Tour Report: Recreation Home "Moss Lover's" [Revisit]

After a very nice little trip to the abandoned mansion's ruin, we only had to drive for a couple of minutes before we arrived at the first "real" destination of the day - an abandoned recreation home from the days of prescribed socialist wellness, so to speak.
I had been to this location before about one year before; twice over the the course of four weeks, and I was curious to find out what had had happened in the past twelve months. Was there going to be more decay? More vandalism? Maybe the security had been beefed up - you never know what happens once a location gets more notorious among urbexers.
It kind of turned out as expected - a little more decay, a lot more trash and due to the warm and humid weather, the thick, sweet smell of mosses and molds hovered through the rooms and hallways...
We took our time exploring the entire place, and although I had photographed nearly all of the rooms during my previous visits, it was great to come back and try some new perspectives.

We weren't disturbed either. There were no other people on the premises. We had the hole place to ourselves the entire time we were there, so it was a really nice explore!


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Tour Report: Castle Hedera [Revisit]

In June of 2014, my wife and I had first tried to pay a visit to this abandoned castle. And we did, but we were too chicken to really enter once we got there because the ceilings and floors just looked too dangerous at the time.
More than two years and a lot of experience later, we tried once again, this time in the company of our good friend and tour mate Freddy from Nordgriller Urbex.
It turned out that the reconnaisance we had from the first visit was still accurate. Parking, access - it was still the same, only there was far more people around and lots of cars passing by, so we had some trouble finding the opportune moment to jump the fence, so to speak.
Once we were out of sight, we had to walk through thick green patches of plants to get to the access point of the castle.
We entered, and we were somewhat disappointed - not regarding the state of decay, which was pretty nice, but in terms of how many adjustments had been made to the original style of the castle. only a few of the original structures were left, and of course, much of it has been vadalized in the 30+ years of the castle's abandonment.
Still - it was a great experience to finally be able to look behind the walls of this castle. There was a lot of natural decay, and it was a nice second spot for our tour.


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Tour Report: Farmhouse R.

On the way to our next location, my friend Nordgriller Urbex and I passed this abandoned farmhouse. It was that typical moment where one looks at the other and says "Did you see that, too?", and you start looking for a place to turn the car around.
We parked the car on the field next to the house and started looking around. There are buildings that look like they're being used, but the farmhouse was definitely abandoned, so we went in to check it out.
It wasn't really spectacular. Mostly empty rooms and no furniture or tools of any kind left. But what made this location worthwile was the fantastic light that the winter sun cast into some of the rooms.
So we did get some nice shots before hitting the road again. It was already early afternoon, so we had to make haste to get to the next spot to have enough daylight left...

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Tour Report: Castle "Charlotte's Valley"

This one was a completely unexpected and accidental find. After a dey of exploring in Eastern Germany, my wife and I, along with our friends Pixelcracker and Lost Places in Schleswig-Holstein und Umland, were on our way home. We were driving to our planned location when we all saw the beautiful facade of a thoroughly burned building, and we decided to stop for a quick peek.
This renovated old castle caught on fire not too long ago and burned down to its foundations, so there really wouldn't have been anything to see even if we had gotten inside.
But from the outside, we were still able to see the castle's former glory.


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Tour Report: Soviet Nuclear Weapons Depot

After we had finished exploring the old mental asylum - but definitely not before we had finished the cake! - we still had a little bit of daylight left at our disposal. After all, it was late October, and the weather as well as the time behaved accordingly.
We - that included Lost Places in Schleswig-Holstein und Umland, Pixelcracker, my wife and myself - decided to go for a short exploration of a nearby nuclear weapons depot that had been built during the Soviet occupation.
After an adventurous drive (three cars, an unexpected stop and the coffee machine miraculously survived), we arrived at the surrounding fence and the large entry gate. We drove on for a little bit to find an opportune place to park that also was a little closer to the weapons bunkers. From there on, we walked through s bit of forest until we found a place where we could climb over the concrete wall surrounding the place.
Moving around was no problem; most of the place had been renatured and we walked around freely, altough wothout taking too many photos due to the fading light.
At some point we met a weird guy who wasn't security, but showed a strange interest in what we were doing without telling us what he was doing there. He didn't pose any threat, though, and we finished our exploration undisturbed.
Unfortunately, the light was really bad, so taking photos was kind of unseless. But who knows - maybe we'll get another chance next week when my wife and I are in the area again...


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Tour Report: Insane Asylum N. [Revisit]

It was an official tour, and it was a meeting of a bunch of urbex afficionados from Northern Germany that happened on a grey and rainy day in late October of last year.
Our friend Pixelcracker had organized the tour, and among the privileged few who met early that bleak autumn morning were also our friends North Urbex, Lost Places in Schleswig-Holstein und Umland, Urbex Team Bremen-Nord and Laura Koß Photogography.
We were welcomed by the owner of the old asylum and offered coffee and stories before she led us through all the buildings and we got the chance to take pictures in our own time.
There was also cake involved, so in spite of the weather, it was a great day we had together.

Special mention goes out to the owners who really work hard to keep the place in shape as best as they can and keep the partially dark history alive in the old buildings.
The area is secured and the buildings aren't accessible, but photographers and people who are otherwise interested are always welcome and can get in contact with the owners on the web page of the "Verein zum Erhalt der Domjüch" for the possibility of exploring this great location.
Maybe there is even coffee and cake :)


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