Then it gets a little trickier. Most of the walls and fences around the area have barbed wire without any gap. So if you made the mistake i made and wore some half decent cloths they will get ripped and dirty.

If you want to tackle the razor wires then youll find a lot of people actually living there. Lots of garbage, every corner is a toilet. Make shift tents and some angry people.

Didn’t feel very safe and got out of there pretty quick.

Still a very interesting place but has lost its appeal from a few years ago.

As there is still some light left in the day im just on my way to the ehemal flugfeld johannisthal. Will write a report up on that site after I’m done

Happy hunting 😉

Original Eastberliner born and raised in DDR speaking here:
This is NOT Kreuzberg! It is in district Mitte, which was DDR! And yes, of course parts south of Spree were part of the DDR aka Soviet Sektor. Examples: Mitte, Treptow, Schöneweide, Grünau.
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And I’m serious when I say that it’s not Kreuzberg and it still isn’t Kreuzberg. The confusion for non-Berliners and abroaders just started to happen when the senate chose to make shit confusing believing it would be easier for “Ämter” (Jobcenter, Bürgeramt, etc) and their bureaucracy to include some eastern districts into western ones depending on “north, south, east, west” etc, like putting them into “blocks” to have it easier to keep account of citizens. But this is just for bureaucracy, nothing more nothing less, in reality they all remain the same districts.