22. The tiny village of Mödlareuth am Tannbach had its own mini Berlin Wall dividing it in half
Like Berlin, the unsuspecting village of Mödlareuth am Tannbach found itself divided by a wall separating East and West Germany. When the Allies divided Germany into occupation zones in 1949, the boundary between the GDR’s Thuringia and the West’s Bavaria ran straight through tiny Mödlareuth. Incredibly, rather than move the border slightly, the GDR built a great wall to keep its Mödlareuth citizens from Bavaria. The Americans nicknamed Mödlareuth ‘Little Berlin‘ as a result. Mödlareuth became a tourist attraction for West Germans wishing to see such a ridiculous monument to the GDR’s tyrannical rule.
