The Day the Wall Came Down

The Day the Wall Came Down are two sculptures by Veryl Goodnight honoring the spontaneous end of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989. It depicts five horses leaping over actual pieces of the broken wall.

There are two copies of the sculpture.

One, sculpted in 1996, was initially installed at Stone Mountain Park near Atlanta, Georgia for the 1996 Olympic Games.^[1] It was moved in 1997 and is now exhibited on the grounds of the George H. W. Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas.^[2]

The second, finished in 1998, was given as a gift from the United States to Germany, and is located at Clayallee near the Allied Museum in the former American sector of Berlin.^[2] Each sculpture weighs approximately seven tons and measures 30 feet (9.1 m) long by 18 feet (5.5 m) wide by 12 feet (3.7 m) high.^[3]

See also

• List of Berlin Wall segments

References

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Berlin Wall

Main articles

• Inner German border
• Iron Curtain
• Wall of Shame
• East Berlin
• West Berlin
• German reunification
• Eastern Bloc emigration and defection
• Republikflucht
• Berlin Crisis of 1961
• Fall of the Berlin Wall
• Schießbefehl

Memorials, museums
and galleries

• Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer
• White Crosses
• East Side Gallery
• Checkpoint Charlie Museum
• Topography of Terror
• Mauerpark
• Chapel of Reconciliation

Border crossings

• Bornholmer Straße
• Checkpoint Charlie
• Checkpoint Bravo
• Berlin Friedrichstraße station
• Glienicke Bridge
• Invalidenstraße
• Oberbaum Bridge
• Sonnenallee
• Tränenpalast, Friedrichstraße station

People who died
breaching the Wall

• Klaus Brueske
• Peter Fechter
• Winfried Freudenberg
• Christian-Peter Friese
• Chris Gueffroy
• Marienetta Jirkowsky
• Cengaver Katrancı
• Erna Kelm
• Czesław Kukuczka
• Horst Kutscher
• Günter Litfin
• Dorit Schmiel
• Egon Schultz
• Olga Segler
• Ida Siekmann
• Heinz Sokolowski
• Hildegard Trabant
• Rudolf Urban
• Christel and Eckhard Wehage

Others associated
with the Wall

• Günter Schabowski
• Riccardo Ehrman
• Erich Honecker
• Konrad Schumann
• Walter Ulbricht
• David Hasselhoff
• Jutta Fleck

The Wall in speeches

• "Ich bin ein Berliner"
• "Tear down this wall!"

In popular culture

Films and TV series	Escape from East Berlin (1962) The Wall (1962) Stop Train 349 (1963) The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965) Freiheit (1966) Funeral in Berlin (1966) The Soldier (1982) Octopussy (1983) Gotcha! (1985) Wings of Desire (1987) Judgment in Berlin (1988) Das Versprechen (1995) Sonnenallee (1999) The Tunnel (2001) Buffalo Soldiers (2001) Good Bye, Lenin! (2003) Bornholmer Straße (2014) Bridge of Spies (2015) Atomic Blonde (2017) Deutschland 89 (2020)
Documentaries	The Road to the Wall (1962) The Tunnel (1962) Rabbit à la Berlin (2009)
Novels	The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963) Funeral in Berlin (1964) Judgment in Berlin (1984) Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee (1999) Edge of Eternity (2014)
Songs	"West of the Wall" (1962) "Holidays in the Sun" (1977) "Nikita" (1985)
Other media	The Berlin Wall (1991 video game) The Day the Wall Came Down (1997 sculpture)

Other

• List of Berlin Wall segments
• Ghost station
• Steinstücken
• Grenzgänger (Cross-border commuters)
• The Shame