Böseckendorf
Sign in to saveBöseckendorf () is a village in the Teistungen municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Germany. It became famous during the Cold War for two mass escapes in 1961 and 1963 involving a total of 65 inhabitants – a quarter of the village's population – across the heavily fortified inner German border.
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- Ortsteil
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Teistungen
- Population
- 252
- Elevation
- 224
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Image
- Boeseckendorf.jpg
- Dialing code
- 036071
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- Böseckendorf
- postal code
- 37339
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Böseckendorf () is a village in the Teistungen municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Germany. It became famous during the Cold War for two mass escapes in 1961 and 1963 involving a total of 65 inhabitants – a quarter of the village's population – across the heavily fortified inner German border.
The village is first recorded in a deed of about 1250 of Count Ulrich von Regenstein for the monastery of Kloster Beuren. The entire village became a monastic settlement in 1431, after which the villagers were required to pay tithes to support the monastery. Its monastic ties were abolished in 1809.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Böseckendorf” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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