The bike was displayed with his jersey and a nice photo, showing him in a natty eagle-and-swastika (!) outfit.
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Walking up the stairs, we went by a mid-1930s Derny track pacing bicycle and then past a very nice green Wanderer racing bicycle that was used by Bruno Roth to win the German pro road championships in 1935. He reflected with amusement on the seasonal sufferings of visitors and then left us to ourselves. He also mentioned that the museum, which is on the top floor of a long building, was not heated and in summer had no air-conditioning. But he happily enough took us back outside to the museum and unlocked the door for us, telling us we could also tour the art gallery if we wanted. I bought some postcards but we had to invent a price as he had no clue. He still seemed nonplussed that we were there to see the museum but he sold us our 3 Euro tickets. We found the store without much effort, passing a big sign on the road advertising the Wünsdorf Radmuseum, and met our interlocutor. He told us to come into the bookstore to get our tickets. He confirmed that it was in fact open and also helpfully warned us about a police speed trap on the outskirts of town. We had called first to make sure that the museum would be open on this ice-cold Friday and the man answering the telephone had seemed astonished that we wanted to visit. The bike racing museum is above the gallery Above the art gallery there is a sign made from an old bicycle fork and we figured this was where the bike museum should be. It is categorized as a “Bücherstadt,” or “Book City,” such as the much more famous Hay-on-Wye in England, but it also refers to itself as a “Bunkerstadt.” There is what appears to be an unsuccessful restaurant seeking new management and a small art gallery and village centre, along with some souvenirs. It offers tours of sections of the huge old bunkers, along with a great number of used books. With the departure of the troops and nothing much in the way of industry or agriculture, Zossen-Wünsdorf looked to new ways to survive. Subsequently efforts have been made to renovate the old military buildings and many have been turned into very attractive housing developments. After World War II’s end the town housed up to 70,000 Soviet troops, who departed in 1994, leaving a bit of a shambles behind. It was not always so sleepy as Zossen, and particularly the area that is Wünsdorf, was once the command centre for the Wehrmacht, with massive bunkers and its most modern telephone communications system. A colleague in Berlin sent me an article about a museum near the capital that covered some aspects of this and on a recent weekend I persuaded relatives to take me to the Radsport-Museum Wünsdorf.Īround 30 kms south of Berlin’s shortly-to-be-inaugurated international airport in the state of Brandenburg is the small and sleepy town of Zossen, which was consolidated from a number of villages in 2003. The division of Germany post-1945 meant that those behind the Iron Curtain would end up with races and heroes and stories quite different from those in the West.
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