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Exhibition theme: The Border Opens: Opening ceremony for the new Tettau/Spechtsbrunn border crossing [78/87]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

November 24 1989
Tettau (Bavaria)/Spechtsbrunn (Suhl district, now Thuringia) border crossing
Created By: Grenzpolizeiinspektion Ludwigsstadt

License: Not Creative Commons

A crowd at the opening of the border crossing between Spechtsbrunn, a neighborhood of the town Oberland am Rennsteig (Thuringia) and Tettau (Bavaria) on 24 November 1989

Depicts

construction trailer, crowd, inner German border, opening of the border, poster

Places

Spechtsbrunn, Tettau, Tettau/Spechtsbrunn border crossing

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.