35 years of the fall of the Berlin Wall: Helmstedt celebrates freedom with poetry slam and lake development

35 years of the fall of the Berlin Wall: Helmstedt celebrates freedom with poetry slam and lake development

Helmstedt, Deutschland - The wall fell on November 9, 1989, and in Helmstedt this historic moment was recognized with a solemn commemoration. Lower Saxony's Prime Minister Stephan Weil and Saxony-Anhalt's Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff met to honor the courage and civil courage of the people in the GDR, which led to the opening of the border. "People in the Federal Republic and the GDR kept together under the most difficult conditions," emphasized Weil. Haseloff added: "In the end, the courage triumphed, the self -empowerment and the will to freedom of the people about the dictatorship." These words echoed through the former border town, which was once a symbol of the division.

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The association festival took place at the picturesque Lappwaldsee, an artificial body of water that has been developed into a tourist attraction for almost two decades. The region plans to enrich the former opencast mine with a variety of water sports, but the completion could still take up to ten years. In addition, the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall was celebrated with an impressive poetry slam, in which Slammer from East and West presented their stories and poems under the motto "Four Limit Freedom". This event was organized by various institutions, including the Memorial Deutsche Division Marienborn and the HELMSTEDT zone border museum.

November 9, 1989 remains a striking date in German history, which not only symbolizes the fall of the Berlin Wall, but also the opening of the borders between east and west. The memories of the Monday demos and the mass omits that forced the GDR regime to its knees are still alive. History is kept alive in Helmstedt, and the celebrations show how important it is to preserve the teachings from the past.