Wir bekommen h\u00e4ufig Mails mit allen m\u00f6glichen Fragen rund um Lost Places und Urbex, die uns dazu veranlasst hat ein kleines Urbex-FAQ zu schreiben. Die aber mit Abstand h\u00e4ufigste Frage ...

Before we delve into the myriad of questions that might come up, it’s worth looking into the history of how (supposedly) Londons smallest police station came into being. Before the advent of CCTV, the ...

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 ...

Die Schokoladenfabrik Pflöger & Krause „PORTOLA“ wurde 1913 in Magdeburg gegründet und erwarb rasch einen guten Ruf für ihre hochwertigen Schokoladen, Süßwaren und Gebäck. Das Werk der Portola ...

While many might be familiar with the cities and military bases of the Soviet guests in Wünsdorf, Jüterbog and Krampnitz – its not a secret that Fürstenberg an der Havel (and its surroundings) was one ...

“Briefly Historic” articles are short posts that have either or would have been posted on our social media accounts (such as twitter / bluesky) as threads. They are brief and interesting tales of ...

The Flugplatz Brandis, 20km east of Leipzig, was built between 1934 and 1936 during the first wave of Nazi Luftwaffe rearmament. Designated as the “Blindflugschule 1”, it was set up to train Luftwaffe ...

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 ...

Every good memorial needs a back story, and the Lions story begins in 1848 with the first Schleswig war. Through a typically complex set of treaties and inheritances, the Duchies of Schleswig, ...

The Germans had a knack for building bunkers, from tiny one-man-bunkers to the monstrous U-Boat bunkers in Bremen and Brest. Considering how many different variations of bunkers the Germans built ...

Few monuments encapsulate the image of Germany (and Berlin) as much as the Brandenburg Gate. Of all the National Monuments in Germany, the neoclassical structure is by far the most recognisable (i’m ...

Just across the German border, on the outskirts of Kostrzyn nad Odrą next to the former Reichsstraße 166 lie the remnants of the gigantic prussian Fort Zorndorf, one of four fortifications built to ...