ABSTRACT
The former military site Kummersdorf lies 30 km south of the Berlin border in the state of Brandenburg, Germany. It has a landscape setting covering 3,500 ha (Teltow-Fläming, 2008) determined by its property boundaries resulting from the fact that Kummersdorf was a closed-off and secret site dedicated to a distinct function. However, it is also part of the more extensive surrounding landscape that has been highly shaped by its military past since the state of Brandenburg has always been favoured by the military. This results from its relatively uninhabited spaces, its location near the eastern border and its proximity to Berlin as the political heartland of former Prussia, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and today’s Germany (Buchinger and Metzler, 2006).
