DDR

Examples of abandoned or forgotten sites and buildings in or around Berlin that are left over from the time of the DDR (East Germany).

Flugzeughallen

Flugzeughallen

Brash airplanes used to roar in and out of Fliegerstation Berlin-Friedrichsfelde’s Flugzeughallen in days after the land had been used for testing airships.

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Luna-Lager bunker

Luna-Lager bunker

A wartime bunker is all that’s left of the former Luna-Lager labor camp at Schönholzer Heide, now a grassy, pretty wild and pleasant 35-hectare park.

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Funkhaus Grünau

Funkhaus Grünau

Look for the ghosts of Soviet DJs and find raccoons. Expect the unexpected and you’ll find it, just not the unexpected you expected at Funkhaus Grünau.

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The Berlin Wall’s escape

The Berlin Wall’s escape

It was a “small sensation” to find 80 meters of the original Berlin Wall among a bunch of secretive trees that imagined they could keep it hidden forever.

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Kraftfuttermischwerk

Kraftfuttermischwerk

Kraftfuttermischwerk Fürstenberg was a fodder factory fabricating fine futter for farm folk’s flocks. Before that it was a mill for all folk and flocks.

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Trabiwerkstatt

Trabiwerkstatt

An old garage from DDR times, maybe even before, was home to several old cars in varying states of decay, including a Trabi prototype from before 1959.

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Olympic village

Olympic village

The Olympic Games used to be the toast of the world. Berlin’s Olympics in 1936 were the most captivating games of all, albeit for all the wrong reasons.

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Kaiser’s supermarket

Kaiser’s supermarket

Shelves are cleared, tills and aisles empty. Even the shelves, tills and aisles are gone. There literally isn’t a sausage of the abandoned Kaiser’s left.

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MS Dr. Ingrid Wengler

MS Dr. Ingrid Wengler

Bureaucracy is to blame, literally, for the grounding of this ship of the Spree river. The MS Dr. Ingrid Wengler is named after its owner’s true love.

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Heilstätte Grabowsee

Heilstätte Grabowsee

Lurking in the shadows of the forest, Heilstätte Grabowsee creaks and groans through the gloom, sighing with echoes of the past as it sinks into decay.

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Flugplatz Rangsdorf

Flugplatz Rangsdorf

Flugplatz Rangsdorf was the airfield from which Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg flew off with a bomb for Hitler as part of the unsuccessful July 20 plot.

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Böhmisches Brauhaus

Böhmisches Brauhaus

The saddest brewery in the world was right here in Berlin. At one stage, the Böhmisches Brauhaus in Friedrichshain just wanted to be put out of its misery.

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