Exercise and teaching limit at Römhild
The former training and teaching border of the GDR border troops is located southeast of Römhild , at the foot of the Gleichberge . It is likely to have originated in the course of NCO training on the Gleichbergen in the 1960s. The training and teaching limit was used to train GDR border soldiers in daily border service. So that the activities and training courses could not be observed and clarified from the west, exercise and teaching boundaries were often set up a few kilometers in the interior of the GDR at exposed points in the area. The practice and teaching limit at Römhild was placed under state monument protection as a ground monument of the Free State of Thuringia in 2009 . The village of Römhild is located directly on the route of the Adventure Road of German Unity .
History of origin
After the political change in the GDR , the border installations were no longer of any importance. The GDR border troops were then disbanded with effect from September 30, 1990. The exercise and teaching boundaries that were in the inland of the GDR were not expressly cleared in the following period and were often forgotten. Following information from the population and as part of their monument research carried out on the inner-German border, the Elke, Andreas and Manuel Erhard family rediscovered the practice and teaching limit on the Gleichbergen in 2007.
Specifically, it is a GDR border pillar , an earth bunker made of concrete parts with widely ramified trenches , a part of the vehicle barrier (covered with concrete slabs) and security and defense positions. In the area there are still remnants of the border reporting network and various tripping hazards. All border relicts are built up in the course of a simulated border (edge of the forest as assumed actual border line). Distinctive boundary stones of the forest survey were integrated.
The exercise and teaching limit extends to approx. 300 meters assumed limit line. In the 1960s and 1970s it was likely to have extended to a significantly longer stretch of terrain. The Thuringian Forest is the owner of the forest. The German Board of Trustees for the Promotion of Science, Education and Culture is responsible for the care of the monuments
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 50 ° 23 ′ 3.7 ″ N , 10 ° 33 ′ 23.9 ″ E