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Lenschow Memorial Site

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Lüdersdorf

Lenschow Memorial Site

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Lenschow Memorial Site

Recommended by 44 hikers out of 46

This Highlight is in a protected area

Please check local regulations for: Wakenitzniederung

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Location: Lüdersdorf, Northwest Mecklenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

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Gerhard & die Hundeboygroup 🐾 👣 🐾

September 28, 2019

Here once stood the village Lenschow, which was demolished in the 70s. It was too close to the border to the single FRG.
Today, there is almost nothing left to see from the former inner-German border.

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Nordhesse

November 22, 2021

In 1952, a total of 471 families were forced to leave their home in the border districts of Gadebusch, Grevesmühlen and Hagenow. In 1961 the SED leadership organized a second wave of resettlement. "This affected another 616 people in the three border districts," says Dr. Andreas Wagner from Grenzhus Schlagsdorf. The forced resettlements in the GDR border area were painful turning points. More than 11,000 people fell victim to them. They had not been judged to be politically reliable.
The wounds and scars left by a 40-year border not only include the dead from the wall and barbed wire, but also forced evictions and razed villages - source: svz.de/13904707 © 2021
Shortly before the resettlement, some residents of Lenschow embarked on the daring escape by swimming through the Wakenitz with children and little belongings and fleeing to the west.

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Location: Lüdersdorf, Northwest Mecklenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

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