in

• Prep

  1. [with dative] in, inside, within, at (inside a building)
  2. [with dative] in (pertaining to)
  3. [with dative] in, at, by (at the end of or during a period of time)
  4. [with accusative] into, to (going inside (of))

• Contraction
• Adj

Richtung

1. direction
2. route or way
3. departure

Westen

1. west
2. The area of Western Germany, i.e. those territories which were never part of the GDR.

wurden

first/third-person plural preterite of werden

und

• Conj

  1. and
  2. (colloquial) links two nouns, often a person and an activity, in rhetoric questions to express an opposition between them

• Intj

der

• Article

  the

• Pron
• Pron
• Pron
• Pron

einst

1. once, formerly (during some period in the past)
2. one time, at one point (sometime in the future)

geschlossen

• Verb

  past participle of schließen

• Adj