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Old Crematorium

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    Location: Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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    August 31, 2021

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    The old crematorium will probably send a certain shiver down your spine just by looking at it from the outside. The building, which is now a listed building, was inaugurated in 1910 to carry out cremations that were only legalized four years earlier in the Anhalt state parliament.

    After several extensions, the crematorium was in use until the 1980s. The ovens and carts on which the corpses were driven over rails into the fire are still in place inside the building today.
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    February 24, 2025

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    Now a ruin
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    September 21, 2025

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    Today, the Dessau crematorium is falling into disrepair and, overgrown, offers a spookily romantic backdrop in the old cemetery.
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