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Abandoned Berlin
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If it's verboten it's got to be fun. Tall tales of trespass and anecdotes of fear. Non-fiction. 🐗
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For anyone not on Instagram or Pixelfed, some photos from Pionierlager Klim Woroschilow, where East German kids used to spend summers before the country went bust. 



There are more here: www.abandonedberlin.com/photos/ddr-s...
Derelict cabins among somber-looking trees. An East German mural depicting a happy scene kids bearing flags from different countries and doves for peace. If only. A cabin lurking in the background half hidden by trees and fog. A bush or some plant with a cabin in the background.
August 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Abandoned Italian restaurant, Schönhauser Allee 🇮🇹🍕🍝
The Aldente restaurant with windows covered by paper in turn covered by graffiti. A sign at the restaurant where someone has scribbled “sin city blues.” An offering of pasta dishes from the menu at the restaurant, sadly no longer available. An outside shot of the Aldente restaurant pizzeria.
August 24, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Sporthotel Hohenschönhausen. Still abandoned despite all the plans.

#Sporthotel #DDR #Berlin
A long brutalist concrete building with all its windows smashed bathed in a summery light.
August 16, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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From Instagram, a story of someone tagging AB to say they’d removed a pro-Palestinian sticker, and my response to say such stickers don’t survive long in Berlin because they’re offensive to people who support ethnic cleansing.
But I don’t think Instagram is showing the story. It’s also complicit.
Instagram user saying they’d removed one of the Abandoned Berlin pro-Palestinian stickers, and AB’s response saying: “Pro-Palestinian stickers don't stay up for long in Berlin. They're offensive to people who support ethnic cleansing and the erasure of Palestinian life. But it exists. Deal with it.”
July 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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MS Dr. Ingrid Wengler, abandoned on the Spree since October 1996.

For more on this story, including how the ship ran aground on Berlin’s bureaucracy, see:
www.abandonedberlin.com/stories/boat

#abandonedberlin #bureaucracy #boat #msdringridwengler #spree #berlin
April 12, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Bärenquell Brauerei was abandoned on April Fool’s Day, 1994 - no joke.

I didn’t post these yesterday because no one would have believed me.

#Bärenquell #brewery #beer #DDR #abandonedberlin
The former entrance to a former brewery, abandoned on April Fool’s Day 1994. What were they thinking? Inside an abandoned brewery after several parties too many. Everything is pretty smashed. No bodies though, they must have been eaten. Street art of a pig in a police uniform. In Germany the police are known as “bulls” rather than “pigs” but they say it’s a land of equal opportunity. It’s not. Discarded beer bottle labels bearing the old Bärenquell logo, which actually features a bear, so it’s bearing on more ways than one. Bärenquell means “spring of bears” so I guess we shouldn’t be surprised.
April 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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A photo of curtains in a window from a place I haven’t written about yet that I’m posting here to give myself a kick up the arse to finally write about it. There’s video too. It’s a special place. I’m going to do my best to have a post on it soon.

#abandonedberlin
Curtains to the left of a shabby window reflected gently in the glass with a shot of yellow outside complementing brown bushes and giving an otherwise somber scene a sense of optimism.
March 29, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Abandoned Berlin has formally left Twitter. More than 10,000 followers but people need to take a stand. That platform should be banned for election interference, disinformation, the spread of hate,
and for its role in destabilizing society.

Die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar.
February 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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And if you find it’s full – lots of people have been committing war crimes and crimes against humanity this year – you have the abandoned Zambian embassy just around the corner.

#diplomaticimmunity🎄
A stately looking home nine windows wide with big tall ceilings and a red-brick middle. Two of the windows are burned out after an apparent fire.
December 24, 2024 at 5:04 PM
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Christmas Eve at the abandoned Iraqi embassy to East Germany.

In case anyone needs diplomatic immunity over the festive season.
An abandoned plattenbau building with no hint of Christmas decorations or any festive charm. It has its own morbid charm.
December 24, 2024 at 4:45 PM
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The Eisfabrik (ice factory) on Köpernicker Straße, February 2014.
A derelict graffiti-covered squat red-brick building with a long thin chimney reaching for the grey sky behind.
December 17, 2024 at 11:06 AM
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Mystery solved! (Thanks openbiblio.social/@celephais)

Mural by American artist Pat Perry in 2014 of the imagined release of Shaker Aamer after years of unjust captivity in Guantánamo: www.instagram.com/p/pdAjgMGa2l/

Aamer wasn't released for another 16 months: www.theguardian.com/world/2015/o...
A mural by American artist Pat Perry showing the imagined release of Guantánamo captive Shaker Aamer, a large bearded man wearing glasses, hugging a woman wearing a headdress. Aamer remained in captivity while Perry was painting this in 2014 and was only released in October 2015, despite being cleared for release in 2007. He was incarcerated for 14 years altogether. He was never charged with a crime.
December 16, 2024 at 8:34 PM
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Liesenbrücken on a cold and wet December day 🌧️
The abandoned Liesenbrücken bridges with railway tracks beside them, teasing them, for they used to carry trains themselves in the good old days.
December 15, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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Hugs from Bernau. This is from the Soviet Panzer Kaserne, formerly administration buildings for the Nazis’ Heeresbekleidungsamt, where they used to make uniforms for the German army.

#abandonedberlin #bernau #hugs
street art on a wall of a bearded man with glasses hugging a woman, a child perhaps, wearing a head covering.
December 6, 2024 at 10:29 PM
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Berlin's answer to the Nazca lines. You can only really see Flugplatz Rangsdorf's runways from the air.

www.abandonedberlin.com/photos/flugp...

#AbandonedBerlin #FlugplatzRangsdorf
An aerial view of the ruined Flugplatz Rangsdorf showing its runways laid out like fat little fingers looking for attention. You can't see them properly from the ground. Flugplatz Rangsdorf is the airfield from which Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg flew off with a bomb for Hitler as part of the ultimately unsuccessful July 20 plot.
November 28, 2024 at 10:50 AM
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Schloß Dammsmühle today.

You’ll find more info and photos here: www.abandonedberlin.com/photos/schlo...

#abandonedberlin #schlossdammsmuehle
A leaf-strewn path flanked by a couple of tall trees leading toward a fancy looking building with a pretentious tower in the middle. A view of Schloß Dammsmühle, a house pretending to be a castle, on the other side of a still lake with the whole scene framed by branches from frees with golden autumn leaves with a little bench waiting invitingly in the middle for someone to come and rest their weary bones. Another view of Schloß Dammsmühle across a still lake with the bright blue sky and some white clouds reflected on the mirror-like surface of the lake. The Schloß is reflected in the middle, appearing upside down in the late, while the clouds of course are fine. Clouds look like same whether they’re upside down or downside up.
November 17, 2024 at 10:49 PM
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Fresh photos from the Zombie Hospital 🍂

I’ll put these and more on the site later, along with updated guidance on how to get in. It’s easier than it used to be.

#abandonedberlin #zombiehospital 🧟
November 9, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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Liesenbrücken on a fine autumn day today 🍂

Winter photos: www.abandonedberlin.com/photos/liesenbruecken ❄️
October 20, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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Analog pictures of the Banana Bunker 🍌
October 12, 2024 at 7:07 PM
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It’s the Berlin Wall’s birthday.

Its parents thought it would last forever, and for many years it seemed that way, but everything is temporary, everything. Never lose hope.

This part was “lost” for years after Mauerfall, then miraculously found, now it seems to be “lost” again.
August 13, 2024 at 2:26 PM
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Abandoned Kaugummiautomat.
An abandoned chewing gum and sweets and little toys and other stuff you can get in plastic balls machine, which is basically now just an empty box on a wall.
July 12, 2024 at 7:31 PM
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Pankow tourist office. #infobox
June 9, 2024 at 7:11 PM
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The stickers have arrived from the printers.
Here’s one protesting outside the former Jugendhochschule der FDJ at Bogensee.
An “Abandon Berlin” sticker, consisting of a boar over a Palestinian flag, stuck on a lamppost outside a relic from DDR times.
May 28, 2024 at 1:20 PM
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Statement on Germany’s response to seven months of hell in Gaza.

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May 18, 2024 at 10:09 AM
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The ICC. It’s 10 days since it was 10 years abandoned 🎉

#AbandonedBerlin #ICC #Abiversary
The International Congress Center and Funkturm radio tower beside it as seen from the other side of a wet road during a rare break in rainfall, Berlin, April 19, 2024.
April 19, 2024 at 4:32 PM