Borderland Museum Eichsfeld

The museum exhibitions are situated in a complex of buildings at a former border crossing point near Göttingen and Kassel in the Eichsfeld region.

The Eichsfeld region and many families who lived here were separated by the British and the Soviet zone, and from 1949 onwards by the two German states.

As early as the 1950s and '60s, the Eichsfeld region was the site of mass expulsions from the border area and dramatic escape attempts from East to West Germany.

What started as a demarcation line turned into a heavily guarded border with barbed wire fences, minefields and observation towers.

Further topics include the organization of state and society in communist East Germany and the role of the Stasi as well as the Peaceful Revolution and the border opening in 1989.

Borderland Museum Eichsfeld in Thuringia, Germany.
Border crossing point Duderstadt-Worbis. After the German reunification, the Borderland Museum Eichsfeld was opened in these buildings in 1995.
The Hall of Mirrors at the Borderland Museum Eichsfeld shows pictures and short films of borders around the world.
An insight into the permanent exhibition of the Borderland Museum Eichsfeld.
Observation tower of the GDR border troops and part of the original fence.