to return to this page.The results of this research were based on detailed field work along the northern one-third of the former German-German border, from the Baltic Sea to Helmstedt on the Autobahn to Berlin.
Examine the remaining relic landscape along the former Iron Curtain
by either clicking on the numbers on the map or on the place names below:
- Travemünde and Pötenitz beach area
- Schwanheide railroad crossing
- Hitzacker on the westside of the Elbe
- Rüterberg village "republic" in Eastern Germany
- Schnackenburg on the westside of the Elbe
- Bergen-Salzwedel highway crossing
- Dahlendorf and Groninger forested area
- Wittengen forested area
- Zicherie and Böchwitz divided villages
Landscape
Memorials: Remembering the border
landscape
Read what life is like
10 years after the border opened.