The German-German Museum Mödlareuth has an outpost here. Today, on German Unity Day, the tower could be climbed. Since a maximum of 6 people can go onto the tower at the same time, the queue of 40-60 people was too long.
I was already in the tower when it was a lost place.

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Torsten

May 26, 2025

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The Heinersgrün border tower is one of the few remaining relics of GDR border security on the Saxon-Bavarian border. In 1978, it was put into operation as the command post of the GDR border troops and remained so until the border was opened in November 1989. In the years since reunification, this highly visible relic on the A72 motorway has visibly deteriorated. The Vogtland district acquired the tower in 2019, and renovation work began in 2020. The tower is owned by the Vogtland district, and the memorial site is operated as a museum branch by the German-German Museum Mödlareuth.

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