Abandoned Berlin

La Pyramide

Spudnik — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 12:06:17 +0000

Among all of Abidjan’s skyscrapers, none tickles the heavens more than La Pyramide, Rinaldo Olivieri’s brutalist beauty.

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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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Underberg

Spudnik — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 21:14:58 +0000

Security was tight in the Underberg herbal rotgut distillery as they thought only five humans knew the secret recipe. Now the secret’s out.

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Tetra Pak

Spudnik — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 22:54:41 +0000

Glass milk bottles are rejoicing with schadenfreude after learning of Tetra Pak’s fate. The packaging giant abandoned its factory in Heiligensee in 2013.

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Blackland Rock & Metal Bar

Spudnik — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 22:33:25 +0000

The appropriately named Blackland Rock & Metal Bar has joined Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and Lemmy in the otherworld after going up in flames.

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Buzludzha!

Spudnik — Wed, 31 May 2023 13:01:00 +0000

A strange UFO perches on a mountaintop in deepest darkest Bulgaria. Buzludzha, the country’s former communist party HQ, has to be seen to be believed.

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Teufelsberg Tale

Spudnik — Tue, 16 May 2023 21:23:00 +0000

Lew McDaniel of West Virginia worked as a linguist at Teufelsberg, Field Station Berlin, from 1968-71. He tells Abandoned Berlin of life at the spy station.

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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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