 The site had a club house () with a cinema and a restaurant, a shop where a limited selection of luxury Western goods could be purchased with East German marks, a market garden, a health centre, a shooting range, a swimming pool, a sports field, and tennis courts.There were also barracks and social building for site employees and guards.During the Honecker-era, the cooks at Waldsiedlung were required to produce gourmet-level meals and in addition to high-quality East German food products, western products such as Beaujolais wines and seltzer water were imported from West Berlin.