One of a Kind - Abandoned Railyard (Part 2)

The railyard lies on an area of about 62 acres and there are two enginehouses. Next to the one in the last post, there is another one built the conventional way: 24 Tracks in a crescent-shaped enginehouse that are served by a turntable outside.

More buildings belonging to the railyard can be found along the way between the two enginehouses. Service buildings, small workshops and social buildings. The whole area almost seems like a little abandoned town.

It's easy to imagine that these winding little alleys are to some drug dealers the preferred ground to cunduct their business...
We didn't have too much time, so we skipped venturing into every building and I just took a couple of photos on the way.

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One of a Kind - Abandoned Railyard

I had been warned about this location - I was told that it's patrolled by security guards and police because of the drug dealers that are supposed to go about their business here, I have even heard about sex offenders lurking in the area.
And I was told about huge amounts of trash that are supposed to be lying around.
It was the second choice location after the first location dind't work out, and we were really surprised to find it in pretty good shape.

No drug dealers around, but the area was swarming with other people. Geocachers, a couple of twentysomethings with soft-air guns, photographers and two (I think) fashion blogging girls of about 14 years that were climbing around in the debris in ballerina shoes...

The train station next to this railyard was opened in 1893, and in the same year the older of the two enginehouses was built.
This enginehouse is one of only two enginehouses with a dome roof left in Germany. This particular construction allowed locomotives to be stored and repaired the whole year, because there was much less risk of the turntable freezing during the winter.
This enginehouse has a total of 24 tracks.

Once there were more than 20 of these architecturally interesting buildings in Germany, Russia, Poland and Luxembourg, but when the advances in techology made the steam engines stronger and bigger, it turned out that these enginehouses are considerably harder to expand than traditional enginhouses, which eventually led to their end.

Here are the first couple of photos from this truly unique and spectacular place.

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Monument Protection - Abandoned Railway Repair Factory (Part 2)

The only reason the big construction hall still stands is probably that it was placed under monument protection. The latest article that I've read said that the building will be converted into a regional exposition hall with stores and a food court in accordance with the guidelines of the monument protection laws.

Here is the rest of the photos I took.

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