"If you go out in the woods today you're sure of a big surprise
If you go out in the woods today you'd better go in disguise"
Teufelesberg Berlin :
If you go out in the woods today you'd better go in disguise"
Teufelesberg Berlin :
Recently while walking through the Northern end of the Grunewald I came across something that is quiet well known other than to me and perhaps a few other people in the world: The ruins of a NSA Listening Station.
Although it is cordoned off with plenty of barbed wire there are of course scattered points of (illegal) entrance.
So a little back ground on this curiosity:
The Teufelsberg itself is a "Rubble" mountain (like many of the hills in Berlin) made up of an estimated 400 000 buildings, the most significant building being the former Nazi Military Technical College, the Allies attempted to explode the building but it was to sturdy and covering it in debris turned out to be the easiest way.
The Listening Station itself was run by the Americans (even though Teufelsberg was in the British Sector of Berlin), it was one of the premier listening points used in the Cold War.
The station continued to operate after the Fall of the Berlin Wall and East Germany. In the 1990's the station was purchased with plans to build Hotels and Luxus Apartments however the project became unprofitable and now sits registered as "forest land" eliminating the possibility for development.
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Although it is cordoned off with plenty of barbed wire there are of course scattered points of (illegal) entrance.
So a little back ground on this curiosity:
The Teufelsberg itself is a "Rubble" mountain (like many of the hills in Berlin) made up of an estimated 400 000 buildings, the most significant building being the former Nazi Military Technical College, the Allies attempted to explode the building but it was to sturdy and covering it in debris turned out to be the easiest way.
The Listening Station itself was run by the Americans (even though Teufelsberg was in the British Sector of Berlin), it was one of the premier listening points used in the Cold War.
The station continued to operate after the Fall of the Berlin Wall and East Germany. In the 1990's the station was purchased with plans to build Hotels and Luxus Apartments however the project became unprofitable and now sits registered as "forest land" eliminating the possibility for development.
For further readings:
NSA Field Station Teufelsberg- a late post mortem
about a 33 minute walk from the station.
NSA Field Station Teufelsberg- a late post mortem
about a 33 minute walk from the station.
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