Military – 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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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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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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Tempelhof

Spudnik — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 21:59:00 +0000

West Berlin's lifeline during the Soviet Blockade, Tempelhof Airport has since become the city’s biggest park. Berliners will fight to keep it that way.

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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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Teufelsberg

Spudnik — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 11:34:00 +0000

The abandoned NSA Field Station from the frontline of the Cold War, used to spy on Soviet-controlled East Germany on the other side of the Berlin Wall.

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Flugplatz Brand

Spudnik — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 17:11:00 +0000

Flugplatz Brand was strategically important for the Soviet Air Force. Thankfully its battalions of flying fighters remained on ice for the duration of the Cold War.

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Stasi Hotel

Spudnik — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 09:07:04 +0000

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.

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