Photos from my visit to the abandoned Freudenberg Bunker
The Freudenberg Bunker is also known as Object 7001. It’s an abandoned bunker about an hour from Berlin. In August 2024 I took one of the rare opportunities to legally visit the now abandoned bunker facility. In this blog post you’ll get some information about the bunker and see photos of the inside of the bunker I took using an iPhone 15 Pro Max.
Table of Contents:
- About the Freudenberg Bunker
- Photo Spots in the Freudenberg Bunker
- How I photographed inside the Freudenberg Bunker
- Is Freudenberg Bunker worth visiting?
About the Freudenberg Bunker
The bunker facility actually consists of three bunkers. It was built between 1983 and 1987 and intended to protect the members of the Ministry of Interior of the GDR in case of war. I couldn’t find an exact date when the bunker was abandoned. Rumors say that after the end of the GDR the bunker was inspected and rated as unusable.
As of 2024, the Freudenberg Bunker and the area are privately owned.
The only way to visit the bunker is through official tours like the ones that my favorite lost place tour operator Go2know offers.
Please mind that the bunker is in a really bad and potentially hazardous condition. There’s a reason you can only enter the bunker wearing at least an FFP2 mask. But more on that later.
Photo Spots in the Freudenberg Bunker
Once you enter the area where the Freudenberg Bunker is hidden, you had to pass a small guardhouse which is in a very bad condition. The roof is leaking, the windows are broken and thus it looks a bit messy. You’ll find documents lying around everywhere and a few ancient communication devices (a.k.a. wired telephone).
Messy guardhouse at the area of the Freudenberg Bunker
As you continue further into the area, you’ll eventually get to see two GDR style buildings. The bunker is beneath them and the entrance is in one of them.
Freudenberg Bunker is below these two buildings
To enter the bunker, you have to find the correct entrance to the basement. From there you’ll have to walk a 350 feet long tunnel. And I was quite happy that I had my Wuben X1 flashlight with me. Operating it at full power, the 12.000 lumens flashlight illuminated almost the entire tunnel to the end. If you’re looking for a powerful and bright tactical flashlight for urban exploration, consider reading my Wuben X1 review.
Long tunnel to the bunker
Once you’ve made it through the tunnel, you would have to pass a number of checkpoints with thick steel doors. But these were not just simple checkpoints. There’s at least one checkpoint where you’d have to hand in all your belongings and take a shower before you could enter.
One of the many checkpoints before you can enter the Freudenberg Bunker
All the rooms in the Freudenberg bunker are in a good condition; you'll still have electricity down there during your exploration. Except for the control room, where the roof collapsed. And in this photo you see why you shouldn’t enter the bunker without an FFP2 mask. See the white and black spots and areas in the foreground and on the furniture? That’s mold. White and black mold. Neither of them is very healthy.
Control Room with white an black mold everywhere
Compared to the control room, the technical room looks quite okay, maybe just a little bit ancient with all these cables and huge relays.
Technical room at the Bunker at Freudenberg
The same applies to the room with the teleprinters, except for the white mold that you can see there.
Teleprinter Room
The two buildings on the surface are not very spectacular. They’re just empty buildings with long hallways. I guess I’ve already seen too many of such abandoned buildings.
If you book your toor, plan an hour to walk around in the area. You’ll encounter at least two more but smaller bunkers and watch your step if you leave the beaten path. There are trenches everywhere.
How I photographed inside the Freudenberg Bunker
As I visited the bunker in August 2024, I used my iPhone 15 Pro Max to take all these photos. I used ProCamera App I reviewed earlier to take the photos and used Lightroom Mobile and Photoshop Express to edit them. To learn more why I use these two app, head to my Lightroom Mobile Review and also read my Photoshop Express Review
Is Freudenberg Bunker worth visiting?
Freudenberg Bunker is worth visiting if you’re a true urban explorer. As it’s an hour from Berlin by car and given, that you have to wear an FFP2 mask in the bunker because of the white and black mold, I wouldn’t consider it a tourist location like other and more beautiful lost places in Berlin that you can visit easily and legally.
