The record
A four-tonne section from the Brandenburg Gate stretch, given to the town by a Berlin businessman and set up beside the Normaluhr on Berliner Straße in November 2009.
The section stands on a low plinth beside the Normaluhr on Berliner Straße, at the edge of the Holland and not far from the last surviving piece of Herford's own medieval town wall. The Neue Westfälische reported it being craned onto its base on 4 November 2009: a piece of concrete about a metre wide, three metres high and around four tonnes, from the stretch at the Brandenburg Gate, still carrying paint from the days after 9 November 1989. It was handed over to the public that Saturday, 7 November, in front of about fifty people. The donor was Peter Koch, a Berlin businessman who runs a light-metal foundry there and had built several housing estates in Herford, with his wife Evelin. The mayor, Bruno Wollbrink, acknowledged at the handover that the site had been argued over.
Whether the street name was the reason for choosing it, the reports do not say. It is the same pairing that Madrid, Seoul and Guatemala City arranged deliberately — a piece of the Wall on a street that carries Berlin's name.
This record has no pin: the listing came without coordinates, and no checked coordinate for the Normaluhr on Berliner Straße was found.
How did it get here?
A gift to the city of Herford from the Berlin businessman Peter Koch and his wife Evelin, set on its plinth on 4 November 2009 and handed over on 7 November; reported as having stood at the Brandenburg Gate.
Sources
Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #172.
List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia ↗
A segment of the wall located on Berliner Straße in Herford.
General referenceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Berliner Mauer Herford 2022.jpg — Wikimedia Commons ↗
The Berlin Wall at Herford, photographed in 2022.
PhotographSource accessed 2026-09-17
Das Mauer-Denkmal steht — Neue Westfälische ↗
On 4 November 2009 a metre-wide, four-tonne piece of the Berlin Wall from the Brandenburg Gate, given by the Berlin businessman Peter Koch, was set on a low plinth beside the Normaluhr at the edge of the Holland, near the last piece of Herford's town wall, for handover to the public on Saturday 7 November.
Press reportSource accessed 2026-09-17
Herfords neue Achse der Erinnerung — Neue Westfälische ↗
The roughly four-tonne, three-metre section on Berliner Straße, a gift to the city from Peter Koch and his wife Evelin, was formally handed over in November 2009 before about fifty people; the mayor Bruno Wollbrink acknowledged earlier disagreement over the site.
Press reportSource 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 172
Source-reported segments: 1. This is not a separately verified count.
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