Industrial and derelict locations to film in Germany
48 of them, 25 with a photo and 15 with practical details the location publishes itself. 1 have a documented shooting history. Every entry links to the location or to the body that manages it.
Factories, warehouses, power stations, mines, depots and abandoned buildings: raw space, hard surfaces and the kind of decay that is impossible to build.
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Denkort Bunker Valentin
Industrial & derelict
Unfinished submarine bunker of 1945 at Bremen-Farge, a vast concrete shell with broken roof slabs, flooded bays and a memorial path through the interior.
Erlebnisbergwerk Velsen
Industrial & derelict
Former coal mine at Saarbruecken-Velsen kept as a visitor pit, with a shaft head, pit railway, machine rooms and worked underground roadways.
Frohnauer Hammer
Industrial & derelict
A fully working historic hammer forge in the Frohnau district of Annaberg-Buchholz, part of the Ore Mountains mining heritage recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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Gasometer Oberhausen
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Meyer Werft
Industrial & derelict
Cruise ship yard in Papenburg with covered building docks, steel workshops, a fitting out quay and the narrow Ems below, listed in the nordmedia location guide.
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Monte Kali
Industrial & derelict
A large potash mining spoil heap over 500 metres high near Heringen in eastern Hesse, made up of more than 200 million tonnes of salt waste from the works below.
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Panometer Leipzig
Industrial & derelict
Former gasometer in Leipzig converted into a 360-degree panorama exhibition space, with a cylindrical brick interior more than thirty metres high.
Pausa Quartier Moessingen
Industrial & derelict
Former Pausa textile printing works in Moessingen, a listed factory quarter of production halls, archive and museum rooms, a gallery, library and cafe.
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Peenemünde
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.
Rammelsberg Mine
Industrial & derelict
Ore mine above Goslar closed in 1988, with 1930s surface buildings, ore processing halls, a chain hoist room and accessible underground galleries.
Schuppen 50 (Hafenmuseum Hamburg)
Industrial & derelict
Last imperial era quay sheds on the Bremer Kai in Hamburg, timber framed halls with a restored event floor, a row of historic cranes and the harbour railway.
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Speicherstadt
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...
Tabakquartier
Industrial & derelict
Former Brinkmann cigarette factory in Bremen-Woltmershausen, brick production halls and a heating plant converted into offices, lofts and event floors.
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Teufelsberg
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
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.
urbanharbor Ludwigsburg
Industrial & derelict
Transformed industrial estate of about 200,000 sq m in Ludwigsburg, mixing listed halls including a Zollinger timber roof with a boulevard, culture works, studios and the old administration building.
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Völklinger Hütte
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
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
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,...
Zuckerfabrik Oldisleben
Industrial & derelict
The world's only sugar beet factory preserved as a technical monument, near Oldisleben, keeping its production line and the social spaces used by its workers.
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Alte Lokhalle Freiburg
Industrial & derelict
Old locomotive hall and surrounding industrial ground near Freiburg main station, offering hall space alongside office and administration rooms.
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Alte Schokoladenfabrik Oderwitz
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.
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Bergson Kunstkraftwerk
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.
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Ehemaliger Handelshafen Magdeburg
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.
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Ehemaliges Kaufhaus Hermann Tietz Gera
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.
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Ferropolis
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...
Gaswerk Augsburg
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
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Glaeserne Manufaktur (Volkswagen)
Industrial & derelict
Volkswagen's Transparent Factory in central Dresden, opened in 2001, where car assembly takes place behind glass walls visible to visitors alongside a showroom.
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Glasmanufaktur Harzkristall
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.
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Hugo Junkers Hangar
Industrial & derelict
Aircraft hangar at Moenchengladbach airfield used as an event hall, with a clear span interior, apron access and a historic Ju 52 on site.
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Kokerei Hansa
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.
Kraftzentrale Straubing
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
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Lava-Dome and Lava Cellars Mendig
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.
Muellverwertungsanlage Ingolstadt
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
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Museum Kalkwerk Lengefeld
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.
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Museum Park Rüdersdorf
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).
NOUVABRIK
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
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Porsche Leipzig
Industrial & derelict
Porsche's Leipzig production site, combining a working car factory with a 32 metre diamond-shaped Experience Centre building set in landscaped grounds.
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Raumfabrik Frankfurt
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.
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Salzspeicher Luebeck
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
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Spinnerei Leipzig
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.
Wiede-Fabrik
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
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Zeche Zollern
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...
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