Cosmetics Factory Z.

The first day in that little town in Eastern Germany had offered some nice locations, sunny weather and some rain toward the end, but had been a great success in terms of locations.
We knew that there were many more spots waiting to be explored in that area, so my wiffe and I decided to come back the next day and keep on exploring.
So we did.
The traffic was once again terrible - the entire city center was ac onstruction site which meant we had to go on an adventure through unknown territory once again without a working GPS...
But we managed to get through the city and find a spot to park, but we had to walk a for a bit....and most of that uphill....
Anyway, we got to the first location, and there was a pretty nice way in, but that meant to walk past a house on the premises of the old factory that looked like someone was living there.
After a couple of minutes of considering the pros and cons, we decided to just walk past it, and it worked. We were in.
The factory itself wasn't too spectacular, but we were alone the entire time and had a nice quiet explore.


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Villa Wonka

For those of you who don't know the Villa Wonka: This abandoned villa used to be the home to the owner of a large chocolate factory in Eastern Germany - hence the name for the location.
The villa actually stands on the premises of the chocolate factory, but is to be looked at seperately since the accessibility of both spots differ a lot.
My wife and I went to the chocolate factory two days in a row, and on both days, there were people on the premises that were apparently renting space to use as a sort of auto repair shop.
On the first day, on which we had planned to visit the villa, we saw a couple of people at the gate of the villa as we were driving around the street corner. These people were using a rock to hit on the lock that was on the gate.
After we'd observed that, we first started our first (usnuccaessful) attempt at the chocolate factory, after which I went to the gate of the villa to find it open.
I went through the yard and into the villa. Since I didn't see anybody, I yelled "Hello!", and someone yelled "Hello!" back. A man came from one of the rooms and greeted me. I introduced myself and my wife and told them we were here to check out the villa and maybe take some photos and asked if he was the man to talk to.
He introduced himself - surprise! - as the new owner of the villa. The lady that was with him was his wife and there were two other men with him, one of which was introduced to us as "the architect".
The amn that had greeted us at the door said that he and his wife had bought the place and were aiming to renovate the whole thing and that it was totally okay if we took photos of the place.
As we were walking through the house, we overheard a lot of stuff they were planning to do, and they told us how much money they were planning to invest and that one of the reasons they were doing it was to send a signal for other people to invest in the city.

The villa itself was in a desolate state. In this hobby, you read and hear a lot about what people are planning to do with certain places, and then nothing happens.
But in this case, I am optimistic, because last I heard, the roof had been fixed, which was the most important thing, since the weather had done significant damage to the villa.
I am curious to see what happens in the future.


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Stroller Factory Z.

After we had left the church, we went back to the car to smoke a cigarette and check if everything was alright despite our unorthodox parking space.
It was, so we went around the corner, because right across the church was the way in to the stroller factory. I knew about this place and had checked it out during the planning phase for the tour, but it had never struck me as especially interesting, but as we were standing in front of the two large old buildings, the desire grew to explore this once very successful company.
So we hopped over a small fence, squeezed through an opening in a construction fence and through a couple of bushes and we were on the premises.
We quickly found an open door into the first building and started our exploration. As expected, it was nothing much interesting, but with a nice staircase and some areas of beautiful decay.
The second building was unique for its huge halls with tall concrete pillars that were lit quite beautifully by the sun that was oozing in from the outside...


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