Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 8 hours ago

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The German town of Ostritz is served by the Polish railway station Krzewina Zgorzelecka, a station that is only accessible to German passenger trains. How did this happen?

Chapters:
00:00 Krzewina Zgorzelecka for Ostritz
00:54 Slavs, Germans, farmers and nuns
02:36 The railway
03:26 A new border
05:11 Krzewina
05:44 Economic decline
06:41 How to get there


Music:

"Animal"
by Max Surla / Media Right Productions
YouTube Audio Library

"Pienso Viento"
by Casa Rosa
YouTube Audio Library

"Style Funk" and "Hot Swing"
by Kevin MacLeod incompetech.com
Creative Commons Attribution licence


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