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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.
How did it get here?
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
Listed by the Federal Foundation as #106 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #211.
Langelandsfort, DK — The Wall Net ↗
A wall segment at the museum since 2011, a gift of the Berlin Senate, originally from Potsdamer Platz.
General referenceSource accessed 2026-09-17
The Cold War Museum Langelandsfort — VisitLangeland ↗
The fort's Cold War role and the other exhibits the segment stands among.
General referenceSource accessed 2026-09-17
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.
Institutional sourceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Berlinmuren tager på Danmarksturné ↗
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.
Press reportSource accessed 2026-09-17
Berlinmur på 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.
Press reportSource 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 106
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 211
Source-reported segments: 1. This is not a separately verified count.
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