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It was auctioned four grafittis covering the Berlin Wall


By JemG - Posted on 22 September 2008

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Dresden is a city of high culture and the arts at the international level. The city has a valuable art collections, corporations known musical and significant buildings of many eras. Generally, the buildings are occupied by significant cultural institutions. Most are in their buildings and institutions that have been developed separately. Every year visitors come from Germany and the rest of the world to participate in numerous activities related to the Art, Science and Technology. Worthy of mention is the gearing between art and science and technology, which can be recognized in many collections.

The shield of the city was divided into two parts golden; left in a golden lion, in the other two vertical black bars. The lion represents Mark Meißen, slashes to the Mark Landsberg, who dominated the city in the late Middle Ages. The two symbols of the arms used since the fourteenth century in the seals of the city. Previously, the bars were blue (compare with the coats of Leipzig and Chemnitz), but was later changed to distinguish the shield of the Meißen-Landsberg. The colors of the city are yellow and black.

An important piece of German history will be auctioned next Friday, September 26 this year 2008. We are talking about the famous Berlin Wall that once divided the German capital in two areas: from the communist east and capitalist west.

Exactly what it will enter into auction will be four huge grafittis which were the infamous wall of 155 kilometers long and 3.5 meters in height and which was demolished in 1989, although some pieces were left standing, with all four segments in question only who remain complete.

Even today you can buy small pieces of "anti-fascist barrier" that were rescued by collectors and souvenir hunters and sold to tourists as a souvenir, clear that there is no guarantee that the parts are one hundred percent original.

Instead, each of the precious bits of history that will be sold in the auction have a weight of 2.8 tons and are expected to reach the figure of € 3,000 (about 4530 U.S. dollars) each.