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Two fragments from the Staaken border crossing, given to the town in the early 1990s and made a memorial site in 2010 by the mayors of the two Nienburgs, on the Weser and on the Saale.
The fragments stand on the Berliner Ring, at what the town calls its Erinnerungsort „Berliner Mauer“. The regional tourist board says they came from the border crossing at Berlin-Staaken, were given to the town and were handed over to the public on 8 May 1992. The Wall Net gives the background: in 1991 the commander of the Clausewitz barracks in Nienburg had four segments, kept two on the base and gave the other two to the town.
On 30 May 2010 the place was inaugurated as a memorial by Nienburg/Weser's mayor, Henning Onkes, and Markus Bauer, mayor of Nienburg (Saale) — the town of the same name in Saxony-Anhalt with which it has been twinned for twenty years — to recall the peaceful revolution in the GDR, reunification and the partnership. For the occasion, within a joint project in which pupils from both towns worked through the history, the Belarusian painter Wladimir Wolnow restored the graffiti.
The site is in use. In June 2023 the town's Arbeitskreis Gedenken invited people to a commemoration there of the 1953 uprising in the GDR, and asked them to bring flowers to decorate the wall fragments on the Berliner Ring.
How did it get here?
By The Wall Net's account, two of four segments obtained in 1991 by the commander of the Clausewitz barracks and given to the town; by the tourist board's, from the Berlin-Staaken crossing and handed over on 8 May 1992. Inaugurated as a memorial site on 30 May 2010, with the graffiti restored by Wladimir Wolnow.
Sources
Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #299.
Der 17. Juni 1953: erster Baustein auf dem Weg zur Wiedervereinigung — Stadt Nienburg/Weser ↗
The town's Arbeitskreis Gedenken invited people to a commemoration of the 1953 uprising on 17 June 2023 at the Erinnerungsort „Berliner Mauer“, asking them to bring flowers to decorate the wall fragments set up on the Berliner Ring.
Institutional sourceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Erinnerungsort „Berliner Mauer“ in Nienburg (Weser) — Stadt Nienburg (Saale) ↗
On Sunday 30 May 2010 an Erinnerungsort „Berliner Mauer“ in Nienburg/Weser was inaugurated by the mayors Henning Onkes (Nienburg/Weser) and Markus Bauer (Nienburg (Saale)), to recall the peaceful revolution, reunification and twenty years of partnership between the two towns; within the joint project „Spurensuche“, in which pupils of two schools researched the history, the graffiti were restored by the Belarusian painter Wladimir Wolnow.
Institutional sourceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Fragmente der Berliner Mauer — Mittelweser-Touristik ↗
The two wall fragments come from the Berlin-Staaken border crossing; they were given to the town of Nienburg/Weser and handed over to the public on 8 May 1992.
General referenceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Nienburg/Weser, NI — The Wall Net ↗
Two segments on the Berliner Ring: in 1991 the commander of the Clausewitz barracks had four segments, two set up on the base and two given to the town; the memorial site inaugurated in May 2010 with the mayor of Nienburg/Saale, the graffiti restored by Wladimir Wolnow.
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 299
Source-reported segments: 2. This is not a separately verified count.
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