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Two segments painted by the Lüdinghausen artist Alfred Gockel, shown first in Athens and since 2020 a memorial in his own town, kept by a local association for justice and peace.
Two original segments of the Berlin Wall make up the memorial that the Arbeitsstelle Gerechtigkeit und Frieden, a Lüdinghausen association for justice and peace, describes on what it now calls the Ruth-Weiss-Platz. By the association's account the pieces stood first in Athens, were painted by the artist Alfred Gockel, and have stood in Lüdinghausen since the memorial was inaugurated in 2020. Beside them is a KreativWand, a panel developed with Gockel and pupils of the Richard-von-Weizsäcker-Berufskolleg as a place for changing messages about the walls in people's heads.
The Wall Net fills in the route. The segments were bought in 2007 from the stock of Baumedia GmbH in Lünen, lent to the German embassy in Athens from 2010 to 2015, and brought back by Gockel when the embassy no longer had room for them; the association then bought them and, with the town, its citizens' foundation and local firms, put up the memorial in front of the police station on the Seppenrader Straße in October 2020.
In 2026 the square is being rebuilt and the memorial given a new subject. Pupils of the Canisianum have made a large stencil portrait of Ruth Weiss — the Jewish journalist and opponent of apartheid who lived in Lüdinghausen for many years and died in 2025 — with her appeal BE HUMAN, to be set into the KreativWand once the work on the square is finished.
How did it get here?
From the stock of Baumedia GmbH, Lünen, bought in 2007; lent to the German embassy in Athens from 2010 to 2015 and painted by Alfred Gockel; bought by the Arbeitsstelle Gerechtigkeit und Frieden and inaugurated as a memorial in Lüdinghausen in 2020.
Sources
Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #238.
AK Friedensräume — Arbeitsstelle Gerechtigkeit & Frieden ↗
The association's own page: the wall memorial inaugurated in 2020 on the Ruth-Weiss-Platz consists of two original pieces of the Berlin Wall, which stood first in Athens, were designed by the artist Alfred Gockel and have recalled the overcoming of borders in Lüdinghausen since 2020; the KreativWand was developed with Gockel and pupils of the Richard-von-Weizsäcker-Berufskolleg; in 2026 the square is being rebuilt and pupils of the Canisianum have made a stencil portrait of Ruth Weiss (1924–2025), with the words BE HUMAN, to be integrated once the work on the square is complete.
Institutional sourceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Lüdinghausen — The Wall Net ↗
Two segments and a KreativWand set up in October 2020 in front of the police station on Seppenrader Straße; bought in 2007 from Baumedia GmbH in Lünen, lent to the German embassy in Athens from 2010 to 2015, painted by Alfred Gockel, and acquired by the Arbeitsstelle Gerechtigkeit und Frieden, which realised the memorial with the town, its citizens' foundation and local businesses.
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 238
Source-reported segments: 2. This is not a separately verified count.
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