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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.
How did it get here?
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
Listed by the Federal Foundation as #105 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #395.
List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia ↗
A section forming part of a memorial in the park in front of the National Palace of Culture.
General referenceSource accessed 2026-09-17
„Берлинската стена”, архитектурен ансамбъл, НДК ↗
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.
Institutional sourceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Боядисали парчето от Берлинската стена в София, автентичните надписи били "грозни" ↗
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.
Press reportSource accessed 2026-09-17
Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry ↗
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.
Inventory listingSource 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 105
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 395
Source-reported segments: 1. This is not a separately verified count.
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