Humboldthain Flak Tower (Berlin)
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Second World War 1939-1945, ruins, surface-to-air missile site / sam
Part of Albert Speer's "Inner Ring of Defence" against air attacks during World War 2. Each of the four towers held massive anti-aircraft guns with numerous smaller gauge guns around the tower. After the war the Russian occupying forces (despite it technically being West Berlin) attempted to blow up the tower. Its walls are up to 3 metres thick and only half of it was destroyed. Although the park was previously flat, a man made hill is now constructed with rubble from the post war cleanup that was also used to fill the tower and piled around it. It is possible to walk up the hill and to the top of the two remaining towers, with a nice view over Berlin. The Flak tower has been partly cleaned out and is available for tours with the "Berlin Underground" club.
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Coordinates: 52°32'50"N 13°23'5"E
- German Navy HQ - Corall 25 km
- Former Oranienburg airfield (Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke) 25 km
- Battle of Seelow Heights (April 16th-19th, 1945) - WW2 69 km
- Ravensbruck (WWII Nazi Concentration Camp) 73 km
- former Goliath transmitter 134 km
- Remains of Development Works (EW) of the former Heeresversuchsanstalt Peenemünde 181 km
- WW II - Peenemunde missiles development base 183 km
- Stalag Luft I 210 km
- Nadarzyce 232 km
- Place of flooding of the ships 327 km
- Gesundbrunnen 0.4 km
- Gesundbrunnen-Center 0.4 km
- Technology Park (previously AEG) 0.6 km
- new housing development 0.9 km
- Mauerpark 1.2 km
- Berlin Wall Memorial Site 1.4 km
- Arkonaplatz 1.6 km
- Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark 1.6 km
- Mitte 2.9 km
- Prenzlauer Berg 3.5 km