Weltfriedensglocke, World Peace Bell in Friedrichshain, Germany.

The Weltfriedensglocke is a bronze bell standing beside the Great Pond in Volkspark Friedrichshain. Information plaques nearby explain its creation and list the countries whose coins were incorporated into its structure.

In 1988 the World Peace Bell Association asked the GDR ambassador in Japan, Manfred Schmidt, to place a bell in Berlin for the 50th anniversary of the war's start. East Berlin's magistrates agreed and chose the bank of the Großer Teich. The bell, cast in Japan, was inaugurated on 1 September 1989, the same day as a twin bell in Warsaw.

The bell bears the inscription "平和の鐘" vertically in Japanese and "Weltfriedensglocke" horizontally in German. Since 1999 the Friedensglockengesellschaft Berlin e.V. has held commemorations here on 6 August for Hiroshima and 9 August for Nagasaki, when the bell is struck with a long hardwood pole rather than a clapper.

The bell hangs in a pagoda pavilion on the bank of the Großer Teich in Volkspark Friedrichshain. It has no clapper: it is struck with a long hardwood pole, so visitors see it hanging rather than ringing on its own. Copper thieves stole the pavilion roof and finial in June 2012; the parts were replaced.

The bell has no clapper: it is struck with a long hardwood pole, as in Japanese Buddhist temples. In June 2012 copper thieves stole the roof and finial of the pagoda pavilion sheltering it; the parts were replaced.