Teufelsberg US Radar Station, Berlin - Sept 2011

[UKUrbEx]

I haven't been around for a while, as some of you might know i took a few months to go travelling around Europe. I didn't stop exploring of course. Hope you enjoy it.

The US National Security Agency (NSA) built one of its largest listening stations on top of the hill, rumored to be part of the global ECHELON intelligence gathering network. “The Hill”, as it was known colloquially by the many American soldiers who worked there around the clock and who commuted there from their quarters in the American Sector, was located in the British Sector.

Prior to establishing the first permanent buildings there in the very late 1950s, Mobile Allied listening units had driven to various other locales throughout West Berlin hoping to gain the best vantage point for listening to Soviet, East German, and other Warsaw Pact nations military traffic. One such unit drove to the top of Teufelsberg and discovered a marked improvement in listening ability. This discovery eventually led to a large structure being built atop the hill, which would come to be run by the NSA (National Security Agency). At the request of US government, the ski lifts were removed because they allegedly disturbed the signals.

The station continued to operate until the fall of East Germany and the Berlin Wall, but after that the station was closed and the equipment removed. The buildings and radar domes still remain in place.































Hope you liked it, More photos, as ever on the website

[Tankman]

Some nice roof top graffiti there! Love the Sputnik Monkey!

[BadBatz]

Very nice. Thats going on my wish list!

[MJS]

Cracking site, the noise is mental in that top dome! We had a belting sunset up there.

Good pics mate, nice to see it again

[KingElvis]

That's just awesome, love it.

I would love to visit that.

[oneandsix]

Very nice,would love to check this place out

[Nicola]

Like this a lot!

[ERNIE99_UK]

absolutely brilliant stuff. itdve been demolished if it was over here.

[coops]

Really good to see this place again the view from the top is something else ...Thanks for sharing this mate

[UKUrbEx]

I have to admit, i only found out about the place by complete chance, i was talking to the guide on a free tour of the city and he mentioned it was one of his favourite spots to view Berlin, he gave me directions and I took the train over there the same day. So glad I did!