As German states go, Saxony-Anhalt is a fairly recent invention. It was cobbled together after the Second World War from the Prussian Province of Saxony and the former Free State of Anhalt, dissolved ...

Exploring Lost Places and abandoned buildings in Poland. Follow our urbex trips through abandoned Prussian forts, palaces and manor houses in western Poland.

Driving through Brandenburg, past the farmlands and small villages, you’ll eventually stumble across the infamous East German concrete slab roads leading through the forest. Some will know that these ...

Facts about urban exploration and abandoned sites in Berlin: site types, history, legal framework, safety and coverage by Digital Cosmonaut.

The German Democratic Republic - and the over 1,100 Soviet military installations within it - were once home to 500,000 Soviet soldiers and countless military family members. Entire cities sprung up ...

We’ve already written an introduction about the development of Wünsdorf into the Military Headquarters of the Reichsheer in 1914 as well as its transformation into the headquarters of the ...

25 years (almost to the day) after of Adolf Hitlers suicide – his, and the ashes of some of his compatriots – were unceremoniously dumped into the river Ehle outside of Magedburg. His corpse, as well ...

While abandoned castles and manors are more commonly found across the Oder river in Poland, every now and then we come across a little historic relic like the Schloss Thierbach in Saxony. Once hailed ...

Sonderwaffenlager Himmelpfort (special weapons depot Himmelpfort), better known as Lychen II or Lychen 2, was a Soviet nuclear weapons depot hidden in the Himmelpforter Heide forest, about 80 km north ...

Nuremberg held a special place in Nazi Germany due to its historical significance and symbolic value. The city had been a center of the Holy Roman Empire and was associated with Germanic culture and ...

Yes. The hangars and tower were closed to the public, but the buildings in the surrounding forest are "freely" accessible. The Flugplatz Finsterwalde – like so many of the Luftwaffe Airfields of the ...

Like a strange mixture between a castle and a colossal factory, what’s left of the Philipp Swiderski Maschinenbaufabrik or as it’s more commonly known – the Maschinenfabrik Swiderski, is left to rot ...