The record
Four elements arranged outside the university library at BTU Cottbus — and the rare case where the two inventories agree on a number.
Four wall elements are arranged in front of the Information, Communication and Media Centre of the Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus — the IKMZ. The Berlin Wall Foundation catalogues them in MAUERSPUREN as MAU-780, describing an arrangement of four displaced elements, photographed in October 2025 by the Foundation's director Axel Klausmeier.
The number is worth pausing on. The Berlin Wall Archive listing that put Cottbus in this catalogue in the first place reports four segments, and it was compiled independently of the Foundation. Most of the time the two inventories disagree about counts, because a piece of the Berlin Wall means anything from a 2.6 tonne element to a chip in a bag. Here they agree exactly, which is about as close to corroboration as this catalogue gets without somebody going to look.
How the four came to Cottbus is not recorded by either source.
How did it get here?
Not established. Both the Berlin Wall Archive listing and the Foundation's directory record four elements; neither says where they came from or when they arrived.
Sources
Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #87.
MAU-780 Mauerelemente IKMZ Cottbus — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer ↗
An arrangement of four displaced wall elements in front of the Information, Communication and Media Centre of BTU Cottbus, catalogued as MAU-780, classified as Mauerelemente of the Grenzmauer 75 type, photographed in October 2025 by Axel Klausmeier.
Institutional sourceSource 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 87
Source-reported segments: 4. 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