This WW2 Gun Tower is Getting a Rooftop Garden

I'm curious to see how the final project turns out. What do you guys think of rooftop garden?

That feel when the WW2 tower is still intact compared to my house... Thanks for visiting that tower, it's a shame the tower is still closed for now😔

I went to Hamburg multiple times but I first saw the tower on a school trip in 12th grade. When I got out of the Ubahn station my jaw literally dropped. I heard about these behemoths before but I never saw one in person. Very impressive stuff. Despite, or maybe even because of its dark past.

Seems like a great way to re-utilize the building: built for war, repurposed for life.

vienna has 3 flaktowers and one got turned into a sealive aquarium called "haus des meere". its amazing, you can literally spend an entire day in there. so if you ever make it to vienna its worth a shot

It still amazes me how durable these towers are. Good vid Haigs. :D

You should do a story on those funny Winkel towers that popped up all over the Reich in WWII.

Hope you enjoyed your trip here mate. The Übel & Gefährlich is the inside venue and there are some dope concerts and events happening. Sadly the music store inside it closed a couple years ago, not for redesign but because of financial struggles. I wonder how much rent a business pays in that thing. Bonus: The allies tried to demolish the bunker with 20 tons of tnt (if I recall right) but the bunker just decided to burry itself and was still standing.

I live in germany and its really interesting to see other people interested in this :D

Ah yes, remember it clear as day. Always have been interested in WW2, all kinds of aircraft and tanks.. all the good technical stuff, and the history in itself of course. And despite growing up in Germany and my father also being a a hobby historian/almost professional Model builder I´ve never heard of a Flaktower before. So my 15y/o unsuspecting ass comes out of the Metro Station at Feldstraße in Hamburg while being on a field trip and school and as I turn around I see this behemoth of concrete and questionable political views. It was and is quite an impressive slab of concrete. I like the idea of giving it a purpose, especially something nice as a garden. In a City close to where I live, it´s called Emden. Are also a lot of Bunkers that survived the decades and are used for nice stuff. One of them got all of the rooms turned into rehearsal rooms for local bands to rent, which is an pretty awesome idea. It has nice acoustics and you can´t possibly disturb any neighbors with your music when playing in a literal fucking bunker.

Reminds me of the final mission of Medal Of Honor Airborne.

I like to think of these as the last castles. Unless of course you want to consider the battles over the concrete commi blocks castles as well. When you look at them, many of their features can be used or easy converted to defensive castle features. Murder holes, arrow loops, crenellations, gate houses, machicolations, sometimes even moats.

Lovely video! Great work!

The most impressive thing about these is the foundation.

This is the same FLAKtower that you can enter in Sniper Elite V2.

i actually find this quite interesting, please do more :)

The BBC have nothing on these videos!

Nice

Very Nice Goood Bro

uh guys im starting to think im not on the timtraveller channel anymore