Autumn Tours / III

1          Tour Along the Wriezener Bahn From Stadtbahn To Höhenschönhausen
2          Tour From the Socialists' Cemetery to Socialism's End
3          Through BUCH

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^{^ToC} 1 Tour Along the Wriezener Bahn From Stadtbahn To Höhenschönhausen

We start at the S-Bahn station Frierichsfelde Ost.
Take the elevator which brings you directly from the platform to the Rhinstr.
Try to cross the Rhinstr. (dangerous and illegal !-)

On the north-east corner of the crossing of street and railway there is a very steep footpath leading to the railway area (this is legal again, don't worry !-)

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There is a small Schrebergarten-Siedlung. We follow its main way eastward, which runs along the large heating tubes and the railway line. After about hundred meters it turns north. We follow a relict and nearly totally overgrwon railway path. This once was the connection between the Stadtbahn and the most important industrial "Wriezener Bahn" railway leading to Marzahn and Hohenschönhausen.

(There are wrong GPS coordinates with the first photos, dunno why !-)

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In principle. our tour follows this trace, but we have to make some deroutes. E.g. here the huge silos of the concrete factory are built directly onto the trace. On the other hand, this factory is the only one still using it, but the opposite direction!

We come to a small !bridge!, just before this obstacle, and have to climb down its left side (dangerous!) Then we follow the old trace of the heating tube.

This is all old devastated railway ground. There are a lot ot these places in Berlin (as in the Ruhrgebiet!) and shows how important railwaying was in the early times of industry.

Nowadays it enlightens our heart with hidden floral beauties!

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At its end, we have to climb the fence and come out at the Magerviehhof ("Meager Cattle Trading Ground").

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Turn to the west and you can enter the small seddling "Auf der Alm". Living here should be like Switzerland in the heart of the city!

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Nowadays you can enter the Magerviehof without restrictions (up to last summer there wss a car trader on the premises!) Now we see the silos from the other side, approach them!

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Then follow the railway north!
(ATTENTION, parts are still in use! So one of you should look BACK every three seconds!)

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This is the "Arbeitsamt von hinten":

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This is the water supply junction at the end of the Gewerbegebiet "Beilsteiner Str."
Please note that the humble author of these lines sacrified HOURS of exhausting marches under Berlin's burning summer sun for finalliy finding out that there is NO access to this beautifil area from the official streets.

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Follow the railway further north. You are approaching the Orwo-Platte in the Frank-Zappa-Street. Just feel the noize and you are rite!

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Marzahn/Springpfuhl makes up the horizon:

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UNDER the Landsberger Alle (Beware, it's illegal again, and it's dangerous!
But it's great!)

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Follow left the curve to the left (be careful, to the right there is much traffic, and EVEN HERE the old rails are sometimes used for PARKING a loc!) Then you will reach the PAPENPFUHL, one of the nicest places here in Hohenschönhausen! Hardly anyone knows, so there is no litter.

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If you'r clever enough to find the outgoing railway, you can follow it and end up at Gärtnerstraße and visit the SED-concentration-camp.

If not, you have to find the TRAM-stop (just follow the noize from the Orwo-Platte!) This is much more convenient.
Good luck, and remember (1) watch your steps, and (2) don't worry, it doesn't look like, but you'r in the middle of civilisation!

^{^ToC} 2 Tour From the Socialists' Cemetery to Socialism's End

Starting from Lichtenberg S-Bahn, we walk north the railway eastward, follow the Gudrunstraße, and reach the Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde.

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At its west border there is a gate in the fence where you can reach the premises of the old GÄRTNEREI. (But you have to climb over the fence, and there is a more legal way further north!-)

Anyhow, the old Gartenbau is now part of the upcoming "Landschaftspark Herzberge" and wilderness is rapidly retreating!

In the heart of the (now vanishing) wilderness laid the "Evangelisches Krankenhaus Königin Elisabeth Herzberge", or "K-E-H".

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But behind its immediately getting wild again: an old STADIUM which is deserted since 40 years. Now they started to build a paved street, but for a long time THIS BUILDING on the parking lot of KEH was the ONLY entrance from this side:

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This is the heart of darkness, the deserted stadium:

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Approaching its nothern border, we approach Landsberger Alle and civilisation again!

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Here there were huge storage halls of the GDR trading companies. Now, after twenty years, they are demolished and you can admire the gigantic dimensions!

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^{^ToC} 3 Through BUCH

Walking around in BUCH you will see the famous HEIL-ANSTALT (a word which nowadays can make you feel REALLY sick !-), the lovely park, which is enlived by the PANKE crossing it, and the KÜNSTLERHOF. All of them are worth visiting.
(This is, as an exception, a tour which is NOT exhausting and also fits for fifty-plus !-)

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This is the "Künstlerhof" (artists' premises):

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The HEILANSTALT consists of many small buildings (once used as domiciles for the leading physicians) which are arranged in a very loose way, and large hospital buildings arranged in a very fixed, symmetrical setting.

This demonstrates the old and the new way of housing:

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I told my fellow that this is the crematory, where they get rid of amputated smokers' legs, etc. He answered that this would not require such a high chimney, but I convinced him pointing out the special kind of pollution !-)

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This is the first of the large main buildings, built exactly into the central axis. I think its quite impressive!

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These are the new buildings, at the eastern end of the area:

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Finally, back through the park, again:

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