Classic Cars
50 classic cars are resting in peace in a private park near Düsseldorf. The cars were a gift of owner Michael Fröhlich to himself for his 50th birthday in 2000. All cars date from 1950 and every car symbolises a Read More …
Category: Lost places
Train Station Wuppertal Küllenhahn
1 April 1891: The first train arrives on the platform at Wuppertal Küllenhahn station – almost a hundred years later, in 1988, it is over. The railway line from Wuppertal-Steinbeck (at the bottom of the valley of the Wupper) to Read More …
Airport Berlin-Tempelhof (THF)
Would you like to take some photos inside and around a disused airport? In 2008 one of the first airports in Germany was shut down: Airport Berlin-Tempelhof (THF). The former runways, called Tempelhofer Feld or – officially – Tempelhofer Freiheit, Read More …
Otzenrath – Swallowed by Surface Mining
Industrialisation changed everything. By 1985 people learned that they had to leave their homes. Rheinbraun, a leading mining company, wanted to excavate lignite under their homes. Of course, people protested but in 2000 relocation started. 1816 inhabitants of Otzenrath had Read More …