#spreetunnel

Ansichtskarte

Berlin-Friedrichshagen Am Spreetunnel

Berlin: Postkartenverlag Kurt Mader, Berlin-Karlshorst (V 11 50 B 3/71)

Underground - undisclosed desires

Yes, it was definetly a desire. Undisclosed especially. My photos actually have nothing with anything underground except the last one. Almost. So, here is my story.

Berlin is definetly the right place if u want to see exciting underground sights. Whole Berlin has so many tunnels and bunkers, leftovers from WW2 and other. There are lot of exciting tourist tours going throught all this, but for today there was none. I tried to find some place I could visit on my own instead. So I found an interesting text online about "Spree tunnel Stralau" built somewhere around 1890's. It was a tramtunnel and had a single track, going under river Spree. Perfect! It's near my place, I won't get lost and it's under ground, actually, under river. I was so excited! I always wanted to see something like that. I also found out it was closed ( bricked ) and i assumed that i will see atleast an entrance or something there. Atleast some table with the details. But I missunderstood the whole text. I took my camera and hoped on S-bahn to get to Treptower Park where the tunnel supposed to be. My search began there. I had no idea what exactly i was looking for, I couldn't find any pictures online to see where exactly should I go. I only had a picture of map which had a line where the tunnel should be. I felt like a child trying to find the hidden tree house. So I walked all over the place and found nothing. I was suprised, not even a table or any info about it. I already assumed there are no any leftovers of it, but I still had some hope I will find atleast an entrance on the other side.  Since I was predicting failure I tried to shoot atleast something so I went under the trail bridge and took that photo at the beginning of the post. It was really exciting to be under bridge while metro goes over it. Creaking sound and tremor.

I also saw this, and my thoughts were "Who puts so much effort to get over there just to paint something? She/He was really comitted to her/his art." I appreciate that. Really. 

I don't know why this photo connected me with the idea of desire. Maybe of my own desire to fly?

Since it was a beautiful sunset I needed to show u that. So I also took this picture. Desirable?

And here we are. This is it. This is the "Spree tunnel". Not even a sign. Just ground and grass. I was so tired and dissapointed so I took only this picture, just to remind people, once, there was a tunnel. And it went under the river. In 1890's. Alteast I learned something new about this beautiful city. I had a great time trying to find it. I felt exhausted but happy, even If i couldn't see anything except this ground and few bricks. I knew something was there, once.

Theme for him - What comes after sunset? 

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