Tour Report: Hotel N.

While reasearching for the tour we started with the exploration of the abandoned recreation home, I had found some large buildings that looked abandoned and interesting, but I hadn't been able to find out what it was or if it was in fact abandoned.
So we decided to incorporate it into the tour and make it our second lcoation of the day.
As we drove up to the building, it became obvious that it was very abandoned - and probably heavily vandalized. But - if you're there, you go check it out, and that's what we did.
We parked almost right in front of the spot (there was no other parking spot anywhere) and went through a huge hole in the fence.
As soon as we entered, it was clear that this was an old hotel. Historically, I can't say if it was a hotel or recreation home during the German separation or if it was maybe even military barracks and became a hotel only after the reunification.
Anyway, we started our walkthrough. The vandalism was heavy and it appeared as if not only metal thieves have had their share...almost all the standard size windows had been removed - including the frames! I suspect that either the local population or construction companies from Poland or elsewhere have taken them out to sell or reuse them.
At one point of our exploration, we heard a car arrive and park. Shortly after that, we heard someone walk over the premises and enter the building, so we held our breath and waited what was happening next. After a little while, we started hearing an angle grinder. That went on for about ten minutes, followed by a couple of minutes of silence.
Then, we heard a loud scraping sound accompanied by heavy breathing and cursing. The sound came from one side of the building, went through the building and came out the other side.
As we looked out through the window, we saw an older guy drag a heavy metal door across the open field towards his car. Every couple of meters, he stopped to catch his breath and cursed at the heavy door. When he arrived at his car, he loaded the door into the car and just drove off.
It was a weird, but also funny experience - and seeing this guy supported the theory that the regional populace uses the materials from this old builöding for construction purposes...


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Tour Report: Recreation Home L.

On a cold and snowy morning in the middle of January of last year, Freddy from Nordgriller Urbex, my wife and myself started the first tour of 2017.
We had a pretty long drive ahead of us, since we had planned a two-day trip with an overnight stay at a friend's place so we could fit in more locations.
The first spot was an abandoned recreation home on an island in Eastern Germany.
I had only seen it on Google Earth, but hadn't found any photos that indicated the status of decay, so we had to check it out for ourselves.
Upon our arrival, we could already see that the state of most of the buildings was desolate. Roofs and walls collapsed, wood partly burned...in combination with the bleak weather, it was a sad sight.
Nonetheless, we decided to give it a shot, grabbed our gear and walked onto the premises. No fence or signs were there to indicate a restricted area.
It became apparent that our initial perception was correct. Years of weather and vandalism have taken a huge toll on the facility - but we still managed to get a couple of acceptable shots together, so that our visit here hadn't been a complete failure. Looking back, it was a nice start for the tour and a good one to warm up on.


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Tour Report: Military Hospital

We got so caught on this one... It was a cold morning in late December of 2016 when Freddy from Nordgriller Urbex picked me up to explore an abandoned military hospital.
I will not go into the details of this endeavor, but after being caught and talked to by six armed civilian guards and the military officer of the watch (overall four vehicles and eight armed guards), still getting off the hook in the end was a stressful, yet satisfying, experience.
The hospital itself was a really cool place. The weather wasn't too good, but we still spent about five hours exploring all the buildings - it was really worth the long trip!


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