Largest and most important border crossing pointThe Allied Control Center, established on 1 July 1945, developed during the Cold War into the largest and most important border crossing point on the former inner-German border. Between 1985 and 1989 alone, 34.6 million passengers were processed. About 1,000 people worked at the GÜSt in the areas of passport control and customs, at the border troops of the GDR and as civilian employees. Until 1989, Marienborn was the bottleneck between East and West.Exhibition and Visitor CenterFor visitors, today, among other things, the functional units Passport Control, Car Entry and the Control Garage - Exit are open.The Visitor Center deepen the permanent exhibition "The Border Crossing Point Marienborn: Bollwerk, Nadelöhr "Seismograph" as well as the films "Helmstedt-Marienborn - The Eye of the Needle between the Worlds" and "On the Watch for the GDR - The History of the German Partition", the historical context in which the GÜSt Marienborn was developed into a bulwark of the border regime.
HoursMonday to Sunday from 10:00 to 17:00 On public holidays special opening hours apply. Please inform yourself by phone in advance!
Source: zeitorte.de/die-zeitorte/gegenwart-zukunft/gedenkstaette-deutsche-teilung-marienborn.html

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MW aus LE

October 30, 2017

Not necessarily the Sunday excursion destination, but worth a visit.
Thousands of cars drive past here today.
Thousands of cars and destinies are stranded here at the time.
A short detour to the inside stops.

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MW aus LE

October 30, 2017

The border crossing Helmstedt / Marienborn was the largest and most important border crossing at the inner German border during the German division and consisted of the "checkpoint Helmstedt" in the West German town Helmstedt and the "border crossing Marienborn" (GÜSt) in the East German community Marienborn. Because of the geographical proximity to West Berlin, the main burden of transit traffic between West Germany and Berlin was handled via this border crossing. He also served travel to the GDR, Poland and other Eastern Bloc countries. It existed between 1945 and 1990 and regulated the border traffic on the since 1975 in the west so named highway 2.
Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenz%C3%BCbergang_Helmstedt/Marienborn

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