Tour Report: Bunker of the Luftwaffe

On the way home from our short vacation in Eastern Germany back in November of 2017, my wife and I decided to make a quick stop to check out one more bunker.
The area is riddled with abandoned facilities from World War II as well as from the time of the Soviet occupation, and there was just enough time for one of those, so we chose the one where we expected the least trouble in terms of getting in.
It's not entirely clear what this bunker was, but it's pretty safe to assume that it was used for maintenance by the "Erprobungsstelle der Luftwaffe" (Luftwaffe Test Area).
We parked by the side of the road and walked don a path that led us into the forest. After a while, we arrived at a gate, There was a sign saying something about hunting season, but we walked past the gate through a hole in the fence and after a few meters, we could see the ruin of the bunker.
Right next to it, the Soviets had built a shelter which had been used as a communications hub for the airfield. Now it looked like it was only used by local farmers.
The ruin of the old bunker was more than impressive. The dimensions of the construction were huge - and since there were a lot of holes in it, you could really well see how massive the walls were.
The combination of the demolished construction from the 1940s, the graffiti of the Soviet soldiers on the walls and nature having reclaimed a lot of the area since the Soviets had left, gave kind of a spooky atmosphere to the place, especially with the bleak light of November...
We took our time and climbed around in the ruins...until...
A deer roared...then we hear a shot!
That sounded pretty close!
We couldn't tell, but we decided that this wasn't a place to stay any longer, and since we were almost done anyway, we left through the gate and got back to the car to drive home.


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Tour Report: Factory Bunker E.

It was a rainy day in November almost two years ago. We met up with a friend of ours (Link) to do some exploring... In a city about halfway from Berlin to the Baltic, we had some potentially nice spots on the map.

We met near the first location, parked our car, transferred the gear and drove the rest of the way using just one car. This first location was a huge abandoned underground WWII shelter. It had been built below a large factory that during the war produced transport equipment and anti-tank weapons. Parts of the old factory premises are being used by various companies now, so we had to be careful not to be too obvious regarding our endeavor.

We had to walk a while, and the rain didn't really get better. After a while, we reached a small patch of forest. We walked along a brick wall until we arrived at a steel door. Behind this door - stairs.

The metal stairs were wet from the rain, and we had to walk down about three floors until we reached the bunker.

The size of it was amazing. The ceilings were at least four meters high and the dimension of some of the rooms suggests that this wasn't merely an air raid shelter - maybe it served as storage or even as an underground production facility for the factory.

The signs on the walls are from the later use as a central shelter for civil defense of the factory during the cold war.

We were happy to have gotten out of the rain and spent a considerable amount of time checking out the bunker. It is, however, safe to assume that there are some more underground facilities directly beneath or at least near the factory. But we had planned another location, and the increasing rain forbade further extensive exploration of the area. So this will have to wait for the next time we're near the place...

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New Video: The Abandoned Children's Hospital

During our summer vacation, my wife and I got the opportungity for an offivial visit of this abandoned children's hospital that had originally been built in the years 1935/36.
The dark part of its history includes 46 children of the conspirators of July 20th 1944 being imprisoned here on the grounds of kin liability - and the secret staff of Wernher von Braun and Walter Dornberger working here on top secret missile technology.

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Secret Bunker of the "Stasi" [Revisit]

After exploring the Clinic for Radiology, I asked the girls if they'd ever seen an underground bunker and suggested that we go check out one that I'd first visited about eight months before.
It was a bunker of the East German Secret Police ("Stasi"), from which the police force would have been controlled in case of a civil uprising.
Due to the secrecy, the bunker had been built right in the middle of the woods, but the access was pretty easy.
In contrast to my first visit, the entrance above the ground was open, so we didn't have to climb down the emergency exit. After we had entered the above-ground building that conceals the bunker entrance, I barred the door to prevent people (especially security guards or other people of the sort) from following us and to give the appearance that the entrance was sealed.
So we went down the stairs to the bunker, and after a while we heard the sheet metal door rattle. I wasn't really sure, the rattling was too loud and too long to just be the wind, but after about ten minutes, it stopped.
I suspect that it was either kids trying to enter or it was in fact someone whose old motor scooter we had seen parked in front of one of the other buildings on the premises...but I can't be sure.
Anyway, the niose stopped, we finished taking our photos, left everything the way we had found it and left the bunker on the same way her had entered it. There was no one to see, so we went back to the car. Shortly after we got there, an old guy passed us on the blue motor scooter that we had seen, but he didn't look particularly angry or anything.
It was a nice part of the tour; I managed to get some shots that I'd missed the first time, and the girls had a sppoky experience.

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