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Abandoned Berlin. Abandoned Berlin: Teufelsberg (Abandoned spy station) A Cold War relic lies abandoned on top of a mountain made of rubble, built over a Nazi college that couldn't be destroyed after the end of World War II. The gates of the former US spy station are locked and secure; its perimeter sealed by an uncompromising high fence, an angry crisscross mesh of wires that clearly imply: “Eintritt Verboten!” Welcome to Teufelsberg, literally “Devil's Mountain,” a hill reaching 114.7 meters above sea-level, made from an estimated 12 million cubic meters of war rubble (apparently about 400,000 bombed houses) pushed together in the north of the Grunewald forest in West Berlin. Buried deep beneath is what's left of a planned Nazi-military training school designed by chief Nazi architect Albert Speer. So sturdy was it that attempts by the Allies to destroy it failed, so they covered it with rubble instead.

There was plenty of it around at the time. Every day, 80 truckloads of 7,000 cubic meters of rubble collected mostly by local women used to arrive. Event listings for Berlin, Germany. Buy tickets online | Greyzone Tickets | tickets.de. Ä. Five Elephant Coffee Roastery & Cake Shop. Home | Nowkoelln Flowmarkt. Home / News - Berlin Music Days. Berlin: L'agenda culturel et des évènements à Berlin - LatLon. Yorck.

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