Showing posts with label unterwelten. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unterwelten. Show all posts

Friday, September 6, 2013

Exclusive: Inside the Fichtebunker (published on Exberliner Mag)

We already talked about the Fichtebunker (HERE the full article) almost one year ago, but at that time we're not able to show you the photos of the inside of the building.
Berliner Unterwelten is doing a great job in the rehabilitation of this bunker, giving those who visit it likely an impression of what has been its history, making sure that we can get a sense of place as it is passed through various stages of the city of Berlin.


What is immediately striking is a certain area of loss, a labyrinthitis for the rounded walls, while the temperature is radically different, whether it's hot or cold, with thick walls.

You can read the full article "Inside, we felt safe" by Sara Wilde on EXBERLINER  (Issue 119 - September 2013) on the experience of Regina Schwenke who was inside the bunker during the WWII.

Special thanks for this pubblication to Berlino Explorer, Sascha Keil, Erica Löfman and Nadja Vancauwenberghe.

© DarioJ Laganà | www.norte.it, Please do NOT use these photos without written approval from the author, Berliner Unterwelten or Exberliner Mag (for the published ones).















Monday, October 15, 2012

Humboldthain Flakturm

The Flak tower of Humboldthain is one of the 3 towers on Berlin, built during the WWII by order of Hitler to defend the city after 1940.
It has been used also civilian shelter, with room for 10,000 civilians, and even a hospital ward, inside.

According to the end of the war, the tower was partially demolished; as most of these huge concrete structures, it has not been possible to fully demolish them (the interior walls can be of 3,5-4 meters).
Today the tower is fully inside the Humboldthain Park and one side of the tower has been filled with debris from the WWII collapsed buildings and is now a hill to access the highest point of the tower.
The interior can be visited (infos: Berlin Unterwelten)

Thanks to Berlino Explorer (http://www.berlino-explorer.com)


More infos: WIKI
Map: http://goo.gl/maps/X5JO9
















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