The record
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.
How did it get here?
Donated by the city of Berlin; from Potsdamer Platz; presented in Leopold Park on 22 April 2004.
Sources
Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #58.
List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia ↗
The Leopold Park segment and its removal in 2021.
General referenceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry ↗
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.
Inventory listingSource accessed 2026-09-17
Berlin Wall | Visiting | European Parliament ↗
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.
Institutional sourceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Stukje Berlijnse Muur verplaatst naar Esplanade Europees Parlement ↗
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.
Press reportSource accessed 2026-09-17
Berlin Wall Archive ↗
The source lists this place as a Berlin Wall location. Coordinates, where supplied, are source-reported and may represent a general area. This is not independent verification of authenticity, current presence, or public access.
Inventory listingSource accessed 2026-09-17 · Source record 58
Source-reported segments: 1. This is not a separately verified count.
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