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[[Image:Grenzlandring.png|thumb|200px|Map of the current Grenzlandring]]
[[Image:Grenzlandring2012-PlaceOf1952Accident.jpg|thumb|200px|The Grenzlandring, pictured in 2012 from the spot of the 1952 accident, with the new memorial stone set up 60 years after Niedermayr's crash]]

The '''Grenzlandring''' ("border-region ring"), sometimes written ''Grenzland-Ring'', was a high-speed oval [[race track]] in the [[Lower Rhine]] area of [[Germany]], around the town of [[Wegberg]] and close to [[Mönchengladbach]] and the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] town of [[Roermond]].

The concrete ring was secretly constructed in 1938-1939 as a "strategically important" supply route for construction of Nazi Germany's ''[[Westwall]]'' fortifications, at total cost of about 3.3 million [[German reichsmark|''Reichsmark'']].((citation needed|date=August 2018))  As a military project, it was not shown on road maps. After minor use early in World War II, the ring was disused, but survived the war largely intact.

Immediately after the war, parts of the ring were used by U.S. and British military units. In 1947, the Grenzlandring, also known as the ''Wegbergring'' or ''Wegberg-Ring'', was locally "rediscovered" when Carl Marcus, mayor of nearby [[Rheydt]], drove one night along what seemed to be a more or less straight country road. When he passed a bicycle rider more than once, he suddenly realized that the road was in fact circular. 

Beginning in the late 1940s, the ring was used for auto and motorcycle racing. The all-time lap record was set in September 1949 by [[Bavaria]]n [[Georg Meier|Georg "Schorsch" Meier]] on a supercharged [[BMW]] 500 motorbike at ((convert|216|km/h|mph|abbr=on)), and  in September 1951 [[Toni Ulmen]] set the all-time record for cars, driving his [[Veritas_(automobile)|Veritas]] 2000 RS to ((convert|212|km/h|mph|abbr=on)).((citation needed|date=August 2018))

On August 31, 1952, for reasons never completely explained, Berliner [[Helmut Niedermayr]] crashed his [[Formula Two]] Reif/Veritas-Meteor at the exit of the ''Roermonder Kurve'' at nearly ((convert|200|km/h|mph|abbr=on)),((citation needed|date=August 2018)), killing 13 spectators<ref>[https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?apm=0&aid=wku&datum=19520902&seite=1&query=%2213+Tote+durch+das+Rennungl%C3%BCck+auf+dem+Grenzlandring%22 13 Tote durch das Rennunglück auf dem Grenzlandring] [13 dead in the racing accident on the Grenzlandring], Wiener Kurier, 2 September 1952 (in German), via [[Anno (Austrian Newspapers Online)|Anno]]</ref> and injuring another 42.((citation needed|date=August 2018)) Although the actual event was not stopped to avert panic in the crowds, racing was subsequently banned from the ring by the government, after a total of five competitions attended by an estimated 300,000 people.((citation needed|date=August 2018))

Subsequently, a southern section of the road was removed, while the remaining portion was asphalted for local traffic.

==See also==
((Commons category))
*[[List of motor racing tracks]]
*[[Superspeedway]]

==References==
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== External links ==
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* http://www.forix.com/8w/6thgear/grenzlandring.html
* http://www.grenzlandring.de/ 
* https://web.archive.org/web/20051101233858/http://www.landkartenarchiv.de/rennstrecken_grenzland.htm 
* http://www.oldtimer.de/aktuelles/Grenzland/Grenzlandring_Revival.htm
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071007063625/http://www.statesecrets.co.uk/who/index-m.shtml Dr. Carl Marcus, the MI6 asset codenamed 'Dictionary']

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[[Category:Defunct motorsport venues in Germany]]
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[[Category:1952 disasters in Europe]]
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