The location is what we call the Bridge in Dark, the weirdest series that Netflix released into the world. When the actions start happening around Winden, a kid is missing. He was selling weed in the school, but nobody seemed to know where he was. A group of kids from the school get together to try to find it.
We first visited this bridge by accident in early 2018 and returned a few more times to explore it even further. Based on the pictures here, you can imagine it was cold in Berlin, but we managed to walk into the Grunewald forest and take too many pictures of everything there!
Bridge in Dark: Uncovering the Secrets of Grunewald Forest
In this part of the series Dark, the year is 2019, and everything happens in this generic German town called Winden. The first sign of action in the series occurs when he disappears. This is odd since he was also the only kid selling weed in school. Was he caught by the police? Did his dealer kidnap him?
Nobody knows for sure, but some of his friends decide to get together and form a group to get his stash of drugs. They follow some abandoned train tracks and go deeper into the forest surrounding Winden. There, they find a cave that is the source of everything crazy that happens in the series Dark.
When they enter this weird cave looking for drugs, some odd noises come out of nowhere, and their flashlights start to flicker and blink like crazy. This makes everybody scared, and they run in different directions. When they get together again, one of the kids is missing, and the bridge in Dark appears again.
The beginning of Dark happens in the same place, the middle of the Grunewald forest, on the edge of the Berlin district known as Steglitz-Zehlendorf. The train tracks the kids follow in the series are part of an abandoned railroad connecting to one of the largest cemeteries in Germany: Südwestkirchhof Stahnsdorf.
You can also find the Church in the Dark, where Jonas meets Noah for the first time.
But, back to the train tracks! They used to be known as the Friedhofsbahn, and they used to connect the Wannsee train station to the town of Stahnsdorf and the Südwestkirchhof Stahnsdorf cemetery. But, everything was abandoned in 1952 after the last train took its route into Stahnsdorf. Now, everything you see is being taken over by nature.
From the bridge in Dark, you can look down at the abandoned train tracks. Around the area, there is a hiking route called Königsweg that was once used as a military path between Berlin and Potsdam in the 1870s.
Finding the Bridge in Dark: A Guide for Curious Travelers
We accidentally visited the area on our way through the forest while trying to find an unusual path to Südwestkirchhof Stahnsdorf. It was quite impressive to be sitting at home, watching a series about time travel and, a couple of weeks later, being at one of the central locations from the series.
In the pictures here, you can see that the bridge in Dark overlooks the abandoned train tracks. You can imagine how the people behind Dark did some movie magic to make it look like it is on your screen.
If you want to visit the bridge in Dark, follow the map below and be prepared to walk in the middle of the forest for a while. It’s not hard; it’s just a weird place. Besides that, we also wrote about a few of the other principal locations in Dark here, like the Winden Cave, the Waldhotel Winden, the school, and the church.
The Bridge in Dark and the abandoned train tracks
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