The owner of this apartment in Leipzig had to get out in a hurry just before the fall of the Berlin Wall. By 20 years no one entered there, he hadn't even placed the Vita Cola bottle on the table. – It is like a portal to an era long gone – says the discoverer of the unusual place. Architect Mark Aretz, who is involved in the renovation of buildings in eastern Germany has been shocked, when he opened the door to an apartment in Leipzig last week. A small place on the third floor of a tenement house turned out to be a time capsule, An open-air museum in the GDR – informs the German service ”Mirror online”. – When we opened the door, we felt like Howard Carter, when he discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun – Mark Aretz told the newspaper “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”. The calendar on the wall stopped in August 1988 year, and everything looked like this, as if the owner just left for a while and will be back soon. There was even a bag of bread on the wall. In his apartment, Aretz found products of long-forgotten brands: an empty bottle of Vita Cola, Marella margarine, Juwel cigarettes. Plastic dishes and aluminum cutlery completed the image of long-gone times. The only foreign product was a deodorant. [picture – read on]
According to Aretz, the documents and letters found in the apartment testify to this, that the tenant was a man aged 24 Years, who had some trouble with the GDR authorities. Just before the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 year he had to get out in a hurry.
