From 1865 until Reunification in 1920 a German customs office was located in the Parish of Spandet. Traces of German times can still be seen on buildings and graves.
From 1865-1873, the German customs office was situated in Hoemlund. Fjerstedt Zollkontrolle as it was called was housed in an inn, Spandet Kro on Skolevænge 3 from 1865-1873. The customs office was subsequently moved closer to the border, and in 1896 a new building was erected on Toftlundvej 86.
Many of the buildings in Spandet represent German architecture, and next to the village hall is a Reunification Stone.
In addition, several of the burial memorials in Spandet’s graveyard bear inscriptions in German.
When WWI broke out in 1914, the Smidt family from a local farm, Spandetgaard, came to feel the consequences thereof. Vilhelm Smidt (1842-1918) and Maren Smidt (1846-1907) had 10 children. The eldest son had been called up before the war; another three were called up later. Peder provoked an injury to his knee so that he was sent home. The youngest, Vilhelm, was sent to the Eastern Front, i.e. Poland and Russia. He came home, following the peace treaties in 1918, suffering from mental injuries.
The second youngest, Soeren, was killed at the front in France in 1915 and lies buried in Hartmannsweilerkopf in the Vosges, a range of mountains in eastern France.