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Given to the city in 2008 and shown at first in its museum centre, then kept for a decade lying in the museums' store, and outside a library for a fortnight in 2019.
A concrete segment about 1.5 m wide and nearly 4 m tall, given to the city in 2008 through its mayor, Timo P. Nieminen, and shown at first in the Vapriikki museum centre. By the spring of 2019 it had lain for about ten years on the floor of the Tampere museums' collection store at Rusko, and the museums were looking for somewhere to show it again; that year it was put up in front of a local library with a photographic exhibition, for two weeks. That is about the whole of its public life, and it makes the record useful: a segment can be owned by a city, be entirely genuine, and still be something almost nobody has seen.
How did it get here?
A gift from Karl-Heinz Schröder, district administrator of Oberhavel in Brandenburg, to the city of Tampere, arranged through its mayor, Timo P. Nieminen. Oberhavel also supplied the segment given to the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy in Taipei the following year.
Sources
Listed by the Federal Foundation as #111 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #419.
Tampere, FIN — The Wall Net ↗
A segment of the Hinterlandmauer set up at the Vapriikki museum centre in 2008, a gift from Karl-Heinz Schröder, district administrator of Oberhavel, to Timo Nieminen.
General referenceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Miten pala Berliinin muuria päätyi Tampereelle? – Osa kylmän sodan kuuluisinta rajalinnoitusta on maannut varastossa vuosia, nyt huippuarvokas pala betonia halutaan esille ↗
Aamulehti, 22 May 2019: the city of Tampere was given the piece in 2008 thanks to its mayor, Timo P. Nieminen; it was shown at the time in the Vapriikki museum centre, had since lain for about ten years on the floor of the Tampere museums' collection store at Rusko, and a new place to show it was being sought.
Press reportSource accessed 2026-09-17
List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia ↗
In 2019 the segment was put on display in front of a local library, with a photographic exhibition, for two weeks.
General referenceSource 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 111
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 419
Source-reported segments: 1. This is not a separately verified count.
No photograph of this one has been published. If you have taken one, or know when it arrived or who gave it, we would like to hear. Contribute to this record