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Jimmy Fell's 'Blaues Tor', four Wall segments set up like Stonehenge and aligned on the midsummer sun, beside a fifteenth-century watchtower.
The Niederlauer artist Herbert 'Jimmy' Fell set up four original pieces of the Berlin Wall as the 'Blaues Tor – West-Tor', aligned on the sun at the summer solstice and arranged like Stonehenge. His own archive photograph of 2010, published on Wikimedia Commons with his permission, shows the blue gate in front of the Dicker Turm, a watchtower of the fifteenth century. The Rhön- und Saalepost, announcing one of his midsummer fire events at the tower on 22 June 2014, wrote that the Wall elements had had their fixed place at the Dicker Turm for years, and that his 'Steinkreis' project continued them.
A photograph of the tower taken on 10 April 2016 shows the four blue slabs of the gate and, on the green beside it, further grey slabs with graffiti. The municipality lists the Platz am Dicken Turm on the Turmstraße among its venues and says it became known for Fell's former midsummer fires; it does not mention the Wall. Who holds the gate today is not established, and nothing later than 2016 has been read.
How did it get here?
Four original elements, set up by the Niederlauer artist Herbert 'Jimmy' Fell; who holds them now is not recorded.
Sources
Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #298.
„Dann holt dich der Hollerbutz“ — Rhön- und Saalepost (Wayback Machine copy) ↗
Manfred Mellenthin, 22 June 2014: Jimmy Fell's fire event at the Dicker Turm in Niederlauer; he will explain his 'Steinkreis' project, a continuation of the Wall elements that have had their fixed place at the Dicker Turm for years.
Press reportSource accessed 2026-09-17
File:Blaues Tor 1, Berliner Mauer (J. Fell).jpg — Wikimedia Commons ↗
The artist's archive photograph of 2010, released with permission: 'Blaues Tor – West-Tor' in Niederlauer (J. Fell), four original parts of the Berlin Wall aligned on the sun at the summer solstice, set up like Stonehenge, in front of the Dicker Turm.
PhotographSource accessed 2026-09-17
File:Dicker Turm.JPG — Wikimedia Commons ↗
Geotagged photograph of 10 April 2016, captioned 'Dicker Turm aus dem 15. Jahrhundert (Warte)': it shows the four blue slabs of the gate and further grey slabs beside the tower.
PhotographSource accessed 2026-09-17
Dicker Turm — Gemeinde Niederlauer ↗
The municipality's venue page: the Platz am Dicken Turm (Turmstraße) became known far beyond the parish through the former midsummer fires with actions by the Niederlauer artist Herbert 'Jimmy' Fell.
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 298
Source-reported segments: 4. This is not a separately verified count.
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