Burned bridge
The Burned Bridge is a road connection that crosses the state border between Thuringia and Bavaria on the boundary between the Sonneberg district of Hönbach and the Neustadt district of Ebersdorf .
According to records from 1162, there was a stick dam or a small bridge in the swampy area. The built-in wood was charred or burned to improve its durability. The bridge is said to have been the negotiating place of a bridge court until the 14th century , which was then replaced by the central court in Neustadt.
Between 1945 and 1949 there was a border crossing between the American zone of occupation in Bavaria and the Soviet zone of occupation in Thuringia at the Branded Bridge. After the founding of the GDR , the burned bridge on the Sonneberg side was located in the 500 m restricted area from 1952 to November 9, 1989 . The road over the burned bridge from Sonneberg to Neustadt bei Coburg remained open for goods traffic until 1953, with VEB Kraftverkehr Sonneberg mainly using this border crossing. The inner-German border was opened here on November 12, 1989, and on July 1, 1990, Peter-Michael Diestel and Wolfgang Schäuble signed the contract on the abolition of border controls at the inner-German border. During the 1990s, the cities of Sonneberg and Neustadt an der burned Brücke began developing the industrial park of the same name on both sides of the shared city limits.
literature
- Thomas Schwämmlein: District of Sonneberg. (Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Thuringia 1.) E. Reinhold Verlag, Altenburg 2005, p. 477.
- Thomas Schwämmlein: The burned bridge between Hönbach and Neustadt near Coburg . In: Coburger Geschichtsblätter , annual volume, 20th year 2012, ISSN 0947-0336 , pp. 5–8.
- Edith Sheffer: Burned Bridge. How East and West Germans made the Iron Curtain, Oxford University Press, 2011
Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 28.7 " N , 11 ° 8 ′ 43.8" E