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O.k., now a full bunch of DDR-specialities for rjluna2 
After that "Ostalgie Kantine" we drove to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmstedt–Marienborn_border_crossing which is nowadays a national memorial.
From the observation tower I've made these pics:
incl. a zoom-pic for our US-car-freaks. I cannot identify it, maybe a Plymouth Roadrunner or annother MOPAR-product?
A lot of buildings and technical facilities were demolished in the past, but the control- and switch panel for the lighting of the whole DDR-side of the border crossing point still exists, also in the control tower:
About the lighing-system there the guide told a a lot of details. It was so powerful, that the engery could supply a little town with 20.000 inhabitants (note: the DDR had always energy problems, also with the electric power). And all lights were so positioned, that not the tiniest edge of the whole area was laying in the shadow.
On the backside I've found a dismantled lighting pole -from the big ones- and have thought "Hey, rjluna2 will like that"
See it on the bottom left:
After that "Ostalgie Kantine" we drove to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmstedt–Marienborn_border_crossing which is nowadays a national memorial.
From the observation tower I've made these pics:
incl. a zoom-pic for our US-car-freaks. I cannot identify it, maybe a Plymouth Roadrunner or annother MOPAR-product?
A lot of buildings and technical facilities were demolished in the past, but the control- and switch panel for the lighting of the whole DDR-side of the border crossing point still exists, also in the control tower:
About the lighing-system there the guide told a a lot of details. It was so powerful, that the engery could supply a little town with 20.000 inhabitants (note: the DDR had always energy problems, also with the electric power). And all lights were so positioned, that not the tiniest edge of the whole area was laying in the shadow.
On the backside I've found a dismantled lighting pole -from the big ones- and have thought "Hey, rjluna2 will like that"
See it on the bottom left:
