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Mödlareuth: At Mödlareuth border crossing [3/4]

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December 1989
Mödlareuth (Bavaria/Karl-Marx-Stadt district, now Thuringia) border crossing
Created By: Gerhard Puchta

License: Not Creative Commons

Open border crossing in the divided village of Mödlareuth (Wikipedia article, retrieved on June 11, 2009)
that was known as 'Little Berlin': The Inner German border ran right through the center of the small village of approx. 50 inhabitants and in 1966 GDR border troops erected a concrete wall there similar to the Berlin Wall. A border crossing for foot traffic was opened on 9 December 1989.

Depicts

group of people, inner German border, warning sign, winter

Places

Mödlareuth, Mödlareuth (East)/Mödlareuth (West) border crossing

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Grenzübergang / für Fußgänger / Mödlareuth / täglich / geöffnet / 8°° - 22°° Uhr

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