Tour Report: Hospital H.

It was the third day of our tour through the middle of Germany together with our friend Freddy from Nordgriller Urbex in November of 2016. We'd had a nice dinner with the family the evening before, and strengthened in such a way, we were ready for another day of exploring.
The first spot we'd chosen was an abandoned hospital about an hour drive away from where we were staying, which was nice because it meant we didn't have to get up too early.
It was a cold morning. We picked up Freddy, who was staying at my borther-in-law's place, smoked a cigarette and drove off.
We got the the hospital at ar ound 10 in the morning. We parked in a public spot with some other cars near a senior citizen's home and started looking around. Parts of the old hospital appeared to be in use by an unemployment office or something. The lights were on and there were people inside. So we tried the other side of the hospital. Through the windows, we could see the rooms, empty, but in relatively good condition.
But we didn't find a way in. We checked every window and looked for air vents or something, but there was nothing. Just when we were about to give up, I spotted a door that we hadn't checked yet, because it was clearly visible from the street, and I decided to check it anyway. It was open. Withing a few seconds, we were in.
Part of the hospital was inaccessible - the doors to the pahtology were firmly locked at that point, but we managed to find a lot of great shots and we did spent a few hours in there before getting back out and having a short breakfast.


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Tour Report: Dr. Anna L.

We didn't really have a heightened interest to visit this abandoned doctor's villa that in the German "urbex-scene" is frequently called the "Urbex-Whore" because over the years since it turned up on the photographic radar, almost everyone's had a ride, so to speak.
Whenever photos are posted, a bunch of people start crying  and shouting about how much the urbex-scene has deteriorated over the past years and how everything was better in the good old days five or six or seven years ago...you know, the ususal "urbexer's lament".
Freddy from Nordgriller Urbex and I had decided to try it anyway, because we happened to be relatively close while on a tour together with my wife and my mother-in-law back in November of 2016.
Because the villa was right next to a construction site where another old building was being renovated and there were a lot of construction workers that would definitely see us, the ladies played it careful and decided to go for a cup of coffee while Freddy and I were giong to test our luck.
We hesitated. There was a senior citizen's home nearby and people were coming and going. Cars were passing the villa and parking and leaving again...but the construction workers were in fact our main concern.
At some point, I asked Freddy, who does work in construction, if workers on the construction sites that he knows would care about what people do next door. He said, "No way would they care. The boss would come and yell at them to keep working."
That was it, we climbed over the low fence and walked straight up to the hole in the front door that we had been eyeballing the whole time...

Since we didn't have high expectations due to alle the dissing of this place in the social media, there were no expectations that could be disappointed.
And we weren't disappointed - on the contrary. There was still a wealth of nice photos to shoot. Sure, everything has been vandalized and turned upside down, but if you are looking for cool shots, there's still a lot to see aside from the spectacular stuff that's not there anymore - such as the kidneys in formaldehyde.

Since the ladies were waiting for us, we only spent about one and a half hours in the doctor's villa before we left. it was a visit we definitely did not regret.


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Tour Report: The Gravel Pit

The second day of our tour together with Freddy from Nordgriller Urbex back in November of 2016 took us to a region of Germany where we hadn't really explored before, so we were excited to see what our search for abandoned places would bring.

My mother-in-law was with us; she has been joining us for some tours over the past couple of years now and she's gotten more and more curious with every explore she was on.

And we got lucky - the first spot that we had decided on was an open air location, and the weather was really nice. There were some clouds at first, but the sun started showing as soon as we pulled up towards the old gravel pit early in the morning.

We gathered our gear and just walked right on to the premises. It seemed like it was sort of public, because every fifteen minutes or so, some car would drive through there or cyclists would ride around on the sand roads...even some joggers used the place as a training course...

But that didn't bother us. The place is pretty big, so we were on our own all the time and could climb around on the rusty old processing plants and conveyor belts.

Some parts of the floorboards were really rusty, especially towards the tops of the machines, so it got a bit dangerous to climb up there, but the view was really nice and was at least to some extent worth the risk.

We spent a total of about three hours or more exploring the place, and I'm sure we haven't discovered everything, but there were still some spots that we had planned, so we had to get back to the car and leave. But I'm sure that we'll have a revisit at some point in the future!

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