Public listings.
Visible evidence.
The atlas holds 629 catalogue records and publishes 391 of them. A record is a source-listed place or display, not a count of individual concrete segments. Different catalogues may describe the same place, and some describe a whole city rather than a specific venue.
Only researched records are published
Appearing in a source inventory is not, by itself, enough to publish. A record is served to this site once someone has researched it against sources and written what is known: what the piece is, how it got there, where it stands and what can be seen. The other 238 records are held in the catalogue as drafts and are not shown on the map, in the indexes or in search. They have not been deleted — they are the working list, and they are being worked through.
This gate is deliberately an allowlist rather than a filter. A record is published because it was written up, never because it arrived in an import. Nothing here is marked Verified: that word is reserved for a record someone has independently confirmed, which is a further step again, and no record has taken it yet.
The two inventories
Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide ↗
174 public map listings were retrieved. Each imported record links to the Foundation’s individual entry.
Berlin Wall Archive ↗
426 public listing rows were retrieved. Its headline segment total is a different measure. Our references link to its searchable catalogue and preserve its source record IDs.
Snapshot retrieved 17 September 2026. Retrieval means we read the source; it is not a field-verification date.
What the import contains
600 source records produced 586 catalogue records after 11 reviewed or exact duplicate merges and 3 held-back records with unresolved country information. 480 records have source-reported map positions. 106 remain searchable without a pin. Those figures describe the import, which is why they are larger than the number of records published above.
We withheld 56 coordinate sets that conflicted with the listed country in a coarse geographic check. The original values are preserved in the import audit. Passing that check does not establish an exact address or prove the object is still there.
Overlap is still being reviewed
There are 202 possible cross-source overlap pairs in the review queue. They have not been automatically collapsed: two displays in the same city may be different objects. Catalogue totals should not be interpreted as unique physical sites or segments.
What is—and isn’t—verified
Imported records are labeled Reported / Unverified. Current presence, authenticity, classification, access, and precise position need further research. We do not generate directions to unverified coordinates. Missing positions remain missing, and we do not replace them with guessed city centres.
Text and photographs
The import includes factual listing metadata and source links only. The source projects’ historical prose and photographs have not been republished. Every history and provenance passage on this site was written here against the sources listed on that record, and every photograph is a freely licensed file whose licence was re-checked against Wikimedia Commons on publication, copied to this site’s own storage and credited to its photographer — and to the painter as well, where the segment carries identifiable work.
A published record without a photograph shows an original abstract drawing instead. That is not a gap awaiting work in most cases: for a large part of the catalogue no freely licensed photograph exists anywhere, and showing that is more useful than filling the space.
Country consistency screening uses Natural Earth public-domain boundaries. The small-scale map is a screening tool, not a survey or an authority on disputed borders.
Read our methodology or submit a correction with evidence.