Trespassing Into History

GALLERY RE-EDIT!

The Reichsbahnausbesserungswerk (Railway Repair Factory - RAW for short) was located in Potsdam's Teltower Vorstadt district and in its heyday stretched from the Lange Brücke - at the Leipziger Dreieck - along Friedrich-Engels-Straße, almost as far as the Märkische Verlags- und Druck-Gesellschaft and had its main entrance opposite Schlaatzstraße.

In 1838, with the construction of the railroad line between Potsdam and Berlin, the "Königliche Eisenbahn-Hauptwerkstatt" (Royal Railway Main Workshop) was established here on an estate in the immediate vicinity of the then "Potsdam ...(more)

This extraordinary car graveyard is located directly opposite the Neanderthal Museum in Erkrath (North Rhine-Westphalia). The creator of the car sculpture park in Neandertal is called Michael Fröhlich and is the owner of the car dealership "Fantastische Fahrzeuge". He acquired 50 vintage cars from 1950 for his 50th birthday in 2000. But what makes this car sculpture park so special? The precious classic cars are exposed to natural decay in the park! Michael Fröhlich wants to illustrate the power of nature with his sometimes controversial park. He bought 50 vintage cars from all over the world for a lot of money. At the time, the cars were restored and in good condition...(more)

After the end of the Second World War, the eastern part of Germany was occupied by Soviet troops. The GDR emerged from this area in 1949. The Soviet troops occupied around 10% of the territory of the GDR. As part of the hero worship that resulted from the victory of the Red Army in the "Great Patriotic War", monuments and memorials were erected in many Soviet locations in the GDR - mostly by the soldiers of the garrisons themselves.

After the withdrawal of Soviet troops following the fall of the Berlin Wall, many of these monuments were forgotten, some were demolished and many were damaged by vandalism.....(more)