After a good sleep in and a great breakfast that we all enjoyed with our families, we met in the town Moedlareuth. There we visited the Deutsch-Deutsch Museum which is no ordinary museum as we soon realised.
Moedlareuth is divided by a small creek, this creek was also the boundary between Franken and Thueringen. After WWII in 1952 a wall was erected along the border of the “Laender” eg through the middle of this small town. The wall was first a wooden fence and was later replaced with a concrete wall. The town was therefore also called little Berlin. It was in December 1989, one month after the fall of the Berlin wall that the border crossing in Moedlareuth was opened. In a reconstruction, the open-air space shows how the border area to East Germany was divided up into an exclusion zone and a protective strip and demonstrates the interaction of the various border installations and the “open border” on the West German side as it was before 1989. It is just so hard to visualise how life must have been, but this exhibition brought it most definitely much closer to us.
We went on to a very beautiful Fattigsmuehle after that for lunch. Sitting outside enjoying a good meal and sunshine made the setting just perfect.
Reluctantly we moved on to be amazed with another exciting exhibition at the Porzellanikon. Were we learnt how Porcelain has been and is currently produced. Here in Selb they used to produce the famous Rosenthal porcelain. They showed us the different techniques for creating plates, cups and hollow objects like a sugar bowl or similar. We also had a chance to look at an art exposition of students working with porcelain. Some very interesting ideas were on display.
Dinner was at the local Italian Restaurant. We had a chance to catch up with all our hosts for a last time, and say our goodbyes as we had to move on the next day.
Thanks to both Hof Rotary Clubs for such a great time! Written by FF
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