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A segment given by a Berlin district in 2012 and taken down in 2015 because the spa town's authorities felt it had nothing to do with Greek history; it now stands in Thessaloniki.
On 3 October 2012 a segment of the Wall was unveiled in a new Sister Cities Square (Plateia Adelfopoiiseon) in the spa district of Lagadas, a gift from the Berlin district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf, with which the Lagadas municipality had become twinned. Aftodioikisi, a Greek local-government news portal, reported the announcement the day before and described it as a symbol of the fall of the lines that divide nations and peoples; the mayor spoke of building bridges of cooperation and reconciliation.
It did not last. The Thessaloniki magazine Parallaxi reported in 2018 that three years later, during a redesign of the square, the municipality decided the piece did not fit the history, architecture and look of the spa town. After talks with the German consulate it was moved to the garden of the Goethe-Institut in Thessaloniki, where it now stands; that site has its own page in this atlas.
How did it get here?
A gift from the Berlin district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf to the municipality of Lagadas, 2012.
Sources
Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #209.
Κομμάτι από το Τείχος του Βερολίνου στο Δ. Λαγκαδά — Aftodioikisi.gr ↗
2 October 2012: a segment of the Berlin Wall is to be placed in the newly made Sister Cities Square in the Lagadas spa district on 3 October 2012, a gift from Steglitz-Zehlendorf to the municipality of Lagadas.
Press reportSource accessed 2026-09-17
Έχει η Θεσσαλονίκη τείχος του Βερολίνου; — Parallaxi ↗
9 November 2018: the Lagadas piece, installed in 2012 after the twinning with Steglitz-Zehlendorf, was judged unsuited to the spa town during the square's redesign three years later and was transferred to the garden of the Goethe-Institut in Thessaloniki after talks with the German consulate.
Press reportSource 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 209
Source-reported segments: 1. This is not a separately verified count.
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