At the east side of Berlin, behind the grand Soviet-style boulevards and ornamental facades, many facilities built during the GDR are now getting old – and not always with dignity. Around the discarded stadium and the adjacent abandoned buildings there was lot to see for wasteland enthusiast like me, but I would not recommend to […]Read Post ›
Just step out of the modern-day S-Bahn, and suddenly you see hundred years crumble away. At the north-east corner of Berlin, near a major rail crossing, there is an old roundhouse, and actually an entire locomotive depot, or Bahnbetriebswerk, as the Germans put it. It’s been abandoned for years, and it boasts many shattered flashbacks from […]Read Post ›
It was midday when I got to an abandoned hospital at the outskirts of Berlin, and therefore the main street running by it was full of traffic. So instead of sneaking through the fence at the front I decided to take a detour via the forest. Little did I know that the entire complex is nowadays […]Read Post ›
The last days of Prora are at hand – meaning its last days as ruins. The (in)famous holiday resort built by Third Reich to the shore of Rügen island is renovated into apartments and hotel as we speak, and on the other end of the building there has been a youth hostel for few years. […]Read Post ›
As I’m fond of swimming, abandoned swimming hall seemed to me the most tragic idea when I heard that such a place lies just on the outskirts of central Berlin. But because I had never seen a ruined swimming pool, I had to step in, although I sensed it was no Baden-Baden. Berlin is an […]Read Post ›
For many people the German town of Beelitz, some 50 kilometers southwest from Berlin, is known for its tasty asparagus. But for those who have a flair for abandoned places & wastelands, it has altogether other attractions. The forlorn sanatorium & later a military hospital near the town is a real cult place in the […]Read Post ›
I should really name this series “A Treatise on Broken Windows” as they were the first and the last thing that mesmerized me in the modern wasteland at the outskirts of Eberswalde, a medium-sized historic city some 60 kilometres from Berlin. The first building I came across was like a row of broken vitrines presenting […]Read Post ›
It was like stepping into another world – just like Alice did. And in many ways Spreepark was an universe of its own, complete with extinct species, talking objects and of course mad tea-party. In southeast corner of Berlin, on the edge of Treptower Park and just by the river Spree, there is – or […]Read Post ›
Wasteland 