The Olympic games are on in Rio de Janeiro. Closer, here in Berlin, I had seen ads praising another of the sought after "lost places", with decrepid buildings and lots of decaying surfaces that give such interesting motifs for photographers, mostly due to the great range of shades in midtones on the grungy old rusting structures.
On the outskirts of Berlin, in Wustermark, the Olympic Village, where 1936 the nearly 4000 male athletes were housed and fed and where they trained during the "Nazi" games, lies rusting and forgotten.
It is 17 km from the sports stadium that was built for the games. The latter one, however, has been converted to a modern stadium and is nowadays the home ground of the football club Hertha BSC and one of the most sophisticated sports venues in Europe.
We decided to have a look:
Jesse Owens won four gold medals. His room has been reconstructed and can be visited.
Unfortunately not many buildings can be entered, most of the area is cordoned off for security reasons - most of the pictures here were taken by peeking through windows or holes in doors.
After 1945 the area was occupied by the Soviet army, who abandoned the place in 1992. Their marks can also be found.
On the outskirts of Berlin, in Wustermark, the Olympic Village, where 1936 the nearly 4000 male athletes were housed and fed and where they trained during the "Nazi" games, lies rusting and forgotten.
It is 17 km from the sports stadium that was built for the games. The latter one, however, has been converted to a modern stadium and is nowadays the home ground of the football club Hertha BSC and one of the most sophisticated sports venues in Europe.
We decided to have a look:
the swimming pool
a vaulting horse
window front of the large sports hall
the "Dining Hall of Nations"
Jesse Owens won four gold medals. His room has been reconstructed and can be visited.
Unfortunately not many buildings can be entered, most of the area is cordoned off for security reasons - most of the pictures here were taken by peeking through windows or holes in doors.
After 1945 the area was occupied by the Soviet army, who abandoned the place in 1992. Their marks can also be found.
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