Strausberg Bunker, Cold War telephone exchange and bunker in Strausberg, Germany

The Strausberg Bunker is a former telecommunications center built in the early 1980s with two underground levels containing work areas and technical installations. The facility served as a protected location for East German military communications operations.

Deutsche Post built this fortified communications complex in the early 1980s as a key part of East Germany's nationwide message network. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the structure remained intact and public tours began in 2019.

The site is being redeveloped by the nonprofit association Orte der Geschichte e.V., which since 2018 has sought to turn the bunker into an extracurricular learning and education center and a meeting place for creative and historically interested people. The several-hundred-meter access tunnel is planned as a gallery, and the whole complex is to be opened to the public step by step. The overall project is called Altes Postgelände, and since 2017 the former waterworks houses the Strausberger Theater Die Andere Welt Bühne.

Access is through organized tours arranged by the Orte der Geschichte association, so advance arrangement is required. The complex is entirely underground, so plan to spend time exploring the different levels and rooms.

The tunnel system under the site is being gradually transformed into an art gallery, linking historical structures with contemporary art creation. This unusual conversion shows how the location is reinterpreting its industrial past.