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Ostel (Berlin)

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Ostel
Ostel building in February 2012
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Town or cityBerlin
CountryGermany
Inaugurated1 May 2007

Ostel is a hostel in Berlin. Located in an original Plattenbau, it is decorated in the style of Ostalgie.[1][2][3] Sometime in 2020, it has closed down.

Ostel room with an Erich Honecker photograph hanging at the wall.

It was inaugurated on 1 May 2007, and is decorated in the style of East Germany.[4] Clocks display the time in Moscow, Beijing and Havana[5] and the rooms are decorated with photographs of Erich Honecker.[6]

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Media related to Ostel (Berlin) at Wikimedia Commons

  1. ^ "BERLIN NEVER RECOVERED AFTER THE WALL FELL" (retrieved January 5, 2018)
  2. ^ "Meine Nächte in der Stasi-Suite" ("My nights in the Stasi Suite") (retrieved January 5, 2018)
  3. ^ "Schlafen in der Stasi-Suite"
  4. ^ "East German hotel recreates communist era". NBC. 20 June 2007. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  5. ^ Andrew Kingsford-Smith (31 October 2019). "The Top Art And Culture Hotels in Berlin". Culture Trip. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  6. ^ Nicole Crowder (28 October 2014). "Coming of age: East Berlin today, 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall". Washington Post. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
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