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Two original segments brought to the village green after 1989 on the village mayor's initiative, where the state of Brandenburg held its commemoration of the Wall's building in 2024.
Heinersdorf lay hard against the border ring around West Berlin, and its neighbour Osdorf fell to the Wall in the most literal sense: the village of about 150 people was demolished for the border strip, only a barn survived, and its people were resettled, partly in Heinersdorf. Two original pieces of the Wall now stand in the centre of Heinersdorf by the village green, carrying several memorial plaques. The Wall Net, quoting the municipality, says they were brought here after the Wende at the instigation of the village mayor of the time and so saved from destruction.
The municipality lays wreaths at them each 13 August. Its account of the sixtieth anniversary in 2021 has the mayor, Tobias Borstel, saying it is right to meet every year at this piece of wall in Heinersdorf, which once stood in Osdorf. On 13 August 2024 the state of Brandenburg held its central commemoration of the building of the Wall here, at the segments at Heinersdorfer Straße 8: the minister-president, Dietmar Woidke, the president of the Landtag, Ulrike Liedtke, the deputy commissioner for the consequences of the communist dictatorship, Susanne Kschenka, the mayor and the witness Michael Valentin spoke, and the state chancellery's release recalled that at least 140 people died at the Berlin Wall. A second original piece stands a short way north on the Berlin boundary at Osdorfer Straße, re-erected in April 2010, and has its own page.
How did it get here?
Two original segments brought to Heinersdorf after the fall of the Wall on the initiative of the village mayor of the time; the municipality says the piece once stood in Osdorf.
Sources
Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #154.
Land Brandenburg erinnert gemeinsam mit der Gemeinde Großbeeren an den Bau der Mauer vor 63 Jahren — Staatskanzlei Brandenburg, 9 August 2024 ↗
The state chancellery's announcement of the commemoration on 13 August 2024 at 4 pm at the wall segments at Heinersdorfer Straße 8, 14979 Großbeeren, with Minister-President Dietmar Woidke, Landtag president Ulrike Liedtke, deputy commissioner Susanne Kschenka, Mayor Tobias Borstel and the witness Michael Valentin; Osdorf was demolished, only a barn remained, about 150 residents were resettled to Heinersdorf, where original wall segments recall the division; at least 140 people died at the Berlin Wall.
Institutional sourceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Brandenburg erinnert an Mauerbau vor 63 Jahren — Staatskanzlei Brandenburg, 13 August 2024 ↗
The state's central commemoration in Heinersdorf, where two original wall segments stand; the speeches of Woidke, Liedtke, Kschenka and Borstel; Osdorf's roughly 150 residents and its demolition for the border.
Institutional sourceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Kranzniederlegung zum 60. Jahrestag des Mauerbaus — Gemeinde Großbeeren, 13 August 2021 ↗
Wreaths and flowers laid at the wall remains in Heinersdorf on 13 August 2021 by the state representative Helmut Barthel, Mayor Tobias Borstel, councillors and others; the mayor on meeting every year at this piece of wall in Heinersdorf, which once stood in Osdorf, and on the resettlement of Osdorf's residents to Heinersdorf.
Institutional sourceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Großbeeren-Heinersdorf — The Wall Net ↗
Two original wall parts in the centre of Heinersdorf by the Dorfaue on Heinersdorfer Straße, brought there after the Wende at the instigation of the then village mayor and so saved from destruction, with several memorial plaques; Heinersdorf lay in the immediate vicinity of the border; an annual commemoration by the local CDU on the day of the Wall's building.
General referenceSource 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 154
Source-reported segments: 2. This is not a separately verified count.
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