Aerial photography documentation The Green Belt 1995

Aerial view of the former inner-German border between Carlsgrün, Bad Steben market town, Hof district in Bavaria, and Schlegel, Rosenthal am Rennsteig, Saale-Orla district in Thuringia, taken on May 22, 1995.   

The former border between the FRG and the GDR runs through the landscape here as a clear line between Carlsgrün in Upper Franconia and Schlegel in Thuringia. Along large sections of this 1,400 km long border, it has been possible to preserve the former death strip, in which many plant and animal species were able to survive, as the "Green Belt Germany" nature reserve. 

(Hoch über Bayern, page 151)