Film and TV locations in Saxony-Anhalt
14 places to shoot in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany: 3 transport and infrastructure locations, 3 industrial and derelict locations, 2 modern architecture and 6 more. 2 have a photo and 1 carry practical details the location publishes itself.
What is here
- Transport and infrastructure 3
- Industrial and derelict locations 3
- Modern architecture 2
- Hospitals, prisons and institutions 2
- Hotels and interiors 1
- Cities and skylines 1
- Churches and monasteries 1
- Offices, schools and public buildings 1
Hyparschale Magdeburg
Modern architecture
A 1969 multi-purpose hall by engineer Ulrich Muther next to Magdeburg's Stadthalle, built from four self-supporting hyperbolic paraboloid concrete shells and reopened in 2024 after restoration.
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Rathaus Wernigerode
Office, school & public building
A half-timbered Gothic and Renaissance town hall on Wernigerode's market square, a building group combining the Rathaus, a former weigh house and a later savings-bank building.
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Bauhaus Dessau
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.
Boardinghaus Weinberg Campus
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.
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Container Terminal Halle (Saale)
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.
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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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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...
Genossenschaft in der Heilstaette Harzgerode
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.
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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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Halle-Neustadt (noerdliche Neustadt)
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.
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Kriminalpanoptikum Aschersleben
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.
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Musikforum Katharinenkirche
Church & monastery
A former monastery church in Stendal, dating back to a 1468 dedication, converted into an acoustically modern concert hall hosting about 50 concerts and events a year.
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Schiffshebewerk Rothensee
Transport & infrastructure
A 1938 ship lift on the Mittelland Canal north of Magdeburg, an engineering monument that connected canal traffic to the Elbe until 2001.
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Stations of the Harzer Schmalspurbahnen
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.
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What Germany pays back
Germany runs the DFFF I / DFFF II / GMPF, worth 30%. Work out the net value on your own spend in the incentive comparison.
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