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Ortsteil of Teistungen in Thuringia, Germany

Böseckendorf

Böseckendorf is a village in the Teistungen municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Germany.

Böseckendorf
Böseckendorf · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Böseckendorf is a village in the Teistungen municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Germany. It became famous during the Cold War for two mass escapes in 1961 and 1963 involving a total of 65 inhabitants – a quarter of the village's population – across the heavily fortified inner German border.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Böseckendorf

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Borderlandmuseum Eichsfeld

    The Borderland Museum Eichsfeld is a history museum located in Central Germany at the former inner-German border between East and West Germany. It deals with the Cold War in general and the German division in specific.

    1.3 km · museum in Germany · Wikipedia

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Getting to Böseckendorf

Airports
Kassel (KSF), 61 km · Erfurt-Weimar (ERF), 73 km · Paderborn Lippstadt (PAD), 115 km
  • Calden → Böseckendorf
    56 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · €9–12
  • Erfurt → Böseckendorf
    80 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · €11–15
  • Büren → Böseckendorf
    114 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · €16–23
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Böseckendorf

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Böseckendorf. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
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    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

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  2. 02
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    533 km
  3. 03
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    633 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    812 km
  5. 05
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 23 sources

    818 km

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