Tour Report: The First House on the Left

Here's the next report from the tour through Denmark I took in April of last year together with my wife and our friends Pixelcracker and Lost Places in Schleswig-Holstein und Umland. We had finished exploring the first two spots we had planned and were on the road to the third spot on our list.

As we took the turn onto the road where the "House of the German" (the planned spot) was located, we spotted another obviously abandoned house. It was the first house on the left, hence the rather unimaginative title of this report ;)

Two spots. One on each side of the road. We had some trouble deciding which one to explore first. We went for the one we spotted first, so we parked by the side of the road and gathered our gear.

A lot of the abandoned houses we explored in Denmark have had their front or back doors unlocked. It was no different in this case, so it was really easy to enter.

The house wasn't as spectacular as we had hoped - there wasn't any furniture left and the decay wasn't as advanced as we'd expected.

But there still were some nice shots to be taken - my personal favorites were two old liquor bottles standing on the window sills on the upper floor.

We didn't spend too much time in the place, and when we were finished, we just had to walk across the street to check out the next spot - so stay tuned for my next report :)

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New Video: The Movie Castle

This is the last video I made during our summer vacation this year. I'd wanted to visit this abandoned castle for a long time, and when we were in the area, we took the opportunity.
It was a really, REALLY hot day with temperatures of more than 40 degrees Celsius in the shade, and the castle wasn't much cooler, which is why the video is a bit shorter than usual. After three hours of taking photos, I just wasn't in the condition to take a lot of time for the video ;)
I hope you like it!

Tour Report: The Inn by the Cemetery [DK]

I had gotten a tip regarding this abandoned inn somewhere in Denmark and I had seen some promising photos of it before, so it was only logical to put it on the schedule for our trip back in April of last year together with Pixelcracker and Lost Places in Schleswig-Holstein und Umland.
It was about a half-hour drive from the first location, and by the time we arrived, the sky had cleared up and had made way for the sun which had been hiding behind clouds the whole time since we left home that morning.
The abandoned old inn is located right next to a cemetery and a church. There was a large public parking lot right next to it, which was used by churchgoers as well as people visiting the cemetery. It also seemed to be a pickup for bus travelers, so there was enough activity for us to not arise any suspicion.
The challenge was that the access which we discovered during our first inspection was perfectly visible from the pretty busy road...
It was only a small window, so we'd have to get in one at a time.
Everytime there was no car coming, one of us climbed in through the window while the others were hiding behind hedges or waiting around the corner.
I'm sure we were more than conspicuous, but somehow we made it in without being seen.
Despite well more than five years of abandonedment, the condition of the place was fantastic. A lot of the interior was still there, and the decay was only slowly beginning to make its way into the building, starting with the rooms on the weather side of the inn.
After about two hours, we had seen everything and we left the building the same way we'd used to get in.
There was another abandoned builduing across the street which we checked out. It obviously belonged to the inn as well, probably as accomodation for the staff. There was no way in at this point, so we got back into the RV and headed for the next location. A few months later, though, we managed to find acces during a revisit of the inn. There was also a cat, but that's a different story ;)


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Tour Report: The House of Chairs [DK]

It was time for a tour through Denmark again in late April of last year. About ten days after our successful exploration of an abandoned Soviet airfield in Eastern Germany, my wife and I met up with our friends Pixelcracker and Lost Places in Schleswig-Holstein und Umland to explore the abandoned parts of the picturesque Danish countryside.

As most of the times when we go touring through Denmark, we met in the parking lot of a large mall in Flensburg near the border early in the morning.

We all climbed aboard Pixelcracker's RV and headed across the border. The Danish government had re-established border controls to prevent refugees to illegally entering the country, which always leaves a stale taste in my mouth  after so many years of crossing European borders unchecked.

Anyway, it was only a short drive from the border to the first location that we had on our list. It was an unremarkable, small house in a small town. Since there weren't too many houses near the place and the Danish people (neighbors) unsually don't seem to be bothered by urbexers, we parked pretty close to the house and gathered our gear.

The back door was open, just like in most of the houses in Denmark that I've visited, and we entered.

There had obviously been a little amount of vandalism, but the general state of the place was still pretty much original. There weren't too many details to be photographed, but the chairs that could be found all over the house did make for some nice pictures.

Due to the lack of documents and such, there was no possibility for me to dig into the history of the place and find out who were the owners and what happened to them. The house appears to have been abandoned for a couple of years, but the electricity was still on...

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Tour Report: Military Airfield P.

On Good Friday of last year, my wife and I met up with our good friends Nordgriller Urbex, Pixelcracker and North Urbex for a nice exploration of an abandoned former airfield in the Eastern part of Germany.
This airfield had been built in 1936 and was used by the Soviets after World War II, who stationed their 21st motorized riflemen division here.
That is what makes this location so interesting - you an find remains of the WWII period when this was used as an actual airfield, and you can find tons of relics from the time when the Soviets used this for their tanks and anti-tank-training.
Luxuriously enough, there was a public parking spot pretty close to our proposed entry route. So after parking, smoking a cigarette and stretching the legs from the three-hour drive, we grabbed our gear and went to enter the area and meet up with Pixelcracker and North Urbex who were already there.
The place is pretty big, so we conducted some research in advance to have a good plan which route would take us along the most interesting spots.
We met with the two guys right along the way to a small shelter that was used as a generator house.
After that, we definitely wanted to find the rusty old ammunition in the forest that we had seen photos of. We had rough coordinates, but it still took us some time to find it.
We took our first short break there before leaving the forest and walking along some overgrown roads passing various tank garages, parts of old cars and some barracks until we reached the original airfield's hangars.
Near those hangars is also an earth-covered garage.
During the Cold War, this earth-covered garage contained Soviet tactical ballistic missiles of the type SS-21 "Scarab" that can be equipped with nuclear warheads.
After passing the hangars, we explored the building of the fire brigade and the control tower.
On the way to our exit point, we passed more buildings with residential, administrative and recreational purposes until we reached the last of the large hangars before exiting through the front door of the former airfield, so to speak.


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Garage for SS-21 "Scarab" Missiles and Transport Systems

Station of the Airfield's Fire Brigade

Control Tower

Cinema