Abandoned Berlin

Reminder if anyone wants more stickers - they’re free! - just get in touch and I can post you out a batch of them next week. #AbandonBerlin

Instagram user saying they’d removed one of the Abandoned Berlin pro-Palestinian stickers, and AB’s response saying: “Pro-Palestinian stickers don't stay up for long in Berlin. They're offensive to people who support ethnic cleansing and the erasure of Palestinian life. But it exists. Deal with it.”

From Instagram, a story of someone tagging AB to say they’d removed a pro-Palestinian sticker, and my response to say such stickers don’t survive long in Berlin because they’re offensive to people who support ethnic cleansing.
But I don’t think Instagram is showing the story. It’s also complicit.

A bit late, but your annual reminder that today is the best day of the year to go exploring – all the Polizei are in Kreuzberg. Happy 1. Mai folks! Be careful out there. 🚔🚨💥

MS Dr. Ingrid Wengler, abandoned on the Spree since October 1996.

For more on this story, including how the ship ran aground on Berlin’s bureaucracy, see:
www.abandonedberlin.com/stories/boat

#abandonedberlin #bureaucracy #boat #msdringridwengler #spree #berlin

The former entrance to a former brewery, abandoned on April Fool’s Day 1994. What were they thinking?

Inside an abandoned brewery after several parties too many. Everything is pretty smashed. No bodies though, they must have been eaten.

Street art of a pig in a police uniform. In Germany the police are known as “bulls” rather than “pigs” but they say it’s a land of equal opportunity. It’s not.

Discarded beer bottle labels bearing the old Bärenquell logo, which actually features a bear, so it’s bearing on more ways than one. Bärenquell means “spring of bears” so I guess we shouldn’t be surprised.

Bärenquell Brauerei was abandoned on April Fool’s Day, 1994 - no joke.

I didn’t post these yesterday because no one would have believed me.

#Bärenquell #brewery #beer #DDR #abandonedberlin

Curtains to the left of a shabby window reflected gently in the glass with a shot of yellow outside complementing brown bushes and giving an otherwise somber scene a sense of optimism.

A photo of curtains in a window from a place I haven’t written about yet that I’m posting here to give myself a kick up the arse to finally write about it. There’s video too. It’s a special place. I’m going to do my best to have a post on it soon.

#abandonedberlin

Abandoned Berlin (@abandonedberlin@pixelfed.social) 9 Posts, 0 Following, 4 Followers · If it's verboten it's got to be fun. Tall tales of trespass and anecdotes of fear. Non-fiction. Curated by @cfahey 🐗

Abandoned Berlin is now on Pixelfed!

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We’ll have to see how it goes as an Instagram alternative. Importing didn’t work so I’m kinda starting again. Accessible anywhere on the Fediverse. Better than Zuckland. Let’s see.

#AbandonedBerlin #Pixelfed #Fediverse

View from inside the Palast der Republik

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Alt text for image: First Alice Weidel, now Björn Höcke. I never signed up for notifications for either. Fuck this shit. AB will not take part in any endeavor that spreads Nazi propaganda or tries interfering in election campaigns. You'll find AB elsewhere from now on. Check the bio for links.

Abandoned Berlin has formally left Twitter. More than 10,000 followers but people need to take a stand. That platform should be banned for election interference, disinformation, the spread of hate,
and for its role in destabilizing society.

Die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar.

This weekend, @marcelkrueger.bsky.social
is relaunching his West Berlin Literary Walking Tour! The tour lasts two hours and you can book for this weekend or future dates by sending a message to tour@marcelkrueger.eu.

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Give it back!

Thank you 😊

You’re welcome! Thank you 😊

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Index — Abandoned Berlin Every site featured on Abandoned Berlin listed in alphabetical order and sorted by category, and a search so you can find what you're looking for.

It's a Christmas miracle! Four months and 11 days after I tore up the site, all posts and photos are back up! 🙌

There's also now a search/index page with A-Z list of everything, so you should be able to find things easily enough. Enjoy!

www.abandonedberlin.com/index

A stately looking home nine windows wide with big tall ceilings and a red-brick middle. Two of the windows are burned out after an apparent fire.

And if you find it’s full – lots of people have been committing war crimes and crimes against humanity this year – you have the abandoned Zambian embassy just around the corner.

#diplomaticimmunity🎄

An abandoned plattenbau building with no hint of Christmas decorations or any festive charm. It has its own morbid charm.

Christmas Eve at the abandoned Iraqi embassy to East Germany.

In case anyone needs diplomatic immunity over the festive season.

Luna-Lager bunker — Abandoned Berlin A wartime bunker is all that’s left of the former Luna-Lager labor camp at Schönholzer Heide, now a grassy, pretty wild and pleasant 35-hectare park.

Please don't try get into the Luna Lager bunker in Schönholzer Heide. As per NABU, it's now home to protected bats who are likely to die if disturbed. The rest of the park is fine to visit, of course, and there are a couple of abandoned embassies nearby...

#LunaLager #bunker #bats #abandonedberlin

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Last shout for Christmas if you're in Germany! Postal deliveries need to go out today if you want to get them on time 📭

#Geschenke ✨🎄🦄

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A derelict graffiti-covered squat red-brick building with a long thin chimney reaching for the grey sky behind.

The Eisfabrik (ice factory) on Köpernicker Straße, February 2014.

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A mural by American artist Pat Perry showing the imagined release of Guantánamo captive Shaker Aamer, a large bearded man wearing glasses, hugging a woman wearing a headdress. Aamer remained in captivity while Perry was painting this in 2014 and was only released in October 2015, despite being cleared for release in 2007. He was incarcerated for 14 years altogether. He was never charged with a crime.

Mystery solved! (Thanks openbiblio.social/@celephais)

Mural by American artist Pat Perry in 2014 of the imagined release of Shaker Aamer after years of unjust captivity in Guantánamo: www.instagram.com/p/pdAjgMGa2l/

Aamer wasn't released for another 16 months: www.theguardian.com/world/2015/o...

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The abandoned Liesenbrücken bridges with railway tracks beside them, teasing them, for they used to carry trains themselves in the good old days.

Liesenbrücken on a cold and wet December day 🌧️

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Please note the last dates for Christmas delivery.

🐻 Berlin - Dec. 22
🇩🇪 Germany - Dec. 20
🇪🇺 European Union - today!
🌐 Anywhere else - that ship has sailed already. 😱

#presents #xmas #books #tshirts
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Abandoned Berlin’s Favourite Places Abandoned Berlin picks 10 favourite spots for urban exploration in Berlin… on Slow Travel Berlin

New on the site: @abandonedberlin reveals 10 favourite local places to explore, from former WW2 and East Germany sites, to a Zombie hospital and a derelict train station.

(This post is public access; scroll down to find a generous offer for STB readers)

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Abandoned Berlin’s Favourite Places Abandoned Berlin picks 10 favourite spots for urban exploration in Berlin… on Slow Travel Berlin

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10 favorite places, for those of you who like lists and numbers of things ✨

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I have vague recollections of someone telling me who the man is, that he was just released after years of unjust detention, but I may have imagined that and come up with the story myself.

If anyone knows who the man is, please let me know 🙏