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globetrott Says: "work for peace and socialism" is the scynical motto of my main picture and it is printed at a poster made in order to motivate the soldiers who had to do their duty at the border. It was these same people, who were told to work for peace, who had to kill everyone, who tried...
globetrott Says: step inside and take a closer look at these interesting aircrafts. Just before the fall of the iron curtain it was a severe crime, when you came that close to an aircraft of the DDR, nowadays you may even take your photographs inside the helicopters and nobody cares...
strange vehicles of the cold war
globetrott Says: A lot fo interesting vehicles dating back to the times of the cold war between East and West, between West-Germany and DDR are peacfully shown next to each other in the museum of "Schifflergrund" and even when you are not very familiar or interested in that kind of...
globetrott Says: While the Grenzland-museum of Asbach is mostly just set togeather by several different exhibits from other places, you may still walk along the original iron curtain of Asbach with a total length of 1500 meters nowadays and you may see how all of it was constructed:Coming...
Selbstschussanlage / Minenanlage SM-70
globetrott Says: Selbstschussanlage / Minenanlage SM-70 was the most terrible weapon at the iron curtain : as soon as anybody touched one of the wires, he was automatically shot by hundreds of small bullets. Finally the government of DDR was forced by the UNO and plenty of states worldwide...
the observation-bunkers along the iron curtain
globetrott Says: There were observation-bunkers along the iron curtain at all points where you could watch all activities going on and you could never be sure, if someone was inside of them or not. The bunkers were made of concrete with just a small iron door and a hight of not even 1,60...
special boots for the successful escape
globetrott Says: Take a look at my main picture and see how a clever man was able to escape the iron curtain : he fixed a special ski-binding to his boots that had hooks in order to be able to climb up the strong iron fence that you may see on my other pictures. Of course the fence was...
globetrott Says: In Asbach inside the museum you may see also this tracktor, whose driver had the clever idea to use the very moment, when he had some construction-works to do at the iron fence and in a quiet moment, when nobody watched him he could place the shovel of the truck over the...
globetrott Says: In the Grenzland-museum of Asbach you may see how the Iron Cutrain was constructed in a clever and perfide way : First of all there are several iron fences and the last iron fence was not built directely at the border line, but in a distance of about 10-50 meters from it and...
Grenzland - restaurant: easy, cheap and simple
globetrott Says: Grenzland - restaurant is not the right name of that small kiosk that serves also simple meals, coffee, cakes and drinks outside of the area of the museum "Schifflergrund" . Prices are low and you may get served at the table or get your meal at the counter and serve...
get to Asbach by train or by car
globetrott Says: Click on my link below and see how easy you may get to Asbach by car or by train : Bad Sooden-Allendorf is the next train-station, in a distance of about 4 km from the museum and when you arrive by car you simply take street #27 to Bad Sooden-Allendorf and follow the...
Point Alpha, another DDR-museum rather closeby
globetrott Says: POINT ALPHA is a small place about 55km south of Asbach, and there you will find another very interesting museum-area about the iron curtain during the times of DDR & West-germany. Untill 1989 the US-Forces had a watchtower and an army-camp directely at the DDR-border and...
Klausenhof - just 9 km from Asbach
globetrott Says: Klausenhof in Hanstein is a really interesting historic sight by itself : an old restaurant and inn, beautifully decorated and partly rebuilt in the old style so you really have the feeling to be back in the 17th century or even before that time. The restaurant has also a...
Ruine Hanstein - just 9 km from Asbach
globetrott Says: Hanstein castle ruins Ruine Hanstein is an interesting castle, in a distance of just 9 km from Asbach and during the times of DDR it was used as a place to spy out West-Germany from the towers of the castle.Hanstein dates back the the medeval times and nowadays the...
Grenzmuseum "Schifflersgrund" in Asbach
globetrott Says: Grenzmuseum "Schifflersgrund" in Asbach is partly the original iron curtain and partly a museum about cars, machineries and helicopters that were used by DDR-troops and allied forces. The original parts are the remains of the iron walls and the concrete-tower that you may...
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In the Grenzland-museum of Asbach you may see how the Iron Cutrain was constructed in a clever and perfide way : First of all there are several iron fences and...
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remains of the iron curtain of D.D.R
The Grenzland-museum in Asbach is an interesting place to look back into the recent history of a devided Germany...
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