The Chapel of the Cross was built in 1867 and destroyed in 1939. A new building was constructed in 1952, but from 1962 onward, it was located within the immediate exclusion zone along the GDR border. After 1989, the chapel was renovated and returned to use.

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Ferenc

January 18, 2025

At the time of the division of Germany, the chapel was located in the restricted "border strip" of the GDR border security. A local resident told me about the history of the chapel and the town of Kella. At the time of the division of Germany, the village was in the "blind spot", a restricted GDR border area and only accessible from the east via a road - so the town gradually "dried up". At some point in his youth, access to the chapel was no longer officially permitted, and so the chapel gradually fell into disrepair. After the border fell, it was restored by proud Catholic Eichsfeld residents.

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Stephan Kunze

June 19, 2022

You can't enter, but you can open the door and look inside.

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Location: Kella, Landkreis Eichsfeld, Thuringia, Germany

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