monastery St. A (NE)

Yet another abandoned holy place. A huge monastery in the Netherlands with church section and a lot of other nice rooms. On the inside courtyard there was nice walkways under roof with arches and columns. Built in the 17 century and was used as a children’s asylum for girls from 1880. From the 1920s mentally ill people was treated here. Now it is abandoned and only frequently visited by another kind of strange people… The place was really fascinating and we spent many hours here and met a few other urban explores as well.

monastery fr (BE)

Shots from an abandoned monastery in Belgium. The place has a few different names on on line forums: Father Ray, St. Hilarius and Monastere du Roi. We new a small part of the huge place was still used so we had to enter the place quietly and fast and run though what used to be a small garden with pathways and statues. At one point we had to hide since a car drove past. We found the entry point and walked inside the buildings. It was quite clean and tidy and not vandalized in any way. There were lots of corridors, halls and beautiful stairs. It is strange to see all these former religious places that nobody use anymore. Did they loose their faith?

labyrinth school (BE)

The ‘Labyrinth School’ in Belgium is a very well known abandoned place for urbexers and the place is well photographed. The main goal for this mission was to see the amazingly long corridors as well as finding the old stroller in the attic. The place was under demolition or reconversion when we entered the place so it might be gone now for all I know. We crawled through a small hole in a hedge and made our way to the first building. Ahead we saw a couple of vans with workers blocking the road. We first thought of sneaking past them, but we went for the “walk right past them” method like we were supposed to be there. That worked. We walked straight past them, said hello, and carried on. They didn’t even look at us.

The place used to be a farming school for children. They started the plans for building in 1910 but it was delayed because of the outbreak of World War 1. But in the 1926 it was finished. Here children could learn about carpentry, basketry, cut and seam, agriculture and livestock. Between the buildings was gardens and the long corridors ensured that the students could walk inside between the different functions such as classrooms, kitchens, workshops, gymnasiums, greenhouses and an educational farm.

Classic split corner shot in the abandoned school.

Probably the longest corridor I’ve ever seen.

The gym.

I had to sign the board.

One of the goals for this mission: To shoot the old stroller in the attic.

industrial area (NO)

An abandoned industrial area somewhere in Norway. Probably a place where they dealt with hazardous, polluted waste and/or oil storage. Large concrete tanks laid side by side next to the water. On the site was an office building and in a garage there was some old cars. Some of them had potential as restoration objects for somebody with a lot of time. If you recognize which type of cars they are please let me know.

The office section still with Christmas decorations.

Binders and left over papers.

“Deklarasjon av spesialavfall”/”Declaration of hazardous waste”

Called a ‘Spark’ in Norwegian… No idea what its called in English.

Fishy shot of an old forgotten car.

An old 66 Ford.

Maybe a Ford but I’m not sure. 31? 34? Let me know.

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forest view hospital (BE)

‘Forest View Hospital’, also called ‘Home Sweet Home’, is a large old hospital and nursing home for old people in Belgium. The place was abandoned in 2008 and it is well known for its huge amount of chairs. On the roof was a large terrace (also with chairs) with a great view over the forest. Parts of the building was damaged by a fire with subsequent water damage from the extinguishing. There were also quite extensive damage from vandals and graffiti artists.

A new nursing home is built next to this place so the former residents didn’t need to move far.

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tree mansion (BE)

Somewhere in Belgium next to a busy road lies this beautiful little farm house. The building looks quite anonymous on the outside, but the inside hat quite a lot of nice secrets. There where hay all over the place and the hay loft itself had a beautiful light. I took this picture (link to flickr) which has been shown in a lot og magazines here. I walked around in the dust a while and used a few seconds to exposure the shot. There were a few bedrooms and a living room with lots of old objects. In one of the bedrooms lied a cat which looked like it had been there for a very, very long time.

I have no idea why it is called Tree Mansion.

The living room.

The people that used to live here perhaps and other object left behind.

A bedroom.

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The dusty hay loft had a beautiful light.

The bedrpoom with lots of hay.

The mummified dead cat.

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nursing home v (NO)

It was a cold day when I stood up early and drove to this location – a nursing home in a small Norwegian city abandoned in 2005/06. The sleepy city and houses surrounding the buildings was still asleep. Frost on the trees and fog on the ground made a strange mood. I felt quite alone in the world when I entered the area. I found the entry point pretty quick and started exploring the oldest part first built in the last century. The place was built in a U shape with the oldest white wooden building on the right, and the newest as a connected L to this one. A fairly large place, but mostly empty.

I walked around for a couple of hours and went through the whole place. Some areas was unfortunately very vandalized with much broken glass and mess all over. I have read lots of news articles in the papers that police have stopped youth from damaging the place many times.

A strange thing happened in there – I got a tiny cut in my finger that kept bleeding the whole time when I was inside. Very annoying. Think I got blood on my camera and lenses and everything. Immediately after I got out of the building the bleeding stopped. Strange.

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