Freedom Bell, Historic bell at Rathaus Schöneberg in Berlin, Germany.

The Freedom Bell stands as a ten-ton bronze monument modeled after Philadelphia's Liberty Bell, featuring inscriptions that emphasize divine guidance in the rebirth of freedom and democracy.

Installed in October 1950 as a gift from the American people, the bell was transported across twenty-six United States cities during the Crusade for Freedom campaign to raise support for Radio Free Europe.

The bell's lower rim carries Lincoln's Gettysburg line, "That this world under God shall have a new birth of freedom". Since 1950 a recording of its noon ringing, followed by the spoken Declaration of Freedom read by theatre actors, has been broadcast each Sunday just before noon, first by RIAS and since 2000 by Deutschlandfunk Kultur.

The bell hangs in the tower of Rathaus Schöneberg, on John-F.-Kennedy-Platz in Schöneberg. It rings daily at noon for five minutes, and at midnight on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve. An exhibition in the tower documents its history and holds the freedom shrine with the 16 million American signatures.

The bell's daily noon chimes were broadcast via radio into East Berlin and Eastern Europe, making it one of the few monuments that actively transmitted messages of freedom across political boundaries.