The record
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.
How did it get here?
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
Listed by the Federal Foundation as #98.
Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry ↗
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.
Inventory listingSource accessed 2026-09-17
A fascinating journey around Europe — Mini-Europe visitor guide ↗
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.
Institutional sourceSource accessed 2026-09-17
The park — Mini-Europe ↗
The park's own description of its interactive animations, among them „Destroy a section of the Berlin wall“.
Institutional sourceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide ↗
The source lists this place as a Berlin Wall location. Coordinates, where supplied, are source-reported and may represent a general area. This is not independent verification of authenticity, current presence, or public access.
Inventory listingSource accessed 2026-09-17 · Source record 98
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