After we had finished our second visit to the former mineral oil works, we had actually planned to go straight back to the Husky camp. So we got in the car and drove along the lonely paths that used to connect the individual areas of the huge plant. Today, they no longer cut through a huge industrial area, but only mostly empty, steppe-like wasteland. Shortly before we left the site in the direction of the main road, we saw a group of trees and bushes on the right-hand side, behind which there was apparently another building that we hadn't even planned to see. Of course, we immediately stopped to take a closer look.
It was a classic industrial building, but its purpose was not recognizable from the outside. But the door was open, so we were able to solve this mystery quickly.
It was the control room for the power supply of the former mineral oil plant. The building was full of large control cabinets and everything needed to supply a large industrial plant with many thousands of volts. There were switches and distributors for various distillation stages of mineral oil production, for lights, sockets - and even for the street lighting!
Unfortunately, copper thieves removed all the cables from the building shortly after the plant closed - but the graffiti artists seem to have overlooked this building until now - there were no (or almost no) graffiti. Apparently, the place is rather quiet - so much so, that birds have begun to nest in the cabinets and the controls. We even found a nest that had eggs in it!
This was really a nice unplanned addition for our tour, and we got some nice photos from this place.
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