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    SBS Oberriedener Werra bridge

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    Bilder aus dem Grenzlandmuseum Sickendorf

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    Germany
    Hesse
    Oberrieden
    in the Werra Meißner district, northeast of the town
    Werra
    Railway, railway line Göttingen – Bebra
    Truss bridge
    Steel
    1875, 1945 gesprengt, 1947 - 1949
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    <br>Whisky-vodka line<br>Since 1866, borders in the region were insignificant. That changed in 1945 with the Division of Germany into occupation zones. Just east of the station at Oak Mountain, the British, American and Soviet occupation zone bordered each other. This railway line was split. Göttingen – Friedland was British Eichenberg and Oberrieden Bebra, American, about four kilometers to Werleshausen Soviet.<br>The Wanfried Agreement agreed to relax this situation, 1945 an exchange of territory:<br><br>"To conclude of the successful arrangement which sealed the fate of the seven villages in question, General Sexton and General Askalepov, presented to each other with a bottle of whisky and vodka. It was this story of the gift exchange of whisky and vodka, which named the newly established border between the garrison zones, the whisky-vodka line, up to the present day."<br><br>With the new, mockingly "whisky vodka-line called boundary was the line continuously in the area of the Western allies, and thus completely on the territory of the later Federal Republic. Oak Mountain to bad Sooden-Allendorf was however within sight of the Eastern guard towers. All of Oak Mountain (Halle-Kassel railway) and Eschwege town (cannon railway, several branch lines) fell the limit to the victims after route leading East.