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SDB
March 22, 2022
Hiking
"The Wire of Death is alive" is a memorial in the landscape in the form of a crocus ribbon between the North Sea and the Drielandenpunt near Vaals. During WW1, the German occupier placed an electrical barrier with a voltage of 2,000 volts along the entire Belgian-Dutch border. It had to stop spies, Belgian war volunteers, German deserters and smugglers. About 1,000 people were killed in the Death Wire. In 2018, students and residents planted white crocuses here along the border. Every spring the crocuses make the former trajectory of the Deathwire visible again.
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March 22, 2022
Hiking
You walk along the crocuses between walking junction 53 and 42, north of the village of Middelburg.
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Viviane
April 2, 2024
Hiking
In 2018, students and residents planted white crocuses along the border here. For example, you can walk the route of the City of the Dead in the spring along the blooming flowers
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