{"id":59609,"date":"2025-05-16T23:34:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T21:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=59609"},"modified":"2026-05-16T03:29:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T01:29:49","slug":"the-abandoned-tunnels-of-berlin-the-most-unknown-part-of-the-german-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/05\/16\/the-abandoned-tunnels-of-berlin-the-most-unknown-part-of-the-german-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"The abandoned tunnels of Berlin, the most unknown part of the German capital"},"content":{"rendered":"

Berlin is a very old city. It was founded in 1244, and its subsoil hides things unknown to many.<\/p>\n

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Two examples of this lesser-known part of the German capital are the Eisackstrasse Tunnel<\/a>, abandoned as part of a planned subway line in 1910, and the abandoned U10 subway station<\/a>, an unfinished subway line that was part of the plan drawn up by the Berlin Senate in the 1950s to build a 200-kilometer underground railway network.<\/p>\n

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Ghost station of the U10 subway line, located above a functioning station at Potsdamer Platz (Photo: Berliner Unterwelten e.V.<\/a>).<\/div>\n

Additionally, during the Cold War, there were 16 ghost subway stations in Berlin<\/a>, located beneath Soviet-controlled East Berlin<\/strong>, through which West Berlin subway trains (controlled by the US, France, and the UK) passed without stopping. These stations were closed from 1961 to 1989 and 1990<\/strong>, and were seen daily by passengers using those subway lines.<\/p>\n

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The Dresdener Strasse ghost subway station in a 1996 photo. This station was filled with earth in 2015 (Photo: Berliner Unterwelten e.V.<\/a>).<\/div>\n

Berlin's underground hides other little-known sites, such as the Pankstrase bunker, built during the Cold War<\/a> next to the subway station of the same name. It was opened in 1977 as a civilian shelter in the event of a nuclear attack<\/strong> and had the capacity to house 3,339 people for several weeks. Disused since the end of the Cold War, it was declared a monument in 2010.<\/p>\n

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The \"Orphan Tunnel\" on Neue Friedrichstrasse, now called Littenstrasse. It is a 700-meter subway tunnel, completed between the wars and used as a shelter during World War II (Photo: Berliner Unterwelten e.V.<\/a>).<\/div>\n

A month ago, the channel Gro\u00dfe Bauten<\/a> published a video showing these underground structures in Berlin<\/strong> (the video is in German, you can activate automatic English subtitles in the bottom bar of the player):<\/p>\n