New Video: Chemical Bonding - The Pharmacautical Company

The abandoned pharmaceutical company shown in this video is one of my all-time favorite locations.
The photos are from overall four times that we explored this industrial ruin. We first visited the place in December 2013 and immediately came back the next day to see more. The place is pretty big with various buildings from different time periods. Some were built as early as the 1890s, and the "newest ones" date back to the 1970s.
We returned for a revisit in 2016 and almost got caught by workers on the premises. Same thing a year later in February of 2017, when we came back for another visit, this time together with our friend Nordgriller Urban Exploration. Over the years, some of the buildings have been put to new use, and as far as i know, there are plans to demolish the entire complex to make room for an apartment building.

To find out what might be left in the ground that could make this endeavor impossible (or very expensive) and to check out more photos from this amazing place, visit my website.

Tour Report: Pharmaceutical Company B. [Revisit]

For my wife and me, it was our fourth exploration of this abandoned chemical factory. I had a business meeting and was in town for two days before a weekend at the end of February of 2017. We had gotten the idea to use the weelend for a couple of days of traveling together with our friend Freddy from Nordgriller Urbex.
I had booked a hotel for the three of us, and on Friday, Freddy picked up my wife at home and we met in the hotel a couple of hours later.
We got up early the next morning to avoid too many people around the locations that we had planned.
Ever since my wife and I had discovered the abandoned factory in 2013, we had known that there was a security service patrolling the place from time to time, and there has been an increasing amount of workers there, probably preparing the demolition that has already been planned.

About a year ealier, my wife and I had to take the hard and obvious way, but this time, the "usual" opening was there again, and the way onto the premises was quick and hidden.
There were, however, two white vans on the premises. We didn't see any workers, but the probability of them suddenly showing up was pretty high.
I think we were thinking back and forth what to do for what must have been about 30 minutes when I said that if they haven't showd up until now, I'm sure they'll wait another five minutes, and with that, we quickly ran across the open area to the first building.

Exploring the place was exciting as ever. Everytime you discover new things, new rooms and even new buildings that you haven't checked out before.
After a few hours, we reluctantly left the place the same way we had entered it, walked back to the car and drove off to the next spot.

Rumors are telling me that demolition has begun, but I am not sure about this since it hasn't been confirmed yet. But maybe this was my last trip to this amazing abandoned place. I do hope not.


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Pharmaceutical Company B. [Revisit]

Almost two and a half years after our first visit to this really cool location, my wife and I got the chance for a revisit at the end of February of this year.
My brother had gotten married and the celebration was scheduled for the afternoon of a cold but sunny day about a week after our last tour. I had arrived the night before by train, coming straight from a three-day business trip, and my wife had hitched a ride in the car with my parents, so I had asked her to bring all my tour equipment with her so we'd have at least the chance to go for a tour.
On Friday evening, we sat together with my parents and we decided to get up early and try for a revisit of the pharmaceutical factory.
The location wasn't too far, so we were able to squeeze the visit in our time table.
We got up really early, took the subway and walked the rest of the way. The access we had taken two years before wasn't there anymore, so we had to look for another way in. I always prefer the direct route, so we just walked along the fence until we got to a pile of stuff that gave us the opportunity to just climb over the gate. Easy. Or so we thought.
We tried to find the buildings that we hadn't checked out the last time we were there, but since a lot of the older buildings have been demolished since, we were having trouble to find our way. The first building we found was new to us, so we took our time there. The secon building we already knew, but it was nice noetheless, because the first time, it had been raining, and this time, it was a nice sunny morning, and it was interesting to see what how different - or not - everything looked.

As we entered the third building, we saw a white car pulling up.
Someone got out, but we couldn't see were he was going. We kept really still and waitet for him to leave, but he wouldn't. And we didn't see or hear him either.
After about thirty minutes, we decided to just keep going. We finished up the third building and went out to see where to go next.
As we looked out of the door, we saw workers on the premises. They were standing by the huilding right next to the one we just left.
We waited for them to look the other way and then ran around the corner to safety. As we caught our breath, a car came along the road past us, so we jumped right into a small transformer house to hide. It worked, we got out again and quietly went back the way we came. When my wife noticed more workers that possibly saw us, I just said, I don't care, and we more or less openly ran towards the fence and climbed out the way we came.
Except for the unexpected exercise, this tour was everything we had hoped for. I'm glad that we had the chance to see this place once again before it is completely gone.


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The Abandoned Chocolate Factory Revisited (Part 3)

Well, there is nothing left to report about the history or the chocolate factory itself, so I'll just leave you to the remaining photos. I have enough photos left for one more post about the chocolate factory, so stay tuned, folks!
Enjoy!

First Visit | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

The Abandoned Chocolate Factory Revisited (Part 2)

Folks, I am truly sorry for interrupting my series about the abandoned chocolate factory with something completely different, but I really do like hospitals and when I had the opportunity for a visit in the abandoned children's hospital, I had to take it and process the photos right away.
I think they were worth it :)
Anyway, here is the second part of my revisit of the chocolate factory.

First Visit | Part 1 | Part 2

The Abandoned Chocolate Factory Revisited

Since we didn't have enough time to thoroughly explore all the buildings in the chocolate factory during our first visit, I took advantage of the good weather two weeks later and went on another trip.

The location is not as secret as I had thought; I met three other people there, two guys and a girl walking through the dark basements and taking pictures. The girl was pretty mad at herself for not bringing a tripod...
Anyway, I could see that the two weeks that had passed since my last visit hadn't been kind to the old factory. A bunch of stuff was missing from the lab and a lot of the piping has been torn out. During my research on the internet I found newspaper articles about the factory. Apparently, three Romanian metal thieves that were raiding the factory have been apprehended by the police after neighbors called the authorities when they saw people walking around on the property.

Here are the first photos from my second visit.