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According to the company manager, the unpainted piece of the Wall in Kuopio was not intended to become a memorial. Nevertheless, as he conveyed it in a 2014 television report, even after all these years it symbolizes the freedom achieved in 1989.

Transporting the Wall from Germendorf to Finland

© Lutz Busse / Landkreis Oberhavel

In 1990, road and paving contractor Klaus Grunske, crushed hundreds of tonnes of the Berlin Wall in Germendorf, just north of Berlin. His company had been given the contract to dismantle the barrier installation at the border to Brandenburg at Glienicke and Hohen Neuendorf. However, Grunske did not grind all of the segments for building materials, but preserved some for future use. One of the segments found its new home in the southern Finnish city of Tampere. In September 2007, Timo Nieminen, mayor and president of the Finnish Association of Municipal Councils, paid a visit to his colleague, Karl-Heinz Schröter, county commissioner for Oberhavel and vice president of the districts of Germany. Between carrying out inspections for nature conservation and infrastructure project planning, Nieminen learned of the leftover Wall pieces in Germendorf. Klaus Grunske gave a piece of the Wall to his Finnish visitor, and he planned to put it on display at the Museum Centre Vapriikki in Tampere.