Tour Report: Soviet Command Bunker P.

Our second tour in January of 2019 took us yet again into the realm of the Cold War. We had planned to explore an abandoned Soviet airfield in the former GDR along with two command bunkers together with our friends from Urbex & Lost Places, North Urbex and Lichtbeschatter.

We met early a few kilometers away from the airfield for a first strategy meeting, and we decided to try the front entrance first. There is a museum on a part of the old airfield, and although it is closed during the winter season, there may have been a chance to take an easy way in. We didn't get lucky. The gate was locked, and there wasn't anyone to be seen that we might have asked if we can have a look around, so we had to find another way in. It was the long way; we had to take a dirt road alongside a field until we got to the outer perimeter of the airfield. We walked along the concrete wall until we found an opening, and we were in. We suspected that we were pretty close to the bunker that was on the premises of the airfield (the other was a few kilometers away), so we started looking. Since we didn't have an exact location, we had to search for a while, but then we found it.

The access structure wasn't easy to spot if you weren't looking for it - I think that if you'd look for it during the summer, it would be completely covered by vegetation. The bunker had apparently been sealed at some point, but had later been opened again by copper thieves. There was only a small hole to slip through to get in. Inside, we had to climb over some concrete rubble, and we were in.

There was a little bit of water in the bunker, and I guess that if it had been raining more in the weeks before, there would have been a lot more - in the summer, this must be a breeding ground for mosquitos. The copper thieves had really done their "job"; nothing much was left of the communications or ventilation equipment - and everything else was moldy and decayed due to the water inside the bunker.

Still, we took our time to check out all the rooms, before we climbed back out and started making our way through the forest to the remains of the airfield's garrison.

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Tour Report: Farmhouse "Autumn Leaves"

To finish off our day of exploring in Denmark in January of 2019, we had planned to check out an abandoned farmhouse. I had only been given a rough location where to find it. We drove around for a while until we spotted the house in a small forest far behind the tree line. We parked the car in a side road after the next intersection and walked back.

There was no recognizable driveway or path to the house, so we jumped over the roadside ditch and walked through the trees and made our way through the undergrowth until we got to the house. It was a small classical four-sided courtyard with living quarters, barns and workshops around it. We walked through the small gate and looked around. The barns had already partly collapsed, and some had been used as a dump for thrash by people from the neighborhood. As we entered the house, we were a bit disappointed at first, because there wasn't really much left, but we did find some really nice old furniture in various stages of decay. Except for the trash in the barns, there was no vandalism or graffiti, only decay, so in spite of the rather small amount of photo scenes, we enjoyed exploring this place.

Because it was a small place, it was only a short explore, but with this neat little place, we now had three new locations on our checklist, so it had been a pretty successful day, and we were very content driving home. It was also our last trip to Denmark for the next seven months, and guess where we went when we returned in the summer...

Tour Report: Dairy Company "Stingray"

The abandoned buildings of this former dairy company in Denmark are part of a larger dairy factory that was sold and split up sometime in the past. One part was after that operated by a fish export company, and this other part has apparently been used for various purposes, including storage and auto repairs.

We had started our day of exploring in Denmark with a visit in the part of the factory that had been converted into a fish factory, and since we hadn't seen enough yet, we decided to also try to get a few photos from the rest of the buildings.

It only took us a few minutes to find a way in.

At first, we were a bit disappointed, because the buildings didn't continue the architectural style that we had seen in the fish factory. But the further we went, the more stuff we found.

The place had obviously been used as storage; there were so many things to be seen. Furniture, sewing machines, things that looked like they were used on a movie set, record players...

There also was some nice decay to be found due to a collapsed roof in one of the halls.

The surprise of the day came towards the end of the exploration, when we found what seemed to be a former car workshop. There were a few quite pricey engines lying around - for example a BMW 12-cylinder engine and the engine of a vintage Chevrolet Corvette Stingray.

When we were back at the car and had just packed our stuff, a man walked by and told us not to enter the abandoned places, because the neighbors wouldn't hesitate to call the police...guess we got lucky :)

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