The record
An original segment a local association set up as a memorial in Recklinghausen's Berliner Viertel, given an information board in October 2006.
The segment stands on Charlottenburger Straße in what Recklinghausen calls the Berliner Viertel, a housing quarter of the early 1960s between Stuckenbusch and Hochlarmark. The city's own account, in a brochure on the history of German democracy published in 2011, credits civic engagement and a Recklinghausen association with setting up the original fragment as a memorial and with giving it an information board in October 2006. The city archive's photograph collection files its pictures of the place under „Mahnmal Berliner Mauer, Charlottenburger Str.“.
Neither city source names the association or says when the segment arrived. The Wall Net, a tertiary list, describes the association as close to the CDU and says the segment came from a local recycling firm that had taken part in demolishing the Wall; nothing read here confirms either. The quarter is almost exactly as old as the Wall it now commemorates.
How did it get here?
Set up as a memorial by a Recklinghausen association, which added an information board in October 2006. When it arrived and where it came from are not stated by the city.
Sources
Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #346.
„Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit“: Zur Geschichte der deutschen Demokratie — Stadt Recklinghausen ↗
The city's 2011 brochure, in its chapter „Deutsche Teilung – Deutsche Einheit: Ein Fragment der Berliner Mauer in Recklinghausen“: through civic engagement a Recklinghausen association set up an original fragment of the Berlin Wall as a memorial on Charlottenburger Straße in the so-called Berliner Viertel, a residential quarter of the early 1960s between Stuckenbusch and Hochlarmark, and gave it an information board in October 2006; a city photograph is captioned as an original segment of the Berlin Wall on Charlottenburger Straße.
Institutional sourceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Findbuch Fotoarchiv — Stadt Recklinghausen ↗
The finding aid of the city's photograph archive (2018) lists, among memorials, the heading „Mahnmal Berliner Mauer, Charlottenburger Str.“.
Institutional sourceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Recklinghausen, NW – Charlottenburger Straße — The Wall Net ↗
One segment in the Berliner Siedlung on Charlottenburger Straße, set up by an association close to the CDU with others' support; the segment came from a local recycling firm involved in the demolition of the Wall.
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 346
Source-reported segments: 1. This is not a separately verified count.
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