Tour Report: Sanatorium Supra

This is something you don't see everyday. Following a tip from a local, we drove to a town that is very well-known for having a lot of sanatoriums - abandoned and not abandoned.
There was one abandoned sanatorium that we hadn't explored yet, and it was kind of our destination.
We parked the car on a public parking space that wasn't too far away. It was still raining, and I decided to go for a short walk to get a quick look in the sanatorium. It really wasn't worth to take photos. I went through the entire building - it was completely vandalized, and a lot of trash was lying around on the floors. There was no reason for me to take out the camera.
But as I've said - the sanatorium wasn't the goal of this trip. The real destination was the fairly new small heating plant right next to it.
Someone had obviously used it to store some old cars inside it - and these were the reason for us to drop by.
We found two Toyota Supra and one BMW Series 02.
All three cars were in pretty good shape, taking into account that the door had been open for quite some time.
The three cars took up much of the free space in the heating plant, so it was a bit hard to get the photos. This - and the fact that there was a lot of traffic right outside the door - is the reason that I only have the photos you find see in this post.

There is no historical information regarding the cars; but I know that they have been removed at some point late in 2018. The sanatorium next door burned down only two weeks after our visit.

Tour Report: Grinding Shop II

On the last day of our short tour through the mountains in March of 2018, we wanted to spend some more time with our friend Jens and his dogs, so we decided to do only two short locations.
The first explore of the day was an abandoned grinding shop.
It was in a remote area right next to a river. There even was a public parking lot conveniently close to the place, so we could park the car without looking too conspicuous.
The rain that had accompanied us through the day (and night) before was still with us, but we didn't have to walk too far to get to the old building.
There was no fence and no signs, so we were able to just stroll around and check for a way in.
It didn't even take one minute to spot the open window and climb in.
The building was in surprisingly good condition; there was a lot of stuff standing around in the larger one of the halls - probably stored items from the last owner. Even an old forklift was standing there.
In the front part of the buildings was the large storage hall and some electrical installations. The part next to it had obviously contained the grinding machines; but this part had collapsed, and there was hardly anything left of the machinery, which supports my assumption that the grinding operation was stopped at some point and the building was used for other purposes until it was finally closed down.

Upon walking into the little hall right next to the river, we found the most exciting part of the old production facility - the hydropower plant.
It was still in excellent condition and may well be called an antique. You rarely find machines in abandoned buildings, because metal thieves steal everything they can get disassembled - and finding one almost in an operational state.

We took our time checking out all the rooms that we could get into. After that, we went back to the car and drove to the final spot of our tour...

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Tour Report: Sanatorium B.

The rain hadn't stopped during our drive away from our first location to our second location that day. We had opted for an abandoned sanatorium that wasn't too far away and where we'd identified a nice place to park without having to walk too much ;)
We parked the car and walked through the rain to the address of the sanatorium.
We were a bit disappointed by the building - it looked like a typical building from the late 1960s or early 1970s - nothing like the old sanatoriums that we'd visited in the past.
Entering was easy; there was an open window through which we were able to slip in without much difficulty.
The first part that we entered was the pool area. From the looks of it, this was no sanatorium in a classical sense, but more of a health resort - nice rooms, pool, a large dining area..this place had it all.
But unfortunately, the vandals really had a go at this place. Destruction, graffiti and general chaos is what we found. Someone even went through the trouple and put pavement slabs on the floor of the restaurant - and not just a few.
Due to the vandalism, there weren't many nice shots to be taken, but we still took our time to explore the whole place top to bottom.
From the looks of it, this location had been a playground for teenagers for many years. We, however, had the place entirely to ourselves. I guess we were lucky that vandals don't like rain ;)

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