( CNN ) -- An apartment left untouched since before the fall of the Berlin Wall has been discovered by a developer in the eastern German city of Leipzig , German media reports said Thursday . The fall of the Berlin Wall heralded the end of the communist regime in East Germany in 1989 . The discovery , made by architect Mark Aretz , revealed a small one-bedroom apartment evidently abandoned quickly by its occupants as the Communist East German state disintegrated in 1989 , Spiegel Online reported . A wall calendar showed August 1988 , and the kitchen cupboard and drawers contained plastic crockery and aluminium cutlery along with communist-era food brands such as `` Vita '' Cola , `` Marella '' margarine , `` Juwel '' cigarettes and a bottle of `` Kristall '' vodka . `` When we opened the door we felt like Howard Carter when he found the grave of Tutankhamen , '' Aretz told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper . `` Everything was a mess but it was like a historic treasure trove , a portal into an age long gone . '' According to Aretz -- a developer who renovates properties in eastern Germany -- the occupant appears to have been a 24-year-old man from Leipzig who had been in trouble with the authorities , judging by personal documents left behind . The most recent document was dated May , 1989 -- a police search warrant for a caravan . There was also a stamped and addressed postcard written by the occupant , but he had never sent it , Spiegel said .
Apartment found by developer in eastern German city of Leipzig . Occupant left in a hurry as East German state crumbled in 1989 . Communist-era food brands such as `` Vita '' Cola , `` Marella '' margarine found .