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History: The first time this old grand castle got mentioned in history was all the way back in medieval times. During this time, this castle was in the hands of a wealthy royal family. There were even multiple wars fought over the land surrounding this castle. In the 1600s the castle was hit...

History: Located on the countryside somewhere in Eastern Germany lays this former rather grand building. With the Neo-classical architecture it is in fact not really fitting for the traditional looking village. In 1898 this village was thriving on the production of beer, it was in fact a quite...

History: Located on the countryside somewhere in Eastern Germany lays this former rather grand building. With the Neo-classical architecture it is in fact not really fitting for the traditional looking village. In 1898 this village was thriving on the production of beer, it was in fact a quite...

Russian Nuclear bunker at Vogelsang

An abandoned beacon in the baltic sea. There are two of it. One 1000m and the other one in 4000m distance from the runway. Ther were used to enlarge the range of the runway ...so the pilots could navigate easier to the short runway. Build and used by the NVA. The army of the former GDR... (DDR).

Hi there, today I want to show you some shots of an lost Hotel. Locatet in the former GDR, it was an luxury Object in the GDR-Times. After that it continued as an upper class Hotel with a very good reputation. Now it´s closed since this year and empty, waiting to be torn apart. Well...

This Hospitalcomplex was used as an hospital for the government and the secret Police (STASI) in the former GDR. I have no historical facts right now, will deliver them later.

I'm posting some old stuff from 2010, a briquette factory in eastern Germany. I'm no longer that happy with the processing, it's a bit HDR-heavy, but at the same time too lazy to re-edit those.... ;O) #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 A bit more here...

About an hour or so above Berlin in the middle of nowhere (local population about 30) stands this Soviet Base that once held nuclear warheads that were ready to be pointed westwards! In 1959 the warheads were stored in bunkers while the missiles themselves were in large hangers nearby. They...

Construction at this 7,000 hectare site began in 1951 (one of the few complexes purpose-built by the Russians) before the garrison became home to around 18,000 soldiers and civilians, tanks, anti-aircraft missiles, tactical missiles and nuclear missiles. Soldiers carried out manoeuvres at...

About an hour or so above Berlin in the middle of nowhere (local population about 30!) stands this Soviet Base that once held nuclear warheads that were ready to be pointed westwards! In 1959 the warheads were stored in bunkers while the missiles themselves were in large hangers nearby. They...

A former Military complex built in 1934 as part of the German rearmament programme and later officially named Adolf Hitler Lager. At the end of the Second World War due to its location the complex ended up in the hands of the Soviet occupation forces, who turned the camp into a displaced person...

Sadly there is very little information that I can find regarding this hospital. It is on the edge of one of the biggest bases in the Former GDR and was abandoned in the early 1990's after the reunification of Germany and when the Soviet army left the country. It appears to have been built in...