The City of Reykjavík's own announcement of 3 October 2015: the mayor, Dagur B. Eggertsson, formally received the segment at Höfði as a gift from the Berlin art centre Neu West Berlin; it was painted by the street artist Jakob Wagner, weighs about four tonnes, came from Potsdamer Platz and had been shown in Berlin in 2011 for the fiftieth anniversary of the Wall's construction; the siting at Höfði was chosen for the 1986 summit. - [Berlínarmúrinn / Jakob Wagner - Listasafn Reykjavíkur](https://listasafnreykjavikur.is/safneign/verk/F4C9E405-6F94-4D91-AC0F-B796EBC393CA): The Reykjavík Art Museum's collection record for the work, titled Berlínarmúrinn and attributed to Jakob Wagner: a section of the Berlin Wall 360 cm high and about four tonnes, at Borgartún by Höfði, given to Reykjavík by Neu West Berlin, one of several segments street artists painted for its 2011 exhibition. - [Berlínarmúrinn áminning fyrir Reykvíkinga](https://www.visir.is/g/2015151009528): Vísir's report of 3 October 2015 on the installation at Höfði: the segment, painted by Jakob Wagner, had stood at Potsdamer Platz, and the United States and Russian ambassadors attended. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-reykjavik/): The Foundation's own entry for this listing: the segment on the grounds of Höfði, installed on 3 October 2015 for the twenty-fifth anniversary of German reunification, a gift from Neu West Berlin, painted by Jakob Wagner in 2011 for the Freedom Park exhibition on the Spree, from Potsdamer Platz, and restored by Wagner in 2017 after weather damage. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-reykjavik/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Reykjavik%2C%20IS): 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. ## Indonesia ### Jakarta, RI – Kalijodo Skate Park - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/indonesia/jakarta/jakarta-ri-kalijodo-skate-park-a187 - Place: Kalijodo Park, Penjaringan, North Jakarta, Indonesia - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: -6.1409556320868, 106.78900045987 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #246 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #187. Four segments in Teguh Ostenrik's Transcending Limits, bought in Berlin in 1990 and installed in 2017 after waiting twenty-seven years for a site. Four segments installed on 3 October 2017, German Unity Day, as part of Patung Menembus Batas — Transcending Limits — by the Indonesian artist Teguh Ostenrik. Cut metal figures stumble towards the panels, slip between them and climb over them. Kalijodo was a red-light district cleared in 2016, and the park was built on top of it. Provenance: Ostenrik had lived near the Wall for more than ten years. He returned to Indonesia in 1988; when the border opened he went back to Berlin, bought the pieces and shipped them home with help from the Jakarta administration in 1990. They then waited twenty-seven years for a site. Sources: - [Teguh Ostenrik's Berlin Wall in Jakarta: Art to overcome divisive powers — The Jakarta Post](https://www.thejakartapost.com/life/2017/10/05/teguh-ostenriks-berlin-wall-in-jakarta-art-to-overcome-divisive-powers.html): The artwork, the artist's account, and the 2017 installation date. - [Pieces of Berlin Wall arrive at Kalijodo — The Jakarta Post](https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2017/09/26/pieces-of-berlin-wall-arrive-at-kalijodo.html): The arrival of the segments at the park site in 2017. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-jakarta/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Jakarta%2C%20RI%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Kalijodo%20Skate%20Park): 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. ## Ireland ### Berlin Wall — Lismore - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/ireland/lismore/berlin-wall-lismore-f131 - Place: Lismore Castle Gardens, Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 52.13819090294, -7.9332163875213 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #131 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #224. Two 2.5 tonne segments in the lower garden of a seventeenth-century castle, among its contemporary sculpture collection. Two segments, each 3.6 m by 1.2 m and weighing about 2.5 tonnes, were installed in March 2015 in the lower garden at Lismore Castle, among a permanent collection of contemporary sculpture with the Blackwater valley behind. Setting border fortification inside seventeenth-century defensive walls, as sculpture, is a particular kind of curatorial nerve. Provenance: Acquired by the castle's custodians, Lord and Lady Burlington, who travelled to Germany the year before the installation. Sources: - [Berlin Wall installed in Waterford's Lismore Castle — The Irish Times](https://www.irishtimes.com/news/berlin-wall-installed-in-waterford-s-lismore-castle-1.2155859): The March 2015 installation, the dimensions and weight, and the Burlingtons' acquisition. - [Historic Lismore Castle adds slabs of Berlin Wall to its defences — Irish Examiner](https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-20320687.html): Contemporary reporting on the installation and its setting. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-lismore/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Lismore%2C%20IRL): 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. ## Israel ### Berlin Wall — Ein Hod - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/israel/ein-hod/berlin-wall-ein-hod-f247 - Place: Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod Artists' Village, Israel - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 32.701803546296, 34.97999774504 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #247 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #111. A segment at a Dada museum in an artists' village, carrying a plate for three women who died in the Warsaw Ghetto. An original element stands at the entrance to the Janco Dada Museum, brought to Ein Hod in 1992. The layering here is unusual even for this catalogue. The village was founded in 1953 by Marcel Janco, one of the founders of Dada, who had fled Bucharest for Mandate Palestine in 1941; the museum, opened in 1983, holds his work and Dada more widely. A piece of the Berlin Wall at the door of a Dada museum would be a joke the movement would have appreciated — except that it also carries a metal plate placed by its donor for his mother and two sisters, who died in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943. One object, three separate European catastrophes. Provenance: Acquired and donated by Zeev Yalon, a member of the museum's board of trustees, who attached the memorial plate. Sources: - [Ein Hod, IL — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/ein-hod-il/): The 1992 installation at the museum entrance, Zeev Yalon's acquisition and donation, and the memorial plate. - [Janco Dada Museum — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janco_Dada_Museum): The museum's 1983 opening, Marcel Janco's role in Dada and the founding of Ein Hod in 1953. - [מאינדונזיה לעין הוד: חומת ברלין מסביב לעולם — Ynet (AP)](https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-5619808,00.html): AP report of 5 November 2019 on Berlin Wall pieces around the world, naming the artists’ village of Ein Hod and carrying a photograph captioned as a piece of the Wall at the Janco Dada Museum in Ein Hod. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-ein-hod/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Ein%20Hod%2C%20IL): 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. ## Jamaica ### Berlin Wall — Kingston - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/jamaica/kingston/berlin-wall-kingston-f164 - Place: Up-Park Camp, Jamaica Defence Force, Kingston, Jamaica - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: Restricted access (On temporary loan to the Jamaica Defence Force); evidence: Documented - Position: 17.992335454594, -76.783199507023 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #164 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #201. Given to Usain Bolt by the mayor of Berlin after the 2009 world championships, painted with his own world record, and shipped to a Jamaican army base. Usain Bolt left the 2009 world athletics championships in Berlin with three titles, two world records and a piece of the Berlin Wall, handed to him by the Governing Mayor, Klaus Wowereit. The fragment weighs 2.7 tonnes and stands 3.6 metres high, and until the border opened it was part of the Wall at Potsdamer Platz. The Leipzig artist Alban painted it in aerosol; the image, Breaking the Wall, shows Bolt just after his hundred-metre world record. It went to Jamaica by ship, a three-week passage, and was formally handed over by Bolt himself on 10 February 2010 at Up-Park Camp in Kingston. The base is now the headquarters of the Jamaica Defence Force; until independence in 1962 it was the headquarters of the British army in Jamaica. The segment stands between the military museum and the library, near the main entrance. Alexandra Consten represented the German embassy at the ceremony, alongside the minister of culture and sport, Olivia Grange, and Major General Saunders, who thanked Berlin for the temporary loan and undertook to give the people of Jamaica and visitors from overseas access to it. The word temporary is the Foundation's, and it is carried here rather than smoothed away: the record describes a loan, not a gift, and the object's long-term home is not settled. Provenance: Given to Usain Bolt by the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit, after the 2009 world athletics championships; from the Wall at Potsdamer Platz, painted by the Leipzig artist Alban. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-kingston/): The presentation of the fragment to Usain Bolt by Klaus Wowereit after the 2009 world championships, its 2.7 tonne weight and 3.6 metre height and Potsdamer Platz origin, the Breaking the Wall painting by the Leipzig artist Alban, the three-week sea passage, the handover by Bolt at Up-Park Camp on 10 February 2010, the base's history as British army headquarters until 1962, the siting between museum and library, and the remarks of Major General Saunders about the temporary loan. - [Bolt’s Berlin Wall unveiled ... two-ton gift at Up Park Camp — Jamaica Gleaner](http://old.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100211/sports/sports7.html): 11 February 2010: Wowereit’s gift to Bolt of 24 August 2009, a two-ton piece 12 feet tall and 3 feet wide decorated with Bolt’s image, was unveiled at its temporary home at the Military Museum and Library at Up Park Camp, with the Jamaica Defence Force accepting responsibility for preserving it. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-kingston/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Kingston%2C%20JA): 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. ## Latvia ### Berlin Wall — Riga - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/latvia/riga/berlin-wall-riga-f138 - Place: Kronvalda Park, near Elizabetes iela, Riga, Latvia - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Listed - Position: 56.958531736828, 24.104047767118 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #138 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #354. A fragment set into a memorial to the 1991 barricades, standing in front of the former Communist Party Central Committee building. The monument is on the northern edge of Kronvalda Park. It commemorates the barricades of January 1991, when Latvians built barricades in central Riga against Soviet interior ministry troops; the Berlin fragment was added to it in 1992. The address does the work: a piece of the German border standing outside the building from which the Latvian party ran the republic. Provenance: Given to the city in November 1990 by Rainer Hildebrandt, director of the Haus am Checkpoint Charlie museum in Berlin, at the close of the museum's exhibition in Riga; added to the existing barricades monument in 1992, where an inscription records the gift. Sources: - [Riga, LV — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/riga-lv/): The segment brought to Riga with the Haus am Checkpoint Charlie museum's exhibition in 1990 and left there as a gift, and its addition to the monument in Kronvalda Park in 1992. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-riga/): The Haus am Checkpoint Charlie museum's exhibition in Riga in November 1990, at the end of which its director Rainer Hildebrandt gave the segment to the city; its addition to the barricades monument in 1992; and the inscription at the site recording the gift. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-riga/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Riga%2C%20LV): 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. ## Lithuania ### Berlin Wall — Vilnius - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/lithuania/vilnius/berlin-wall-vilnius-f139 - Place: Europos Parkas, Joneikiškės, near Vilnius, Lithuania - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 54.830191534149, 25.354032218331 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #139. A segment given to Vilnius in its year as European Capital of Culture, installed in a sculpture park built around a French calculation of the centre of Europe. Where is the middle of Europe? The answer has moved around — Germany, Poland, Ukraine, the Czech lands have all had a monument to it — and in 1989 researchers at France's national geographic institute measured the continent again and put it at the Lithuanian village of Purnuškės, north of Vilnius. The spot was marked with a wind rose laid into the ground and a granite column with a ring of gold stars. In 1991 the Lithuanian sculptor Gintaras Karosas set about giving the calculation artistic weight, founding a sculpture park nearby: Europos Parkas, more than fifty hectares holding over a hundred works by artists from around the world, among them Magdalena Abakanowicz, Dennis Oppenheim and Sol LeWitt, invited to work on the theme of crossing old borders. It was the first non-state museum in Lithuania after the end of the Soviet Union, which is its own kind of monument. For the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall, the German embassy and the Goethe-Institut gave the city of Vilnius a segment. Vilnius was European Capital of Culture that year. The piece was set up in the park on 9 November 2009 and inaugurated with the German ambassador Hans-Peter Annen and the deputy mayor of Vilnius, Vidmantas Martikonis, present. Provenance: A gift from the German embassy and the Goethe-Institut Lithuania to the city of Vilnius for the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall, installed on 9 November 2009. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-vilnius/): The 1989 French calculation placing the centre of Europe at Purnuškės and its marking, Gintaras Karosas's founding of Europos Parkas in 1991 and its scale and artists, its status as the first non-state museum in post-Soviet Lithuania, and the segment given by the German embassy and Goethe-Institut and installed on 9 November 2009 with Hans-Peter Annen and Vidmantas Martikonis present. - [A Fragment of the Berlin Wall in Europos Parkas](https://www.europosparkas.lt/Naujienos/Berlin_wall.html): The park's own account: for the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall the German Embassy and the Goethe-Institut in Lithuania gave the city of Vilnius a fragment of the Wall, mounted and opened in Europos Parkas on 9 November 2009 with the German ambassador Hans-Peter Annen and the deputy mayor Vidmantas Martikonis present. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-vilnius/): 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. ## Luxembourg ### Schengen, L - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/luxembourg/schengen/berlin-wall-schengen-f140 - Place: Rue Robert Goebbels, Schengen, Luxembourg - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 49.471358010993, 6.3668307211037 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #140 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #372. Two original elements beside the European Museum Schengen, about a hundred metres from where the Schengen Agreement abolished border controls in 1985. The two elements at Schengen stand on the Moselle, beside the agreement monument — three brass stars — and a colonnade of nations. The Schengen Agreement was signed on 14 June 1985, about a hundred metres away. It is arguably the best-sited piece in Europe: a border that could not be crossed, a hundred metres from the place where border controls were abolished. The two did not arrive together. The Centre Européen Schengen, which runs the museum, says one was a gift from the Berlin Senate in 2010 and the other was added in 2015, painted with a peace dove and a portrait of Mikhail Gorbachev. Who gave the second is not stated. Provenance: One of the two elements was a gift from the Senate of Berlin in 2010, the year the museum opened; the museum's operator records the other as added in 2015, with a peace dove and a portrait of Gorbachev, and does not say who gave it. Sources: - [Monument "Schengen Agreement" — Visit Moselle](https://www.visitmoselle.lu/place/monument-schengen-agreement): The segments stand with the agreement monument near the 1985 signing site. - [European Museum Schengen — Liberation Route Europe](https://www.liberationroute.com/en/pois/2079/european-museum-schengen): The museum's opening and the Berlin gift of 2010. - [Schengen Museum – 4O Years of Freedom in Motion](https://www.visitschengen.lu/): The museum operator's own account: two original segments of the Berlin Wall stand near the museum, one a gift from the Berlin Senate in 2010, the other added in 2015 with a peace dove and a portrait of Mikhail Gorbachev. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-schengen/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Schengen%2C%20L): 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. ## Monaco ### Berlin Wall — Monaco - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/monaco/monaco/berlin-wall-monaco-f141 - Place: Gare de Monaco-Monte-Carlo, Monaco - Classification: Fragment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Listed - Position: 43.738762238555, 7.4189941588956 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #141 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #264. A framed fragment standing off to one side at the station — in the principality that auctioned the Wall to the world and cannot say where its own piece came from. The fragment of the Berlin Wall at the railway station of the Principality of Monaco is set in a black metal frame. It is painted in pastel blues, greens and reds, and barely reads as a border fortification any more: only the motif — a wide landscape seen through a window, with a small dove — suggests what it is. At the foot of it the words Mur de Berlin have been fixed. Neither the principality's administration nor the tourist office could say when or how it arrived. That blank is the point of the record. Monaco is where the international trade in the Wall began: the first great auction was held here in June 1990, with collectors, artists, celebrities and businessmen bidding for painted pieces of the border, and segments from that sale are recorded in this catalogue in Switzerland, Italy, France and Poland. The place that dispersed the Wall to the world kept a piece and lost track of its provenance. Provenance: Not established. Neither the administration of the principality nor the tourist office could establish when or how the fragment arrived. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-monaco/): The framed and painted fragment at the Monaco railway station with its Mur de Berlin inscription, the failure of the administration and tourist information to establish its origin, and Monaco as the setting of the first international auction of wall segments in 1990. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-monaco/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Monaco%2C%20MC): 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. ## New Zealand ### Berlin Wall — Christchurch - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/new-zealand/christchurch/berlin-wall-christchurch-f267 - Place: Rauora Park, Cashel Street, Christchurch, New Zealand - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: -43.533039048907, 172.64059613589 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #267 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #79. Two four-tonne sections in a park rebuilt after the 2011 earthquake, deliberately kept as a living surface that street artists repaint. Each section is 3.6 m tall and stands at the Cashel Street end of Rauora Park, in the central city. They were gifted in 2017 and installed in 2019, in time for the thirtieth anniversary. The two are recorded as segments 88 and 143: one painted by a group of Berlin students with learning disabilities around 2014, the other with themes from Doctor Who. Christchurch treats them as a living surface rather than a relic — the city council appointed Fiksate Studio & Gallery as curator and custodian to commission street artists to repaint them, which makes this one of the very few sites where the Wall is still being painted. Provenance: Gifted to Christchurch in 2017; installed in Rauora Park in 2019 for the thirtieth anniversary of the opening. Sources: - [Pieces of Berlin Wall unite in central Christchurch — Christchurch City Council Newsline](https://www.newsline.ccc.govt.nz/news/story/pieces-of-berlin-wall-unite-in-central-christchurch): The council's own account: two slabs at the Cashel Street end of Rauora Park, dimensions, the 2017 gift and 2019 installation. - [Christchurch's Berlin Wall remnant gets a makeover — Otago Daily Times](https://www.odt.co.nz/star-news/star-south-today/christchurchs-berlin-wall-remnant-gets-makeover): Segments 88 and 143, their original painters, and Fiksate Studio's role commissioning repaints. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-christchurch-city/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Christchurch%2C%20NZ): 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. ## Norway ### Berlin Wall — Trondheim - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/norway/trondheim/berlin-wall-trondheim-f1365 - Place: Trondheim Kunstmuseum Gråmølna, Solsiden, Trondheim, Norway - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 63.439649636228, 10.415838911829 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #1365. Six segments with the word SALE on them, commissioned by the city from an artist who bought the Wall in order to accuse himself of buying the Wall. Six segments of the Berlin Wall have stood in front of the Trondheim art museum at Gråmølna since 2015, arranged with the word SALE. The city commissioned the work from Lars Ø. Ramberg for the twenty-sixth anniversary of the opening of the border. Ramberg, born in Oslo in 1964 and long resident in Berlin, called it Capitalist Realism after the movement of Gerhard Richter, Konrad Fischer, Sigmar Polke and Manfred Kuttner, who in the 1960s turned a critical eye on West German capitalism and consumer culture — Richter having fled to Düsseldorf in 1961, the year the Wall went up. The target is the commercialisation of art and of historical heritage, the Wall included, and the argument is made locally as well. The museum building was a soup kitchen before it was a police station; the harbour district around it was redeveloped with luxury apartments and marinas, and renamed in the process from Gråmølna, the grey mill, to Solsiden, the sunny side. Ramberg sets the recent demolition of wall remnants in Berlin for property development, and the sale of segments to corporations and collectors, against the gentrification outside the museum door. He is explicit that buying six segments to make the point implicates him in it. That is unusual in this catalogue. Most owners explain their acquisition as rescue, education or tribute; this one bought the object in order to stage himself as part of the problem. The record was held back until now on the strength of a tertiary lead — a list that reported four pieces beside the Solsiden centre with SALE painted on them, with no source behind it. The Foundation's entry gives the number as six, names the artist and the commission, and explains what Solsiden is. The sources disagree about where the six elements came from: NRK, reporting the purchase in June 2015, says the Teltow area south of Berlin; Adresseavisen, at the unveiling, says Potsdamer Platz; the artist's own page says the East Side Gallery. The museum marked ten years of the work with a conversation with Ramberg on 9 November 2025. Provenance: Commissioned by the city of Trondheim from Lars Ø. Ramberg for the twenty-sixth anniversary of the fall of the Wall and installed in 2015. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-trondheim/): Six segments in front of the Trondheim Kunstmuseum Gråmølna since 2015, the city's commission to Lars Ø. Ramberg for the twenty-sixth anniversary, the title Capitalist Realism and its reference to the 1960s movement, the history of the building and the renaming of the district from Gråmølna to Solsiden, and Ramberg's stated argument about commercialisation and his own part in it. - [Samtale med Lars Ø Ramberg: 10 årsmarkering for kunstverket KAPITALISTISCHER REALISMUS](https://trondheimkunstmuseum.no/samtale-med-lars-ramberg-10-arsmarkering-for-kunstverket-kapitalistischer-realismus): Trondheim kunstmuseum's own announcement of a conversation with the artist on 9 November 2025 marking ten years of Kapitalistischer Realismus, installed at Gråmølna on Nedre Elvehavn in 2015. - [KAPITALISTISCHER REALISMUS — LARS Ø RAMBERG](https://www.studioramberg.net/works/kapitalistischer-realismus-1-3p457): The artist's own page for the work: six pieces of the original Wall, which he gives as coming from the East Side Gallery on the Spree, installed at the Gråmølna art museum in the district now called Solsiden, bought to address the purchasability of the Wall and make himself part of the problem. - [Nå er en bit av Berlinmuren på plass i Trondheim](https://www.adressa.no/kultur/i/pp8AWR/na-er-en-bit-av-berlinmuren-pa-plass-i-trondheim): Adresseavisen's report of 9 November 2015 on the unveiling outside Gråmølna on Nedre Elvehavn: six pieces, which it says had stood at Potsdamer Platz and were the last six obtainable, with the word SALE lit in blue on the side facing the road. - [Berlinmuren flyttes til Trondheim](https://www.nrk.no/urix/berlinmuren-flyttes-til-trondheim-1.12412015): NRK's report of 19 June 2015: six pieces of the Wall bought in the Teltow area south of Berlin, to be fitted with neon SALE signs and unveiled outside Gråmølna on 9 November. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-trondheim/): 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. ## Philippines ### Manila, RP - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/philippines/manila/manila-rp-a246 - Place: Kartilya ng Katipunan monument, Manila, Philippines - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (Moved to the Kartilya ng Katipunan monument in 2020); evidence: Documented - Position: 14.5910268, 120.9810532 - Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #246. A gift from Berlin that went unclaimed for a decade, installed in 2015 and moved to the Kartilya ng Katipunan monument in 2020. The first home was the National Museum of the Philippines, where it went up on 8 October 2015; the move to the Bonifacio Shrine near Manila City Hall, where the Kartilya ng Katipunan monument stands, came on 5 October 2020, when the mayor, Isko Moreno, and the German ambassador, Anke Reiffenstuel, unveiled it there. GMA News gives the fragment as 3.65 metres high, 1.2 metres wide and 2.8 tonnes. Reported as "fragment 22" of a set. The framing at the unveiling connected the 1986 People Power Revolution to the movements that ended in 1989 — the recipient country supplying the argument for what the object means. Provenance: A gift from the City of Berlin that had gone unclaimed in Berlin for about a decade before it was collected. Sources: - [LOOK: Germany's gift to PHL is Fragment 22 of the Berlin Wall — GMA News Online](http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/539990/lifestyle/artandculture/fragment-22-of-the-berlin-wall-is-finally-in-phl): The 2015 installation, the fragment number, and the unclaimed decade. - [Nat'l Museum gets part of Berlin Wall — Philippine Daily Inquirer](https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/728542/natl-museum-gets-part-of-berlin-wall/amp): The National Museum unveiling and its framing. - [Berlin Wall's Fragment 22 now at Bonifacio Shrine in Manila — GMA News Online, 5 October 2020](https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/metro/758450/berlin-wall-s-fragment-22-now-at-bonifacio-shrine-in-manila/story/): Fragment 22, 3.65 metres high, 1.2 metres wide and 2.8 tonnes, housed in the National Museum since 2014 and unveiled at the Bonifacio Shrine near Manila City Hall on 5 October 2020 by Mayor Isko Moreno and Ambassador Anke Reiffenstuel. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Manila%2C%20RP): 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. ## Portugal ### Berlin Wall — Fátima - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/portugal/fatima/berlin-wall-fatima-f147 - Place: Cova da Iria, Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima, Fátima, Portugal - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated - Position: 39.63026151143, -8.6729935112446 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #147 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #122. A 2.6 tonne element set into a memorial at Cova da Iria, inaugurated in August 1994 and blessed by John Paul II. Here the fall of communism is read as the fulfilment of the 1917 Fátima prophecy. The block reached the sanctuary on 5 March 1991, and John Paul II blessed it within weeks, on his visit that May. The memorial built round it by the architect J. Carlos Loureiro, on the south side of the rectory, was inaugurated on 13 August 1994, the anniversary of the night the Wall went up, and its inscription quotes the words the pope spoke at Fátima in 1991, thanking the heavenly shepherdess, as he called the Virgin, for guiding the peoples to freedom. The theological reading is explicit at the site: the fall of communism is presented as the fulfilment of the 1917 Fátima prophecy about Russia. The atlas does not have to endorse that reading, but it is the reason the segment is there, and so it belongs in the record. Provenance: Bought by subscription among a group of Portuguese emigrants led by Virgílio Casimiro Ferreira, who lived in Germany and requested the segment with support from the Portuguese consulate general in Frankfurt am Main; it reached the sanctuary on 5 March 1991. Sources: - [Fátima, P — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/fatima-p/): Site profile: a 2.6 tonne element at Cova da Iria, the donor, and the consular route. - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): Architect J. Carlos Loureiro and the inauguration date of 13 August 1994. - [Santuário de Fátima | Lugares de culto e oração](https://www.fatima.pt/pt/pages/lugares-de-culto-e-oracao): The sanctuary's own account: the Berlin Wall monument was inaugurated on 13 August 1994; the block weighs 2.6 tonnes and measures 3.6 by 1.2 metres, was given by a Portuguese man living in Germany, and was set in a monument designed by the architect José Carlos Loureiro. - [Fátima e a Queda do Muro de Berlim](https://agencia.ecclesia.pt/portal/fatima-e-a-queda-do-muro-de-berlim/): Agência Ecclesia, 2009: the 2,600 kg block was bought by subscription among a group of Portuguese led by Virgílio Casimiro, an emigrant living in Germany; it reached the sanctuary with the support of the Portuguese consulate general in Frankfurt on 5 March 1991, and the monument was inaugurated on 13 August 1994, with an inscription quoting John Paul II's words at Fátima in May 1991. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-fatima/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=F%E2%88%9A%C2%B0tima%2C%20P): 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. ## Russia ### Moscow, RUS – Sakharov Center - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/russia/moscow/moscow-rus-sakharov-center-a271 - Place: Andrei Sakharov Museum and Public Centre, Zemlyanoy Val 57, Moscow, Russia - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 55.75120406766, 37.658856729436 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #150 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #271. A fragment given by Berlin in 1990 to the museum of the Soviet Union's most famous dissident, standing in the square on the Yauza embankment. A fragment stands in the small park on the Yauza river embankment beside the Andrei Sakharov Museum and Public Centre, the institution named for the physicist who became the Soviet Union's most prominent dissident. Of all the recipients in this catalogue it is the one placed deepest inside the state the Wall was built to serve, and the only one standing in the capital that ordered it. Provenance: Donated by the Berlin authorities in 1990, and decorated by artists and activists after it arrived. Sources: - [Sakharov Center — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakharov_Center): A Berlin Wall segment donated by Berlin authorities in 1990, erected in the park on the Yauza embankment beside the centre. - [Where Have All the Fragments Gone? — Lapham's Quarterly](https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/where-have-all-fragments-gone): The global dispersal of fragments, including the Moscow donation. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-moskau/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Moscow%2C%20RUS%20%E2%80%9A%C3%84%C3%AC%20Sakharov%20Center): 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. ## South Africa ### Berlin Wall — Cape Town - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/south-africa/cape-town/berlin-wall-cape-town-f245 - Place: St George's Mall, opposite the Mandela Rhodes Building, Cape Town, South Africa - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: -33.924264780807, 18.419357276074 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #245 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #73. Given to Nelson Mandela after a 1996 state visit, now standing opposite a building that carries both Mandela's name and Cecil Rhodes's. The site does the interpretive work by itself: the building opposite was built in 1902 as the offices of De Beers, Cecil Rhodes's company. A monument to one division stands outside a building renamed for the end of another. It first stood at the BMW Pavilion on the waterfront and was moved in 2010 to St George's Mall. Provenance: Given to Nelson Mandela after a state visit to Berlin in 1996, from the Senate's gift stock, and identified in some accounts as piece No. 214. Sources: - [A symbol of peace and a token of reconciliation — South African Tourism](https://www.southafrica.net/uk/en/travel/article/a-symbol-of-peace-and-a-token-of-reconciliation-a-piece-of-the-berlin-wall-in-cape-town): The move to St George's Mall and the site's significance. - [Cape Town, ZA — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/cape-town-za/): Site record, including the earlier BMW Pavilion position. - [Remnants of the Berlin Wall — where are they now? — ShareAmerica](https://share.america.gov/remnants-of-berlin-wall-where-are-they-now/): The 1996 state visit and the Senate gift stock. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-kapstadt/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Cape%20Town%2C%20ZA): 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. ## Sweden ### Berlin Wall — Trelleborg - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/sweden/trelleborg/berlin-wall-trelleborg-f151 - Place: Astrid Lindgrens allé, between the library and the museum, Trelleborg, Sweden - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (Reported in place); evidence: Documented - Position: 55.3753778, 13.15826379898 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #151. A segment outside the town library, on a street named after Astrid Lindgren. A segment stands on Astrid Lindgrens allé outside the town library in Trelleborg, Sweden's southernmost town and a ferry port for Germany. The address is an accident worth enjoying: a piece of a wall built to stop people moving, outside a library, on a street named for a writer whose books are mostly about children going wherever they like. The local paper placed it between the library and the museum in 2019, as a gesture of gratitude. The Foundation's entry says whose: Carsten Bredlau, one of the Berlin children taken in by Swedish families under the holiday programme that ran from 1955 to 1995, gave it in autumn 1995; it first stood at the Söderslättsgymnasiet and carries Jürgen Große's Save the earth, one of the Indiano Global Messages painted on the Wall in spring 1990. Provenance: Given in autumn 1995 by Carsten Bredlau, by the Foundation's account; painted by Jürgen Große, known as Indiano, in 1990. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A segment on the Astrid Lindgren Allé outside the town library in Trelleborg. - [Därför står en bit av Berlinmuren i Trelleborg](https://www.trelleborgsallehanda.se/trelleborg/darfor-star-en-bit-av-berlinmuren-i-trelleborg/): Trelleborgs Allehanda, 9 November 2019: a piece of the Berlin Wall stands between the library and the museum, placed as a gesture of gratitude. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-trelleborg/): The Foundation's own entry for this listing: donated in autumn 1995 by Carsten Bredlau, who as a child had been a guest of the Swedish holiday programme for Berlin children, first set up at the Söderslättsgymnasiet and later moved to its present place between the library and the museum; painted by Jürgen Große, Indiano, with the message Save the earth from his Global Messages series of spring 1990. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-trelleborg/): 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. ## Taiwan ### Berlin Wall — Taipei - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/taiwan/taipei/berlin-wall-taipei-f262 - Place: Taiwan Foundation for Democracy, Da'an District, Taipei, Taiwan - Classification: Memorial; can it be seen today: Restricted access (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 25.035517248698, 121.542457282 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #262 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #417. Unveiled in 2009 for the twentieth anniversary, given by a Brandenburg district. Its chairman asked the public not to read it as an argument about unification with China. A segment was unveiled in the foundation's garden in November 2009, for the twentieth anniversary of the opening. At the ceremony the Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng, the foundation's chairman, described the fall of the Wall as opening the “third wave” of democratisation — and then asked the public to refrain from reading the segment as an argument about unification with China. That caveat is the most interesting thing about the record: a recipient publicly fencing off an interpretation the object invites. Provenance: Donated by the district government of Oberhavel in Brandenburg, and accepted on 20 July 2009 by Taiwan's representative to Germany, Wei Wu-lien, who arranged the shipment. Sources: - [Taiwan receives slice of Berlin Wall — Taipei Times, 10 November 2009](https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2009/11/10/2003458107): The unveiling, the Oberhavel donation, the acceptance by Wei Wu-lien on 20 July, and Wang Jin-pyng's remarks. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-taipei/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Taipei%2C%20RC): 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. ## Thailand ### Berlin Wall — Bangkok - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/thailand/bangkok/berlin-wall-bangkok-f263 - Place: German embassy, Sathorn Road, Bangkok, Thailand - Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: Restricted access (On display in the embassy garden); evidence: Documented - Position: 13.725372310728, 100.54264751578 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #263 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #28. The only two segments in Thailand, given by a Berlin businessman and painted at a street-art festival by a French, a Thai and a German artist. In November 2018 the Goethe-Institut and the French embassy ran a fortnight-long festival in Bangkok called STREET — Urban Culture Highlight, given over to art, music and food on the street, with young artists from Thailand, France and Germany working alongside each other. Its first event was held in the garden of the German embassy, and what was to be sprayed there was not the embassy walls but two original segments of the Berlin Wall, given to the embassy by the Berlin businessman Axel Brauer and standing on the grounds since July 2018. The French artist Kashnik, the Thai artist Mue Bon and Julia Benz from Germany each took one face in their own hand, then shared the fourth and made a single work on it in which the three styles remain recognisable but merge. Benz has said there were no detailed agreements beforehand; she painted a collapsing wall overgrown with plants. The painted segments were unveiled on 12 November 2018 by Thailand's deputy foreign minister, Virasakdi Futrakul, and the incoming German ambassador, Georg Schmidt. They are the only pieces of the Berlin Wall in Thailand. Provenance: A gift to the German embassy from the Berlin businessman Axel Brauer, in place since July 2018 and painted at the STREET festival in November 2018 by Kashnik, Mue Bon and Julia Benz. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-bangkok/): The STREET festival of November 2018 organised by the Goethe-Institut and the French embassy, the two original segments given to the German embassy by Axel Brauer and standing there since July 2018, their painting by Kashnik, Mue Bon and Julia Benz including the shared fourth face and Benz's own account, the unveiling on 12 November 2018 by Virasakdi Futrakul and Georg Schmidt, and the statement that these are the only two in Thailand. - [Berlin Wall Remnants Placed at German Embassy, Bangkok — Pattaya Mail](https://www.pattayamail.com/news/berlin-wall-remnants-placed-german-embassy-bangkok-240950): January 2019: two original segments unveiled at the German Embassy on 12 November 2018 by Georg Schmidt and Deputy Foreign Minister Virasakdi Futrakul, donated by the Berlin entrepreneur Axel Brauer and painted by Mue Bon, Kashink and Julia Benz for the STREET Festival. - [Berlin Wall Rises Anew at German Embassy in Bangkok — Khaosod English](https://www.khaosodenglish.com/featured/2018/11/13/berlin-wall-rises-anew-at-german-embassy-in-bangkok/): 13 November 2018: two original segments unveiled at the German Embassy on Sathorn Road, painted by Mue Bon, Kashink and Julia Benz, with the fourth side painted by all three, and donated by Axel Brauer. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-bangkok/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Bangkok%2C%20T): 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. ## Ukraine ### Berlin Wall — Kyiv - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/ukraine/kyiv/berlin-wall-kyiv-f160 - Place: German Embassy, vulytsia Bohdana Khmelnytskoho, Kyiv, Ukraine - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: Unknown (Not confirmed since 2022); evidence: Documented - Position: 50.446231513673, 30.511113316646 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #160 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #200. A segment outside the German embassy in a city that has been under attack since 2022 — its current condition is not something this atlas can confirm. The segment outside the German embassy is the record in this catalogue where the standing caveat stops being a formality: every page here says that source retrieval does not establish that an object is still there, and in Kyiv that has been the literal position since February 2022. The atlas has no way to confirm the segment's present condition, and would rather say so than carry a status it cannot support. The last report read here is from February 2017, when a Ukrainian member of parliament, Oleksiy Honcharenko, sprayed NEIN across the segment in protest at remarks by the German ambassador, and the embassy publicly regretted the damage to a fragment of the historic Wall standing on its grounds. Sources: - [Embassy of Germany, Kyiv — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy_of_Germany,_Kyiv): A segment of the Berlin Wall displayed outside the embassy. - [Гончаренко осквернил Берлинскую стену перед посольством ФРГ | Украинская правда](https://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2017/02/08/7134837/): Ukrainska Pravda, 8 February 2017: the MP Oleksiy Honcharenko sprayed a fragment of the Berlin Wall standing at the German embassy in Kyiv in protest at the ambassador's remarks, and the embassy deeply regretted the damage to the fragment of the historic Wall on its grounds. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-kiew/): 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. - [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Kiev%2C%20UA): 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. ## Uruguay ### Berlin Wall — Nuevo Berlin - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/uruguay/nuevo-berlin/berlin-wall-nuevo-berlin-f244 - Place: Nuevo Berlín, Río Negro Department, Uruguay - Classification: Fragment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: -32.985514627543, -58.049924960116 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #244. A small fragment in a riverside memorial in a Uruguayan town founded by German immigrants and named for the city itself. A fragment set into a public memorial with stones and plaques, in a town on the Uruguay river founded by German immigrants in the late nineteenth century and named after the city. It is among the smallest pieces in this catalogue — recorded at about 5 kg, against the 2.6 tonnes of a full element — and it is a useful corrective to the word “segment”, which is used in sources for anything from a complete 3.6 m panel to a chip in a gift shop bag. A 2019 BBC Mundo report, republished in El Universal, also lists it, as a small piece known locally as la piedra del muro, installed in 1991. Provenance: Donated to the town by the Uruguayan-German Chamber of Commerce in 1991. Sources: - [List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments): A 5 kg segment donated to Nuevo Berlín by the Uruguayan-German Chamber of Commerce in 1991. - [30 años de la caída del Muro de Berlín: el extraño destino de algunos de sus trozos (BBC Mundo, republished by El Universal)](https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/mundo/el-extrano-destino-de-algunos-de-los-trozos-del-muro-de-berlin/): Reports a small piece, "la piedra del muro", installed in Nuevo Berlín, a town settled by German immigrants, in 1991. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-maeur-in-neuvo-berlin/): 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. ## Uzbekistan ### Berlin Wall — Samarkand - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/uzbekistan/samarkand/berlin-wall-samarkand-f264 - Place: International Museum for Peace and Solidarity, Samarkand, Uzbekistan - Classification: Fragment; can it be seen today: On display (On display under glass); evidence: Listed - Position: 39.651241073312, 66.955478182665 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #264. A fragment lying under glass in an opened suitcase, in a peace museum founded by Esperantists in Soviet Uzbekistan. The Esperanto Friendship Club was one of the first Esperantist associations founded in the Uzbek Soviet Republic, in the early 1980s. True to Samarkand's history as a trading city on the Silk Road, the small circle around Anatoly Ionesov built up a network of correspondents around the world, and in 1986 — the International Year of Peace, and with the tolerance of the state authorities — opened the International Museum for Peace and Solidarity. The initiative remained unique after the Soviet Union broke up in 1991. The museum joined the International Peace Bureau in Geneva and the association of peace museums founded in 1992, and was given the honorary title of people's museum in Uzbekistan. Its collection runs to more than twenty thousand objects from over a hundred countries, and among them is a lump of the Berlin Wall, sent as a gift by the Friedensbibliothek-Antikriegsmuseum in Berlin. It lies under glass in an opened suitcase, with a photograph of the donor standing in front of the Wall beside it. The display is the point of the record. Elsewhere in this catalogue the Wall is stood upright and lit, as a monument to itself. Here a piece of it is presented as luggage — something that was carried out of a place, by someone, and arrived. Provenance: A gift from the Friedensbibliothek-Antikriegsmuseum in Berlin. Sources: - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-samarkand/): The founding of the Esperanto Friendship Club around Anatoly Ionesov, the opening of the International Museum for Peace and Solidarity in 1986 and its later memberships and honorary title, the collection of more than twenty thousand objects from over a hundred countries, and the Berlin Wall fragment given by the Friedensbibliothek-Antikriegsmuseum, displayed under glass in an opened suitcase with a photograph of the donor. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-samarkand/): 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. ## Vatican City ### Berlin Wall — Vatikanstadt - Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/vatican-city/vatikanstadt/berlin-wall-vatikanstadt-f163 - Place: Vatican Gardens, Vatican City - Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented - Position: 41.9049916, 12.4495009 - Listed by the Federal Foundation as #163. An element from Kreuzberg at the edge of the Vatican Gardens, bought at the Monte Carlo auction and given to John Paul II. The element in the Vatican Gardens comes from Waldemarstraße, and its painted face carries a work by Yadegar Asisi showing St Michael's church in Berlin, a parish the Wall had cut off from most of its congregation: the church is on the eastern side, and the painting put it back where people could see it. Placing that particular image in the garden of the pope widely credited with helping end communist rule in Eastern Europe is not an accident. Provenance: Bought at the Monte Carlo auction in June 1990 by Marco Piccininni — born in Rome in 1952, from an industrial family with Vatican connections, later sporting director at Ferrari — and given to John Paul II. It was erected a few years afterwards; 1994 is the commonly cited installation date. Sources differ on whether the gift was made in 1990 and installed in 1994, or made in 1994, and both readings stand until the Vatican's own account is found. Sources: - [Vatican City, V — The Wall Net](https://en.the-wall-net.org/vatican-city-v/): The donor, the Waldemarstraße origin and Yadegar Asisi's painted subject. - [Where Have All the Fragments Gone? — Lapham's Quarterly](https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/where-have-all-fragments-gone): Piccininni bought the element at the Monaco auction and donated it, with 1994 cited for the gift. - [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-in-der-vatikanstadt/): 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.