Urbex: Güterbahnhof Pankow

On the 02-01-2014 we explored the abandoned freight yard in Pankow. We had to get off at S-Bahn station Pankow-Heinersdorf, where my brother and me met some friends for exploration. We just went back over the bridge and took the small path leading towards some garden plots. Just next to this we could see the estimated area, closed down with alot of fences and a huge iron door. The door was locked, but apparently nearly all of the fences were broken down. So we could just hop over and there we were. 



Right infront of us there was this huge round building. We took a path of cobblestones, which definetly formed a track bed in the past. The round building had a platform to move trains in a circular way into different tracks, which all surrounded the platform in the middle like a star. The building itself was huge, but all the interesting things like the tracks were covered with heavy wood pieces. Also there was no interior at all, everything besides some hooks and metal things seemed to be removed once.





We continued exploring the area in the North. We walked past alot of garages, which were all locked. The whole way was covered with tree branches, it was a little hard to get through it. The nature took back what was its years ago. 





In one garage, which was almost completly broken down, we found an old car full of rust and graffiti tags. On our right side there was a long wall with concrete installations, which definetly formed some sort of tracks in the past. 



 

Finally we reached another part of the area, a huge building in the shape of a semi circle surrounding another railway turntable. Probably these buildings were some kind of storage or repair places for trains. The building had spaces under the tracks, probably for inspection of the stored machines. 





Next to this building there were some smaller ones. But unfortunatly none of them was enterable.



At all this was a nice area, but it's kind of overpopulated. You see alot of other explorers and graffiti sprayers. Also almost everything was destroyed and so the whole area seemed a little alienated. But it's definetly worth a visit.