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SOURCE-LISTED WALL RECORD

Berlin Wall — Riga

Riga, Latvia

56.959° N / 24.104° E

Evidence Listed, level 1 of 4

Nothing from the holder or another institution, and no press report, has been found yet; the record rests on inventory listings, a general reference and a photograph. It is published so the piece can be found and checked — the holder's own account or a press report would strengthen it. How records are graded

MemorialOutdoor
A fragment of the Berlin Wall set into a stone monument in a park.
The fragment in the barricades monument, Kronvalda Park, Riga. · Photograph: Medullaoblongata Projekt, CC BY-SA 4.0 — source

The record

A fragment set into a memorial to the 1991 barricades, standing in front of the former Communist Party Central Committee building.

The monument is on the northern edge of Kronvalda Park. It commemorates the barricades of January 1991, when Latvians built barricades in central Riga against Soviet interior ministry troops; the Berlin fragment was added to it in 1992. The address does the work: a piece of the German border standing outside the building from which the Latvian party ran the republic.

How did it get here?

Given to the city in November 1990 by Rainer Hildebrandt, director of the Haus am Checkpoint Charlie museum in Berlin, at the close of the museum's exhibition in Riga; added to the existing barricades monument in 1992, where an inscription records the gift.

Sources

Listed by the Federal Foundation as #138 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #354.

Riga, LV — The Wall Net ↗
The segment brought to Riga with the Haus am Checkpoint Charlie museum's exhibition in 1990 and left there as a gift, and its addition to the monument in Kronvalda Park in 1992.
General referenceSource accessed 2026-09-17

Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry ↗
The Haus am Checkpoint Charlie museum's exhibition in Riga in November 1990, at the end of which its director Rainer Hildebrandt gave the segment to the city; its addition to the barricades monument in 1992; and the inscription at the site recording the gift.
Inventory listingSource accessed 2026-09-17

Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide ↗
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 138

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 354
Source-reported segments: 1. This is not a separately verified count.

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On the map

Position as an inventory reported it, matched in OpenStreetMap. It may mark a general area rather than the piece itself.

Nearest pieces

Nothing else in the atlas is within 100 km. These are the nearest.

  1. 249 kmBerlin Wall — VilniusVilnius, LithuaniaOn display
  2. 278 kmBerlin Wall — TallinnTallinn, EstoniaOn display