As you may know, Hof is very near the Check border and in former days it was very near the East Germany border as well. Not too far away is a tiny town called Moedlareuth that was right on this border and the East German government decided to put the infamous wall right through the middle of the village. People who had relatives on the other side of town could not visit nor even wave to them. Border guards, guard dogs (German shepherds of course) and mine fields guarded the border. Today, being P Day, we took the two Hof Elders with us to this town which now houses an interesting museum about the border. See www.museum-moedlareuth.de for some pictures if you can't read German. We met a group of high school students on a week long tour from Orem Utah there. Small world!
 |
| Elder Holbein in one of the watch towers |
 |
| A portion of the wall still standing |
 |
| A view of the tiny town. This part was on the East. |
 |
| Elders Holbein, Anderson and Montgomery coming from the museum. |
After that visit we went to the former Branch Presidents house to retrieve the extra key for the Elders who had locked themselves out of their apartment (see Key adventures) and then we took them out to eat at a German Gastatte built in the 1700's. There are a lot of these old restaurants about usually offering schnitzel and Klosse (sticky potato balls). I guess I have now been here long enough that I actually enjoy these occasionally.
No comments:
Post a Comment