Concealed within the lush greenery of the Treptow Park
and barred by a rusty iron fence is the abandoned Spreepark.
This former GDR amusement center, which opened in 1969 and was best known as ‘Cultural Park Plaenterwald,’ carries with it ghostly images of a bygone era.
Once you’ve hopped over the worn ‘iron curtain’ or slid through an opening, you’ll find yourself amidst a marsh of thorny plants. Making your way past the maze of trees, fallen branches and leafy overgrowth you’ll be confronted with the remnants of this faded fairground. It’s not only the obsolete roller coaster tracks, forsaken teacup rides or the broken pieces of dinosaur statues that will give you goose bumps–it’s the silence. The echo of children’s laughter from the world beyond the fence fades away and is replaced by your heartbeat that begins to thump louder as the seconds seem to slow down. Not even the birds are chirping.
