Berlin
Umlauftank 2 (UT2) is a research facility of the Technical University of Berlin that tests ship hydrodynamics, among other things.
Berlin
The former freight stations of the Potsdamer and the Anhalter Bahn on the banks of the Landwehrkanal in Berlin were merged in 2011 and redesigned as a city park: the Park am Gleisdreieck. That does not mean that all railway heritage has been brushed away.
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.
Berlin
On the Stralau headland between the Spree and Rummelsburger See, in Germany's capital, Berlin, you'll find some impressive industrial heritage, established by the Jewish businessman Edmund Nathan in 1889: the ruins of the Stralau glass factory.
Berlin
The Zentralvieh- und Schlachthof on Storkower Straße is a textbook example of a repurposed VEB ruin. Pigs, cows and sheep have been slaughtered here since the sixteenth century.
Berlin
Electric street lighting, arc lamps, neon lights,... In 1932, the German capital Berlin was the best-lighted city on earth, according to Mildred Adams, correspondent at The New York Times.
Berlin
In the Reichsbahnausbesserungswerk(RAW) train workshop in Berlin, more than 2,000 employees repaired freight and passenger wagons.
Berlin
A stone's throw from the Anhalter Bahn freight station in the German capital, Berlin, construction of a new cold storage warehouse began in 1900.
Berlin
Until the middle of the twentieth century, loaded freight wagons rolled by at the Tempelhof railway yard, the boiling steam from locomotives spewed in all directions and smoked like burned coal. The mile-long railway yard was built in 1889 and expanded like crazy.
Berlin
On the former GDR border between West and East Berlin, you will find the forgotten remains of the wastewater treatment plant of a disappeared textile factory.
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