Soviet Airfield LT

It was afternoon when Freddy from Nordgriller Urbex and I arrived at the final location of our short tour through the Northeast of Germany back in November of 2016. The former airfield that was built more than 80 years ago was located near the autobahn, so it was a pretty convenient stop before starting our way home.
We parked the car by the side of a nearby road and walked the rest of the way.
The afternoon sun and the beginning sunset made for a fantastic light as we walked up to the hangars, and the cold day made the grass crackle beneath our shoes. It was a really unique atmosphere; the air was crisp and the beautiful light emphasized the way nature has been reclaiming this place for the past twenty years.
Parts of the old airfield have been reused by some local industry, so the area does not have its original size anymore. After about two hours, we had checked out most of the remains and walked back to the car watching the final rays of daylight as we drove off.


To find out more about the history of this creepy place and to check out all the photos, click the button below.

Frozen Walls - The Abandoned Railyard (Part 2)

The pictures in the last post are obviously from the enginehouse and from the turntable.
Here are the photos from the other buildings we entered.
It was the workshop and the administration building.
From what we found, part of one of the buildings had been used as rehearsal rooms for various local bands and as a recording studio.
The rest of the buildings are what is left of the workshop and some offices.

What was really unique about these buildings was the temperature drop after entering. It was a really sunny day with spring-like temperatures outside, but once we entered the buildings, it was way below zero degrees centigrade. The walls were icy and our breath made little clouds in the dark rooms.
The reason for this was that most of the windows were boarded shut and there hadn't been any sunlight in the rooms for a very long time, so the cold from the week before was still there and made for a nice winter feeling in the dark.

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Sunset Glory - The Abandoned Railyard

Although I'm not yet done with the tour through the nuclear shelter, I wanted to share with you the second location we visited this sunday.
It's an old railyard and we only went there because we still had some time and thought it'd be nice to check out.

The city in which this railyard is located was connected to the railroad in 1844, when Christian VIII, the King of Denmark opened a rail line through the northern part of Germany.
A small coach house was all that had been built at this particular station at the time.
At the turn of the century, the city got a big railyard with two turntables, two 22-track enginehouses and a workshop as well as an administrative and a social building.

In World War II, these facilities were almost completely destroyed. In 1945, only one of the enginhouses was rebuilt - although with about 80 steam locomotives there were still as many in service as before and during the war.
At that time, tehe were around 3.000 railmen employed in the city.
Structural changes during the 1960s made this railroad area lose its relevance for the German railroad. The 22-track enginehouse was partly torn down and reduced to include only 6 tracks and closed down for good in 1988.

After that, the enginehouse was used by the regional "Friends of the Railroad" as a museum until a year-long legal battle over the continuation of the lease lead to the final closure of the area in 2010.

Since then, teenagers, copper thieves and vandals have had their share of the buildings.
But the weather was great, so I managed to get a couple of decent shots.

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Sky over Kiel

Fall is coming.
In Kiel, you can literally feel that. And you can see it: