The Lost Culture Palace: The mysterious fate of the X50 ruins (Drone Urbex)

This was where he was supposed to be at home, the new person who lived from work and culture. Shortly before the 70th anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone, the former Buna clubhouse. Named after a german tradition for plant streets from the Nazi-era X50

What today looks like a lost ruin was once built as a “working people's clubhouse” on the instructions of the Soviet occupying troops in East Germany. As long as socialism reigned, world stars took part here. World-famous ensembles such as La Scala in Milan or the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow performed in the multifunctional theater building, which cost 1.8 million GDR marks, in front of the factory gate of one of Germany's largest chemical plants. The winding and confusing house, which monument conservationists described as having an “impressively metropolitan dimension” that was “of particular testament to the neoclassical monumental architecture of the GDR,” was a place where thousands of visitors gathered evening after evening.

But after 50 years the light went out in the lighthouse of culture, in which socialist people could experience artists close to their workbench and become artists themselves in so-called working groups of folk artists. Then a buyer came who wanted to invest more than 20 million euros. Excavators dug thousands of tons of earth out of the foundations, the building shell was gutted, fiberglass was laid, stairs were torn out, floors were broken through and partition walls were moved. Then the government blocked the additional payment of promised funds for the construction. And everything collapsed.

20 years later, all that remains is a proud ruin that attracts nuegieruges who wander in amazement through the halls, corridors and endless corridors.