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. 🐗 www.abandonedberlin.com

The Mouse Bunker in Berlin, a brutalist behemoth with long blue turrets sticking out like guns to keep away any unwanted intruders. They used to do tests and experiments on animals here, so they didn’t want anyone interrupting their fun.
Two young women in summer clothes, one of them with a a bicycle, outside the abandoned Fischerpinte reading about why it’s been closed.
A flea market stand with four beautiful t-shirts on hangers hanging in the back drop and some books on a table. There is a person behind the table talking to a young customer who clearly doesn’t have any money and is just fishing for freebies.
An abandoned factory in the throes of being redeveloped for some nefarious purposes. Another one bites the dust.
A snow-covered path flanked by trees and bushes to a forlorn-looking chapel among trees.
An East German Trabant in front of a boarded-up derelict building that used to be the Iraqi embassy to East Germany.
Derelict cabins among somber-looking trees.
The Aldente restaurant with windows covered by paper in turn covered by graffiti.
A long brutalist concrete building with all its windows smashed bathed in a summery light.
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.”
The former entrance to a former brewery, abandoned on April Fool’s Day 1994. What were they thinking?
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.
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.
An abandoned plattenbau building with no hint of Christmas decorations or any festive charm. It has its own morbid charm.
A derelict graffiti-covered squat red-brick building with a long thin chimney reaching for the grey sky behind.
A mural by American artist Pat Perry showing the imagined release of GuantĂĄnamo 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.
The abandoned LiesenbrĂźcken bridges with railway tracks beside them, teasing them, for they used to carry trains themselves in the good old days.
street art on a wall of a bearded man with glasses hugging a woman, a child perhaps, wearing a head covering.
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.
A leaf-strewn path flanked by a couple of tall trees leading toward a fancy looking building with a pretentious tower in the middle.
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.
An “Abandon Berlin” sticker, consisting of a boar over a Palestinian flag, stuck on a lamppost outside a relic from DDR times.
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.
A small abandoned electronics store with the window on the door smashed, presumably by an irate customer who couldn’t believe they were closed again. But they’ve been closed for years now. It’s a shame. Everyone goes to the same huge shops to buy all their electronic stuff and the little guys’ stores are left to rot. It’s progress.
A boar, namely the Abandoned Berlin boar, cleverly disguised as a red-nosed reindeer to wish you all a merry Christmas.
A rusty old bridge (with another behind) glistening in the sunshine after a December shower. The sky is a strange (for Berlin) blueish color, kinda familiar as if from another world, or life, who knows.
Two boars, cleverly disguised as Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, jumping for joy at the thought of getting Abandoned Berlin goodies for Christmas.