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The previous price was P 424 and current price is P 339 per adult
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 2h 39m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages

Overview

  • Step behind the monumental facades of East Germany's showpiece city and dive into the raw, booming reality of its industrial heart. This tour highlights the extreme contrast between the utopian socialist architecture that was supposed to glorify the worker and the soot-covered, deafening reality of the heavy engineering districts where these workers actually lived and toiled. Discover a world full of propaganda, pride, surveillance, and the struggle for survival.

    • 5.8 km self-guided tour with 7 stations over 159 min.
    • Ideal for everyone interested in history, memory, and urbanism innovation
      Excitingly told in a podcast style by experts and locals
    • Suitable audio content, AI guide, and navigation via the app

Activity location

  • Ernst-Reuter-Allee
    • Ernst-Reuter-Allee
    • Magdeburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Ernst-Reuter-Allee
    • Ernst-Reuter-Allee
    • Magdeburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany

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Self-guided podcast tour of Magdeburg's steel and socialism in Multilingual

  • Activity duration is 2 hours and 39 minutes2h 39m
    2h 39m
  • Opening hours: Wed 0:00-23:59
  • English
Price details
P 423.31
P 338.65 x 1 AdultP 338.65
Total
The previous price was P 423.31 and current price is P 338.65
20% off

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Exciting audio output in podcast style with experts and locals
  • Inclusions
    Interactive guide in the app for questions about history and surroundings
  • Inclusions
    Verified facts incorporated into an exciting story
  • Inclusions
    Point-to-point navigation between stops

Know before you book

    • Service animals allowed
    • Public transportation options are available nearby
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Ernst-Reuter-Allee

  • 10m
The magnificent boulevard, presenting Magdeburg's reconstruction after the Second World War as a socialist showpiece city in the monumental 'baker's style'.

AMO Kulturhaus

  • 10m
The first newly built cultural center of the GDR, which was supposed to offer high culture to the industrial proletariat.

Technikmuseum Magdeburg

  • 10m
Housed in the former Krupp-Gruson factory, this museum displays the massive, deafening machines that were built and operated by the city's workers.

Thiemplatz

  • 10m
The historical social center of the Buckau district, which reveals the dense, everyday reality of the working class.

Pension Am Engpass

  • 10m
The narrowest part of the main street, which shows the cramped, pre-socialist industrial housing that survived the GDR's urban planning.

Volksbad Buckau c/o Frauenzentrum Courage

  • 10m
A historic public bathhouse that was essential for the hygiene and social life of industrial workers without their own bathroom.

Werk4

  • 10m
The grand finale. The former site of the SKL plant, once the beating heart of the GDR heavy industry, is today a landscape of ruins and repurposing.

Location

Activity location

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    Ernst-Reuter-Allee
    • Ernst-Reuter-Allee
    • Magdeburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Ernst-Reuter-Allee
    • Ernst-Reuter-Allee
    • Magdeburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany

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