This place is called Dörferblick, in the beginning it was a mountain of rubble made during the rebuild of Berlin after the bombing of the end of World War II. Then it became a garbage dump that was covered with earth.
Credits: data is credited to “© OpenStreetMap contributors”. The data is available under the Open Database License. | Graphics, adaptation and code are mine and are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license (CC BY-SA 2.0).
Photographer: Dieter Palm. Source: Berlin Rudow Todesstreifen Mauer | 1976. Licence: All Rights Reserved.
Berlin Wall Foundation, Photographer: Monika Waack
Clemensfranz, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Resources:
- More about the mountains of rubble that can be found around Berlin on Wikipedia
- Here a research to download with many historical pictures (German language).
- A gallery of pictures of the Dörferblick
