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Her photos are now the visual memory of a place that no longer exists. → grenzwandler.app/en/lost-place
September 24, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Her photos are now the visual memory of a place that no longer exists. → grenzwandler.app/en/lost-place
In English: At 15 or 16, Friedel Schäfer got a simple camera and began photographing her village — grandparents, neighbours' children, a watchtower, a border guard who played with them. A few years later Jahrsau was razed.
September 24, 2026 at 4:00 PM
In English: At 15 or 16, Friedel Schäfer got a simple camera and began photographing her village — grandparents, neighbours' children, a watchtower, a border guard who played with them. A few years later Jahrsau was razed.
Wenige Jahre später wurde Jahrsau geschleift. Ihre Fotos sind heute das visuelle Gedächtnis eines Ortes, der nicht mehr existiert. App + Scrolly: grenzwandler.app/wuestung
September 24, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Wenige Jahre später wurde Jahrsau geschleift. Ihre Fotos sind heute das visuelle Gedächtnis eines Ortes, der nicht mehr existiert. App + Scrolly: grenzwandler.app/wuestung
In English: Today the scrollytelling "Wüstung" goes live: a walk through the traces of a village razed over 50 years ago. Friedel Schäfer was its last resident; through her memory the place comes alive again. → grenzwandler.app/en/lost-place
September 20, 2026 at 4:00 PM
In English: Today the scrollytelling "Wüstung" goes live: a walk through the traces of a village razed over 50 years ago. Friedel Schäfer was its last resident; through her memory the place comes alive again. → grenzwandler.app/en/lost-place
App vor Ort + Scrollytelling ab heute online: grenzwandler.app/wuestung → Newsletter zum nächsten Tour-Release: grenzwandler.app
September 20, 2026 at 4:00 PM
App vor Ort + Scrollytelling ab heute online: grenzwandler.app/wuestung → Newsletter zum nächsten Tour-Release: grenzwandler.app
In English:----- “There were always children around.” Friedel Schäfer was born in Jahrsau in 1944 and was among its last residents. Her voice and photographs guide us through a place that is barely recognisable as a village today. → grenzwandler.app/en/jahrsau-2
September 14, 2026 at 4:00 PM
In English:----- “There were always children around.” Friedel Schäfer was born in Jahrsau in 1944 and was among its last residents. Her voice and photographs guide us through a place that is barely recognisable as a village today. → grenzwandler.app/en/jahrsau-2
September: grenzwandler.app/jahrsau -----
September 14, 2026 at 4:00 PM
September: grenzwandler.app/jahrsau -----
In English:
----- Four farms, a chapel and five houses. In 1946, 39 people lived in Jahrsau. Today, trees, foundations and scattered objects remain. “Wüstung” uses these traces and memories to reconstruct a village. → grenzwandler.app/en/jahrsau-2
September 7, 2026 at 4:00 PM
In English:
----- Four farms, a chapel and five houses. In 1946, 39 people lived in Jahrsau. Today, trees, foundations and scattered objects remain. “Wüstung” uses these traces and memories to reconstruct a village. → grenzwandler.app/en/jahrsau-2
September: grenzwandler.app/jahrsau -----
September 7, 2026 at 4:00 PM
September: grenzwandler.app/jahrsau -----
In English:
----- One place. Many traces. A military road from Napoleon’s time, a boundary stone from 1846, a successful escape in 1962, and today’s reconciliation meetings between East and West German border guards — a journey in eleven stages. → grenzwandler.app/en/abbenrode-2
August 18, 2026 at 6:00 AM
In English:
----- One place. Many traces. A military road from Napoleon’s time, a boundary stone from 1846, a successful escape in 1962, and today’s reconciliation meetings between East and West German border guards — a journey in eleven stages. → grenzwandler.app/en/abbenrode-2
In English:
----- Villa Bohlmann has disappeared. Digitally, it returns. Historical photographs were used to reconstruct the building as a scale 3D model, making a vanished site visible again. → grenzwandler.app/en/abbenrode-2
August 15, 2026 at 3:00 AM
In English:
----- Villa Bohlmann has disappeared. Digitally, it returns. Historical photographs were used to reconstruct the building as a scale 3D model, making a vanished site visible again. → grenzwandler.app/en/abbenrode-2
August: grenzwandler.app/abbenrode -----
August 15, 2026 at 3:00 AM
August: grenzwandler.app/abbenrode -----
In English:
----- “Two men arrived and said: you have 24 hours.” Ursula Breustedt was eight when her family was forced to leave Abbenrode. Their belongings were loaded onto freight wagons. They feared they were being taken to Siberia. → grenzwandler.app/en/abbenrode-2
August 12, 2026 at 3:00 AM
In English:
----- “Two men arrived and said: you have 24 hours.” Ursula Breustedt was eight when her family was forced to leave Abbenrode. Their belongings were loaded onto freight wagons. They feared they were being taken to Siberia. → grenzwandler.app/en/abbenrode-2
In English:----- “Everything beyond it was farther away than the moon.” Ernst-Heinrich Wietfeld grew up on the western side, in a village enclosed by the border. The fields only meters away remained unreachable. → grenzwandler.app/en/restricted-zone
August 5, 2026 at 4:00 PM
In English:----- “Everything beyond it was farther away than the moon.” Ernst-Heinrich Wietfeld grew up on the western side, in a village enclosed by the border. The fields only meters away remained unreachable. → grenzwandler.app/en/restricted-zone
App + Scrolly: grenzwandler.app/sperrgebiet -----
August 5, 2026 at 4:00 PM
App + Scrolly: grenzwandler.app/sperrgebiet -----
In English:----- Abbenrode does not tell just one story. A vanished villa, an old boundary stone, an escape through fog, a forced removal and a red telephone box form a documentary collage of several centuries. → grenzwandler.app/en/abbenrode-2
August 4, 2026 at 4:00 PM
In English:----- Abbenrode does not tell just one story. A vanished villa, an old boundary stone, an escape through fog, a forced removal and a red telephone box form a documentary collage of several centuries. → grenzwandler.app/en/abbenrode-2