Museum für Grenzgänger (Museum for border crossers)
A political border has cut through the Grabfeld for centuries. In the 19th and 20th centuries, it separated the Bavarian part from Saxony and later from Thuringia. After 1945, this quite open border became the almost insurmountable "zone border". In a former border information centre, the museum devotes two floors to life on and with this border, divided into the time before 1945 with close neighbourly relations and a common dialect and economic area, and the time from 1945 to 1989, when border crossings were often life-threatening. Based on the experiences of individual persons - "border crossers" - who crossed the border in their professional or private lives, individual topics are dealt with, such as monetary transactions in the 19th century, cross-border trade, smuggling, republican flight and also the emergence of new economic relations at the end of the 20th century.
Last edited on 18.12.2025
