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The “Lindenstraße” is demolished
Gutting work is underway on the “Lindenstrasse” film set on the WDR site in Cologne-Bocklemünd. Photo: Ludolf Dahmen/WDR/dpa
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For decades, the houses on “Lindenstraße” were a familiar sight for fans of the ARD series. After the scenery was demolished, only the memory remains on the production site in Cologne.
The “Lindenstraße” is demolished. Two years after the end of the ARD series, the excavators have arrived at the production site in Cologne-Bocklemünd and are completely demolishing the outer scenery.
The house in which, among other things, mother Beimer lived, has already disappeared. According to a WDR spokeswoman, the demolition work should be completed by the end of April.
For more than 30 years, the street with residential buildings, supermarket, Café Bayer and restaurant Akropolis was a familiar sight for fans of the series. For the demolition work, the concrete or wooden structures were first gutted. Cladding, windows and company signs were dismantled and disposed of.
The apartments, in which pretty much all the dramas of life took place, were actually located in a large hall and have long since been dismantled. Some parts of the interior sets are in museums. Helga Beimer’s kitchen, for example, can be seen in the House of History in Bonn.
A few weeks ago, the demolition of the outer scenery started. Swifts, house sparrows and bats had nested in it, but they were no longer there shortly before work began, the spokeswoman said. On the green area that is to be created on the “Lindenstraße” area, the WDR wants to set up a species protection house as an alternative living space for the animals.