{"id":48282,"date":"2022-08-13T23:43:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T21:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=48282"},"modified":"2022-08-16T21:56:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T19:56:06","slug":"an-abandoned-museum-in-germany-with-tanks-helicopters-and-fighter-planes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/08\/13\/an-abandoned-museum-in-germany-with-tanks-helicopters-and-fighter-planes\/","title":{"rendered":"An abandoned museum in Germany with tanks, helicopters and fighter planes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It's always sad to see a historic building abandoned, but it's even sadder to see a museum that contains real gems of military history.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/06\/24\/a-decrepit-aeronautical-museum-with-some-aviation-gems-in-terrible-shape\/\">A decrepit aeronautical museum with some aviation gems in terrible shape<\/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>This is the case of the <strong>Motor Technica Museum in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany.<\/strong> This private museum opened its doors in 1971, with numerous and varied objects related to the motor world, from civilian vehicles to combat tanks, and also aircraft. <strong>The museum closed in 2007 and has been abandoned ever since.<\/strong> A video by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/AnderswohinDe1\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ulrich Kronenberg<\/a> shows a small part of what can still be seen from the outside, as the undergrowth has almost completely covered some of the vehicles:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"VERLASSENES MUSEUM | Bad Oeynhausen | LOST PLACES | abandoned| mylife 112 | anderswohin\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0mpQmqVljo8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can see some screenshots of the video below. We start with this jewel: <strong>the turret of one of the first prototypes of the Leopard 2 main battle tank<\/strong>, with a style very similar to that of the Leopard 1 and very different from the one that the standard Leopard 2 finally carried.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52283531353_abbe75f4d2_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21MF-75 fighter<\/strong>, c\/n 96002112, one of the examples transferred to the Luftwaffe by the GDR Air Force after German unification. The original number of the plane was 23+48, but in the museum it appears as 22+28.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52283531373_5f45005812_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Mil Mi-8PS of the Nationale Volksarmee<\/strong> (the Army of the GDR), with c\/n 10552, and numeral 970, preserved with its original decoration.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52283522276_35c242d9f7_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A two-seater Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23UB fighter of the GDR Air Force.<\/strong> The aircraft bears the number 20-58.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52283531428_0240646790_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Soviet Air Force MiG-21SPS fighter.<\/strong> It bears the numeral 353 and the inscription \"MUSEUM\" was added to the fuselage, surely as a claim.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52283790944_ee240a8a20_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always sad to see a historic building abandoned, but it&#8217;s even sadder to see a museum that contains real gems of military history.<\/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":[12876,16888],"tags":[17193,10929,2290,2678,3539,16026,14193,17192],"class_list":["post-48282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excluir-de-anotaciones-eng","category-museums","tag-bad-oeynhausen","tag-germany","tag-leopard-2","tag-luftwaffe","tag-mikoyan-gurevich-mig-21","tag-mikoyan-gurevich-mig-23","tag-mil-mi-8","tag-motor-technica-museum"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 03:15:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=48282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}