Tour Report: Peenemünde Power Station

This decommissioned power plant on the island of Usedom is not an abandoned place. It is a museum. The power plant was built to supply the nearby oxygen factory with enough electricity to produce the fuel for Germany's A4 (V2) rockets. It is the last remaining complete building of the Peenemünde testing facilities and conveys the industrial character of work within the armaments projects. The entire building is designed as a freely accessible monument.

On a beautiful day in June 2020, we drove to the island together with a friend who does not partake in the hobby of urban exploration, but does have a historical interest. In the way, we made a short stop at the ruin of the oxygen factory, only to find out that it wasn't accessible anymore. It would have been nice to have another look at it, but this way, we got to the museum pretty shortly after it opened that day.

A short path leads from the parking lot to the power plant site. Among other things, a V1 (flying bomb) and a V2 are on display on the forecourt. You can also take a look at a few wagons from the former factory railroad.

Upon entering the museum, we were almost completely alone in the huge halls of the old power station, which was a blessing, because I could take photos using a tripod without people walking around in the scene. We took the opportunity and explored every accessible area of the main building before exiting again and checking out the technical building.

As the museum was populated by more and more visitors, we took some time to look at the exhibits in the outdoor area before walking over to the harbor to check out the old Juliet-Class Soviet submarine.

This was a really nice day with sunny skies, warm weather and - contrary to most of our other explorations - without the risk of getting caught by security.

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Power Station V.

After our first day of travel together with Nordgriller Urbex had been fairly successful with visits in an abandoned recreation home, a sanatorium and an old Soviet airfield, we had something really great planned for the next day.
After a good dinner at the end of day one and a good night sleep in the hotel, we got up early the next day to meet up with Lost Places Knipser and TI Fotografie Lost Places and More to explore a huge abandoned power station.
To all of us, this spot was a dream location. Everyone had planned to go there for some time, and now, our dream became reality.
We met in a side street near the power station and had a short briefing on which way we were going to take to get in. We left our cars and casually went for a stroll on a small path that happened to run alongside the fence. As we reached a corner of an adjacent building, we spotted a hole in the fence. It was small and right at the ground, so we all squeezed/crawled through. We were on the premises. Now we only had to get to the main building without being seen and find an entrance...
We sneaked along the earth wall we were on until we found a slope that led down to a large free area between us and the main building.
We quickly ran across the open field until we reached the relative safety of the large walls, only to find that the door that we had planned to use as access had been boarded shut.
Luckily, only a few meters to the side, we found an open window. It was harder to get through, but we managed, and we were inside. It was dark. We already feared that we only had found a closed room with no access to the large halls of the power plant when we found the way.
The insides of the power station were a fantastic sight. Rusty steel, valves and dials, stairs and vast halls. It was a location noe of us will ever forget - and I believe a second visit is in order very soon...


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