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Border fence in Heinersdorf

OBJECT INFORMATION

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November 18 1989
Between Welitsch (Bavaria) and Heinersdorf (Suhl district, now Thuringia)
Created By: Grenzpolizeiinspektion Ludwigsstadt

License: Creative Commons License

A border fence in Heinersdorf, a neighborhood of the town Judenbach in Thuringia, which was located in a restricted area 500 meters wide during the time of the separation. A new border crossing was opened here on 19 November 1989. See also: Wikipedia: Heinersdorf (Judenbach), retrieved 11 August 2009

Depicts

barbed wire fence, border strip, crowd, inner German border, nature

Places

Heinersdorf (Judenbach), Welitsch

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Original Caption

"Opening of the border at Welitsch-Heinersdorf, people on both sides of the Wall demanded the opening of the gate. The wall between Heinersdorf (Thuringia) and Welitsch (Bavaria) was one of only a few along the German-German border."