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Berlin is a city haunted by its traumatic past, with ghosts of yesteryear lurking behind many a wind-chilled corner. A century of upheaval driven by cycles of development and destruction has left its mark on the German capital: abandoned hospitals, military bases, factories, breweries, fairgrounds, schools, colleges, train stations, airports, embassies, sanatoriums, bunkers, boats, swimming pools, bowling alleys\u2014you name \u2014dot the cityscape and beyond.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But Berlin is also easily distracted by new things, though they don’t always live up to expectation. The new airport, for example, just can’t get off the ground, and by the time it opens up\u2014if it opens up at all, that is\u2014it will be deemed too small and the city will need another. And so it goes: the leftovers are cast aside, forgotten and neglected, left to fester and deteriorate beneath layers of refuse and bottle caps. So, who could blame them for striking back? Who can blame them for reminding us that they’re still here? They demand respect, the ghosts of Berlin’s past. Tip your hat to them if you meet any this Halloween.<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Beelitz-Heilst\u00e4tten<\/span><\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":81184,"id":81184,"title":"Beelitz Abandoned Berlin Sleek Magazine-1334","filename":"Beelitz-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-1334.jpg","filesize":192664,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Beelitz-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-1334.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/5-of-berlin-spooky-abandoned-sites\/beelitz-abandoned-berlin-sleek-magazine-1334\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"beelitz-abandoned-berlin-sleek-magazine-1334","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":81183,"date":"2019-10-31 11:25:18","modified":"2019-10-31 11:25:18","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Beelitz-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-1334.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":85,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Beelitz-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-1334.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":1000,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Beelitz-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-1334.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":1000,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Beelitz-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-1334.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Beelitz-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-1334.jpg","1536x1536-width":1500,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Beelitz-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-1334.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1000,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Beelitz-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-1334.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Beelitz-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-1334.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":1000}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"10","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Few places around Berlin are spookier than the hospital complex at Beelitz-Heilst\u00e4tten, whose haunted halls played host to Adolf Hitler, Erich Honecker, Red Army soldiers and plenty more. On top of that, the “Beast of Beelitz” terrified local women when he went on a killing spree in the area between 1989-91. Wolfgang (now Beate) Schmidt murdered five women\u2014including the wife of a Russian doctor working at Beelitz and their baby\u2014and tried to kill more before being eventually caught by two joggers in the forest. <\/span><\/p>\n

Opening its doors as a tuberculosis sanatorium in 1902, Beelitz found new use in 1914 following the outbreak of the First World War\u2014Hitler was among the 12,586 patients treated there after hurting his thigh during the Battle of the Somme, and whiled away almost two months in Beelitz in 1916. After WWII, the victorious Russians took over, turning Beelitz into the largest Soviet military hospital outside the USSR, and in December 1990, former DDR leader Honecker was admitted with liver cancer, having just seen his country cease to exist. Now, only the phantoms survive, though their time might be up too with investors circling.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Zombie Hospital (Kinderkrankenhaus Wei\u00dfensee)<\/span><\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":81192,"id":81192,"title":"Zombie Hospital Abandoned Berlin Sleek Magazine-7508","filename":"Zombie-Hospital-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-7508.jpg","filesize":221474,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Zombie-Hospital-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-7508.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/5-of-berlin-spooky-abandoned-sites\/zombie-hospital-abandoned-berlin-sleek-magazine-7508\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"zombie-hospital-abandoned-berlin-sleek-magazine-7508","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":81183,"date":"2019-10-31 14:16:38","modified":"2019-10-31 14:16:38","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Zombie-Hospital-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-7508.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":85,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Zombie-Hospital-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-7508.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":1000,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Zombie-Hospital-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-7508.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":1000,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Zombie-Hospital-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-7508.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Zombie-Hospital-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-7508.jpg","1536x1536-width":1500,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Zombie-Hospital-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-7508.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1000,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Zombie-Hospital-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-7508.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Zombie-Hospital-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-7508.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":1000}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"10","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

In Wei\u00dfensee, in the eastern district of Pankow, lies an abandoned children\u2019s hospital, known colloquially as \u2018Zombie Hospital\u2019. Opening to great fanfare as Prussia\u2019s first municipal children\u2019s hospital in 1911, complete with milk production facilities including a cowshed and dairy, Kinderkrankenhaus Wei\u00dfensee remained open, with buildings added to it, right up to October 1987, before it was cruelly shut down after 85 and a half years of service to Berlin\u2019s newest arrivals on 1 January 1997. It\u2019s been idle ever since, punished by weather and abused by brainless ‘zombies\u2019 who insist on burning it every so often. It’s a favourite for arsonists.<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Anatomy Institute<\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":81186,"id":81186,"title":"Anatomy Institute Abandoned Berlin Sleek Magazine-5951","filename":"Anatomy-Institute-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-5951.jpg","filesize":228474,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Anatomy-Institute-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-5951.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/5-of-berlin-spooky-abandoned-sites\/anatomy-institute-abandoned-berlin-sleek-magazine-5951\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"anatomy-institute-abandoned-berlin-sleek-magazine-5951","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":81183,"date":"2019-10-31 11:27:05","modified":"2019-10-31 11:27:05","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Anatomy-Institute-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-5951.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":85,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Anatomy-Institute-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-5951.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":1000,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Anatomy-Institute-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-5951.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":1000,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Anatomy-Institute-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-5951.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Anatomy-Institute-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-5951.jpg","1536x1536-width":1500,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Anatomy-Institute-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-5951.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1000,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Anatomy-Institute-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-5951.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Anatomy-Institute-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-5951.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":1000}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"10","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

This place is best avoided on Halloween\u2014in case the students come back looking for more bodies to chop up. Clues hinting at their gruesome activities are abandoned all around: tiled rooms, laboratories, dissecting tables, display cases, strange contraptions, eerie auditoriums, projector rooms, hurriedly scribbled notes\u2026 and that’s before you even reach the basement! (Note: Don’t go to the basement. It will send a chill down your spine. This is where the corpses were stored, kept fresh in stainless steel fridges stacked like pigeonholes). Located in Dahlem, in the outer-skirts of the city, this was Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin\u2019s Institute of Anatomy before the facility moved for fancier facilities in Mitte in 2005. None of the corpses were in a position to complain.<\/span><\/p>\n

4.\u00a0Siemensbahn abandoned S-Bahn Line<\/span><\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":81188,"id":81188,"title":"Siemensbahn Abandoned Berlin Sleek Magazine-0079","filename":"Siemensbahn-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-0079.jpg","filesize":329165,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Siemensbahn-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-0079.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/5-of-berlin-spooky-abandoned-sites\/siemensbahn-abandoned-berlin-sleek-magazine-0079\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"siemensbahn-abandoned-berlin-sleek-magazine-0079","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":81183,"date":"2019-10-31 11:29:23","modified":"2019-10-31 11:29:23","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Siemensbahn-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-0079.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":85,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Siemensbahn-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-0079.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":1000,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Siemensbahn-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-0079.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":1000,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Siemensbahn-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-0079.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Siemensbahn-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-0079.jpg","1536x1536-width":1500,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Siemensbahn-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-0079.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1000,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Siemensbahn-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-0079.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Siemensbahn-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-0079.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":1000}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"10","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Berlin has more than its fair share of ghost stations due to the division of the city caused by the Berlin Wall. Three ghost stations haunt the tracks along the forgotten Siemensbahn, an S-Bahn line that used to start at Jungfernheide and take in S-Bahn stations Wernerwerk, Siemensstadt, before ending at Gartenfeld. They’ve been waiting for trains to trundle through again since September 1980, when a boycott of DDR-run S-Bahns through West Berlin and then a train workers’ strike gave the East German state railway enough reason to cut the service.\u00a0<\/span>There is talk of banishing the ghosts with the whoosh of new trains operating the Siemensbahn again, but they’ll be haunting this line for a long time yet.<\/span><\/p>\n

5.\u00a0W\u00fcnsdorf-Waldstadt, military headquarters\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":81187,"id":81187,"title":"Wu\u0308nsdorf Abandoned Berlin Sleek Magazine-7479","filename":"Wu\u0308nsdorf-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-7479.jpg","filesize":268682,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Wu\u0308nsdorf-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-7479.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/5-of-berlin-spooky-abandoned-sites\/wu%cc%88nsdorf-abandoned-berlin-sleek-magazine-7479\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"wu%cc%88nsdorf-abandoned-berlin-sleek-magazine-7479","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":81183,"date":"2019-10-31 11:27:28","modified":"2019-10-31 11:27:28","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Wu\u0308nsdorf-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-7479.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":85,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Wu\u0308nsdorf-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-7479.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":1000,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Wu\u0308nsdorf-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-7479.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":1000,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Wu\u0308nsdorf-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-7479.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Wu\u0308nsdorf-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-7479.jpg","1536x1536-width":1500,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Wu\u0308nsdorf-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-7479.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1000,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Wu\u0308nsdorf-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-7479.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Wu\u0308nsdorf-Abandoned-Berlin-Sleek-Magazine-7479.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":1000}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"10","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Once the Soviets abandoned the former military camp at W\u00fcnsdorf in September 1994, they left Lenin behind to look after the place. To make sure he really looked after the place, they left two statues of him\u2014 one frowning reproachfully outside a now boarded up villa, the other doing much the same across the lawn, outside the “Haus der Offiziere” (the Officers\u2019 House). The two of them have been haunting the place since, presumably with the spirits of any number of disgruntled soldiers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

W\u00fcnsdorf’s military history began long before the Russians arrived, going back to the time of the Imperial German Army and Prussian Army. By 1914,\u00a0 W\u00fcnsdorf was Europe\u2019s largest military base, hosting Germany’s first mosque for muslim POWs, and was later used by the Nazis, becoming the Wehrmacht headquarters in 1935.\u00a0<\/span>After WWII, W\u00fcnsdorf\u00a0 reinvented itself as the Red Army\u2019s headquarters in Germany. It was the biggest Soviet military camp outside the USSR, so big it was known as Little Moscow, with trains running to the real Moscow every day. To locals, it was “die Verbotene Stadt” (the Forbidden City), off-limits unless the Russians said otherwise. But they’re gone now. Only their ghosts remain.<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Ciar\u00e1n Fahey is the author of Abandoned Berlin<\/a>. 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