Construction work before border opening

Info

November 21 - 27 1989
Allerbrücke, between Oebisfelde (Magdeburg district, now Saxony-Anhalt) and Velpke (Lower Saxony)
Created By: Archiv Oebisfelder Heimatverein e.V.

License: Not Creative Commons

Construction work before the opening of the border between Oebisfelde (Saxony-Anhalt) and Büstedt (Lower Saxony). On 26 November Aller Bridge was reopened to road traffic, becoming the road connection between both towns; the border wall in the background

Depicts

border guard, border wall, boundary post (GDR), bridge, group of people, inner German border, man, snow, tool, workers

Places

Oebisfelde-Weferlingen, Oebisfelde/Velpke border crossing, Velpke

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