🇩🇪 The Wild Greenhouse: Duisburg’s Forgotten Freight Yard ❤️

🚂 A Ghost Station’s Secret Life Just minutes from Duisburg Hauptbahnhof, past Wuhanstraße (yes, really!), lies the skeletal remains of a 19th-century freight depot. Once the pulsing heart of Ruhr Valley industry, this railyard slipped into abandonment—until nature staged its glorious takeover. 🌿 When Industry Meets Jungle By the 2010s, the site had transformed into: • A concrete greenhouse where saplings burst through platform cracks • Rust-colored vines swallowing iron girders • Glassless windows framing wildflower meadows ⚠️ Dark History The 2010 Love Parade tragedy (marked by memorial graffiti) left the site fenced and forbidden—but local kids knew every: ✓ Rooftop tightrope walk along the spine of the train shed ✓ Underground labyrinth of flooded maintenance tunnels ✓ Squirrel highways through broken skylights 📸 Infrared Revelations My final visit with an IR camera revealed: • Eerie white foliage glowing against brick ruins • Ghostly light beams through collapsed ceilings • Surreal chlorophyll hues turning weeds into alien landscapes Why It Captivated Us 1️⃣ Perfect decay - rust and ivy in delicate balance 2️⃣ Whispering echoes of steam whistles in the wind 3️⃣ That thrill of discovering beauty in forbidden places 💔 Now: An Empty Field Bulldozers came in 2021, but the memories remain: • The scent of wild mint growing between tracks • Children’s laughter bouncing off crumbling walls • Golden hour turning broken glass into diamonds #LostPlaces #RuinPorn #GermanIndustrialHeritage#UrbanExploration #IndustrialDecay #InfraredMagic 😎