Teufelsberg: Cold War Spy Domes, Street Art, and Panoramic Sunsets Over Berlin
The iconic weathered geodesic radar radomes of the former NSA listening station atop Teufelsberg, rising 120 meters above Berlin's Grunewald forest. Rising dramatically above the dense pine canopy of the Grunewald forest in western Berlin, the strange, alien silhouette of Teufelsberg (Devil’s Mountain) is visible for miles. Perched atop Berlin's highest elevation sit five colossal, tattered geodesic radar domes, looking like giant golf balls abandoned by a forgotten civilization. For decades during the Cold War, this fenced-off hilltop was shrouded in total military secrecy, serving as Field Station Berlin—the premier espionage ear of the American National Security Agency (NSA) and British intelligence monitoring Warsaw Pact radio traffic deep behind the Iron Curtain. Today, Teufelsberg has undergone an extraordinary metamorphosis. The abandoned electronic battlefield has been transformed into one of the largest, most vibrant open-air street art galleries in Europe....