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The inner German border: Converted control tower at Duderstadt/Worbis border crossing [8/26]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

July 1 1990
Duderstadt (Lower Saxony)/Worbis (Erfurt district, now Thuringia) border crossing
Created By: Bernd Schmidt

License: Creative Commons License

A converted control tower at the inner German border crossing, Duderstadt/Worbis, which only admitted tourist traffic to the GDR and not transit travel to Berlin. In the 1980s, East Gemany used steles to mark its territory at border crossings.

Depicts

advertisement, inner German border, kiosk, street, watchtower

Context

hope

Places

Duderstadt/Worbis border crossing

Text in image

Müpik / Grenz-Snak [2x]

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Original Caption

"A restaurant and hotel establishment were being constructed right by the side of the road. This is what the advert alludes to. At the time, there was talk about whether a motorway junction would follow - but nothing came of it. For me, this construction was indicative of hastily anticipated dreams for the future, but with a bitter aftertaste."