The Fulda Gap, an area between the Hesse-Thuringian border and Frankfurt am Main, contains two corridors of lowlands through which tanks might have driven in a surprise attack by the Soviets and their Warsaw Pact allies to gain crossing of the Rhine River.

Why is there a Fulda Gap?

The Fulda Gap is the informal name for what was once the Inner German border, a series of lowlands punctuated by open spaces between the hills, named after the nearby town of — you guessed it — Fulda (although we wouldn't put it passed the Germans to have a town called 'Gap'), itself close to the spring of the Fulda ...

Where is the Fulda Gap?

LOCATED IN GERMANY, between the cities of Leipzig and Frankfurt, and oriented along the Fulda River, the Fulda Gap is a name given to a mobility corridor oriented on a line that runs from Leipzig toward Frankfurt.