“Lindenstrasse”: Excavators tear down the scenes of the ARD series

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The “Lindenstrasse” is demolished – but Mother Beimer’s kitchen lives on

Big and small dramas played out here for three and a half decades: Mother Beimer lived here with her “Hansemann” and had three children before he left for Anna Ziegler and started a new family with her. Else Klingt gossiped about her neighborhood until her death, while the underage Tanja Schildknecht had an affair with her tennis teacher. Who already got into bed with her mother, which ultimately didn’t do her parents’ marriage any good.

From 1985, “Lindenstrasse” provided millions of Germans with tasty gossip stories that often described social developments. In the beginning around 15 million people sat in front of the screens when a new episode of “Lindenstraße” was broadcast at 6.40 p.m. (later then 6.50 p.m.), but over the years there were fewer and fewer viewers, at times there were fewer than two million . So the ARD finally stopped the 2020 series. On March 29, 2020, the last episode ran across the screen.

The “Lindenstrasse” played in Munich

Two years later, the scenery in Cologne-Bocklemünd will also be demolished. Excavators have already arrived on the WDR studio site to demolish the rows of houses. Although “Lindenstraße” was supposed to play in Munich, always on the Thursday of the broadcast week, the episodes were shot in Cologne.

The streets should be completely leveled by the end of April. Where Café Bayer and Restaurant Akropolis once stood, nothing will remain but a green space.

The apartments in which most of the episodes took place no longer exist: they were actually in a large hall and have long since been dismantled. But there is good news for fans: If you have a longing, you can visit some of the apartments. Helga Beimer’s legendary kitchen can be found in the House of History in Bonn. So in the future nobody will have to live without “Lindenstraße”.

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