The library of ground
Every place Strata has dug, assembled from its sources and filed by locality and era. A place is reviewed again whenever the ground beneath it is dug afresh.
528 places · 215 localities · last reviewed 27 October 2026
Germany
BerlinThis record gathers one piece of ground in Berlin Mitte, Magazinstraße 6-7, where a royal army hay and forage depot gave way to a 1910-1911 office and commercial block, later a spinning mill, small workshops, a workers' clinic, and present-day offices.
1 dig
15 records Germany MunichAt 12 Schützenstraße, opposite Munich's main train station, a department store opened in 1905 as the Hermann Tietz store, was renamed Hertie under Nazi pressure, grew into one of Germany's largest stores by 1971, and closed on 30 June 2023. 1 dig
12 records Germany Hofheim am TaunusHofheim am Taunus gathers ground shaped by long survival amid repeated ruin: a Roman fort near Diedenbergen, a village raised in the early 15th century on the site of three dead settlements, and a church organ from 1769 that outlasted the fires that twice destroyed its predecessor and every government since. 1 dig
10 records
15 records Germany MunichAt 12 Schützenstraße, opposite Munich's main train station, a department store opened in 1905 as the Hermann Tietz store, was renamed Hertie under Nazi pressure, grew into one of Germany's largest stores by 1971, and closed on 30 June 2023. 1 dig
12 records Germany Hofheim am TaunusHofheim am Taunus gathers ground shaped by long survival amid repeated ruin: a Roman fort near Diedenbergen, a village raised in the early 15th century on the site of three dead settlements, and a church organ from 1769 that outlasted the fires that twice destroyed its predecessor and every government since. 1 dig
10 records
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