DDR – Abandoned Berlin

Kraftwerk Vogelsang

Spudnik — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 09:48:53 +0000

Kraftwerk Vogelsang is a powerless power plant. People gave their lives building it and fighting over it. Now that they’re gone, nobody wants it at all.

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Wünsdorf

Spudnik — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 21:47:00 +0000

Wünsdorf was the Soviet military forces' HQ in Germany, Little Moscow, the Forbidden City. The Nazis used it before that for their underground army HQ.

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Zambian Embassy

Spudnik — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 22:12:52 +0000

Berlin’s “lion on the loose” has holed up at the abandoned Zambian embassy. She’s seeking asylum from the CDU. AB got an exclusive interview.

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Niederlehme TSL 44

Spudnik — Mon, 01 May 2023 14:22:49 +0000

Niederlehme's Treib- und Schmierstofflager 44, aka TSL 44, was a former oil and fuel storage facility used by Nazi Germany, then East Germany’s armed forces.

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Vogelsang

Spudnik — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 12:32:00 +0000

Vogelsang still clings to its nuclear secrets. One sneaky deployment of bad weapons was so damned secret it was even kept from the Soviet soldiers involved.

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Rheinsberg nuclear plant

Spudnik — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 19:23:00 +0000

Inside the belly of the beast. Refuse from East Germany’s first nuclear plant will continue to cast a threat long after the DDR itself was shut down.

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Iraqi embassy

Spudnik — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 12:03:00 +0000

They must have just left the Iraqi Embassy to the DDR with no notice. “We’re leaving. Pack your bags and get out!” The party at Saddam's house was over.

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Flugplatz Schönwalde

Spudnik — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 21:49:00 +0000

Germany's Luftwaffe used Flugplatz Schönwalde for the war. The Soviets took over afterward and left their traces after abandoning the airfield in 1992.

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Delphi silent film theater

Spudnik — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 12:05:11 +0000

The 1920s Delphi silent film theater was reborn as the Moka Efti club in the Babylon Berlin television series, then it was silent once more.

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Spreepark!

Spudnik — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 11:32:06 +0000

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.

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