{"id":47444,"date":"2022-05-19T23:28:31","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T21:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=47444"},"modified":"2026-05-19T00:37:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:37:44","slug":"an-atypical-graveyard-of-50-classic-cars-and-a-plane-in-the-middle-of-a-forest-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/05\/19\/an-atypical-graveyard-of-50-classic-cars-and-a-plane-in-the-middle-of-a-forest-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"An atypical graveyard of 50 classic cars and a plane in the middle of a forest in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the world there are many car graveyards, but none is like this one that can be seen near the city of D\u00fcsseldorf, in western Germany.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/05\/17\/the-strange-case-of-a-beacon-in-the-middle-of-a-desert-and-more-than-160-km-from-the-coast\/\">The strange case of a beacon in the middle of a desert and more than 160 km from the coast<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/04\/29\/davis-monthan-afb-a-bus-tour-of-the-worlds-largest-aircraft-graveyard\/\">Davis-Monthan AFB: A bus tour of the world\u2019s largest aircraft graveyard<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>In this graveyard there are 50 classic cars. Not one more, not one less. There's a little bit of everything, <strong>from vintage utility vehicles to this 1950 Willys M-38 Jeep<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52085187406_5b35d93ba2_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is also a 1950 <strong>Buick Eight<\/strong> and a 1950 <strong>Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn<\/strong>, as well as the beautiful 1950 <strong>Jaguar Xk120<\/strong> that you can see in the photo at the top of this post.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52085187446_1dfea49cb2_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There's also <strong>a British K6 phone booth<\/strong> (yes, you guessed it: also from 1950). Likewise, you can also see <strong>a piece of the Berlin Wall<\/strong> there.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52085187436_89313b464c_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Among the dilapidated remains of this forest is this plane<\/strong>, the model of which I do not know but which, judging by the propellers, has never flown.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52085211283_6196c245eb_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>These images are taken from the following video of the group of German urban explorers<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/BrokenWindowTheoryUrbex\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Broken Window Theory<\/a> (the video is in German, you can activate the automatic subtitles in Spanish in the bottom bar of the player):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AsNBAwEcWNM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As the video points out, <strong>this car graveyard is actually an artistic work by Michael Fr\u00f6hlich<\/strong>, a German millionaire who builds electric sports cars and also collects classic cars. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/es\/los-veh%C3%ADculos-fant%C3%A1sticos-de-michael-fr%C3%B6hlich\/av-59149472\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">For his 50th birthday, celebrated in 2000, he bought 50 classic cars built in 1950 (his year of birth)<\/a>, and abandoned them in a forest located on a private estate on the outskirts of the aforementioned German city. Before he extracted all the liquids. <strong>His purpose is to see how these cars <em>\"evolve when the human being abandons them <\/strong>and nature begins to create its natural work of art.\"<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the world there are many car graveyards, but none is like this one that can be seen near the city of D\u00fcsseldorf, in western Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,16877],"tags":[16608,16611,10929,16609,14108,16610,16607],"class_list":["post-47444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-ruins","tag-buick-eight","tag-dusseldorf","tag-germany","tag-jaguar-xk120","tag-jeep-willys-m-38","tag-michael-frohlich","tag-rolls-royce-silver-dawn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}