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Robur , ein unternehmen in der Euroregion Dreilaendereck - a huge business given the kiss of death by Richard von Weizsäcker

Optimistic sign from 1991 (?) showing Zittau at the heart of, well , nowhere really. Perhaps this was the sign to greet Bundespraesident Richard von Weizsaecker on his visit to Zittau on 18 December 1990. Express trains in Polant used to end up at Bogatynia in the polish part of the Dreilaendereck. A small Robur firm exists still making spare parts, but the truck making firm folded in 1991, shortly after the president's visit, the victim of the new economics of a united Germany which found little use for the excellent if a little strange products of the Zittau factory.

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Uploaded on January 13, 2009
Taken on January 13, 2009