Mar 21, 2024 · Digital Cosmonaut. Explore Berlin. Explore Brandenburg; Explore Europe; Soviet War Memorials; Kriegerdenkmale; Nazi Eagles; About. Subscribe to our Newsletter; Toggle sidebar & navigation. Briefly Historic: Tacheles and the Reichstag We passed by whats left of Tacheles the other day. Built by Franz Ahrens Between 1907 and 1908, the ...

Digital Cosmonaut. Digital Cosmonaut. Berlin Entdecken. Brandenburg Entdecken; Über Uns. Newsletter; Toggle sidebar & navigation. Sonderwaffenlager Neuthymen Während viele die Städte und Militärbasen der sowjetischen Gäste in Wünsdorf, Jüterbog und Krampnitz kennen, ist es kein Geheimnis, dass Fürstenberg an der Havel (und seine ...

Digital Cosmonaut is a Berlin based blog focused on documenting and explaining the mundane, obscure, forgotten and sometimes obvious aspects of Berlins history.

The steady decline of film photography and production has become a mere side note in today’s digital world. Every so often you’ll see a small news article pop up stating […]

Nov 17, 2023 · Trafalgar square might be one of the busiest and well known squares in London. With its giant Nelson Column, the fourth plinth, dirty pigeons and its central location, the square […]

Feb 1, 2024 · Cosmonauts, Communists, and the Kremlin in East Berlin Dec 17, 2021 If there’s one policy from the German Democratic Republic that has left a lasting positive impression, then it would be the “Kunst im öffentlichen Raum” and the “Kunst am Bau” […]

Hintergrundinfos zum Teufelsberg. Fangen wir mal mit dem wohl bekanntesten Lost Place in Berlin an – dem Teufelsberg. Als die Nazis planten Berlin in die neue Reichshauptstadt „Germania“ umzuwandeln, hatten sie vor im Grunewald eine komplett neue Universitätsstadt zu errichten. 1937 wurde mit dem Bau der Wehrtechnischen Fakultät begonnen, der jedoch bald ins Stocken geriet und im ...

Digital Cosmonaut on 04/06/2020 at • Reply The issue is less about there being a sign and more about the fact that youve got neo nazis flocking to the place and creating their own memorial (even if its just right wing idiots painting a name on a rock).

Digital Cosmonaut. on 19/05/2020 at • Reply. Thanks for the kind words Joshua – nice to get some positive feedback after spending so much time on this (the first memorial we wrote about was the one in Buch all the way back in 2013). If there’s one memorial thats worth going out your way for it’s Marzahn.

While the German Democratic Republic might suffer from the stigma today that it was technologically backward (which was true for certain fields), it was a creative and adaptive country which produced world class products and technology that’s still in use today (many of today’s planetariums are still equipped by technology invented in the GDR). ...