Solitary on the Ochsenberg: General’s Sloth Farm

in #architecture12 days ago

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High above the Harz village of Sorge (Sorrow) sits a "lost place" so vast it defies a single camera lens. From a pioneering 19th-century tuberculosis sanatorium where patients "drank the sun" to a secretive, barbed-wire retreat for the GDR’s military elite, the ruins on the Ochsenberg tell the fractured story of German history.

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