The record
An element at the old inner-German crossing on the edge of Lübeck — the other border, and Lübeck's second record.
A wall element stands at Schlutup, on the eastern edge of Lübeck. The Berlin Wall Foundation catalogues it as MAU-764, photographed in 2022.
Schlutup was not on the Berlin Wall. It was a crossing point on the inner-German border, where the road ran east into Mecklenburg — the other frontier, which almost nothing in this catalogue represents.
That is what makes a Berlin element here worth recording. Lübeck was the only large city on the inner-German border, and it now holds two pieces of the Berlin one: this, and the segment craned into the garden of the Willy-Brandt-Haus. The city that lived beside the longer border commemorates it with concrete from the shorter, more famous one.
How did it get here?
Not established. The Foundation's directory records the element and its position but not its origin.
Sources
Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #237.
MAU-764 Mauerelement Lübeck-Schlutup — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer ↗
A wall element at Lübeck-Schlutup, catalogued as MAU-764, classified as a Mauerelement, dated from 1980 and photographed in 2022.
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 237
Source-reported segments: 1. This is not a separately verified count.
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