Do these monuments ring a bell with you? You might recognise the locations of films and series such as Doctor Who, Babylon Berlin, and Dark.
Coal mines as filming locations
Several coal mines served as film sets after their closure. The underground tunnels of the South Welsh mine Rhondda Heritage Park were the setting for Doctor Who's episode The Doctor's Daughter.
The French coal mine of Wallers-Arenberg narrowly escaped demolition as Emile Zola' s book Germinal was filmed there. Actor Gérard Depardieu, among others, took the role of a miner there.
The Ottiliaeschacht in Clausthal-Zellerfeld is the oldest surviving metal shaft buck in Europe and was featured in the 2014 film The Monuments Men.
Abandoned factories
The Monuments Men also descended on the monumental Chemiewerk Rüdersdorf. The concrete silos were also the backdrop for the second episode of the fifth season of the series Homeland. The factory there serves as a refugee camp on the Lebanese-Syrian border that Carrie visits.
You will recognise the Behrensbau in Berlin and certainly the paternoster lifts, which are used, among other things, in the series Babylon Berlin.
Stations, railways and bridges
The former Fresnes railway station building in France was one of the filming locations for the television series Germinal, to be broadcast on France 2 in 2021.
Scenes from the German Netflix series Dark were shot along the tracks of Berlin's forgotten Friedhofsbahn.
