The Doctor's Villa

The second location that my wife and I visited on this particularly hot day was - conveniently enough - only about a hundred meters down the street from "The Projectionist's House", so we didn't really have to move around a lot in the heat.
A problem was that the fence around the Doctor's Villa was in significantly better shape than the one before...
There was only one small hole at ground level facing the main street going past the house. There was a lot of traffic and many people walking past, so we were a little undecided if we should risk the entry.
When the traffic had calmed down and there were no people for a short moment, I slipped through (not without getting a couple of scratches from the fence) and checked out if there was a way into the house at all. I walked around the villa and spotted an open window. It was a little high, but there was a small edge on the wall below, so it was possible to get in.
I went back to the hole in the fence and told my wife to follow me. She didn't really likes to be crawling through the dirt (I think I mentioned that already), but she elegantly dove down and through the hole in the fence without any trouble.
I climbed through the window and helped her climb up.
Inside, we found out why we had been warned about the condition of the house. Years of decay and vandalism have left it in miserable shape.
Furniture has been taken apart, and there are huge holes in the floor of the upper floors. We found newspapers from the 1960s and patient files dating from the 1960s all the way to the 1960s.
After about an hour and a half, we made our way back out.
Since the hole in the fence is hidden between bushes, I imagine that it looked really weird for people that there was no one on the sidewalk in one moment and two dirty people patting the dust from their clothes in the next.


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The Projectionist's House

Only a couple of days after our family reunion in Denmark, my wife and I set out on our next tour. My brother had arranged for us to go on a tour of "The Forbidden City" and the "Officers' House" near Berlin. We took the opportunity and got there a couple of days early to do some more exploring in the area.
On our first day, we had three locations planned, so we left relatively early.
We arrived at our destination at around 10:30, and it was already really hot outside. Temperatures were well on their way to 30°C.
Our first location was an old theater. Well, the theater itself collapsed years ago, but the residence of the owner is still left.
Getting on the premises was pretty simple. We walked along the fence and found a hole that we could get through. Once near the building, we started checking for a way in. Our fist way led us up the main stairs - there was a hole in the door! We thought we had made it, but realized that we were only standing in a small entrance room and every way further in had been walled shut.
So we went back out and kept looking. All the windows at ground level were boarded shut, all doors were walled up.
We had almost made it once around the entire building without finding a way in, when I discovered a small hole in the ground that led straight into the basement.
My wife really wasn't thrilled by the idea of crawling in the dirt into a dark basement, but after I had climbed down and verified that this in fact was the way in, she climbed in after me.
Through the cellar rooms we made our way to the stairs that brought us up. What we found was a typical residential house which had been visited and decorated by various "urbexers" and probably more than a couple of teenagers over the past years. There were still some nice scenes to be found and photographed.
All in all, a nice little spot - and the next one is only a few meters down the street......


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Maison T.

It took me some time to find this place.
I had seen some photos from the inside and they were really spectecular because they showed a hall of mirrors with a grand piano.
So I went on to look for information, but there was hardly anything to be found, so I literally looked at photos of all abandoned mansions in that particular part of Germany (and there are a lot of them).
I couldn't find any inside photos on the web that matched the ones I knew so there was no possibility to connect outside and inside shots to a certain place. Until I looked at the windows.
On the inside photos I knew, I could see the windows and while looking through a bunch of outside pictures of various mansions, one of those caught my attention, because the form of the windows matched that of the windows I had seen.
So I continued my research in that direction and I really had found the place. A couple of months later I was in the area and of course, I went on a little exploration.
I wasn't disappointed.

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