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Inside the Ruins of Berlin's NSA Spy Station
On the second-highest hill in Berlin sits the carved-out remnants of Field Station Berlin Teufelsberg, a former NSA spy station used to collect signals intelligence on Soviet-aligned East Germany during the Cold War. Before the aging structure decays beyond repair, a newly appointed manager hopes to give a second life to this architectural relic from a very different, yet not-too-distant, time. Can it be saved? We went inside the graffitied and hollowed out building to get a sense of its future.
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TEUFELSBERG: GRAFFITI IN BERLIN'S DEVIL MOUNTAIN
Teufelsberg in Berlin is an abandoned United States NSA Listening Station just outside the German capital. After World War 2, thousands of tons of rubble had to be moved out of the city. They created a manmade hill, and named it Devil's Mountain. During the Cold War, the USA built a spy base on it's summit to listen to the radio communications of the Soviet occupied East Berlin, and surrounding Eastern Germany. Since the wall fell, it's been left in ruins and has become a haven for Graffiti Artists. At one time, you were able to just go. However now, there are people who tend to the area and fend off trespassers. There are still ways to visit Teufelsberg, make sure to check online first.
If you like graffiti, abandoned places, street art, or James Bond Moon Bases.... then put this on your bucket list. It's one of the most incredible things to do in Berlin, and there really isn't much else like it anywhere in the world. You can get there by taking the Bahn to Grunewald Forest in the West, you can also see the domes when flying to Berlin Airport.
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Teufelsberg, Berlin. Abandoned American NSA spy station
Teufelsberg Radar Station, Berlin.
The US National Security Agency (NSA) built one of its largest listening stations on top of the hill, rumored to be part of the global ECHELON intelligence gathering network. The hill was located in the British sector. Mobile Allied listening units would drive to different locales in West Berlin hoping to gain the best vantage point for listening to Soviet and East German military traffic.
One such unit drove to the top of Teufelsberg and discovered a marked improvement in listening ability. This discovery eventually led to a large structure being built atop the hill, which would come to be run by the NSA.
At the request of US government, the ski lifts were removed because they allegedly disturbed the signals. The station continued to operate until the fall of East Germany and the Berlin Wall, but after that the station was closed and the equipment removed. The buildings and radar domes still remain in place.
During the NSA Operations some other curious things happened: It was noticed that during certain times the reception of the radio signals was better than during the rest of the year. The 'culprit' was found after a while: it was the Ferris wheel of the annual German-American Festival on the Hüttenweg in Zehlendorf.[citation needed] From then on, the Ferris wheel was left standing for some time after the festival was over.
There were also rumors that the Americans had excavated a shaft down into the ruins beneath, but that could never be proven. One theory states that it was an underground escape tunnel.
In the 1990s, as Berlin experienced an economic boom after German reunification, a group of investors bought the former listening station area from the City of Berlin with the intention to build hotels and apartments. There was talk of preserving the listening station as a spy museum. Berlin's building boom produced a glut of buildings, however, and the Teufelsberg project became unprofitable.
The construction project was then aborted. As of the early 2000s, there has been talk of the city buying back the hill. However, this is unlikely, as the area is encumbered with a mortgage of nearly 50 million dollars. Recently the site has been vandalized heavily since the company abandoned the project.
Following the announcement of plans to raze the facility and reforest the hill[1], talk of preserving the facility resurfaced in 2009, spearheaded by the Field Station Berlin Veterans Group, which hopes to have the memorial named in honor of Major Arthur D. Nicholson, the last Cold War casualty, the U.S. Military Liaison Mission tour officer who was shot and killed by a Russian sentry near Ludwigslust on March 24, 1985.[2]. After no further construction was done after 2004, in 2006 the hilltop was categorized as forest in the land use plan of Berlin, thereby eliminating the possibility of building.[3]
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Die Radarstation auf dem Teufelsberg befindet sich im Berliner Grunewald auf der zweithöchsten Erhebung der Stadt. Der Teufelsberg misst eine Höhe von 120,1 m mit einem Plateau von 48000 m².
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Places to see in ( Berlin - Germany ) Teufelsberg
Places to see in ( Berlin - Germany ) Teufelsberg
A listening station during the Cold War, today, a popular place for a day out in the Grunewald. Enjoy a fantastic view of Berlin from Teufelsberg. Look to the east and see the TV Tower and cathedral sparling in the setting sun. 114 metres up on a hill of rubble, the view of Germany’s capital is uniquely beautiful. Teufelsberg played the role of its life in the drama known as the Cold War – as an American listening station.
In the early 20th century the area was covered in bogs and mud, but that all changed when the Nazis came to power. As part of the plans for Germania – Hitler’s vision for a completely renewed Berlin – work began on the construction of a university faculty for military technology, but it was never completed, and destroyed in the war. After the war, trucks brought rubble from the rest of the devastated city to the site near Heerstraße and it soon piled up to become the highest point in West Berlin. The dumping stopped in 1972, trees were planted to make the man-made hill more attractive, and a ski slope was built complete with a ski lift, a ski jump and a toboggan run.
The Americans also soon recognised the usefulness of the artificial hill. From the 1950s onwards, antennas and radomes were erected on its two hilltops for espionage and intercepting communications. Huge dishes were built for intercepting, listening to and jamming radio signals from the Eastern Bloc.The field station was used by the American forces until the end of the Cold War in 1989. The four striking radomes are what still gives Teufelsberg its mysterious aura today, because not until 2020 when the archives are opened will the public be able to find out find out what was listened to, and what methods were used.
After the end of the Cold War and the departure of the allied forces, the complex was used for air traffic control until 1999, when the city government sold it. However, all the plans for a new use came to nothing. In 2007, the American film director David Lynch wanted to buy the complex in in order to set up a “Vedic Peace University” with the controversial Maharishi Foundation.
Today, tours are available where you can view the remains of the complex with its five large radar domes. The listening station is now probably the most well-known of Berlin’s formerly secret sites. The ruins of the station and its satellite dishes are covered in graffiti and exude a morbid charm. You can still feel the spirit of the Cold War which once permeated the city.
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Mini Vlog: Exploring Teufelsberg, Berlin, Germany
Back in July we took a trip to Berlin and I seem to have fogotten all about the mini vlogs I made when there. So here is a mini video from our visit to Teufelsberg, Teufelsberg is a man-made hill in Berlin, Germany, in the Grunewald locality of former West Berlin. It rises about 80 metres above the surrounding Teltow plateau and 120.1 metres above the sea level, in the north of Berlin's Grunewald Forest. It was named after the Teufelssee in its southerly vicinity.
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The Teufelsberg, the lost US Empire in Berlin.
The Teufelsberg (German for Devil's Mountain) is a hill in Berlin, Germany, in former West Berlin. It rises about 80 meters above the surrounding Brandenburg plain, more precisely the north of Berlin's Grunewald forest.
It is an artificial hill with a curious history: it was built by the Allies after the Second World War from the rubble of Berlin during the following twenty years as the city was rebuilt. One estimate for the amount of rubble is about 12 million cubic meters, or about 400,000 buildings. It is higher than the highest natural hill (the Kreuzberg) in the Berlin area.
Teufelsberg's origin does not in itself make Teufelsberg unique, as there are many similar man-made rubble mounds in Germany (see Schuttberg) and other war-torn cities of Europe. The curiousness begins with what is buried underneath the hill: a Nazi military-technical college designed by Albert Speer. The Allies tried using explosives to demolish the school, but it was so sturdy that covering it with debris turned out to be easier.
In the 1960s a small skiing center was built on the slopes of the hill.
The place has been a location for movies, like The Gamblers, 2007, by Sebastian Bieniek.
As in the whole Grunewald, wild boar, nicknamed grunie pigs by American soldiers, frequently roam the hill.
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Field Station Berlin Teufelsberg: Former NSA spy station during the Cold War. Graffiti type art now covers the former station. Welcome to the Art Gallery on the hill.
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Teufelsberg -- debris mountain in Berlin
The Teufelsberg represents the second biggest mountain inside Berlin/Germany. It consists of rubble from the Second World War and extends about 80 m out of the plain around. It is named after a lake, which is located very nearby: the Teufelssee.
The Teufelsberg is part of the Grunewald, an urban forest in the west of Berlin.
In the 1940ies, the area of the mountain was built-up with the shell construction of the technological faculty, which should become part of the Welthauptstadt Germania (World Capital Germania).
After the Second World War, the building was blown up, and its rests were used as building material for the reconstruction of buildings, which were destroyed during the war.
Since 1950 the ruins were filled up with rubble from the bombed town.
Until 1972 about a third of all rubble from bombed buildings in Berlin were transported to the top of this mountain.
After 1970 finally, the Teufelsberg was formed into a nature and free time area. Skiing and mountainbiking for example were enabled. Today, also during the summer, people use the winds on the top of the mountain to fly kites.
Since the late 1950s during the Cold War a listening station was built close to the Teufelsberg, which still exists as a ruin.