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Exhibition theme: The Border Opens: Celebrating the abolition of border controls [54/87]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

July 1 1990
Hönbach (Suhl district, now Thüringen)/Neustadt bei Coburg (Bavaria) (Gebrannte Brücke) border crossing
Created By: Heinz Bischoff

License: Creative Commons License

"Gebrannte Brücke, between Hönbach in Sonneberg and Neustadt bei Coburg, lies on the border between Thuringia and Bavaria. Here, on 1 July 1990, the agreement on the abolishment of border control along the inner German border was signed." (Retrieved and translated from Wikipedia: Gebrannte Brücke, on May 18, 2009)

Depicts

age, celebration, crowd, German flag

Context

inner German border

Places

Gebrannte Brücke, Hönbach, Hönbach/Neustadt bei Coburg (Gebrannte Brücke) border crossing, Neustadt bei Coburg

Other items in this set

Almost everyone knows to this day where he or she was on 9 November 1989. The joy at being suddenly granted the freedom to travel, also to West Germany, was immense. Each time a new border crossing was opened, people celebrated. In the same way, the removal of segments of the Wall and of border fence, as well as the reconstruction of roads between East and West became important events. Countless photographs and films taken in Berlin and at the inner-German border document these incidents as they occurred – thus preserving the good fortune of experiencing everything live for the family album.