With its lakes and forests, Brandenburg not only offers a great deal of nature, but is also full of eerily beautiful sights that exert a great attraction on so-called “urbexers”. This refers to forgotten places that have been left to decay for decades.
These lost places are often visited by “Urbexers”. The term stands for “Urban Exploration” – what is meant is the discovery and photographic documentation of so-called lost places, a leisure activity that has become fashionable in recent years.
Martin Kaule and Arno Specht are among the experts in this field. The two like to go in search of clues in the new federal states and have written several volumes in the “Ghost Places” series.
After “Ghost Sites in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania” and “Ghost Sites of the Soviets”, the volume “Geisterstätten Brandenburg – Forgotten Places” in the Jaron publisher published.
Once again they climbed over fences and ventured into haunted properties to track down structural relics. What is interesting about their 14 different objects is the fact that most of them have a similar past: depending on who was in power at the time, used the building for their own purposes, whether it was the National Socialists, the Red Army or the GDR leadership.
On the following pages of the photo series above, we present ten ghost sites in Brandenburg, including places as unreal as thisKirchmöser fireworks laboratory, the Grabowsee sanatorium or the Niederlehme fuel and lubricant storage facility.
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