Tour Report: The Priest's House [DK]

An abandoned farmhouse near the North Sea was the spot we had planned to explore on the way back home from my wife's family reunion in Denmark in late July of 2017. A friend of mine had discovered the location and found out that it had belonged to a priest who died about ten years or so ago.
It actually was a detour of about 100 kilometers on our way home, but it turned out to be worth it in the end. First we drove West from the island of Fyn until we started heading South on the coastal highway. The road that after a lengthy drive led us to the farmhouse was only little more than an overgrown path between large fields of crops and cattle. And this road was kind of long...
At some point, we couldn't keep driving because the path became too narrow and too muddy to safely keep going, so we parked the car on the edge of a field and decided to continue on foot - after all, it was a rental car.
A white rental car. Which wasn't the perfect color car to be driving between cattle fields in Denmark. The flies REALLY liked the car...
Anyway, we managed to escape the millions of flies that were surrounding the car and walked the rest of the way until we got to the house.
I had seen photos of the place, and I have to say that at first, I was a bit disappointed, because the place was actually pretty trashed. But the scenes I had seen in the photos were still there, and it turned out to be a really worthwile spot after all. There were a lot of details that pointed towards the person who had once lived there, although I would assume that a lot of stuff had beens tolen already.

We finished exploring the house and decided not to go to the barns because it was hot, humid and the way was so overgrown that you would have needed a machete to cut through.
Not checking the barns was not such a good idea, because we missed some really cool stuff - but no matter, that way we were able to discover more cool stuff during our next visit. But that's a story for another time!
We managed to not get too many flies into the car with us and got back on the road to drive home.


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Tour Report: "A House on the Way" [DK]

The second spot on our tour through Denmark in May of last year together with Pixelcracker and Lost Places in Schleswig-Holstein und Umland was a rather unspectacular abandoned house we discovered on the way from the "House Gammel Dansk" to the next location on our list.
It was the typical situation. Someone in the car yells "Wait, that looks abandoned.", and the car comes to a sudden halt with stuff flying from the back to the front.
We quickly found a spot to park and started to walk around the place.
The back door was open, but we were a bit disappointed from what we found. The rooms were mostly empty, and the house itself was no gem, architecturally speaking.
After about fifteen minutes, we got back into the car and left for the next spot.


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Tour Report: House "Gammel Dansk" [DK]

The day after my birthday last year, my wife and I went for a tour through Denmark together with our good friends Pixelcracker and Lost Places in Schleswig-Holstein und Umland.
We had a couple of spots planned and so we started out pretty early. We met in Flensburg on the parking lot of a mall where Pixelcracker picked us up with his RV.
Thr first spot on our list was a small house just a short drive from the border.
The trash cans in front of the house looked relatively new. This is the case with many abandoned homes in Denmark, but it still makes you move a little more carefully just in case that someone does still live there.

Nobody lived here anymore. The front door was wide open, and someone had obviously looked through the stuff in the rooms.
There wasn't too much decay, so the house obviously hadn't been abandoned for too long, I think. The house itself was small and had only a couple of rooms. Some clothes were still on the hangers, books were lying around and there was a bottle of typical Danish liquor - hence the name of the place.
It was no spectacular explore but a nice and easy spot to warm up for the rest of the day.


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Tour Report: Farmhouse Dionysius

This abandoned farmhouse was the final spot of a short tour through Denmark back in January of last year. I had heard about it from a friend, so we wanted to check it out.
We had to drive up a long muddy road. It had been raining the days before, so we had to be careful not to get stuck with the RV.
We could soon see the old farmhouse, but also some smaller houses that seemd to be fairly new. We had to stop right in front of one of these houses because the road got too muddy to keep on driving.
We felt like were being watched. Looking out of the car, we saw a face in the window of the small house. We were spotted. Only thing left to do was to be straightforward. So I got out of the car and knocked on the door. It took a while, but then the door opened and I was greeted by a greasy-looking man in his underwear...
He did speak German, though, and he was friendly. I explained what we wanted to do and he said, it's okay if we proceed to take photos.
There was nothing really intersting about the farmhouse. There was no furniture left except for an old piano and a travel suitcase, so we left after only a short time and started our way home.

I really do like the sound of Danish people speaking German.


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Tour Report: Farmhouse Ouija

After the first abandoned spot had been a successful exploration, we drove on to the next spot of our short tour through Denmark in January of last year. On the way, we passed a farmhouse that did look pretty abandoned at first sight. So we immediatels stopped the car and I got out for a quick check.
The front door was open, and the first look inside confirmed that our assumption was in fact correct. Nobody was living here anymore.
So we got out of the car, grabbed our gear and started our exploration.
Not much after that, I spotted two people with a dog walking along the street. At first I assumed that it was just a couple taking their dog for a walk - until they started walking right towards the house that we were in...
We went outside - we are always open about what we're doing - to show that we were inside the house. They did look a bit puzzled. Well, perhaps more than a bit puzzled and asked something in Danish. After we'd established that none of us speaks any Danish and both of them did speak neither English or German really well, we managed to explain our endeavor using hands and feet, so to speak, and they let us go back inside.
I talked with them a little longer to some get more information, but the only thing that I understood was that they were the owners of the house and that they were planning to demolish it and build a new one because of the desolate state parts of the farmhouse are in.

It was a nice encounter. Again, we had met friendly people that had understood what and why we were doing it and let us go on making phots. So after about an hour and a half, we got back in the car again and drove off to the next spot.


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Tour Report: The House of the Old Couple

The weather was still grey and it looked like rain, when we left the first location. I had gotten a tip from a local regarding the second spot, so naturally, we had to check it out.
It was a small house in the middle of nowhere. We parked the RV a bit off, but we didn't have to walk too far.
I went up to the building. The mailbox had exploded from too many newspapers - this place was clearly abandoned. I walked up to the front door. It was closed. But maybe...you never know...YES! It was open! I do like Denmark! Especially on the countryside, people rarely lock their front doors! Urbex paradise!
The house was really tiny and it had been trashed somewhat good. But there were still some really nice little things to find, especially in the attic, which of course was the most dangerous place to walk around...
Anyway, we all made it out safely, and we were happy to have found this little gem.


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