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Five segments, ten tonnes, from a builders' yard in Teltow to a park thirty kilometres from the North Korean border — with a model Brandenburg Gate between them.
The mayor of Uijeongbu found the wall elements himself, on a visit to Germany, stacked in a builders' yard at Teltow on the south-western edge of Berlin. Five of them, about ten tonnes in all, went to his city — thirty kilometres from the North Korean border — and were set up in the Uijeongbu Station Neighborhood Park, which is being converted step by step into a peace park.
How they came to be in a builders' yard is the part of this record worth keeping. In the early 1990s the VEB Betonwerke bought wall elements from the National People's Army in order to use them as bins for loose material: the steles that had held a state in were repurposed as the sides of rubble bays. The building materials firm Klösters later took over the 160 elements still standing on the Teltow site, and in 2011 its managing director Elmar Prost started a campaign inviting professional artists and amateurs to paint them. One of the five sent to Korea carries a Thierry Noir.
The symbolic handover to the South Korean consul general Eon-wook Heo took place on 30 September 2013, with Noir, Prost and the mayor of Teltow, Thomas Schmidt, present; the official inauguration followed on 19 March, opened by the mayor of Uijeongbu before some five hundred guests, among them Schmidt, the German actor Bruno Eyron standing in for Thierry Noir, and Tobias Dollase of the Federal Foundation. A replica of the Brandenburg Gate stands between the five segments, with illustrated panels in Korean and English and a film about the Peaceful Revolution.
Edaily's interview with the city's mayor, Ahn Byeong-yong, speaks of five pieces in the station-front park installed in 2014 with German help, one of which, he says, had earlier been shown at Potsdamer Platz. The Foundation's account has all five coming from the Teltow yard; both readings are kept.
How did it get here?
Five elements from the 160 held by the building materials firm Klösters at Teltow, originally bought from the National People's Army by the VEB Betonwerke for use as material bins; handed over on 30 September 2013 and inaugurated the following March.
Sources
Listed by the Federal Foundation as #260.
Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry ↗
The mayor of Uijeongbu's discovery of the elements at Teltow, the five segments of about ten tonnes installed in the Uijeongbu Station Neighborhood Park, the city's distance from the North Korean border, the VEB Betonwerke's purchase of elements from the National People's Army for use as material bins, the 160 elements taken over by the Klösters firm and Elmar Prost's 2011 painting campaign, the Thierry Noir element, the handover of 30 September 2013 and the inauguration with its named guests, and the Brandenburg Gate replica, panels and film.
Inventory listingSource accessed 2026-09-17
안병용 의정부시장 "의정부에 베를린장벽 있듯 독일 평화의소녀상도 존치해야" ↗
Edaily, interview with the mayor: five Berlin Wall pieces in Uijeongbu's station-front park, installed in 2014 as a gift via the German government, one of them previously shown at Potsdamer Platz.
Press reportSource accessed 2026-09-17
Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide ↗
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Inventory listingSource accessed 2026-09-17 · Source record 260
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