Engine House D.

That grey day at the beginning of march took my friend Nordgriller Urban Exploration and myself not only to the train control station at the former border, but also led us to a place where we hoped to gain access to a nice little neo-gothic mansion.
Unfortunately, not only weren't the weather gods in our favor, but neither were the neighbors. The only possible access route to the place seemed to be either right from the front or through a small path that led right along the porch of a neighbor's house, and this neighbor was outside watching the entire time. So we skipped this endeavor and were on our way back when we discovered a little place n the middle of the village.

The interesting thing about the estate that this building is on (and that later became the village is) that it was the first in the region at the time, which had its own electricity, irrigation and drainage for the entire village.
On one side of the building you can see big insulators, therefore it can be assumed that this was the power station and housed a steam engine and / or generator.
Because of the rain there is no outdoor photos.
The interiors are very sparse, since the power station has apparently been used by the villagers for the disposal of garbage for several years.
Judging by the large bottles, maybe a couple of villagers even disitlled their "moonshine" in there...

Distillery H. [Revisit] (Part 3)

Alright, here are the last few photos I took during my second visit to the abandoned distillery/liqueur factory.
I still think this is one of the coolest loations I have ever had the pleasure to visit, and I hope I'll get another chance to go there and see what becomes of it.

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Distillery H. [Revisit] (Part 2)

During the second visit to the abandoned distillery, I got the chance to catch some details that I had missed the first time. Mainly small things lying around in the office building.
It was nice to find everything the way it was during our first visit.

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Distillery H. [Revisit]

Two weeks after our tour through the northern part of Eastern Germany, I got the chance for a revisit of the abandoned disitllery that I had visited with my wife for the first time about two months before.
An urbex-colleague of mine had expressed a huge interest in that location, so we got in the car and drove for about an hour until we got there.
It was sunday and the traffic in the street was moderate, but we still had to watch for passersby that might catch us jumping the fence.
We got in easi and didn't get caught, and the location was still in exactly the same shape it was in two months earlier. Nothing had been moved, everything was still in its place.
The ceiling in one of the rooms had collapsed a little more, but that was probably because of the storm and heavy rain a couple of weeks befor our visit.

Here is the loot from my second visit.
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Abandoned Distillery H. (Part 4)

This is the final post of my report from the abandoned distillery.
The remaining pictures feature the offices in the front part of the building, the last part of our tour. The dark wood and the sunlight were truly beautiful together, and rounded off this expolration quite nicely.

The style of the offices is typical for the time and the region. There was even a bottle of dried red ink left on the table.

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Abandoned Distillery H. (Part 3)

Alright then, these are almost the final pictures from the abandoned distillery. I have one more post coming for you :)
Across the courtyard we entered a room full of bottles in all shapes an colors. It was truly beautiful, especially with the light creeping through the old windows.

This distillery has been abandoned for more than 30 years, and yet it has been left almost untouched, hidden in space and time.

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Abandoned Distillery H. (Part 2)

In 1901, a new owner took over the business, which was at the time labeled a wine and liquor store.

In 1907, yet another family took ownership of the disitllery and operated the business for more than two generation until the production was discontinued at the beginning of the 1980s

Since then, the distillery itself, as well as the offices and the appendant residential building have been abandoned. Parts of the boiler house have collapsed, but there is still a lot to see in this wonderful location.

After we inspected the storage shed and the inner courtyard, we moved into the next part of the facility.

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