Teufelsberg, Former Cold War listening station in Grunewald, Germany.
Teufelsberg is a 120-metre artificial hill in the Grunewald forest of western Berlin, heaped from wartime rubble over the unfinished Wehrtechnische Fakultät designed by Albert Speer. On and around the former listening station at the summit stand five pale grey radar domes with hexagonal panel patterns: the largest crowns an open lattice tower, two sit side by side on a blue and grey block, and two smaller ones stand to the left.
After 1945, the hill was built up with rubble and buried the incomplete remains of a Nazi military compound that the Allies could not demolish. During the 1960s, this site became a major Cold War listening station.
The abandoned buildings and radomes have become an open gallery where artists continuously create and display street art and murals on almost every surface.
You can visit daily and reach the top either on foot or by bicycle over a sloped path. Wear sturdy shoes because the terrain can be uneven and the climb gets steeper near the summit.
The ski jump built on the slope in 1955 was enlarged in 1962 with seating for 5,000 spectators, but its use stopped in 1969 because it interfered with the listening station's reception, and it was dismantled in 1999.
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