## No beer...

What do we associate with the word "Germany"? Right, beer! And in the country, where a lot of beer is produced there should be also abandoned breweries. This kind of the lost places had appeared to be so notable, therefore I have deciced to devote a special page to them.

Preparing to transfer to Halle, I'd found out the website where many abandoned buildings were listed. Among others, I had mentioned an abandoned malt-house. And after I had moved to Halle, in the very first days I decided to visit this place.

The first interesting place I had met on the way: it was a kind of the rest-ground arranged at the place of the cargo station (pic 1–3). And many years earlier in this place was the Thüringer Railway Station. The malt-house itself appeared to be under the reconstruction, so I couldn't visit it (pic 4–8).

Palace of King Gambrinus

Living in Halle, I'd like to taste some local beer. So I asked Google about something like "Halle brauerei", that ment "Halle, brewery", and was amazed with the result. There was a brewery in Halle, but it was abandoned! So I had been visiting it for several times since it appeared to be quite large (pic 9–49).

Cellars of the palace

This brewery also has outstanding cellars. It was a new experience for me, because I had never visited such large old basements before (pic 50–88). And once walking on Saale bank, I had met an info plate with a picture of the brewery at the end of the XIX century (pic 89). One can see that the brewery had inhereted cellars from the old building that was rebuilt at the beginning of the XXth century.

A strange story

Once being on a business trip in Berlin from the window of the city train I had seen a promising ruine (pic 90). It was the brewery called "Bärenquell", that means "Bear spring". There is a strange story with this brewery. Unlike many breweries in East Germany closed just after the unification of the state (like the "Freiberg", brewery described above) it had survived and was one of the four largest breweries of the united Berlin until 1995 when it was suddenly closed. Since that it has not been being in use, and the years of the oblivion have made their work (pic 91–111).

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