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SPACE TYPE: Barrack or base
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
On the way from Zehdenick to Templin you drive through a large forest area. Nothing suggests that, far to the left hidden in the woods, a secret city of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (GSSD) was located. Here lived, according to current kno [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Barrack or base
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
What once started as a German military shooting range in the 1800s soon became one of Europe’s largest military bases during WWI. In 1919 the Army Sports School was established here, training German athletes ahead of the 1936 Olympic Games in Be [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1963
SPACE TYPE: Barrack or base, Other
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
The small town of Skrunda, 150 km from Riga in Latvia, was the site of two HEN HOUSE radars built in the 1960s. Construction of a PECHORA [Daryal] class large phased array radar at the so-called “northern center” began in 1984. According to some [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Barrack or base
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
This ghost town is located behind the Szentkirályszabadja airfield, on the grounds of a set of abandoned Soviet barracks and living quarters. This base included a kindergarten, an elementary school, a middle school, two restaurants, pubs, cinemas a [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1970
SPACE TYPE: Bunker
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
Some bunkers built in Albania during 1970s. CONTRIBUTOR: Massimiliano Cafagna [...]
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PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned, Under-used
This is a night journey through Albania along those places that once were symbols of an oppressive regime and today are instead the emblem of the hard time Albania is having in dealing with its own past. In Albania the communist past is largely [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1942
SPACE TYPE: Barrack or base
Opened in 1942, it was used by both the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces during the Second World War and the United States Air Force during the Cold War. After the Cold War ended, it was closed in 1993. A video of the former RAF a [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1934
SPACE TYPE: Barrack or base
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
Forst Zinna was a military complex built in 1934 by the SS and expanded in the years thereafter. After the Second World War it was used by the red army and, from 1947, by the German Academy of Public Administration , founded by decision of the SED. [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Other
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
Abadoned soviet tropospheric radio transmitter sation. It used to be a top- secret Soviet communication station in the middle of the forest above Herend city. It was a two level deep, nuclear- attack safe bunker 11 meters below the surface. The [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Barrack or base
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
This abadoned military base is located near Pécel city, Hungary. A short walking trip or a drive on a dirt road and you will see the top of the bunker. The place is free for visiting but you have to extremly careful inside the bunker, there is no [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1950
SPACE TYPE: Prison
PRESERVATION STATUS: Under-used
The labour camp was in use near the Csákány rock stone cave above the settlement between October 1950 and autumn 1953 by the State Defence Authority (ÁVH) established secretly by following the Russian model of gulags. The 1500 prisoners held fo [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Fortification
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
Nel 1892 il forte fu intitolato alla memoria del capitano d'artiglieria Emilio Savio, nato a Torino nel 1837 e caduto il 22 gennaio 1861 nella batteria piemontese al colle dei Cappuccini. Forte "Emilio Savio", fu impiegato come fortilizio di artig [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1937
SPACE TYPE: Barrack or base
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
The site was used by the German army since 1937 when the cavalry moved its school from Hannover. It was also used as a driving training centre until the Russians took control of the area, taking over a day after the Germans abandoned it April 26, [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1936
SPACE TYPE: Barrack or base
PRESERVATION STATUS: Demolished
Former german/russian military airfield with barracks. In early 1945 Zerbst became one of the first airbases in the world to operate jet fighters. Build in 1936 for the Luftwaffe, demolished in 2015. Source: ronaldv.nl [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1936
SPACE TYPE: Barrack or base
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
Enormous German military area that was used as testing grounds for secret artillery weapons. After WW2 these grounds were taken over by the Russians and it remained an important Army Combat Training Centre. There’s a strange Jewish cemetery on [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Prison
PRESERVATION STATUS: Under-used
Patarei was built by the order of Russian Emperor Nicholas I as a fortress, with the official name of Defence Barracks. The fortification complex was completed in 1840, but due to the changed warfare strategy it was never used for its inte [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1942
SPACE TYPE: Tower, Fortification
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
The Vienna anti- aircraft towers are six high defence and protection structures made from reinforced concrete. They were built in the years 1942 until 1945 as air- raid protection and had rigged up anti- aircraft guns and fire control devices. The ar [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1942
SPACE TYPE: Tower, Fortification
PRESERVATION STATUS: Under-used
Commissioned by Adolf Hitler, Flakturms are extremely large and colossal anti- aircraft gun blockhouse towers used by the German Luftwaffe for the defence against Allied air raids during World War II. They also served as air- raid shelters for tens o [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1940
SPACE TYPE: Barrack or base
PRESERVATION STATUS: Reactivated
Nel 1940, il Ministero della Marina italiano ottenne l'autorizzazione allo schieramento di un certo numero di sottomarini in appoggio alla Germania Nazista per la guerra nell'oceano Atlantico. Il luogo prescelto per la sede delle operazioni fu la [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Bunker
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
Abandoned Shelters - The Danish Bunker Coast is an audio- visual document that captures the creepy athmosphere of the Western coast of Denmark, dotted with nearly 8000 German bomb shelters from World War 2. With their looming, crumbling concrete a [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1938
SPACE TYPE: Wall
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
Lo sbarramento di Pian dei Morti (in tedesco Sperre Plamort) è uno sbarramento difensivo che fa parte del “XIII Settore di Copertura Venosta”, all’interno del Vallo alpino in Alto Adige. La località Pian dei Morti si trova a 2.000 metri di [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Fortification, Barrack or base
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
Fort de la Chartreuse was built between 1817 and 1823, in order to defend the city of Liège, and it is located along the river Meuse. The fort was abandoned by the Dutch army in 1891 and after it was used as a barrack. During the First Wor [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1939
SPACE TYPE: Other
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
Built in 1939 by prisoners at Sachsenhausen Nazi concentration camp for the Deutsche Ausrüstungswerke (a defense contractor), this bakery supplied the camp as well as other SS units in Berlin and its surrounds. Around 80 prisoners produced up to 4 [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1976
SPACE TYPE: Other
PRESERVATION STATUS: Ruin
From July 1976 to December 1989 a mysterious radio signal could be heard all over the world. Its source was the subject of much controversy, but at the end of the cold war the speculation ended and made way for the truth. It came from a top secret So [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Bunker
PRESERVATION STATUS: Under-used
A very rare opportunity to see inside a secret Soviet Civil Defence bunker situated beneath a key part of Kiev’s public transport network. In the event of a nuclear attack by Britain or the USA the dated equipment in these bunkers (which is stil [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Fortification
PRESERVATION STATUS: Ruin
Questo falso cimitero, costituito da croci in cemento armato che prevedevano nello spazio sottostante la presenza di bunker per la protezione delle munizioni, è stato progettato dall'esercito tedesco durante l'occupazione dell'isola di Ratonneau: [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Barrack or base
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned, Under-used
This is the former base of the 5th Soviet guards fighter regiment, the last jet left the base in 1990. It is mostly abandoned but some parts are protected by fence and armed guards because the Sármellék International Airport use the runaways an [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1900
SPACE TYPE: Fortification
PRESERVATION STATUS: Ruin
Karosta (War Port) is a neighbourhood in the north of Liepāja in western Latvia by the Baltic sea. It was constructed in 1890-1906 as a naval base for the Russian Tsar Alexander III, and later served as a base for the Soviet Baltic Fleet (see Wes [...]
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Lo spazio in questione si trova al limite del mio comune d'origine, Zero Branco (TV) e Peseggia (Ve), comune limitrofo. E' una struttura militare abbandonata utilizzata come base missilistica. All'interno gli stabili, in disuso da diversi anni, non [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1945
SPACE TYPE: Bunker
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
A secret bunker built around 1945 for the exclusive protection of the Bulgarian leaders during WWII, the Cold War and other attacks. Bunkers are usually built underground, but because of the high water level this one is above. It has two secured exi [...]
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