Transport – Abandoned Berlin

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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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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Jüterbog

Spudnik — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 13:12:25 +0000

Jüterbog and its military camps played host to soldiers’ charades, men playing with guns, for around 130 years before the last ones left in 1994.

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Siemensbahn

Spudnik — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 21:21:00 +0000

No trains have trundled the Siemensbahn railway line since 1980, not since it was abandoned due to a strike, dwindling passengers and an upstart U-Bahn.

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Flugplatz Oranienburg

Spudnik — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 11:21:44 +0000

Flugplatz Oranienburg served in the summer of 1944 as a test center for the legendary Horten Ho IX, the world’s first “stealth” bomber.

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Liesenbrücken

Spudnik — Sun, 14 Feb 2021 21:48:57 +0000

The Liesenbrücken, fine industrial iron bridges built by the Prussian state railway operator, have been abandoned for almost 70 years.

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Tegel Airport

Spudnik — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 21:31:16 +0000

Tegel Airport (TXL), was formerly Germany’s fourth busiest airport with more than 24 million passengers in 2019. Abandoned Nov. 8, 2020.

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Flugplatz Johannisthal

Spudnik — Fri, 29 May 2020 16:23:00 +0000

One of the world’s first motor airfields when it opened in 1909. People used to flock to Flugplatz Johannisthal to see marvelous metal machines with wings actually fly.

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Güterbahnhof Pankow

Spudnik — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 14:59:00 +0000

Former railroad yard in Pankow with two train turntables that used to handle up to 1,800 freight cars a day. Now it handles none. But that's progress.

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