Wartha is a town in the subdivision of Wartha-Göringen which forms part of the independent-city district of

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state,

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. Near Wartha was a former major road border crossing on the Inner German border between East and West Germany. The crossing was known as

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-Wartha, with

being the first town across the border in

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Neighboring municipalities and cities

To the west of Wartha is the Hessian town

. To the north and the east are the towns of Neuenhof and Hörschel while Göringen in the south.

Gallery

File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-75963-0001, Grenzkontrollpunkt Wartha, Kontrolle.jpg, Wartha checkpoint in 1960. File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1989-1110-038, Grenzübergang Wartha, Stau.jpg, Long queues of cars waiting to cross the Wartha border crossing into West Germany on 10 November 1989, a day after the fall of the Berlin Wall. File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1990-0924-421, Eisenach, Abriß Grenzkontrollstelle.jpg, Demolished East German boundary pillar. File:Ddr-visastempel002.jpg, An East German visa with a stamp from Wartha from the 1970s. File:Ddr wartha.jpg, East German passport stamp from Wartha.

External links

www.eisenach.de
- Official website of the Wartburg Eisenach {{Authority control Towns in Thuringia Inner German border Eisenach