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Kolonnenweg Along the Former Border (Green Belt, Rhön Biosphere Reserve)

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Kolonnenweg Along the Former Border (Green Belt, Rhön Biosphere Reserve)

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Kolonnenweg Along the Former Border (Green Belt, Rhön Biosphere Reserve)

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Biosphärenreservat Rhön

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    April 28, 2020

    Mountain biking

    In the middle of Germany ran a 1,393-kilometer-long border from the Baltic Sea to the Vogtland - a five-kilometer-wide exclusion zone that was strictly guarded and not for nothing called the “death strip”. This border also ran through the Rhön. Today you can discover the former death strip as a green belt. Here you drive partly on old concrete slab roads (the column paths) through a wonderfully green and quiet landscape and a valuable natural area in which hundreds of endangered animal and plant species have found a home.
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    August 17, 2021

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    Always stay between the holes with the MTB, otherwise there's ssscccchhhhüüüttteeeellllpartie
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    July 23, 2023

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    Interesting section, the border troops of the GDR used to patrol here.
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    Location: Geisa, Wartburgkreis, Thuringia, Germany

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