This was 2002 and things were never the same again.The fences didn’t hold the rats out long and nobody likes a water park that has rat fences.

Would you swim in a place that cannot win a fight against rats? We wouldn’t and apparently, lots of people agree with us and Blub declared bankruptcy in the following year.

Harald Frisch, Blub’s owner, fought for a while and manage to keep the place open for a little longer with the sauna and the fitness center opened until there was no money left anymore. It was them that property developer Tobias Willmeroth bought the place and decided to turn the place into a holiday resort for families.

In 2011 his plans fell to the ground and he sold the area to a German investor group called H-Group. Their plan is to tear down the entire place and build more than 400 luxury apartments. Supposedly, construction starts in 2015 and then Blub will be gone forever. Harald Frisch still fights for his water park but nobody wants to swim in rat shit.

The city of Berlin is on the investor’s side and the rats are going to have a tough fight. At least they have the gym equipment and they can get some muscles before the machines come to tear down Blub.