# Berlin Wall segment in Magdeburg, Germany

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- Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/magdeburg/magdeburg-st-a243
- Place: Lothar-Kreyssig-Straße, by the cathedral, Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
- Classification: Relocated Segment; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Corroborated
- Position: 52.12519, 11.63237
- Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #243.

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.

Provenance: 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:

- [Segment der Berliner Mauer Magdeburg.JPG — Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASegment_der_Berliner_Mauer_Magdeburg.JPG): A segment of the Berlin Wall at Magdeburg.
- [Mahnmale zur Teilung Europas und Opfer des Eisernen Vorhangs / Landeshauptstadt Magdeburg](https://www.magdeburg.de/MahnmaleTeilungEuropas): 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.
- [Magdeburger Designer lässt einen Specht am Dom das vereinte Deutschland meißeln](https://www.volksstimme.de/nachrichten/magdeburg/1172485_Magdeburger-Designer-laesst-einen-Specht-am-Dom-das-vereinte-Deutschland-meisseln.html): 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.
- [Wenig Interesse am Wende-Zeitstrahl](https://www.volksstimme.de/lokal/magdeburg/wenig-interesse-am-wende-zeitstrahl-428470): 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.
- [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Magdeburg%2C%20ST): 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.