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One of the 33 segments the publisher Axel Springer gave to the German states and several cities for the twentieth anniversary, unveiled beside the Landtag on 9 November 2009.
A segment 3.60 m high and weighing 2.7 tonnes stands in the Oberer Schlossgarten beside the state parliament, painted by the Berlin graffiti artist Christoph Grohmann. It was unveiled on 9 November 2009 by the minister-president Günther Oettinger with Kai Diekmann, the editor-in-chief of Bild, the Stuttgart mayor Schuster and Anna Kaminsky of the Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung, whose memorials database records the gift as made to the state capital and describes the painting as original graffiti with a Berlin skyline and the old warning „Sie verlassen den amerikanischen Sektor“ in English and French; the painter's name comes from the tourism board alone. It belongs to a distribution worth tracking across the catalogue: Axel Springer AG gave an original element to every German federal state for the twentieth anniversary of the opening, and 33 elements in all once the cities it also gave to are counted — a single publisher placing more segments than most countries in this catalogue hold, in the same way that Lord Palumbo accounts for five sites on two continents.
How did it get here?
A gift from Axel Springer AG in 2009, one of 33 elements the company acquired and distributed to German states and cities to mark twenty years since the Wall opened. The company's own headquarters stood directly beside the Wall in Kreuzberg.
Sources
Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #410.
Geschenkt: die Berliner Mauer am Landtag finden — Stuttgart-Tourist ↗
The Axel Springer gift to all state capitals, the unveiling by Oettinger and Diekmann, the dimensions and the painter.
General referenceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Denkmal „Berliner Mauer“ — Orte des Erinnerns ↗
A 3.60 m, 2.7-tonne original segment on the Kulturmeile between the Staatsgalerie, the Haus der Geschichte and the Landtag, one of 33 bought by Axel Springer AG and given to several states and cities; given to the state capital and unveiled on 9 November 2009 in the presence of Günther Oettinger, the mayor Schuster, Kai Diekmann and Anna Kaminsky, painted with original graffiti, a Berlin skyline and the warning „Sie verlassen den amerikanischen Sektor“.
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 410
Source-reported segments: 1. This is not a separately verified count.
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