koenau (@koenau)
Life's a travel into nowhere
Freddie Mercury: The bearded Queen
Not mother or father, not the little sister, and—perhaps—only the first girlfriend. In the late 1970s, a young Queen fan in the GDR carried different images in their wallet, treating them like icon...
Forest of Memories: The Ghosttown of the Coastline
This is a cross post of @koenau/forest-of-memories-the-ghosttown-of-the-coastline by @koenau. Forest of Memories: The Ghosttown of the Coastline Across the Baltic coast, East German enterprises bas...
Forest of Memories: The Ghosttown of the Coastline
Across the Baltic coast, East German enterprises based inland maintained holiday camps for their employees' children. Many of the dream destinations for entire generations have vanished. Yet one sp...
Dream of flying: The dark tower
This is a cross post of @koenau/dream-of-flying-the-dark-tower by @koenau. . Countless gloomy hangars, buildings, and bunkers still bear witness today to the site's history—ranging from its time as...
Dream of flying: The dark tower
A century ago, the first tender shoots of enthusiasm for aviation began to sprout in the small German town Köthen. Countless gloomy hangars, buildings, and bunkers still bear witness today to the s...
A Lost Cause of hops and malt: The burned time capsule
This is a cross post of @koenau/a-lost-cause-of-hops-and-malt-the-burned-time-capsule by @koenau. Three decades of vacancy and failed investment attempts had long since turned the imposing building...
A Lost Cause of hops and malt: The burned time capsule
Three decades of vacancy and failed investment attempts had long since turned the imposing buildings of the malt factory in the German town of Köthen into a "lost place." Then, large sections of th...
Forgotten Places: The lost Cradle of Cycling
This is a cross post of @koenau/forgotten-places-the-lost-cradle-of-cycling by @koenau. Hidden in an unassuming courtyard, just steps away from Europe’s oldest variety theater, stands a charred rui...
Forgotten Places: The lost Cradle of Cycling
Hidden in an unassuming courtyard, just steps away from Europe’s oldest variety theater, stands a charred ruin that almost no one remembers. Where mountains of rubble and decay now pile up, thousan...
The Concrete Playground: Met the last lost Elephant
This is a cross post of @koenau/the-concrete-playground-met-the-last-lost-elephant by @koenau. Remnants of a socialist-era local recreation area have survived within a landscape in the Mansfeld reg...
The Concrete Playground: Met the last lost Elephant
Remnants of a socialist-era local recreation area have survived within a landscape in the Mansfeld region that was artificially created 170 years ago. The former "Pioneer Railway" is running again,...
Saving Shaft Paul II: Deep hole into history
This is a cross post of @koenau/saving-shaft-paul-ii-deep-hole-into-history by @koenau. Lying half-hidden in the undergrowth along the B 91 federal highway between the two east German cities Weißen...
Saving Shaft Paul II: Deep hole into history
Lying half-hidden in the undergrowth along the B 91 federal highway between the two east German cities Weißenfels and Zeitz are the remains of the Paul II lignite mine shaft. Underground mining in ...
Germanys Hearst Castle: A Dream of Stone and Concrete
This is a cross post of @koenau/germanys-hearst-castle-a-dream-of-stone-and-concrete by @koenau. A narrow road leads up the mountain, past a dilapidated farmstead where the remnants of times gone b...
Germanys Hearst Castle: A Dream of Stone and Concrete
A hundred years ago, the architect Bernhard Sehring, originally from a village named Edderitz in Mid-Germany, built his crazy vision of a retirement retreat near Ballenstedt. Today, the Roseburg is...