Berlin Wall anniversary

Today is the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. In 2008 the city of Tampere was gifted a segment of the Wall.

In September 2007, Timo Nieminen, a mayor and president of the Finnish Association of Municipal Councils, paid a visit to his colleague, Karl-Heinz Schröder, county commissioner for Oberhavel and vice president of the districts of Germany. Between carrying out inspections for nature conservation and infrastructure project planning, Nieminen learnt of the leftover Wall pieces in Germendorf.

Scröder took a Wall element with him as a gift on his visit to Tampere on 22 may 2008. At the official handing over ceremony, Schröder pointed out that Finland was a good location for the Cold War relic due to Finland's intermediary role between East and West and above all due to the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, which had been of great significance to many GDR citizens.

The Wall section was then put up in Museum Center Vapriikki for some time and then it has been stored in a storage of Tampere city. Now the piece of the wall is on view next to the Sampola for two weeks.

We went to see the Wall element before Emma's game - her first A-girls game this season. It was a thriller, in the end visitors won by four points (Pyrintö-Honka 56-60).


+4°C, cloudy and foggy - no snow left