Because of this wall and its holes, the Hausburg elementary school could not be renovated for eleven years; BZ editor Katja Colmenares comments Photo: Thomas Frey / BZ assembly
By Katja Colmenares
Eleven years! That’s how long it takes a clever Berlin child to go to school! From first grade to high school. The Hausburg elementary school had to wait just as long to finally be allowed to renovate a dilapidated part of the building.
It was about a perforated wall, which for years was suspected to have been the site of shootings in the final days of World War II.
But although historians found no reliable evidence for this, the preservation of monuments insisted on the preservation of the execution wall. Eleven years! So on suspicion! At the expense of more than 500 students. That’s absurd!
Monument protection is important, yes. But where there is nothing to protect, you must not prevent anything!