Automobilwerk Eisenach - Closure After Reunification

Closure After Reunification

The German reunification of October 1990 meant the end for AWE, as it could not compete with modern methods of production and the Treuhand agency closed it in April 1991. A good number of the employees found work in the newly created Opel factory, opened in Eisenach in 1992.

While most of the factory has been demolished, one part (Building O2) has been preserved to house the Automobilbaumuseum Eisenach (Eisenach Car Museum).