Children's Hospital M.

After the psychiatric hospital, my wife and I had one more abandoned healthcare institution to visit on our fourth day of summer vacation last year.
Finding a place to park proved difficult. The old hospital ist located in a forest with no accessible road, and the main road had no place to park.
The next village was too far away to be walking. After a little strategic meeting, we decided to park on a field next to some nearby houses. We hoped that no one would see us or if they did, become suspicious.
We packed our stuff and walked up to the fence that blocked the long hospital driveway. There was a door in the fence, and naturally I tried to open it which I naturally didn't think would work - but it did! The door was open, so we were on the premises.
After a short walk, we spotted a house standing by the side of the road. It kindof looked like it was still somewhat under construction, but new-looking recycling cans and some tools lying around had us think that something was afoot.
Afer a while of discussing if we should proceed, we did decide to keep going. We gave the house a wide berth as well as we could and soon disappeared behind some bushed. A little further down the way, we finally arrived at the old hospital.
The front door was open, so access was in this case no problem.
I think that the remote location and the fence did their job in keeping vandals and graffiiti artists out most of the time, so although there is almost nothing left that gives proof of the former use, there is still some nice decay to look at.
After finishing our walkthrough, we left on the way that we came in on, and there still wasn't any sign of activity - and our car was unharmed as well.
With a lot of impressions in our head, we headed back to our hotel to get ready for a nice dinner to end a great day of exploring.


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Psychiatric Hospital G.

The tour of the abandoned smelting works had been a great start, and around noon, we had reached our second destination of the day, an abandoned psyciatric hospital that has been decaying for about fifteen years now.
After arriving at the site, we found a nice parking spot right away that was under a large tree, so the sun wouldn't heat up the car too much. It had become really hot outside, so first we took a little break to get acclimatized. About twenty minutes later, we jumped the fence and went inside.
The long time of abandonment and the location near a residential area has led to a considerable amount of decay and vandalism. There some nice corners still to be found, though, and so the exploration was really worth it. Due to the sun standing so high, the light wasn't perfect, but that also meant that it wasn't too hot inside.
After about two hours, we were done and took another short break before getting back into the car and driving off to the next spot...


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Old Mill N.

After exploring the old vacation camp deep in the forest, we walked back to the car. Upon arriving, we decided to take a look at the obviously abandoned building right across the bridge from where we parked. It was only a short walk, and we didn't expect much of the building which we assumed was a former mill. Entering was easy enough - the door was open.
From the inside, it looked like the last use was something like an office building or apartments or something like that. The only signs of the original use could be seen on the outside.
The interior was less than spectacular. Empty rooms, empty halls, some trash lying around. We were back out in a matter of about half an hour, which was good, because it was getting late and we still had to drive back to the hotel and find ourselves a nice place to have dinner.


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Railyard E.

The day after we visted the old Soviet military depot, my wife and I met up with our friends Nordgriller Urbex and Fotodokumentationen zu "Verlassene Plätze" to visit one or the other nice spot.
My wife and I got picked up and we all met up at a public parking lot near the first spot - an abandoned railyard that used tp be part of one the largest freight depots in Europe.
The access was more than easy - the area was not really fenced in and we were able to walk right onto the premises.
We had to be careful not to be seen, because a part of the area is still in use and there were workers running around the place.
But everything went well, we went from one building to the other and everything was fairly uneventful until this one moment...
I had just climbed through a window into one of the buildings and my wife was trying to hand me my camera and the tripod when the boards below here gave in and her entire right leg disappeared into the ground. At the same time, the arm holding the tripod with the camera shot up in the air in the heroic attempt to save the valuable equipment. Turns out both my wife and the camera were unharmed and there was in fact a better way to enter the building...
After about two hours, we left the place to head for the next location.


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Railway Repair Factory G. [Revisit]

I am still a little behind with the reports on my blog, but I am catching up; as of now I am only about four months behind!
I had only visited one location (legally) in the past four weeks and I was getting itchy to go out again.
That particular weekend, I came to talk about the subject of urban exploring with my mother again, who had always expressed an interest in this hobby ever since my wife and I had taken it up a couple of years ago.
So when she mentioned that she would like to go on an exploration herself, I offered her to accompany me on a spontaneous tour to a location that I had visited about a year ealier together with my wife - an abandoned railway repair factory (Gallery).
Since I had been there before, I could have a look out for myself as well as for my mother while exloring the place, and I knew that there probably wouldn't be any unpleasant surprises.

So my mom and I went on an exploration together, and we had a great time together, joking about the possibility of the police catching us and me saying "Officer, I swear I wasn't doing anything bad! See - I even brought my mother to look out for me!".
That wasn't necessary, we spent a couple of hours in the place and drove home undisturbed.

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