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SPACE TYPE: Other
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
Former canteen of the Kombinat Ingenieur, Tief und Verkehrsbau in Rostock. The building is unusual in that the roof is not supported by the external walls. Rather it is comprised of several concrete "funnels" which can be seen in the photo of the [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1963
SPACE TYPE: Other
SPACE TYPE: Antenna tower
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
During the cold war NSA Field Station Teufelsberg formed part of the Echelon spy network, a signals intelligence (SIGINT) collection and analysis network operated on behalf of the five signatory states to the UKUSA Security Agreement. Today it stands [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1947
SPACE TYPE: Factory
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
VEB Combine Textima was a producer 0f machines for the textile industry, made up of many dispossessed enterprises. After 1990 it was called Textima AG and in 1996 it turned insolvent [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Factory
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
In Pirna, on top of the Sonnenstein hill, residence the center of DDR aircraft industry. It was part of the VEB Combine Generating plant Engineering and Construction. After 1990 it was privatized and 5 years later declared insolvent. Text by Mark [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Factory
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
The aerial ropeway was, during the late 19th century until the Second World War, one of the most famous modes of transport of ressources especially for mining. The company Adolf Bleichert & Co. Leipzig- Gohlis controlled most of the ropew [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1971
SPACE TYPE: Other
PRESERVATION STATUS: Ruin
Completely abandoned GDR leisure/culture complex built by the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB). Almost beyond restoration. More information here: Templin Stadt - Parkanlage im Bürgergarten / FDGB Heim "Salvador Allende" (GERMAN) R [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1974
SPACE TYPE: Public institution's headquarters
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
The Iraqi Embassy was planned and designed in 1974 by a German- Iraqi Architect Group, headed by Horst Bauer. The building itself is mainly made up of standardized prefabricated elements (the famous plattenbauten), which were produced by the Berlin [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1970
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
Part of the post war development of Thälmannplatz, this administrative building was erected in 1970. It has since been stripped of its aluminium cladding and redeveloped for other purposes. The aluminium façade was designed by Walter Funkat. The [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1957
SPACE TYPE: Theatre, Cinema, Discoteque
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
House of Culture (German: Kulturhaus) in Zinnowitz, relic of the former German Democratic Republic and example of Socialist Classicism. Houses of Culture were major club-houses in the USSR and the Eastern bloc. They provided room for all kinds of rec [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1924
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
The old fair in Leipzig (Alte Messe) includes a collection of buildings converted to a supermarket, a gym, a furniture mall, and still many corners abandoned or on sale. The main landmark is represented by the Soviet Pavillon, an abandoned building w [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Shop
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
Abandoned small shop from the DDR period in Cottbus Sandow. It is part of a small collection of single storey shops and a restaurant which is itself abandoned [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Other
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
After the second World War the so called Freyberg Brewery was confiscated. The name changed during this time a lot but mainly it was a part of the VEB Beverage Combine Halle and produced beer until 1990. See the brewery in this map dated 1934 [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1952
SPACE TYPE: Other
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
This is the Clubhouse Buna, "House of Friendship" of the VEB Chemical factory Buna. Primarly meant for the 20,000 workers of the site, it was also used by GDR television and theater ensembles. It was built in 1952/53 and was later famous as "X50". [...]
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SPACE TYPE: School, Other
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
Abandoned school restaurant in the former large housing estate "Am Waldrand" on the western edge of Schwedt/Oder. As well as a restaurant the building contained rooms for theatre and dance. Most of the surrounding blocks of flats have been demol [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Shop
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1970
SPACE TYPE: House
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
One of five blocks built between 1970 and 1975 in the centre of Halle Neustadt. This is the so called Scheibe A (the others were named B-E). It was used initially as a student residence but has been empty since shortly after reunification in 1990. Th [...]
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