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Film and TV locations in Germany

271 places to shoot in Germany: 48 industrial and derelict locations, 42 offices, schools and public buildings, 39 theatres, arenas and venues and 142 more. 141 have a photo and 83 carry practical details the location publishes itself. Search and put three side by side in the locations search.

What Germany pays back

Germany runs the DFFF I / DFFF II / GMPF, worth 30% as a cash rebate. Work out the net value on your own spend in the incentive comparison, and find a studio, service company or post house in the 66 companies we list in Germany.

Regions

Industrial and derelict locations in Germany 48

Factories, warehouses, power stations, mines, depots and abandoned buildings: raw space, hard surfaces and the kind of decay that is impossible to build. All 48 on their own page.

Gasometer Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia
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Gasometer Oberhausen

North Rhine-Westphalia

Industrial & derelict

117-metre disused gas holder in Oberhausen converted into an exhibition hall, with a vast cylindrical interior used for large-scale installations.

Henrichshuette Hattingen, North Rhine-Westphalia
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Henrichshuette Hattingen

North Rhine-Westphalia

Industrial & derelict

Preserved ironworks in the Ruhr valley with a blast furnace, casting house, forge and machine halls, kept as an industrial museum by the regional authority LWL.

Jahrhunderthalle Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia
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Jahrhunderthalle Bochum

North Rhine-Westphalia

Industrial & derelict

Former gas blowing hall of a Bochum steelworks, now an event venue with a riveted steel nave, brick side halls, overhead cranes and a park on the old works site.

Kampnagel, Hamburg
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Kampnagel

Hamburg

Industrial & derelict

Former crane factory in Hamburg's Winterhude district converted into a production house for theatre, dance and performance, with large industrial halls and a forecourt.

During the 2026-2028 renovation, spaces available for hire are Hall k6, Foyer k6, 'Links vorbei', KX (80 seats) and 6a (80 seats); housed in a former...

Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord, North Rhine-Westphalia
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Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord

North Rhine-Westphalia

Industrial & derelict

Disused early twentieth-century ironworks in Duisburg with blast furnaces, gasometers, bunkers and pipe bridges left standing in a public park, floodlit at night and open for climbing and diving.

LWL-Industriemuseum Zeche Nachtigall, North Rhine-Westphalia
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LWL-Industriemuseum Zeche Nachtigall

North Rhine-Westphalia

Industrial & derelict

Early coal mine in the Ruhr valley at Witten with a brick engine house, a brickworks kiln and an accessible tunnel, presented as an LWL industrial museum.

Peenemünde, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
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Peenemünde

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Industrial & derelict

Former Wehrmacht rocket research site on Usedom where the V2 was developed, with a preserved power station now housing a museum on wartime and Cold War history.

Speicherstadt, Hamburg
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Speicherstadt

Hamburg

Industrial & derelict

The world's largest historic warehouse district, red-brick blocks on timber piles crossed by canals and iron bridges, part now a museum quarter.

Capacity: 100 · The Speicherstadtmuseum can be rented as an event location after closing (17:00 on weekdays, 18:00 at weekends) for a party, reception or...

Teufelsberg, Berlin
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Teufelsberg

Berlin

Industrial & derelict

Cold War listening station of geodesic radomes and control buildings on an artificial hill of wartime rubble in the Grunewald forest, with derelict interiors and open roof terraces.

Exclusive event hire requires a minimum of 50 people; venue includes flexible multi-purpose rooms and one of Berlin's highest roof terraces (own...

TextilWerk Bocholt, North Rhine-Westphalia
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TextilWerk Bocholt

North Rhine-Westphalia

Industrial & derelict

Working weaving mill and spinning mill in Bocholt with rows of running looms, a boiler house, offices and workers' housing, part of the LWL industrial museum.

Völklinger Hütte, Saarland
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Völklinger Hütte

Saarland

Industrial & derelict

Disused nineteenth-century ironworks in Völklingen, a UNESCO World Heritage site with blast furnaces, ore bunkers, a power hall and elevated walkways through the plant.

Zeche Ewald, North Rhine-Westphalia
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Zeche Ewald

North Rhine-Westphalia

Industrial & derelict

Former colliery in Herten with two winding towers, a machine hall and cleared yards, redeveloped as a business and events site with open ground for large units.

Zeche Zollverein, North Rhine-Westphalia
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Zeche Zollverein

North Rhine-Westphalia

Industrial & derelict

Former coal mine and coking plant in Essen, a UNESCO World Heritage site with Bauhaus-style winding towers, coking ovens, conveyor bridges and vast industrial halls now used for exhibitions and events.

About 18,000 m2 of event space across more than 50 rooms, halls and buildings from 10 location providers on site (including Grand Hall Zollverein,...

Industrial & derelict

Alte Schokoladenfabrik Oderwitz

Saxony

Industrial & derelict

A fully vacant former chocolate factory site in Oderwitz near Goerlitz, with an administration building with a period staircase alongside disused production and storage halls.

Industrial & derelict

Bergson Kunstkraftwerk

Bavaria

Industrial & derelict

Former 1940 heating plant in Munich Aubing turned into a culture venue, with a 25 metre boiler hall in brick, glass and steel next to a concert hall, gallery, club and beer garden.

Industrial & derelict

Ehemaliger Handelshafen Magdeburg

Saxony-Anhalt

Industrial & derelict

A former trading harbour in Magdeburg dating from 1893, with red-brick silos and warehouses along a largely disused harbour basin and a lifting bridge over the entrance canal.

Industrial & derelict

Ehemaliges Kaufhaus Hermann Tietz Gera

Thuringia

Industrial & derelict

A former department store in Gera dating to 1882, one of the first built by the Hermann Tietz chain, with the grand facade the company used to signal the scale of its business inside.

Industrial & derelict

Ferropolis

Saxony-Anhalt

Industrial & derelict

Open-air museum on a peninsula in a former lignite mining lake near Gräfenhainichen, displaying five giant excavators and dredgers on a bare industrial ground used for festivals and events.

Capacity: 25000 · Arena covers 14,000 m2 with a maximum of 25,000 visitors; seated configurations include 3,250 seated/6,500 standing, 4,820 standing steps, or up to...

Industrial & derelict

Gaswerk Augsburg

Bavaria

Industrial & derelict

Coal gasworks of 1915 in Augsburg Oberhausen, kept almost complete across about 18 hectares, with gasholders, brick workshops and open yards.

Site of about 18 hectares, power supply on request

Industrial & derelict

Glasmanufaktur Harzkristall

Saxony-Anhalt

Industrial & derelict

One of Germany's few remaining working glassworks, at Derenburg in the Harz, where visitors can watch traditional glassblowing on the factory floor alongside a cafe and shop.

Industrial & derelict

Kokerei Hansa

North Rhine-Westphalia

Industrial & derelict

Former coking plant in Dortmund with intact coke oven batteries, coal towers, pump houses and machine halls preserved as an industrial heritage site.

Industrial & derelict

Kraftzentrale Straubing

Bavaria

Industrial & derelict

Listed 1952 power house of a former roof tile works in Straubing, with boiler and machine halls used for concerts and events since the plant closed in 1992.

275 sq m usable floor, about 50 car spaces in front, unrestricted lorry access, 64 A three phase supply

Industrial & derelict

Lava-Dome and Lava Cellars Mendig

Rhineland-Palatinate

Industrial & derelict

Basalt quarrying cellars under Mendig, a cold cavern system of pillars and vaults once used by breweries, reached from a museum building at the surface.

Industrial & derelict

Muellverwertungsanlage Ingolstadt

Bavaria

Industrial & derelict

Working waste to energy plant of 1977 with furnaces, tipping ramps, pipework, ventilation plant, cranes and chimneys, described by the film commission as a repeat filming location.

About 16,000 sq m, lorry access, 16 A, 32 A and 64 A power

Industrial & derelict

Museum Kalkwerk Lengefeld

Saxony

Industrial & derelict

A 19th and 20th century lime works near Lengefeld in the Ore Mountains, preserved as a technical monument with its kilns, a transport bridge system and quarrying equipment intact.

Industrial & derelict

Museum Park Rüdersdorf

Brandenburg

Industrial & derelict

Former limestone quarry and cement works east of Berlin preserved as an open-air museum, with quarry faces, kilns, a narrow-gauge railway and industrial machinery halls.

Named event spaces at the former limestone quarry site are KulturDach, Bohlenbinderdach and Cafe Magazin (own site).

Industrial & derelict

NOUVABRIK

Hesse

Industrial & derelict

The brick building of a former furniture factory in Dautphetal-Holzhausen, with exposed brickwork, industrial windows, timber floors and a curated interior kept for filming.

Direct vehicle access, on-site parking, holiday apartment on the grounds

Industrial & derelict

Raumfabrik Frankfurt

Hesse

Industrial & derelict

A former metalware factory hall from the 1960s in Frankfurt's Heddernheim district, converted into a roughly 2,100 square metre event and production space that keeps its industrial character.

Industrial & derelict

Salzspeicher Luebeck

Schleswig-Holstein

Industrial & derelict

Row of six brick salt warehouses of the 16th to 18th century beside the Trave in Luebeck, with stepped gables, loading doors and the Holstentor alongside.

Seen in: Nosferatu

Industrial & derelict

Spinnerei Leipzig

Saxony

Industrial & derelict

Former cotton mill in Leipzig's Plagwitz district, once continental Europe's largest, now a complex of galleries, artist studios and industrial halls around cobbled courtyards.

Industrial & derelict

Wiede-Fabrik

Bavaria

Industrial & derelict

Former gasworks in Munich Johanneskirchen used since 1992 as an artists' factory, with about 2,000 sq m of built space, some 25 studios from 35 to 250 sq m and open green yards.

Access for all common vehicle types, limited parking, extra car park for about 50 vehicles can be hired, house supply or generator

Industrial & derelict

Zeche Zollern

North Rhine-Westphalia

Industrial & derelict

Former colliery in Dortmund with an Art Nouveau machine hall, ornate portal building and preserved pit head machinery, run as part of the Westphalian Industrial Museum.

Capacity: 689 · Magazin/conference hall about 350 m2 total (280 m2 usable), row seating for up to 300, parliamentary seating for 140, with a built-in stage of about...

Offices, schools and public buildings in Germany 42

Offices, town halls, courtrooms, libraries, universities and schools: the interiors most contemporary drama actually needs. All 42 on their own page.

Bremen Town Hall, Bremen
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Bremen Town Hall

Bremen

Office, school & public building

Gothic and Weser Renaissance town hall on the Bremen market square, with a vaulted wine cellar, the upper hall, council rooms and a carved arcaded front.

Duisburg Innenhafen, North Rhine-Westphalia
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Duisburg Innenhafen

North Rhine-Westphalia

Office, school & public building

A former inland harbour of grain silos and warehouses redeveloped into offices, restaurants and waterside promenades, keeping its industrial brick shells.

Gondwana Das Praehistorium, Saarland
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Gondwana Das Praehistorium

Saarland

Office, school & public building

Dark walk through museum on the former Reden colliery in Schiffweiler, with built prehistoric scenes indoors and the pit head buildings and slag heap outside.

Hamburg Rathaus, Hamburg
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Hamburg Rathaus

Hamburg

Office, school & public building

Neo-Renaissance city hall of 1897 on the Rathausmarkt in Hamburg, with a 112-metre tower, an ornate facade and several hundred rooms including ceremonial halls.

Hannover Congress Centrum, Lower Saxony
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Hannover Congress Centrum

Lower Saxony

Office, school & public building

Congress complex in Hanover with a domed 1914 hall, modern conference rooms, foyers and a park setting, used for conferences, banquets and broadcasts.

Heidelberg University, Baden-Wurttemberg
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Heidelberg University

Baden-Wurttemberg

Office, school & public building

Germany's oldest university, with a baroque Old University building, a Great Hall and a historic student prison around Universitätsplatz in Heidelberg's old town.

Kongresshalle Reichsparteitagsgelaende, Bavaria
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Kongresshalle Reichsparteitagsgelaende

Bavaria

Office, school & public building

Unfinished Nazi congress hall of 1935 to 1940 modelled on the Colosseum, 39 metres high and 240 by 200 metres outside, in bare brick with granite facing, with long corridors and colonnades around an open inner circle.

Very large spaces, storage areas, lift and sanitary facilities, extensive parking, normal and three phase power

Ludwig Maximilian University Main Building, Bavaria
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Ludwig Maximilian University Main Building

Bavaria

Office, school & public building

Main building of Munich's LMU built from 1835 to 1840 by Friedrich von Gaertner, with lecture halls, the Grosse Aula and interiors mixing historicism, art nouveau and neoclassicism, facing Geschwister-Scholl-Platz.

Office, school & public building

Autostadt Wolfsburg

Lower Saxony

Office, school & public building

Car-brand visitor park beside the Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg, with pavilions, glass delivery towers, a museum hall and landscaped grounds beside a canal.

Office, school & public building

Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar

Thuringia

Office, school & public building

The founding site of the Bauhaus school, with Henry van de Velde's Art Nouveau studio building and later modernist extensions still used as a working university.

Office, school & public building

Buropark Airfurt

Thuringia

Office, school & public building

An 11.3 hectare office and business park next to Erfurt airport, built in the 1990s with several built-up streets, a roundabout and cycle paths, home to logistics, IT and public-sector tenants.

Office, school & public building

Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Deutsche Buecherei)

Saxony

Office, school & public building

The Leipzig home of Germany's national library, founded in 1912 and holding around 20 million items, in a purpose-built early 20th century building on Deutscher Platz.

Office, school & public building

Deutsches Museum

Bavaria

Office, school & public building

Large science and technology museum on an island in the Isar in Munich, with historic machine halls, a planetarium and collections spanning mining to aerospace.

Office, school & public building

Funkhaus Berlin

Berlin

Office, school & public building

A former East German state radio headquarters on the river Spree, with wood-panelled studios, offices and a large concert hall, run today as an event and production venue.

Office, school & public building

Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt am Main

Hesse

Office, school & public building

One of Germany's largest universities, with more than 158 degree programmes spread across four campuses in Frankfurt, linked by the city's public transport network.

Office, school & public building

Gymnasium St. Augustin zu Grimma

Saxony

Office, school & public building

A grammar school in Grimma founded in 1450, housed since the 19th century in the former Augustinian monastery buildings, with its current facade dating from a full 1891 rebuild.

Office, school & public building

Hauptgebaeude FSU Jena

Thuringia

Office, school & public building

The main Art Nouveau building of Friedrich Schiller University Jena, opened in 1908 for the university's 350th anniversary, with an asymmetrical three to four storey facade.

Office, school & public building

Historisches Feuerwehrhaus Ketzerbach

Hesse

Office, school & public building

A two storey fire station built in 1911 on Ketzerbach in Marburg's old town, still in use by a volunteer fire brigade unit and keeping vintage engines and equipment on site.

Office, school & public building

Historisches Rathaus Marburg

Hesse

Office, school & public building

The late-Gothic town hall of 1512 to 1527 on Marburg's Oberstadt market square, with a hexagonal stair tower, a historic council chamber for up to 120 people and two cells in its cellar.

Capacity: 120

Office, school & public building

Humboldt University of Berlin

Berlin

Office, school & public building

Berlin's oldest university on Unter den Linden, with a neoclassical main building, historic lecture halls, a courtyard and library reading rooms in the government district.

Office, school & public building

Merkurdome

Bavaria

Office, school & public building

Former publishing house and office site with halls at Wolfratshausen south of Munich, kept as a standing set for police stations, newsrooms, cells, hospital rooms and operating theatres.

200 sq m of set or production rooms plus halls of 1,000 and 540 sq m up to 12 m high, power and water outside for catering, 16 A and 64 A

Office, school & public building

Ruhr University Bochum

North Rhine-Westphalia

Office, school & public building

A large 1960s brutalist university campus on a hillside above Bochum, with concrete tower blocks, lecture halls and connecting terraces.

Office, school & public building

Stadtverwaltung Gera, Baudezernat (Amthorstrasse)

Thuringia

Office, school & public building

A 1970s office complex in Gera originally built for the district's socialist-era administration, with conference rooms, a wood-panelled canteen and a large event hall in near-original condition.

Office, school & public building

Uberseestadt Bremen

Bremen

Office, school & public building

A former harbour district of quays, warehouses and cranes redeveloped into offices, studios and event spaces, keeping much of its industrial waterfront look.

The district's event locations page lists venues including Alte Werft Dock 1 (2,500 m2, max 850 guests), BOLZEREI (3,500 m2), Alte Kranhalle (2,000...

Office, school & public building

Universitaet Witzenhausen

Hesse

Office, school & public building

The Witzenhausen campus of the University of Kassel, an internationally known centre for agricultural and international food science set in a small historic north Hesse town.

Office, school & public building

University of Gottingen

Lower Saxony

Office, school & public building

A long-established university with a historic auditorium, library and mixed 19th and 20th century institute buildings across the old town of Gottingen.

Office, school & public building

University of Tubingen

Baden-Wurttemberg

Office, school & public building

A historic university town campus on the Neckar river, mixing a medieval old town core with 19th and 20th century faculty buildings.

Office, school & public building

Verlagsgebaeude der Leipziger Volkszeitung

Saxony

Office, school & public building

The central Leipzig headquarters of the city's largest daily newspaper, a historic industrial building converted into a modern office block with editorial rooms and meeting spaces.

Theatres, arenas and venues in Germany 39

Auditoriums, concert halls, opera houses, cinemas, arenas and event spaces, with the backstage, foyers and dressing rooms that come with them. All 39 on their own page.

Alte Oper Frankfurt, Hesse
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Alte Oper Frankfurt

Hesse

Theatre, arena & venue

Rebuilt 1880s opera house in Frankfurt, now a concert and congress venue with a restored historicist facade and a modern auditorium behind it.

Capacity: 2434 · Grosser Saal (Grand Hall): 2,064 m2, 17.5 m high, up to 2,434 in row seating, 1,150 to 1,228 banquet, 644 parliamentary. Mozart Saal: 817 m2, 6.2 m...

documentaHalle, Hesse
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documentaHalle

Hesse

Theatre, arena & venue

A 1992 exhibition hall beside Kassel's Fridericianum, built for the documenta art show and also used for conferences, trade fairs, concerts and film screenings.

1,400 sqm of column-free exhibition space plus around 700 sqm of office, storage and cafeteria space

Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg
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Elbphilharmonie

Hamburg

Theatre, arena & venue

Concert hall on the Elbe in Hamburg's HafenCity, built above a former cocoa warehouse with a glass wave-shaped upper structure, a public plaza and two auditoriums.

Capacity: 2091 · Grand Hall: standard capacity 2,091, reducible to about 1,555 in some configurations; stage about 260 m2, playable area about 18 x 15 m; 31...

Fritz-Walter-Stadion, Rhineland-Palatinate
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Fritz-Walter-Stadion

Rhineland-Palatinate

Theatre, arena & venue

Football stadium on the Betzenberg hill above Kaiserslautern, a steep four sided bowl with tight stands, dressing rooms and a wooded approach.

Heinz von Heiden Arena, Lower Saxony
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Heinz von Heiden Arena

Lower Saxony

Theatre, arena & venue

Football stadium in the Maschsee park in Hanover, a bowl with a continuous roof, hospitality levels, dressing rooms and service corridors, also used for concerts.

Lanxess Arena, North Rhine-Westphalia
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Lanxess Arena

North Rhine-Westphalia

Theatre, arena & venue

Indoor arena in Cologne's Deutz district with a bowl seating around 20,000, used for concerts, ice hockey, basketball and television productions.

Theatre seating configuration up to 5,300 seats; multiple restaurants (Backstage, Henkelmaennchen) and bar/catering areas on site (own site).

Nürburgring, Rhineland-Palatinate
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Nürburgring

Rhineland-Palatinate

Theatre, arena & venue

Motor racing circuit in the Eifel hills with the 20.8-kilometre Nordschleife loop and a separate shorter Grand Prix track, plus paddock, grandstands and a visitor centre.

Seen in: Rush (2013)

Schauspielhaus Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia
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Schauspielhaus Bochum

North Rhine-Westphalia

Theatre, arena & venue

Repertory theatre in Bochum with a 1950s auditorium, stage house and rehearsal spaces, one of Germany's leading state theatres.

Four venues: Schauspielhaus (up to 800 seats), Kammerspiele (400 seats), Oval Office (100 seats) and Theaterrevier (own site).

Westfalenhallen, North Rhine-Westphalia
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Westfalenhallen

North Rhine-Westphalia

Theatre, arena & venue

Exhibition and event complex in Dortmund with several linked halls, including a large arena hall, built from the 1920s onward and still used for trade fairs, sport and concerts.

Westfalenhalle arena seats up to 16,140; Messe Dortmund exhibition space totals 60,000 sqm, divisible from 1,000 to 10,000 sqm; Kongress Dortmund...

Z-Bau Haus fuer Gegenwartskultur, Bavaria
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Z-Bau Haus fuer Gegenwartskultur

Bavaria

Theatre, arena & venue

Former Nazi era barracks block in Nuremberg with a large car park, now a culture house with three concert stages, one a high ceilinged industrial style hall, plus bars, workshops and studios with graffiti inside and out.

5,500 sq m indoors and outdoors, access for lorries and articulated vehicles, large parking area, 16 A to 64 A outlets

Zenith Halle, Bavaria
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Zenith Halle

Bavaria

Theatre, arena & venue

Listed iron framed works hall built between 1916 and 1918 in Munich Freimann, used in turn as a Krupp press shop, a railway boiler smithy and an S-Bahn repair works, now a concert hall.

4,130 sq m, 11 m ceiling height, drive in access for cars and lorries, 16 A and 32 A power

Theatre, arena & venue

Backstage Munich

Bavaria

Theatre, arena & venue

Event and culture centre of about 5,500 sq m on the former AGA Gas works site in Munich, split into Werk, Halle, Club and arena areas plus an open air stage, with the industrial fabric largely kept.

Indoor areas of about 800, 350, 150 and 1,200 sq m, no access restrictions, ample on site parking, standard supply to 63 A

Theatre, arena & venue

Congresshalle Saarbruecken

Saarland

Theatre, arena & venue

Post war congress hall by the Saar in Saarbruecken with a large auditorium, foyers, meeting rooms and a modernist glazed front onto the riverside park.

Theatre, arena & venue

Gloria Kino Kassel

Hesse

Theatre, arena & venue

A 1954 cinema at Kassel's Staendeplatz with 342 seats, green velvet upholstery, an original chandelier and its 1950s facade with black steel-letter signage still intact.

Capacity: 342

Theatre, arena & venue

Leichtathletikhalle Erfurt (Hartwig-Gauder-Halle)

Thuringia

Theatre, arena & venue

An indoor athletics hall built in 1994 as part of the Erfurt-Sued sports centre, with a 200 metre indoor track and about 9,200 square metres of training and competition space.

Theatre, arena & venue

Olympiapark München

Bavaria

Theatre, arena & venue

1972 Olympic park in Munich with a tent-roofed stadium, hall and swimming venue around an artificial hill and lake, still used for concerts and sporting events.

The venue offers halls and spaces for 100 to 10,000 or more people, including the Olympiastadion (Olympic Stadium), Olympiahalle, Kleine Olympiahalle...

Transport and infrastructure in Germany 35

Stations, airports, ports, bridges, tunnels, metro lines and rolling stock, including disused stretches that can be closed off for a shoot. All 35 on their own page.

Bahnpark Augsburg, Bavaria
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Bahnpark Augsburg

Bavaria

Transport & infrastructure

Former Deutsche Bahn depot in Augsburg with track fan, roundhouse, steam locomotive shed, forge, old bunkers and historic rolling stock including a mail coach.

1,350 sq m of listed halls plus 10,000 sq m open ground, 9.4 m hall height, drive in access, 40 parking spaces, 16 A and 32 A outlets

Duesseldorf Airport, North Rhine-Westphalia
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Duesseldorf Airport

North Rhine-Westphalia

Transport & infrastructure

International airport with check in halls, piers, gates, an airside apron and a rail station under the terminal, offering the usual range of travel interiors.

Frankfurt-Hahn Airport, Rhineland-Palatinate
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Frankfurt-Hahn Airport

Rhineland-Palatinate

Transport & infrastructure

Former airbase in the Hunsrueck now used for cargo and charter flights, with a quiet terminal, long runway, aprons and hangars away from built up areas.

Kap Arkona, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
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Kap Arkona

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Transport & infrastructure

Northern tip of Rügen with two historic lighthouses, a former Cold War radar bunker and a reconstructed Slavic hillfort on chalk and boulder-clay cliffs above the Baltic.

LWL-Museum Schiffshebewerk Henrichenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia
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LWL-Museum Schiffshebewerk Henrichenburg

North Rhine-Westphalia

Transport & infrastructure

Boat lift of 1899 on the Dortmund-Ems Canal with towers, machine house, old canal basin and moored inland vessels, run as a museum site of the LWL.

MVG Museum, Bavaria
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MVG Museum

Bavaria

Transport & infrastructure

Listed former tram workshop hall of over 5,000 sq m in Munich Ramersdorf, holding 25 historic trams, buses and works vehicles from several periods plus a small cinema room.

40 parking spaces beside the hall, further spaces can be hired, power up to 130 kW

Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof, Baden-Wurttemberg
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Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof

Baden-Wurttemberg

Transport & infrastructure

Stuttgart's main railway station, a 1920s stone terminus building with a tower, currently being converted into an underground through-station as part of the Stuttgart 21 project.

Technik Museum Speyer, Rhineland-Palatinate
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Technik Museum Speyer

Rhineland-Palatinate

Transport & infrastructure

Transport museum in Speyer with a former aircraft hall, a jumbo jet and a Buran shuttle outdoors, plus locomotives, submarine interiors and vintage vehicles.

Tempelhof Airport, Berlin
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Tempelhof Airport

Berlin

Transport & infrastructure

Former Berlin city airport with a terminal building over a kilometre long, vast disused hangars and a 300-hectare former airfield now a public park, hired for filming, events and trade fairs.

Seen in: Bridge of Spies (2015), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 (2015)

The open apron area covers about 25 hectares, described on the site as the largest open-air space within a city in the world. Halls have ceiling...

Transport & infrastructure

Albrecht Duerer Airport Nuremberg

Bavaria

Transport & infrastructure

Bavaria's second airport, running around the clock with two departure halls, one arrivals hall, three multi storey car parks and open views onto the apron from the parking decks.

Transport & infrastructure

bayernhafen Nuremberg

Bavaria

Transport & infrastructure

Inland freight port and logistics centre on the Main Danube Canal covering 337 hectares, with harbour basins, gantry cranes, a container terminal and about 260 companies on site.

Transport & infrastructure

Container Terminal Halle (Saale)

Saxony-Anhalt

Transport & infrastructure

A working inland freight terminal on the Saale river in Halle, with rail and road links, a harbour basin, quayside, tracks, weighing and loading equipment across a large industrial site.

Transport & infrastructure

Eisenbahnmuseum Bochum-Dahlhausen

North Rhine-Westphalia

Transport & infrastructure

A preserved steam-era railway depot with a roundhouse, turntable, workshops and sidings of historic locomotives and carriages.

Transport & infrastructure

Flughafen Berlin-Gatow

Berlin

Transport & infrastructure

A former military airfield on the western edge of Berlin, now the Bundeswehr's air force museum, with a control tower, runway and hangars holding historic aircraft.

Transport & infrastructure

Hotelrestaurantschiff Mainod

Hesse

Transport & infrastructure

A 1959-built, 55-metre former passenger ship permanently moored on the river Main at Frankfurt-Hoechst, now a restaurant ship with an Art Deco main deck and a floating terrace.

Capacity: 120

Transport & infrastructure

Pressnitztalbahn (Museumsbahn Steinbach-Joehstadt)

Saxony

Transport & infrastructure

A narrow gauge heritage railway opened in 1892 running about eight kilometres between Steinbach and Joehstadt in the Erzgebirge, with restored locomotives and carriages from the 1960s to 1980s.

Transport & infrastructure

Seebrücke Sellin

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Transport & infrastructure

Pleasure pier of the Baltic resort of Sellin on Rügen, a rebuilt wooden and steel structure reaching out over the sea with a restaurant at its end.

Transport & infrastructure

Stations of the Harzer Schmalspurbahnen

Saxony-Anhalt

Transport & infrastructure

43 stations along the steam-hauled Harzquerbahn, Selketalbahn and Brockenbahn narrow-gauge network across the Harz mountains, many with buildings from the turn of the 20th century.

Film studios and backlots in Germany 25

Sound stages, backlots, water tanks and virtual production volumes you can hire, with the crew base and power that go with them. All 25 on their own page.

Studio Babelsberg, Brandenburg
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Studio Babelsberg

Brandenburg

Studio & backlot

The world's oldest large-scale film studio, in operation since 1912, with sound stages, workshops and permanent backlot sets.

Seen in: Metropolis, Inglourious Basterds, Bridge of Spies

21 sound stages totalling 300,000 sq ft on a 42-acre lot, largest Stage 20 at 75,826 sq ft (7,041 m2) and Stage 19 at 59,998 sq ft; indoor water tank...

Studio & backlot

069 Westside Studio

Hesse

Studio & backlot

A large rental film and photo studio in Frankfurt, about nine minutes from the airport, equipped with a robotic camera rig and rail system plus extensive lighting gear.

300 m2 studio floor with a 5 m ceiling and a 22 m drivable cyclorama, entrance height 2.40 m, 63 A three-phase power, business fibre with synchronous...

Studio & backlot

101 Studios

Hesse

Studio & backlot

A rental photo and film studio in Frankfurt's Eschersheim district, with blackout windows and roller shutters, a make-up room with shower, a kitchen and on-site parking.

Three hire studios in Frankfurt-Eschersheim: Studio 101, 105 sqm, one large room with an open side room, makeup room with shower, 4 to 6 m ceiling and...

Studio & backlot

Bavaria Studios Cologne

North Rhine-Westphalia

Studio & backlot

Four sound stages from about 760 to 1,560 square metres at Bavaria Studios' Cologne-Bocklemund site, used for film and TV production in the region.

Studio BS1: 1,535 m2, BS2: 758.4 m2, LS1: 1,561 m2, LS2: 953.7 m2.

Studio & backlot

Bavaria Studios Munich

Bavaria

Studio & backlot

Twelve sound stages from 150 to 3,150 square metres at the Bavaria Filmplatz in Grunwald near Munich, including the large Wolfgang Petersen hall, for film, TV and commercial shoots.

Capacity: 1500 · Studio 1: 550 m2; Studio 2: 875 m2; Studio 3: 875 m2; Studio 4/5: 2,100 m2; Studio 6: 750 m2; Studio 7: 750 m2; Studio 8: 300 m2; Studio 9 (Wolfgang...

Studio & backlot

CCC Filmstudios Berlin-Haselhorst

Berlin

Studio & backlot

Four sound stages from 350 to 1,200 square metres at the CCC Filmstudios in Berlin-Haselhorst, a studio site in continuous production use since the early 1950s.

Seen in: Dark, The Queen's Gambit

Filmatelier Artur Brauner 1,200 m2 (12.40 m ceiling), Filmatelier Romy Schneider 640 m2 (10.60 m), Filmatelier Curd Jurgens 600 m2 (7.60 m),...

Studio & backlot

FTL Filmautobahn

North Rhine-Westphalia

Studio & backlot

A private closed motorway loop of 2,300 metres at an industrial park in Aldenhoven, built as a standing backlot for high-speed car chase and highway filming.

Seen in: Alarm fur Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei

Two 1,000 metre lanes separated by an 81 cm barrier, with turning loops at both ends for a 2,300 metre total closed circuit; entrance and exit ramps,...

Studio & backlot

Havelstudios Berlin

Berlin

Studio & backlot

Three sound stages from 95 to 600 square metres with cycloramas up to 11 metres high at Havelstudios on the river Havel in Berlin, with production offices and dressing rooms.

Stage 1: 600 m2, 11 m ceiling, U-shaped cyclorama (12+15+5 m wide, 8 m high); Stage 2: 215 m2, 6.5 m ceiling, 10 x 5.5 m cyclorama; Stage 3: 95 m2,...

Studio & backlot

Hinterbergwerk

Hesse

Studio & backlot

The largest rental studio in Wiesbaden, combining older building character with modern technical fit-out for photo and film production in the Rhine-Main area.

Studio for photography, film and events with a 180 degree cyclorama rounded at top and bottom, 14 metres in diameter and 5 metres high, and a camera...

Studio & backlot

Ludwig Studio Berlin

Berlin

Studio & backlot

A 930 square metre sound stage with an 11 metre ceiling in Berlin-Tempelhof, with truck-rated flooring, a pre-rigged truss grid and a terrace on the Teltow canal.

930 m2 stage (almost 1,000 m2 total floor area), 11 m ceiling height, sealed concrete floor rated for trucks, pre-installed green/black truss and...

Studio & backlot

MAINSTUDIO.TV

Hesse

Studio & backlot

A rental film and television studio in Dreieich near Frankfurt, used for image films, commercials, product videos, livestream productions and photo shoots.

225 m2 column-free studio floor of 15 x 15 m with a 3.80 m ceiling, a truss system, three-phase power connections and full blackout; 32 m2 of green...

Studio & backlot

Media City Atelier Leipzig

Saxony

Studio & backlot

Five studios from about 50 to 1,500 square metres, including a greenscreen stage and a daylight glass hall, at Media City Atelier on a former slaughterhouse site in Leipzig.

Seen in: In aller Freundschaft

Studio 3 combines a 420 m2 event area with the 384 m2 standing Riverboat set at 8 m height, in a hall with a gross area of 1,575 m2, a floor rated 20...

Studio & backlot

Metropolis Halle

Brandenburg

Studio & backlot

A 3,034 square metre television studio hall with an 11 metre ceiling at Filmpark Babelsberg in Potsdam, dividable into two halls and used for TV production and corporate events.

Capacity: 3500 · 3,034 m2 hall with 11 m clear height, divisible into Studio Ost (about 1,600 m2) and Studio West (about 1,400 m2) by a sound-insulating partition...

Studio & backlot

Metropolitan Backlot (Studio Babelsberg)

Brandenburg

Studio & backlot

A more than 15,000 square metre outdoor street backlot next to Studio Babelsberg in Potsdam, with four street sets that can be redressed as different European or American cities.

Seen in: Babylon Berlin, Mute, A Hidden Life

Over 15,000 m2 backlot (opened 2016, replacing an earlier 7,000 m2 set demolished in 2013) with four street configurations in different architectural...

Studio & backlot

MMC Studios Cologne (Coloneum)

North Rhine-Westphalia

Studio & backlot

Twenty film and TV studios on a 157,000 square metre former airfield site at MMC's Coloneum in Cologne-Ossendorf, including a daylight studio and set-building workshops.

MMC's own studio factsheet gives dimensions for 19 stages at the Coloneum, Am Coloneum 1, Cologne: Studio 30/31 2,565.00 m2 (scene area 2,117.92 m2)...

Studio & backlot

Nivre Film & Studio

Thuringia

Studio & backlot

A 220 square metre film and greenscreen studio in a converted former milk-storage building in Weimar, with a production office, control room and dressing rooms.

220 m2 studio within a 330 m2 building, ground-level roller-door access, high ceiling, break room, costume/makeup area, production office and control...

Studio & backlot

Penzing Studios

Bavaria

Studio & backlot

Six sound stages from about 290 to 5,540 square metres, including a 478 square metre LED volume, on a former airbase near Landsberg am Lech, with backlot space across the 270 hectare site.

Stage 1: 1,580 m2, 7.9-8.9 m; Stage 2: 291 m2 (20.32 x 14.32 m), 5.43 m, with a 478 m2 LED wall at 2.6 mm pixel pitch (Hyperbowl virtual production...

Studio & backlot

Studio Balan

Bavaria

Studio & backlot

Munich rental stage of 320 sq m with a cyclorama 7 metres high, wide and deep, a full height window wall for daylight work, full blackout and level drive in access for vehicles.

320 sq m stage, 7 m cyclorama, open kitchen and catering area, public car park opposite, 16 A, 32 A and 64 A power

Studio & backlot

Studio Berlin Adlershof

Berlin

Studio & backlot

Ten sound stages from 630 to almost 2,400 square metres on the Adlershof media campus in Berlin, with two control rooms for studio-based TV and drama production.

Studios A 968 m2, B 634 m2, C 636 m2, D 636 m2, E 636 m2, F 633 m2, G 2,392 m2, H 2,374 m2, K 1,689 m2, L 1,381 m2, plus two control rooms (Regie 1...

Studio & backlot

Studio Hamburg

Hamburg

Studio & backlot

Six sound stages of roughly 500 to 1,000 square metres at Studio Hamburg's Tonndorf site, built for TV drama, entertainment shows and commercial production.

Studio A1 731.9 m2, A2 801.4 m2, A3 1,006.2 m2, A4 847.0 m2, A5 796.1 m2, A6 505.1 m2 (six stages between 500 and 1,000 m2).

Studio & backlot

STUDIOPARK KinderMedienZentrum

Thuringia

Studio & backlot

Four production studios from 165 to 954 square metres at the STUDIOPARK KinderMedienZentrum in Erfurt, next to the MDR and KiKA broadcast centre, built for children's and family TV.

Studio A: 954 m2 (34 x 28 m), 7 m usable ceiling height, 6 m horizon, horizontal rail cyclorama system, 44 lighting positions; plus Studios B and C...

Studio & backlot

Volucap Max (Studio Babelsberg FX Center)

Brandenburg

Studio & backlot

A 170 square metre volumetric video capture stage at Studio Babelsberg's FX Center in Potsdam, recording performers from multiple angles at once for virtual production.

170 m2 volumetric capture stage (Volucap Max) inside Studio Babelsberg's FX Center, with over 65 megapixels per camera and more than 3,000 combined...

Studio & backlot

Westerham Factory

Bavaria

Studio & backlot

Loft studio in a former paper mill south east of Munich, with a column free hall, exposed concrete floor and a glazed gallery at 4 metres.

250 sq m ground floor plus 50 sq m gallery, parking in front of the hall, lorry access to the hall, 16 A and 32 A power

Hospitals, prisons and institutions in Germany 24

Working and disused hospitals, clinics, prisons, barracks and asylums: corridors, wards and cells that are close to impossible to fake convincingly. All 24 on their own page.

Alte Feuerwache Mannheim, Baden-Wurttemberg
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Alte Feuerwache Mannheim

Baden-Wurttemberg

Hospital, prison & institution

A disused early-20th-century fire station converted into a cultural centre, keeping its engine hall, brick facade and yard, now hired for concerts and events.

Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial, Berlin
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Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial

Berlin

Hospital, prison & institution

Former Stasi remand prison in Lichtenberg with preserved interrogation rooms, cells and a prisoner transport van, run as a memorial site open for research and filming about East Germany.

Flandernbunker, Schleswig-Holstein
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Flandernbunker

Schleswig-Holstein

Hospital, prison & institution

Wartime air raid bunker at the Kiel fjord kept as a memorial and cultural site, with bare concrete stairwells, narrow rooms on several floors and a roof terrace.

Memorium Nuremberg Trials, Bavaria
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Memorium Nuremberg Trials

Bavaria

Hospital, prison & institution

The Nuremberg Palace of Justice, still a working courthouse, whose historic Courtroom 600 hosted the postwar Nuremberg trials and is now also a memorial museum.

Seen in: Nuremberg trials (historical)

Turm Triva, Bavaria
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Turm Triva

Bavaria

Hospital, prison & institution

Fortress tower in the Klenzepark at Ingolstadt built between 1828 and 1841 to designs by Leo von Klenze, restored in 1992 and now holding the Bavarian Police Museum.

About 1,000 sq m, parking in the Tilly underground car park, low entrance limits lorry access, weight limits apply

Hospital, prison & institution

Alte Klinik Greifenstein

Hesse

Hospital, prison & institution

A former specialist lung clinic at Waldhof in Greifenstein, in operation until 2020, with about 4,500 square metres of floor space across an older building and later extensions.

Hospital, prison & institution

Beelitz-Heilstätten

Brandenburg

Hospital, prison & institution

Sprawling former tuberculosis sanatorium and military hospital south of Berlin with dozens of derelict Wilhelmine-era pavilions, overgrown grounds and a former alpine slide building.

Seen in: Valkyrie (2008), The Pianist (2002), Hannibal Rising (2007)

Hospital, prison & institution

Bundesbank-Bunker Cochem

Rhineland-Palatinate

Hospital, prison & institution

Cold war currency bunker under two houses in Cochem-Cond, with a blast door, long tunnels, control rooms, dormitories and empty banknote vaults.

Hospital, prison & institution

Gedenkstaette Hoheneck

Saxony

Hospital, prison & institution

A listed former prison complex in Stollberg with a main tract and three wings; cells occupied the south and west wings over four floors, and the north wing held workshop production lines.

Hospital, prison & institution

Genossenschaft in der Heilstaette Harzgerode

Saxony-Anhalt

Hospital, prison & institution

The former Harzgerode sanatorium north of the town, a park-like ensemble of Neues Bauen buildings now run by a housing cooperative, with most structures in largely original condition.

Hospital, prison & institution

Institute of Forensic Medicine, Ulm University Hospital

Baden-Wurttemberg

Hospital, prison & institution

Forensic medicine department of Ulm University Hospital on the Oberer Eselsberg campus, with laboratory and autopsy rooms offered for filming.

Hospital, prison & institution

Kriminalpanoptikum Aschersleben

Saxony-Anhalt

Hospital, prison & institution

A former remand prison in Aschersleben, a bare red brick Prussian utility building from the late 19th century with barred windows, now kept as a crime and prison history exhibit.

Hospital, prison & institution

Kunstlabor 2

Bavaria

Hospital, prison & institution

Former municipal health building of 1963 on Dachauer Strasse in Munich, taken over as a temporary art centre over six floors with bare rooms, street art, floor to ceiling windows and 6.5 metre ceilings.

About 10,000 sq m over six floors plus 6,800 sq m outside, 180 sq m event room, 400 sq m showroom, two courtyards of about 270 sq m

Hospital, prison & institution

Kunstquartier Bethanien

Berlin

Hospital, prison & institution

A former 19th-century deaconess hospital in Kreuzberg, converted into studios and exhibition halls, keeping its brick wards, corridors and courtyard.

Hospital, prison & institution

Oberlandesgericht Dresden (Staendehaus)

Saxony

Hospital, prison & institution

Dresden's higher regional court, housed in the former Staendehaus built 1901-06 by Paul Wallot, standing between the Bruehlsche Terrasse and the Schlossplatz in the old town.

Hospital, prison & institution

Polizeipraesidium Ulm

Baden-Wurttemberg

Hospital, prison & institution

Regional police headquarters in Ulm listed as a filming location by the Baden-Wuerttemberg film commission, with offices, corridors and public service areas.

Hospital, prison & institution

Truppenuebungsplatz Oberlausitz

Saxony

Hospital, prison & institution

Saxony's only active military training ground, set in the Muskau Heath, the largest inland dune landscape in eastern Germany, with flat plains and steep enclosed dune terrain.

Hospital, prison & institution

Wünsdorf Garrison Town

Brandenburg

Hospital, prison & institution

Former Wehrmacht and later Soviet military headquarters town near Zossen, with barracks, a domed former officers' club and rows of abandoned housing blocks.

Hospital, prison & institution

Zollernalb-Kaserne Messstetten

Baden-Wurttemberg

Hospital, prison & institution

Disused Bundeswehr barracks at Messstetten on the Swabian Alb, with accommodation blocks, workshops, drill ground and service buildings, now run as an industrial park.

Hotels and interiors in Germany 20

Hotels, spas and their lobbies, ballrooms, bars and corridors, including closed or seasonal properties that can take over a whole unit. All 20 on their own page.

Excelsior Hotel Ernst, North Rhine-Westphalia
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Excelsior Hotel Ernst

North Rhine-Westphalia

Hotel & interiors

Grand hotel of 1863 opposite Cologne cathedral, with a marble lobby, panelled salons, a restaurant and banqueting rooms that are hired for events.

Fairmont Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten, Hamburg
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Fairmont Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten

Hamburg

Hotel & interiors

Hotel of 1897 on the Binnenalster in Hamburg with wood panelled salons, a tea lounge, private dining rooms and event floors that are hired out.

Hotel Bayerischer Hof, Bavaria
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Hotel Bayerischer Hof

Bavaria

Hotel & interiors

Grand hotel on Promenadeplatz in the Munich old town with 337 rooms, 74 suites, 40 banqueting and conference rooms, five restaurants, six bars, a rooftop spa, a theatre stage, a cinema and a night club.

Capacity: 2500 · Underground car park at the hotel, unproblematic access, 16 A, 32 A and 64 A power

Hotel & interiors

Boardinghaus Weinberg Campus

Saxony-Anhalt

Hotel & interiors

Three late classicist villas grouped around a courtyard at the edge of Halle's Weinberg Campus technology park, now listed guest houses with one and two room serviced apartments.

Hotel & interiors

Grandhotel Schloss Bensberg

North Rhine-Westphalia

Hotel & interiors

A former hunting palace above Cologne converted into a hotel, with baroque state rooms, a park and a modern spa wing.

Capacity: 300 · Ballsaal: meeting up to 180, banquet 240, reception 300. Eventhalle: meeting up to 250, reception 300. Bel Etage: reception up to 200. Salon Medici &...

Hotel & interiors

Hotel Adlon Kempinski Berlin

Berlin

Hotel & interiors

A rebuilt grand hotel beside the Brandenburg Gate, with a marble lobby, ballroom and period-style suites used for period and contemporary interiors.

Capacity: 500 · Two ballrooms and 16 function rooms. Ballroom 500 m2 (500 reception, 340 banquet, 300 classroom); Palais Room 450 m2 (400 reception, 300 banquet, 240...

Hotel & interiors

Hotel Maximilian's Augsburg

Bavaria

Hotel & interiors

Long established 132 room hotel on Maximilianstrasse in central Augsburg, formerly the Drei Mohren, listed in the Bavarian film commission catalogue.

Multi storey car park directly behind the building, 64 A power

Hotel & interiors

Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten Kempinski Munich

Bavaria

Hotel & interiors

Grand hotel on Maximilianstrasse open since 1858, with a listed facade, 300 rooms and suites, lobby, two restaurants, a new spa, a smokers' lounge and the Hemingway Bar.

Hotel & interiors

nhow Frankfurt

Hesse

Hotel & interiors

A design hotel in Frankfurt's Gallus district with a gold-toned lobby, money-themed guest rooms, meeting rooms up to 200 square metres and a rooftop bar on its 47th floor.

Meeting rooms up to 200 sqm, rooftop bar on the 47th floor

Hotel & interiors

Platzl Hotel Munich

Bavaria

Hotel & interiors

Family run four star hotel next to the Hofbraeuhaus in the Munich old town, with 167 rooms, seven conference rooms, corridors, lobby, bars and restaurant refurbished since 2015.

Underground car park with 55 spaces at 1.85 m clearance, inner courtyard of about 150 sq m with vehicle access up to 3.4 m, 32 A power

Bars, restaurants and shops in Germany 12

Cafes, bars, restaurants, markets, shops and shopping streets, the everyday interiors a schedule eats through quickly. All 12 on their own page.

Donau-Einkaufszentrum, Bavaria
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Donau-Einkaufszentrum

Bavaria

Bar, restaurant & shop

Large shopping centre in Regensburg with 140 shops, wide malls, planted light wells and fountains, an attached health centre and a spiral car park ramp.

82,000 sq m lettable area on a 102,000 sq m site, 3,600 free parking spaces, sections of car park can be closed off, outlets throughout

Fuenf Hoefe, Bavaria
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Fuenf Hoefe

Bavaria

Bar, restaurant & shop

Shopping and office quarter in central Munich by Herzog and de Meuron, with five courtyards and glazed arcades, hanging planting in the Salvator passage and a suspended steel sphere in the Viscardihof.

48,000 sq m in total with 17,000 sq m retail, 25,000 sq m offices and a 3,200 sq m art hall, no parking inside the building

Bar, restaurant & shop

Breuninger Kaufhaus Erfurt

Thuringia

Bar, restaurant & shop

A department store built in the 1990s in Erfurt's historic city centre, designed to fit the scale of the surrounding 1,250 year old old town while offering large modern retail floors inside.

Bar, restaurant & shop

Fleischerei Buechner Goerlitz

Saxony

Bar, restaurant & shop

A butcher's shop in Goerlitz opened in 1911, with an original sales room of about 30 square metres lined in colourful period wall tiles depicting meat and sausage production.

Sales room of about 30 sqm with original 1911 wall tiling

Bar, restaurant & shop

KaDeWe

Berlin

Bar, restaurant & shop

One of continental Europe's largest department stores, with Art Deco and postwar interiors, a glass-domed food hall and escalator halls suited to retail and crowd scenes.

Bar, restaurant & shop

Schumann's Bar am Hofgarten

Bavaria

Bar, restaurant & shop

Munich bar by the Hofgarten finished in shell limestone, serpentine, American walnut and grained leather, with a ground floor bar room, the Camparino side room and a first floor bar.

Main room about 150 sq m, Camparino about 25 sq m, upstairs bar about 20 sq m, large lorry access, 16 A power

Bar, restaurant & shop

Wirtshaus im Schlachthof

Bavaria

Bar, restaurant & shop

Listed 1879 brick building in the Munich slaughterhouse quarter, with dark board floors, original panelling, cast iron columns and four rooms plus a small tavern garden.

Four rooms of about 200, 100, 50 and 50 sq m, lorry access, delivery ramp, limited free parking around the house, 16 A power

Houses and apartments in Germany 6

Private houses, villas, apartments and period interiors available for filming, from workers' housing to architect-designed homes. Houses and apartments across Europe.

Hansaviertel Berlin, Berlin
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Hansaviertel Berlin

Berlin

House & apartment

A postwar modernist housing estate built for the 1957 Interbau exhibition, with apartment towers and low-rise blocks by international architects set in parkland near the Tiergarten.

Hellerau, Saxony
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Hellerau

Saxony

House & apartment

Early twentieth-century garden city on the edge of Dresden built around the Hellerau Festival Theatre, with modernist workshop housing and a rhythmic-gymnastics hall used for performance and film.

Capacity: 400 · On-site Lago-Bar for catering; qualified in-house technical staff manage events due to the stage setup and specialised equipment (own site).

Siedlung Dahlhauser Heide, North Rhine-Westphalia
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Siedlung Dahlhauser Heide

North Rhine-Westphalia

House & apartment

Miners' garden estate built from 1907 in Bochum-Hordel, with paired cottages, shutters, front gardens, stables and quiet cobbled streets in a listed layout.

Weissenhofsiedlung, Baden-Wurttemberg
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Weissenhofsiedlung

Baden-Wurttemberg

House & apartment

1927 modernist housing estate on a Stuttgart hillside designed by Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and other Weimar-era architects, with flat-roofed white houses, two of them open as a museum.

Modern architecture in Germany 4

Contemporary buildings with a strong shape: museums, concert halls, campuses, glass towers and brutalist concrete. Modern architecture across Europe.

Modern architecture

Bauhaus Dessau

Saxony-Anhalt

Modern architecture

1926 Bauhaus school building by Walter Gropius in Dessau, a UNESCO World Heritage site with glass curtain walls, workshop wings, studio flats and an auditorium.

Modern architecture

Egon-Eiermann-Bau Apolda

Thuringia

Modern architecture

A modernist industrial building by architect Egon Eiermann on the edge of Apolda, originally built for fire-extinguisher production and now used as studios and creative workspace.

Churches and monasteries in Germany 4

Cathedrals, churches, chapels, monasteries and cloisters, plus the crypts and refectories behind them. Churches and monasteries across Europe.

Kloster Eberbach, Hesse
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Kloster Eberbach

Hesse

Church & monastery

Former Cistercian monastery in the Rheingau with a Romanesque basilica, a vaulted dormitory, wine cellars and surrounding vineyards, now run as an events and wine estate.

Seen in: The Name of the Rose (1986)

St Michaelis Hamburg, Hamburg
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St Michaelis Hamburg

Hamburg

Church & monastery

Hamburg's principal baroque church, known locally as the Michel, with a copper-clad tower, a light-filled nave and a crypt, available for hire outside services.

The church, the crypt (described by the venue as the largest in Northern Europe) and rooms in the 1950s community house can be booked for corporate...

Historic towns and streets in Germany 3

Old towns, squares and streets that can double for a period without dressing out a modern skyline. Historic towns and streets across Europe.

Görlitz Old Town, Saxony
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Görlitz Old Town

Saxony

Historic town & street

War-spared old town of around 4,000 listed buildings ranging from Gothic and Renaissance to Baroque and Wilhelminian styles.

Seen in: The Grand Budapest Hotel, Inglourious Basterds, The Reader

Historic town & street

Kraemerbruecke Erfurt

Thuringia

Historic town & street

A medieval stone arch bridge of 1325 across the Gera river in Erfurt's old town, still lined with inhabited half-timbered shop buildings, one of the few such bridges left north of the Alps.

Castles and estates in Germany 3

Castles, fortresses, manor houses and country estates, usually with grounds, outbuildings and period interiors in one place. Castles and estates across Europe.

Neuschwanstein Castle, Bavaria
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Neuschwanstein Castle

Bavaria

Castle & estate

Nineteenth-century Romanesque revival castle rising from a wooded Alpine crag above the village of Hohenschwangau.

Seen in: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Great Escape, Ludwig (1973)

Cities and skylines in Germany 2

Skylines, rooftops, viewpoints and city panoramas for establishing shots. Cities and skylines across Europe.

City & skyline

Frankfurt Bankenviertel

Hesse

City & skyline

Frankfurt's financial district of glass office towers grouped around the old town and the river Main, the only high-rise skyline of its kind in Germany.

City & skyline

Halle-Neustadt (noerdliche Neustadt)

Saxony-Anhalt

City & skyline

A large prefabricated socialist new town built from 1964 to house workers near the Buna and Leuna chemical plants, originally planned with generous greenery and public art between the blocks.

Villages and countryside in Germany 2

Villages, farmland, meadows and rural roads: open country with somewhere to put a unit base. Villages and countryside across Europe.

Village & countryside

Weingut Klaus Zimmerling

Saxony

Village & countryside

A working winery on the steep, pyramid-shaped Roesselberg slope of the historic Pillnitz royal vineyard near Dresden, producing about 10,000 litres of wine a year under organic methods.

Palaces and landmarks in Germany 1

Palaces, state rooms and recognisable landmarks, the places an establishing shot is built around. Palaces and landmarks across Europe.

Festung Ehrenbreitstein, Rhineland-Palatinate
Photo: Dmitry Tonkonog and Ksenia Fedosova (CC BY-SA 3.0), Wikimedia Commons

Festung Ehrenbreitstein

Rhineland-Palatinate

Palace & landmark

Prussian hill fortress above the Rhine at Koblenz with casemates, ramparts, barrack blocks, a large parade court and views over the river junction.

Coast and beaches in Germany 1

Beaches, cliffs, harbours and coastline, including stretches that can be closed off in the off season. Coast and beaches across Europe.

Coast & beach

Königsstuhl (Rügen)

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Coast & beach

Chalk cliff on Rügen's Jasmund coast rising sharply above the Baltic, within a national park of beech forest, with a visitor centre built into the clifftop.

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