Berlin

Discover abandoned places, hidden monuments and untold stories in the capital of Germany, Berlin.

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Hardly anything remains of the Brommy Bridge over the Spree today. In 1945, the bridge was blown up by the German army to prevent the Red Army's advance.

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Hugo Hartung's cast-iron columns

Hartung columns or 'Hartungsche Säule' may be a familiar name in Berlin, but outside the German capital, their name mostly raises questions. What does the name Hartung stand for?

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The Grieving Parents in Vladslo

German soldier Peter Kollwitz was not yet 18 years old when he was killed on 23 October 1914 while attempting to cross the Yser near Diksmuide.

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The cradle of Elektropolis Berlin

The banks of the Spree in Berlin's Oberschöneweide district were overrun at the end of the nineteenth century by workshops that mainly focused on the electronics industry.

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A break with the past

With the construction of a turbine factory for AEG in Berlin, architect Peter Behrens did away with the battlements, brick facades and turrets that had characterized industrial architecture until then.

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Spreepark: When a Fairy Tale Turns Into a Nightmare

The Spreepark amusement park has been gathering dust since 2001. To avoid bankruptcy, the owner moved some attractions to Peru to start with a clean slate. In vain, as it now appears.

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Looking for traces of the Berlin Wall

In the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall cut the city in half over 43 kilometers. Another 112 kilometers of wall separated West Berlin from the communist part of the city.

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Secret listening station in Berlin

It is quiet at the top of the Teufelsberg, an artificial hill just outside the center of Berlin. Silent as a mouse. That was a bit different during the Cold War.

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Threatened railway sheds in Berlin

At the end of the nineteenth century, the Stettiner Bahn trains were coming and going at the freight station Pankow-Heinersdorf. Freight wagons from the northern port of Stettin were loaded and unloaded there, but in 1997, the station closed.

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Olympic Stadium Berlin

In 1936, just before the Second World War broke out, Germany organized the Summer Olympics in Berlin.

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Six blast furnaces you can visit today

In the early nineteenth century, the industrial revolution swept across continental Europe and one steelworks after another rose from the ground. Europe had hundreds of blast furnaces, but since the mid-twentieth century, Europe's steel industry has been slowly going downhill.

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