Germany
Thuringia
Hildburghausen
Hellingen
Memorial at the Rieth/Zimmerau border crossing
Germany
Thuringia
Hildburghausen
Hellingen
Memorial at the Rieth/Zimmerau border crossing
Memorial at the Rieth/Zimmerau border crossing
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Location: Hellingen, Hildburghausen, Thuringia, Germany
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As many as 434 border towers stood at the German-German border. One of them very close to this memorial. He was on the western side and served to get an insight into the hinterland of the GDR border area. This memorial site commemorates this epoch of German-German history with a memorial stone and a piece of border fence.
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•May 14, 2018
This place serves to commemorate the division of Germany.
translated by•February 27, 2022
When alarm was triggered at the border fence in Rieth, Thuringia, all work had to be halted in the Agricultural Production Cooperative (LPG) - even in the middle of the harvest. The then LPG chairman Norbert Wirsching remembers:bpb.de/mediathek/grenzland
translated by•July 6, 2019
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