Exploring an abandoned NSA spy station: Teufelsberg, Berlin.

in #photography7 years ago (edited)

I saw the vast spheres looming on the distant hill. My feet smeared with mud and bracken, I stumbled, crazy and wild towards these futuristic orbs. What were they? What did they want from me? Why could I not resist their call? What waited for me in their wombs?

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When I first saw the spy station, I felt it's troubled structure calling to me. It's little head poked out from the forest like an otter from some coarse and brambled void:

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Soon I was closer. I checked my Guide to the Galaxy. It said:

Teufelsberg (German for Devil's Mountain) is a man-made hill in Berlin, Germany, in the Grunewald locality of former West Berlin... The US National Security Agency (NSA) built one of its largest listening stations atop the hill, rumored to be part of the global ECHELON intelligence gathering network. "The Hill", as it was known colloquially by the many American soldiers who worked there around the clock.

Soon, I had found a way in:


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Eventually, the wind and rain drove me off the roof and home. Now I only see the spheres in my dreams, their faint and lonely song lost in time.

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very nice pictures , imagine what incidents have took place there... murders ? leaked infos.. damn..

Wow! Very interesting, very creepy...

I really would like to have one of those domes! :D

Thanks for a fascinating post! ;)

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@creatr

Thanks @creatr.

They were very creepy!

What absolutely awesome photographs!!! I would love to spend a day there.

Nice shots! I have never went there eventhoug I live in berlin for some years now. I know it is a shame :D Have you checked out the abandoned Berlin place galleries by @sature yet? This one for example? I like to discover abandoned places too :) Maybe well meet at one one day ;)

Thanks @yoganarchista

Ah, cool gallery. I went to a halloween party in that abandoned anatomy school once!

I'll keep a look out for you next time I explore :)

I love this place. Todays it is a way more harder to get on this place. Bute the people owning this area are cool guys. Its an big Project.

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