Demolition of the Jahn Stadium: Next step despite the court ruling!

Demolition of the Jahn Stadium: Next step despite the court ruling!

Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Deutschland - Again the Jahn Stadium in the Pankow in Berlin is the focus of the event. The Senate Construction Department has announced that the stadium has been demolished since November 2023 in spring 2025. Martin Pallgen, spokesman for the Senate Administration, told the Tagesspiegel financial framework are met. Despite a legal stop that goes back to an urgent application from the Naturfreunde Berlin association and indicates inadequate species protection, the administration hopes to change the court's decision. Around four million euros are to be made available, contrary to the original savings decisions of the coalition.

Painful sale of the Berlin Wall

parallel to the stadium demolition, the history of the Berlin wall also attracts great interest. Although the old SED bureaucracy in 1990 tried to auction the wall profitably, the hoped-for success failed to materialize. As the Welt reports, the auction in Monaco only achieved 1.8 million D-Mark, in the face of the annual costs of at least half a billion to the entire barrier. The first segments were sold, but there was no clear rush, which called several prominent buyers and the LiMex organization on the plan that organized a auction event in the sophisticated Monte Carlo.

The sale was less profitable than expected, and the unpaid wall segments were shredded in large numbers to be used as a rubble. With the cost of over 200 million D-marks for the breakdown of the border facilities, the entire operation proved to be a financial disaster. The wall, which oppressed people for decades, ended not only as a symbol, but also as a great misfortune from an economic point of view.