Pyramiden Swimming Pool
THE ABANDONED POOL ON SVALBARD This is the northernmost swimming pool. The Pyramiden Swimming Pool used to be part of a small Russian mining settlement on the Svalbard island chain called Pyramiden....
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THE ABANDONED SCHOOL AT SPITSBERGEN This is the abandoned school of Pyramiden. A small deserted mining town on Svalbard. A view at the school building The Russian mining settlement of Pyramiden was...
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THE ABANDONED FARM AT SPITSBERGEN This is the abandoned farm in Pyramiden, a deserted Russian mine village in the far North. The town and farm were abandoned in 1998. Dutch explorers Willem Barents...
View ArticleDarkveti Sand
THE ABANDONED FACTORY IN GEORGIA On the banks of the Kvirila river, between the villages Sareki and Darkveti I found this old abandoned sand factory. The Kvirila river originates in northwestern...
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THE ABANDONED SANATORIUM IN PORTUGAL The ‘Sanatório Jerónimo de Lacerda’ is the oldest sanatorium on the Caramulo mountain. It opened its doors in 1922. In the critical times of the tuberculosis,...
View ArticleQuinta do Conde de Sucena
THE ABANDONED CASTLE IN PORTUGAL ‘Quinta do Conde de Sucena’ is an abandoned farm and park in Portugal. The buildings have beautiful Azulejos on the walls. However the building is in a bad state, the...
View ArticleOśrodek Kolonii Letnich
THE ABANDONED SUMMER CAMP IN POLAND ‘Ośrodek Kolonii Letnich’ is an abandoned summer camp resort in Poland. It belonged to one of the largest charity organization in Poland. Every year, several...
View ArticleHO-Gaststätte Freundschaft
THE ABANDONED HOTEL IN GERMANY ‘HO-Gaststätte Freundschaft’ is an abandoned hotel in Germany, close to the Czech border. The ‘HO’ or ‘Handelsorganisation’ was the national retail business owned by the...
View ArticleHotel Tbilisi Tskaltubo
THE ABANDONED HOTEL IN GEORGIA ‘Hotel Tbilisi’ is one of the abandoned hotels in spa resort Tskaltubo in Georgia. The construction of the hotel finished in 1951. Today it is a home for refugees. The...
View ArticleChâteau de la Cense au Bois
THE ABANDONED CASTLE IN BELGIUM ‘Château de la Cense au Bois’ also named ‘Château de la Bruyère’ was built in 1860 by baron Louis Siraut. The neoclassical building is located in the heart of fifteen...
View ArticleWojskowy Szpital Poradziecki
THE ABANDONED HOSPITAL IN POLAND ‘Wojskowy Szpital Poradziecki’ ia an abandoned Soviet hospital in the Polish town Legnica. This huge hospital complex, built in 1929 by Germans and taken over by the...
View ArticleHuta Szkła Lucyna – Zakład Nysa
THE ABANDONED GLASSWORKS IN POLAND This is the former Nysa factory, belonging to the glassworks ‘Huta Szkła Lucyna’ in Pieńsk. Pieńsk is a small city in southwestern Poland. In the second half of the...
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THE ABANDONED HOTEL IN GERMANY This is the former luxury ‘Hotel Fürstenhof’ in Eisenach, Germany. The complex was used as a hotel for almost 100 years until it was closed and abandoned in 1996.In...
View ArticleSanatorium Iveria Tskaltubo
THE ABANDONED SANATORIUM IN GEORGIA They started building ‘Sanatorium Iveria’ in 1952. Works finished almost ten years later. This Stalinist architecture sanatorium in Tskaltubo was sold to a Russian...
View ArticlePreußisches Amtsgerichtsgefängnis
THE ABANDONED PRISON IN GERMANY In 1899, the construction of a new ‘Preußisches Amtsgerichtsgefängnis’ began in Berlin-Köpenick. It was the new district court. A four-story prison wing is attached to...
View ArticleKammgarnspinnerei Meerane
THE ABANDONED FACTORY IN GERMANY ‘Kammgarnspinnerei Meerane’ is a former worsted spinning mill. It was built in 1882 and production continued until 1990. The site was demolished in 2020. In 1882 the...
View ArticleAegidium
THE ABANDONED THEATER IN BELGIUM The Aegidium theater is a Brussels building that was erected in 1905 to a design by Guillaume Segers. Behind its austere façade there is a wealth of interior styles....
View ArticleCentrale Cockerill
THE ABANDONED POWER PLANT IN BELGIUM ‘Centrale Cockerill’ is a power station in the industrial region of the Belgium city Liege. Energy was distributed from here to the big factories of the Cockerill...
View ArticleFlugplatz Brand
THE ABANDONED MILITARY SITE IN GERMANY ‘Flugplatz Brand’ has a rich military history. It was built in 1938 as ‘Fliegerhorst Briesen‘ a military airport for the Luftwaffe, part of the German Wehrmacht....
View ArticleHöhere Fliegertechnische Schule
THE ABANDONED MILITARY SCHOOL IN GERMANY The ‘Höhere Fliegertechnische Schule’ was a military school for pilots and engineers in Altes Lager, Niedergörsdorf. The main buildings are built in the...
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