Sachsen-Anhalt
Until 1989, the five-hundred-meter-wide GDR border split the German Harz Mountains in half.
Borders
Discover Europe's most fascinating border landmarks, where history, culture, and geography intersect.
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Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
The German-German border, the 1,378-kilometer-long border that cut straight through Germany during the Cold War, was part of the Iron Curtain.
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
You should not only be in Berlin for some of the finest abandoned watchtowers and barriers. The border zone also left its mark in the most northwestern city of the former GDR, Dassow, Germany.
Sachsen-Anhalt
In the German municipality of Hötensleben, a 350-meter wall remains, a remnant of the kilometre-long border that sealed off the GDR from West Germany.
Belgium
Germany
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Coal trains, military transports and steam locomotives across the High Fens have made way for cyclists on the historic Vennbahn—a report of the route between the German city Aachen and Waismes, in Belgium.
Aachen
Where the Vennbahn cuts through Lammersdorf, Germany, you collide with a row of concrete dragon's teeth.
Berlin
The Berlin Wall has still not revealed all its secrets: only in 2018 were two forgotten sections of the Wall (re)discovered.
Berlin
Close to Potsdamer Platz, a first-generation watchtower hides among the skyscrapers.
Aachen
In the run-up to the Second World War, Adolf Hitler ordered the construction of a defense line in the west of the country, the so-called West Wall. You will still find hundreds of meters of tank barriers in Aachen, Germany.
Aachen
In 1938, the Organization Todt, the construction company of the German Third Reich, began constructing the West Wall (or Siegfried Line), a German defence line from the Netherlands to the Swiss border.
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