East Germany checked out right before the Stasi could check in. Their hotel was never completed. Now it's just a great hulking ruin between the trees.
Spreepark is but a shell of what it once was. The city’s plans to refurbish the old fun park involve removing anything that might be fun.
The rollercoaster story of East Germany's only full-time fun park, later called Spreepark, abandoned and left to rot with its dinosaurs in 2001.
1933-1945, Nazis
/ 1945-1990, Divided Berlin
/ Airfields
/ DDR
/ German military
/ Military
/ Pre-1933, Before Nazis
/ Soviet military
/ Transport
Jüterbog
February 18, 2022
The SS Bakery only went bust when the Nazis did. They forced prisoners from nearby Sachsenhausen to make bread to keep other concentration camps going.
Perhaps the weirdest of Berlin’s buildings, abandoned or not, is the hideously attractive Bierpinsel in Steglitz. It sticks out like a walrus in a tutu.
1933-1945, Nazis
/ 1945-1990, Divided Berlin
/ Airfields
/ DDR
/ German military
/ Military
/ Soviet military
/ Transport
Flugplatz Oranienburg
April 7, 2021
The 1920s Delphi silent film theater was reborn as the Moka Efti club in the Babylon Berlin television series, but now it's silent once more.
1945-1990, Divided Berlin
/ DDR
/ Industrial
/ Pre-1933, Before Nazis
/ Transport
/ Uncategorized
/ West Berlin
Liesenbrücken
February 14, 2021
The Hygiene Institute is a brutalist architectural marvel. Its twisted forms allude to the work carried out inside the research facility.
1945-1990, Divided Berlin
/ 1990-today, Reunification
/ Airfields
/ Brutalist architecture
/ Transport
/ US, French or British military
/ West Berlin
Tegel Airport
November 9, 2020
The Stasi spy station Quelle 1 in Rhinow tapped fiber cable going from West Berlin 250km across the DDR to enemy state West Germany. Sneaky.
1933-1945, Nazis
/ 1945-1990, Divided Berlin
/ DDR
/ Industrial
/ Officialdom
/ Pre-1933, Before Nazis
Garbáty Zigarettenfabrik
August 18, 2020
The Schöneberg Gasometer looms 78 meters over the Röte Insel neighborhood, daring intrepid explorers to hike seven levels of steep spindly steps to the top.
The "mouse bunker" animal-testing facility squats beside the Teltow Canal like a monstrous brutalist toad-tank, long blue turrets pointing every direction.
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