germany

This was our final stop on what was a warm 4 days exploring the areas south of Berlin. Having failed at another Soviet bunker in the south, where it turned out we were looking about 500m in the wrong area for the entry, we decided to try a sure thing. After a nice walk through some lush german...

Visited on my whirlwind tour of older German and Soviet bases in the east. We spent a good 4-5 hours wandering the variety of buildings found throughout the walled site, as with all old Soviet bases it has been long stripped of neatly everything, but Jüterbog-Damm has some wonderful painted...

This was our first stop on a long weekend south of Berlin to mess around in the Juterbog area exploring the mass of old Soviet bases. Lynow is a small derelict soviet barrack block sitting on the edge of one of their training areas, Juterbog-Ost, and served as a base for the 132nd...

Another site from a long weekend in an area still littered with derelict German/Soviet bases. Somewhere I have always wanted to go and see, so glad I finally got to do it! Visiting in the summer meant a lot of pushing through lots of heavy undergrowth. It's quite tricky to find a comprehensive...

A small explore we did in November of last year on our short trip to Germany. It's just one building in a small-ish chemical plant, abandoned since well before 2000. I am not completely sure what the building did but it all points to detergent production. Looking at the control panels, paraffin...

I have been saying I will get over to East Germany to rummage around some old Soviet and NVA installations, and I finally made it! This was the first stop on a whirlwind tour of the classics, and not so classic, sites. Buried in the woods near to an old East German training establishment lies a...

Hohentwiel Castle, whose ruins are on top of Hohentwiel, was built in 914 using stone taken from the mountain by Burchard II, Duke of Swabia. Originally, the Monastery of St. Georg was within the fortress, but in 1005 it was moved to Stein am Rhein (now in Switzerland), and the Swabian dukes...

1. The History Can’t find any information of this place. This is not helped by the fact that I haven’t been able to find the name of the factory. It sits, partially demolished in the Mulheim district of Cologne and could possibly been part of the wider Klockner- Humboldt-Deutz (KHD) works. KHD...

This mine sits in a small valley in a region famous for its many ore mines. Spoil dumps can be seen quite often when driving or hiking the area. As a child I was even collecting some of the shiny and glittering rocks you could find in the rubble. Almost no big structures remain from this past...

A long-standing mill and bread factory that expanded multiple times over the course of its existence, resulting in machines and buildings from many different eras being found on site. Toward the end, it exclusively produced pre-rolls for the grocery discounter LIDL. The pressure and price...

The History: "KIW" stands for the perfectly normal German word "Kraftfahrzeuginstandhaltungswerk". Which translates to "motor vehicle maintenance plant". The roots of this site reach back to 1948. Shortly after the end of the second small disagreement, there was of course an enormous need for...

I learned about this one by a close friend that lived nearby as a child. The place is a former hoisting shaft of a clay mine back when they did underground mining. There were more than thirty in the area in the sixties. Nowadays, all the underground mining is replaced by open pit mining and all...

FRA 4123 (Fla-Raketenabteilung 4123) was stationed in a forest just outside of Klosterfelde in the north of Berlin. It was responsible for the air defense of Berlin and housed the S-75 air defence system. The whole site was abandoned after the reunification of Germany followed by intensive...

Deutsche Bahn Railway Works Deutsche Bahn abbreviated to DB is the national railway company of Germany, and a state-owned enterprise under the control of the German government. DB was founded after the merger between Deutsche Bundesbahn and the East German Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1994 after...

So life got crazy, I blinked and now the big europe trip is but 2 weeks away and Im frantically trying to prepare everything all while studying and reading up on abandoned sites, bunkers, catacombs etc... While having a couple of urbex maps the many many spots...is a bit overwhelming ... I'd...