I wanted to use the underground bunkers and tunnels of Berlin from the Nazi era in my new book where a vampire coven lives but if they are open to the public then I obviously cannot. Does anyone know if they are closed to the public?
Question About Berlin's Underground Tunnels/Bunkers
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There are loads of them, and certainly not all of them are open, at least not officially.
There was a very good series on under-city tunnels shown in the UK a while back and it had a Berlin episode. I recommend it if you can get hold of a copy. It's this:
http://www.history.co.uk/shows/cities-of-the-underworld/season-1/episode-guide.html
There was a very good series on under-city tunnels shown in the UK a while back and it had a Berlin episode. I recommend it if you can get hold of a copy. It's this:
http://www.history.co.uk/shows/cities-of-the-underworld/season-1/episode-guide.html
There are several that are open to the public and shown in tours, although I'd say it's possible for a coven to live there without being found. I've been to three tours and those bunkers are huge. Really huge and really dark and on tours you're only shown small parts of the bunkers and can't even see to the end.
You'd have to do some more digging, because a few bunkers are subway stations and I don't know if those that aren't open to the public are as well taken care of.
You'd have to do some more digging, because a few bunkers are subway stations and I don't know if those that aren't open to the public are as well taken care of.
I've been.
http://berliner-unterwelten.de/home.1.1.html
They're open to the public and used for tours. Right now they're in the process of selling most of them and they'll be converted into businesses. Night-clubs and such. So it's the last chance to see many of them. After WW2 they were converted into nuclear bunkers and have that 60'ies futuristic look about them. Hitler's bunker was filled up after the war. But the lower levels are still intact I think. They're in the process of excavating them now I think.
Berlin has a problem of being built on what basically is a swamp, with very high groundwater making maintaining bunkers impractical. It's really the worst place to have anything underground. This means that if there's not plenty of money in maintaining them they won't, and they'll flood. At the height of the cold war, despite their best efforts, West Berlin had nuclear bunkers for about 3% of the west Berlin population. This can be compared to Stockholm which had bunkers for 100% of it's population. Stockholm is built on solid granite. This is what they told me on the tour.
But just make shit up. Nobody is going to care if it's realistic or not. In everybody's imagination there's always hidden passages below filled with monsters. Go for it.
http://berliner-unterwelten.de/home.1.1.html
They're open to the public and used for tours. Right now they're in the process of selling most of them and they'll be converted into businesses. Night-clubs and such. So it's the last chance to see many of them. After WW2 they were converted into nuclear bunkers and have that 60'ies futuristic look about them. Hitler's bunker was filled up after the war. But the lower levels are still intact I think. They're in the process of excavating them now I think.
Berlin has a problem of being built on what basically is a swamp, with very high groundwater making maintaining bunkers impractical. It's really the worst place to have anything underground. This means that if there's not plenty of money in maintaining them they won't, and they'll flood. At the height of the cold war, despite their best efforts, West Berlin had nuclear bunkers for about 3% of the west Berlin population. This can be compared to Stockholm which had bunkers for 100% of it's population. Stockholm is built on solid granite. This is what they told me on the tour.
But just make shit up. Nobody is going to care if it's realistic or not. In everybody's imagination there's always hidden passages below filled with monsters. Go for it.
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