About a month after our summer vacation in 2020, it was time for another exploration tour. The plan sounded perfect: the evening before, we met up with our friends from Pixelcracker and Lost Places in Schleswig-Holstein und Umland at our place and enjoyed a great barbecue together.
Unfortunately, the evening ended with a small accident. My wife seriously injured her right foot, tearing the ligaments and breaking her tailbone. As a result, only the three of us were able to set off the next morning.
Still, the tour promised to be an exciting one. Our chosen location was already well known and quite overrun at the time, but it was also famous for offering many fascinating and beautiful photo opportunities: a huge villa that had been built in the late 1970s and early 1980s as a dialysis clinic, combined with the private living quarters of the doctor.
After the doctor passed away, the clinic continued to operate under a successor until 2009. Since then, the entire complex had been left abandoned.
We started early, as we were planning to meet another friend on site. She wanted to explore the clinic as well, accompanied by a former employee — which was especially interesting, as it often means you can pick up additional background stories and details about the place.
After roughly two and a half hours on the road, we arrived in Boye and parked in a nearby residential area. There we met Andrea and her companion, and just a few minutes later we entered the property.
We quickly found an open door and stepped inside the villa. It became obvious almost immediately that we weren’t alone. At least two other groups were already inside, wandering around and taking photos.
So even early in the morning, the place was surprisingly busy. We decided to move quickly, knowing that the infamous “urbex bus” could arrive at any moment.
The villa itself absolutely blew me away. Even the large entrance gate to the property had a thatched roof. There was a garage with a car lift, high-end furniture throughout the building, partly gold-plated fittings, fabric-covered walls, and parquet floors that must once have shone like a mirror. The swimming pool was designed like a jungle grotto — an almost surreal touch of luxury.
Sadly, vandals had already done significant damage. Valuable items had been stolen, and the walls were covered with poorly executed graffiti.
While we were taking our photos, even more people arrived and started roaming through the house. We hurried even more, and when we heard someone flying a drone over the property, we decided it was time to leave. At that point, there were around 20 other people inside the building — not all of them behaving responsibly. There was shouting, smoking, and littering, all things we deliberately avoid on our tours. For us, respect for these places is essential.
With so much illegal activity in a high-end residential neighborhood, there was also a real risk of neighbors calling the police — something that had reportedly happened there more than once.
So we left the site, leaving the “amateurs” and “idiots” behind, and headed off to our next location.
Looking back, it’s a shame that the place was so crowded that we couldn’t explore it in peace. But I’m still glad we went. Just a year and a half later, the villa was completely demolished.
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