Exploring the Winden Cave

In Dark, it seems like there is a large complex of caves that lie under the forest that surrounds the city of Winden. This cave system is more extensive than most residents know, but we don’t think anyone knows how large it really is.

Inside the cave, you are going to find some hidden drugs, three large doors that you can use to travel back in time, and even some radioactive waste. But the most exciting thing that you can find in there is a passage that can be used to travel through time. That is the entire premises of the series.

When it comes to the shots done inside the Winden Cave, it seems like the shots were done in the Unicorn Cave in the Harz region, here in Germany. Which makes sense since there are no rock formations like those around Berlin and Brandenburg.

The outside area, where you can see the entry to the cave system, is fake, and the cave is not real. What you can see in the series is a mixture of CGI and a set built in a forest between Tremsdorf and Saarmund in Brandenburg, south of Berlin.

On a cold December day, I took a train to Berlin-Wannsee, a bus in the direction of the Nuthe-Nieplitz-Niederung nature reserve, and after a long walk in the woods, I found the Winden Cave. Or, the location where the cave was supposed to be since there was nothing there.

The forest around the place is beautiful and, after a few minutes of walking surrounded by trees, I saw some familiar shapes in the distance. A ravine looked like something I saw before and, once I grabbed a reference picture from the series, I knew this was the right place.







