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A segment in the capital of Saxony-Anhalt, a city that was on the eastern side of the line.
A segment of the Wall in Magdeburg. It belongs to a small and easily missed group in this catalogue: pieces that went to cities in the former GDR. Almost everything here travelled west or abroad, because that is where the buyers and the diplomatic recipients were. A segment standing in Magdeburg is a piece of the border returned to the side it was built to hold in.
The city's own page on its memorials places it on Lothar-Kreyssig-Straße, where a timeline of the division runs between it and the citizens' monument to the Monday demonstrations of 1989, and the Volksstimme records how it got there and what happened to it: given by the Springer publishing house in its round of gifts to the state capitals, vandalised in April 2012, and redesigned for 9 November 2013 by the Magdeburg designer Christoph Ackermann, who won a city competition with a dove breaking from its cage and a woodpecker pecking the outline of a united Germany into the concrete.
How did it get here?
Given by Axel Springer's publishing house in its 2009 round of gifts to the state capitals, by the Volksstimme's account; redesigned by Christoph Ackermann in 2013.
Sources
Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #243.
Segment der Berliner Mauer Magdeburg.JPG — Wikimedia Commons ↗
A segment of the Berlin Wall at Magdeburg.
PhotographSource accessed 2026-09-17
Mahnmale zur Teilung Europas und Opfer des Eisernen Vorhangs / Landeshauptstadt Magdeburg ↗
The City of Magdeburg's page on its memorials to the division of Europe: the segment of the Berlin Wall on Lothar-Kreyssig-Straße, with a timeline of the division running between it and the citizens' monument to the peaceful revolution, and the names of victims on a memorial plaque integrated into the existing segment.
Institutional sourceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Magdeburger Designer lässt einen Specht am Dom das vereinte Deutschland meißeln ↗
Volksstimme, 7 November 2013: the 3.60 metre, 2.7 tonne segment on Lothar-Kreyssig-Straße by the cathedral, vandalised in April 2012, was redesigned by the Magdeburg designer Christoph Ackermann after a city competition, with a dove breaking from its cage and a woodpecker pecking out the outline of united Germany, for unveiling by the mayor on 9 November 2013.
Press reportSource accessed 2026-09-17
Wenig Interesse am Wende-Zeitstrahl ↗
Volksstimme, 29 July 2011: the segment in the chestnut grove in front of the cathedral was given to Magdeburg, as to the other state capitals, by the Springer publishing house, and a timeline of the twenty-eight years from the building of the Wall to its fall was to link it to the citizens' monument some fifty metres away.
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 243
Source-reported segments: 1. This is not a separately verified count.
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