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A segment from Potsdamer Platz on a square Paris renamed for the date the Wall opened, two years before the segment arrived.
A section stands on the central median of the Place de la Porte de Versailles. The square was named the Esplanade du 9-Novembre-1989 by order of the Paris city council on 18 January 2007 — the name came first, and the object arrived two years later, which is the reverse of the usual sequence in this catalogue. It was inaugurated in 2009 for the twentieth anniversary by the mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, and the governing mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit.
The arrondissement's town hall confirms that the section is still the focus of its commemoration each 9 November. The Foundation's entry differs from the Wikipedia account on two points: it gives the segment's origin as the Senate's remaining stock at Berlin-Marzahn rather than Potsdamer Platz, and the inauguration as 9 November 2009 rather than 29 June.
How did it get here?
Supplied by the Berlin Senate for the twentieth anniversary of the opening; recorded as from Potsdamer Platz by one account and from the Senate's stock at Berlin-Marzahn by the Foundation.
Sources
Listed by the Federal Foundation as #117 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #320.
Esplanade du 9-Novembre-1989 — Wikipédia ↗
The 2007 naming by the city council, the 2009 inauguration by Delanoë and Wowereit, and the Potsdamer Platz origin.
General referenceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Where to find the Berlin Wall in Paris — French Moments ↗
The three Paris sites and their positions.
General referenceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Le 9 mai, célébrons l'Europe - Mairie du 15ᵉ ↗
The 15th arrondissement's town hall, on its own site: every 9 November it marks the anniversary of the fall of the Wall with an exhibition at the mairie and a wreath-laying and concert on the esplanade du 9 novembre 1989 at the Porte de Versailles, in front of a section of the Berlin Wall.
Institutional sourceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry ↗
The Foundation's own entry for this listing: the segment near the entrance to the exhibition grounds at the Porte de Versailles, on the renamed esplanade, proposed by the mayor of the 15th arrondissement in 2003, the square renamed by the city in December 2006, the segment supplied by the Berlin Senate through the city partnership from its remaining stock at Berlin-Marzahn, transported in late 2008 and inaugurated on 9 November 2009.
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 117
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 320
Source-reported segments: 1. This is not a separately verified count.
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