Exhibition

The Baltic Border Tower is a unique place where the history of the divided Germany can be experienced authentically. Decide to climb up to the top of the tower with the view over the wide horizon of the Baltic Sea which used to be the border. Or learn more from a historically guided tour with inspection of the tower about the techniques of the border surveillance. In the future there will be as well an enlightening exhibition around the tower, the "border teaching trail".

By that visitors from all parts of the world, children an young people, will be given the opportunity to experience border history where it happened. Apart from the tower, reports of witnesses of the time, of refugees and border soldiers as well as original exhibits will help to find information.

In 1990 the Baltic Border Tower was saved from demolition by the Border Tower Society and by residents of Kühlungsborn and it was maintained as a monument. At present and in the future the tower is being restored step by step and turned in to a meeting place. The Border Tower Society is compiling local archives and is glad about every contribution may it be information, documents or objects.

Restoration of a searchlight sponsored by the company Detholff & Lange, Neubukow.

Many refugees started their escape in Kühlungsborn, managed either to reach the West successfully, were picked up or lost their lives. Their fates, but also the daily consequences of the Baltic Sea border for the residents are placed in the foreground of interest.

Newspaper article: „Two young men of the GDR fled across the Baltic Sea to Schleswig-Holstein.Only the boat was left behind on the beach“ The refugee Jörn W. from Kühlungsborn fled 1987 starting from Pepelow . He placed the original escape boat, a tiny rubber dinghy, at the Society‘s disposal as an exhibit.