Gedenkstatte Deutsche Teilung Marienborn

An Unexpected Treasure

I have been touring Northern Germany. Driving from Berlin to Hannover and came across the Marienborn Border Crossing which I must confess I have never heard of. It transpires that this was the main bo...

An Unexpected Treasure

I have been touring Northern Germany. Driving from Berlin to Hannover and came across the Marienborn Border Crossing which I must confess I have never heard of. It transpires that this was the main bo...

Doleful monument to Socialism

For the many not the few? As JFK might have said “Let them come to Marienborn”. Now located next to an autobahn service station just outside Magdeburg, this was a major East-West crossing point in t...

Doleful monument to Socialism

For the many not the few? As JFK might have said “Let them come to Marienborn”. Now located next to an autobahn service station just outside Magdeburg, this was a major East-West crossing point in t...

Touching experience

It made me just too emotional. I have visited many places related to dark side of European history - battle fields, concentration camps, war museums. It was always a moving experience. But it was alwa...