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One of a pair bought in 1993 for a Berlin factory yard, shipped to Colorado in 2017 so the two halves would join the company's two sites.
In 2017 the Hach Company, which makes instruments for analysing water, installed a segment of the Berlin Wall in front of the main entrance of its North American headquarters at Loveland in Colorado.
It is half of a pair. In 1993 Reinhard Lange, whose company merged with Hach in 2004, bought two segments to keep the memory of the division of Germany and Berlin alive, and for years they stood together on the site of the Dr. Bruno Lange GmbH in Berlin-Zehlendorf. When the Berlin staff wanted to keep the memory of that firm and its address alive in turn, they put one of the two on a ship to Colorado; it was installed in Loveland in August 2017, and the delivery was filmed.
The result is a small and deliberate piece of symbolism, and unusually for this catalogue it is about the company rather than the country: two elements that once stood side by side in Berlin now stand seven thousand kilometres apart, one at each end of the same firm.
How did it get here?
One of two segments bought in 1993 by Reinhard Lange for the Dr. Bruno Lange GmbH in Berlin-Zehlendorf, shipped to Colorado by the Berlin staff and installed in August 2017.
Sources
Listed by the Federal Foundation as #172 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #233.
Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry ↗
The installation of a segment at the Hach Company's Loveland headquarters in 2017, Reinhard Lange's purchase of two segments in 1993 and their siting at the Dr. Bruno Lange GmbH in Berlin-Zehlendorf, the merger with Hach in 2004, the shipment of one segment to Colorado by the Berlin employees, and the August 2017 installation.
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 172
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 233
Source-reported segments: 1. This is not a separately verified count.
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