refugee flats (at)

Finally a new post from me. I have quite a lot to catch up with. These are a few shots from a visit to some empty abandoned blocks with flats used by refugees in Austria. Huge empty buildings with lots of space and a really nice view from the roof. This was my first roof top experience on a tall abandoned building. It was amazing to relax a bit on the roof in the sun. Most of the rooms inside was empty inside but some had furniture like beds and shelves.

Exterior of some of the empty buildings.

Looking for a way inside.

Tall, abandoned building.

The elevators were actually working, but I used the stairs. Some of the other crew members tried thou.

Testing my remote camera trigger and tried to make an interesting shot at the same time.

Long corridor.

Bathroom with water in the crane. Great to be able to wash my hands on an urbex location.

Corridor in another floor.

There were lots of empty rooms but some of them had stuff inside.

Looking down from a window in one of the top floors.

Another straight down shot.

Taking a walk on the roof.

Nice view from the top. Great place to relax a bit in the sun.

manor house (AT)

Last year I traveled to Austria, met some great people and saw some amazing locations. This first post shows a large manor house, herrenhause, situated in the middle of a city. Visited on a very sunny day. The highlights was a couple of nice staircases with paintings and columns and other details, and a room with a collapsed ceiling. The blue color resemblance the falling of the sky. Other than that there were lots of empty rooms, fireplaces and strange bathrooms. Don’t know much about the history of the place, but I think the owner of an demolished nearby factory lived here with his servants. Correct me if I’m wrong, and don’t rely on the information in the last sentence.

In the basement there were a small corridor perfect for playing with silhouettes and lights.

One of the amazing staircases in the building.

The staircase from the top.

One of many empty rooms.

A room with fireplace and a hole in the wall to access the room with collapsed ceiling.

The room with collapsed blue ceiling.

A hidden bathroom behind the remains of the collapsed ceiling.

Open doors between different rooms. Quite satisfied with this shot.

Yeat another bathroom. This one has its own garden with growing vegetation.

The loft with a nice light ray.

A forgotten suitcase.

Fisheye shot of a more simple staircase.

Closeup of one of several types of wallpapers.

A nice long corridor.

The second amazing staircase in the building.

Incredible ceiling here too.

Staircase, other angle.

Details from the stair railing lies on the floor.

Paint peeling on the way down to the basement.

The old wine cellar. Empty unfortunately.

Exterior shot of one part of the large manor house.

Entrance to smaller adjacent building.

Strange room. Every wall was covered with newspapers and lots of mess everywhere.

A green bathroom…

… and a very narrow one.

Burned doll at the attic.

Forgotten children toys and a crib in a dark room.

forgotten WW2 bunker (NO)

Often you don’t need to travel far to find an interesting abandoned location. This place I suddenly found in the area were I live. It is a quite large underground bunker dating back from WW2. Two long corridors and lots of rooms with storage shelves. From the main exit to the back the facility might be 100 m long. I’ve been here two times. First time alone with failing flashlights which made it impossible to go deep into the pitch black bunker, and one second time with TommyG. The most interesting object in this forgotten bunker is perhaps the milk cartoon they stopped producing in 1985. Made by paper and wax which has preserved it quite well.

The entrance to the bunker in the hillside. Actually the emergency exit in the back of the facility.

Dark hallway. As far as I went on first trip since my flashlights were failing.

There were lots of spiders in the ceiling.

A small hatch (embrasure) which was used to shoot through to defend the bunker.

Long corridor.

One of two long corridors stretching through the hill.

The rooms were mainly empty with lots of shelves.

Storage

Small find, but an interesting one. A milk carton from “Fellesmeieriet” which dates back from before 1985. That the year they stopped producing this design. Quite interesting that it is still there after at least 26 years… Made of paper and wax.

The hallway up from the main entrance. Door has been sealed with concrete.

Toilet

A very moldy alarm box.

Switches

Playing with lamps and light on second trip.

Daylight.

cold war defense bunker (NO)

During the cold war a line of 6 defensive combat facilities where planned in the Norwegian forests. The fear of a possible Soviet attack was very real in the late 80ties and early 90ties. This bunker was built in 1989. After the ‘fall of the iron carpet’ the plans was abandoned and only 3 of these bunkers where built – all looking the same. The facility accommodates for MG-3 machine guns, mobile 20 mm anti air guns and Carl Gustav 84 mm recoilless rifles (RFK84mm). The bunkers are now owned by private land owners.

This bunker was very dark and wet resulting in a lot flash light use and some long exposure shots with candles. The ceilings was covered with water droplets since the dehumidifier was turned off a long time ago. One of the other bunkers, closed when I visited still has power and is dry inside. Take a look at these amazing shots.

The entrance to the well hidden defense bunker.

Stair down to one of the main rooms.

Blue lamp in the ceiling. Notice the water drops. The whole place was very humid.

One of the main rooms.

Floor plan of the facility.

The middle room with water tank.

Case with “Signalammunisjon”, pyrotechnics.

A lot of unused phones.

Ladder up to an emergency exit.

Looking up at the ladders to the observation point.

Tight corridors leading from the entrance room (right) to the Carl Gustav 84 mm recoilless rifle positions to the left.

Carl Gustav 84 mm recoilless rifle (RFK84mm) positions.

MG-3 position.

Looking out from the MG-3 position.

Phone on the wall.

Small kitchen area.

Standing in the kitchen area looking out to generator room and another exit.

Generator and dehumidifier room 1.

Generator and dehumidifier room 2.

One of the emergency fire exits.

Positions for 20 mm mobile anti air guns.

360 degrees observation post.

soria moria / slottet / z-kroa (NO)

An old building shaped as a castle on top of a hill, silently waits to be demolished. It used to be a restaurant in the 80-ties when the road passed straight by. It had different names like Soria Moria, Slottet (Castle) and Z-kroa. Now, when the new motorway is thundering by below and the cars barely notice the place, the building became abandoned. The are around is a huge construction site.

The inside was quite empty. I’m pretty sure they made that wall look like a face with purpose… It even has a cap.

A few days after these pictures was shot the place was demolished.

Walking up to the building. Nice sunny evening.

The building doesn’t look like anything I’ve seen before.

Whoever built this surly made it look like it had a cap, eyes, mouth etc on purpose.

The inside was very empty.

An nice place to eat back in the days.

Everything is gone inside. The place is ready to be demolished.

A pool table in the basement.

On the roof.

taverna (NO)

Next to a busy Norwegian motorway is this small restaurant building left to decay. The inside witness of quite a lot of vandalism and chairs, menues and and tables are all over the place. The place also had a peculiar smell. Perhaps from the dirty, wet wall-to-wall carpet on the floor. The place also had a basement and a small office next to the serving counter. Don’t know much about it’s history or when it was abandoned. Almost next to this place was another abandoned restaurant on top of a small hill. Pictures of this place in the next post.

The abandoned restaurant next to the busy motorway.

The Taverna sign. No doubt this place is abandoned.

Lots of chairs and other things in a mess on the floor.

The inside had a peculiar smell.

I wouldn’t cook in this kitchen.

The interior with serving counter and view too the dining area.

View of the whole serving counter – fish-eye style

The sign says in Norwegian “Dagens rett: Kjøttpudding m/ kålstuing, kr 66,-” which means “Today’s dish: Meatloaf w/ cabbage stew, 66 kroner”.

A fire extinguisher.

garden center B (NO)

It was a nice sunny day to walk around this huge abandoned location somewhere in Norway. The garden center burnt to the ground in 2009 after a period of abandonment because of bankruptcy. The place was set on fire and police suspects possible insurance fraud. The trials begin soon.

There are lots to see here and the place is huge. Shopping carts, piles of flowerpots and equipment, rusty pipes, burned out lawnmowers and a forklift which looks like it survived the fire to mention a few things.

On tour together with fotoknudsen/www.knudsenfoto.com

The burnt out garden center from the outside.

The main entrance. A row of trolleys are still there.

Shopping carts.

Another entrance at the back. Not too difficult to enter the place.

Inside the garden center.

Fish eye shot of the destroyed roof. It was a very warm and sunny day.

The forgotten fork lift.

Inside the fork lift.

Collapsed roof.

A trolley.

A melted radio.

Where people used to pay for their plants.

A burned out tractor.

Plants are still growing.

Burned out electrical cabinet.

Find the pallet truck…

Lots of pots 1

Lots of pots 2

Destroyed room.

Plants growing through a fertilizer bag.

A broken and forgotten car.

lekeland (NO)

These are pictures from a trip to a few Norwegian urbex locations with http://knudsens.wordpress.com/ this summer. His other page: http://www.knudsenfoto.com/ I’m terribly slow with updating my blog page I’m afraid. :/

This small playland/lekeland in the middle of a Norwegian city is deserted and forgotten. Quite a lot of different objects and remains of rides are still there. We were blessed with blue skies and great weather which usually makes it a bit difficult to make great photography. The place had water slide, mini-golf, strange troll-figures, car rides, gold digging etc. It opened in the 80ties and was actually once Norway’s oldest familiy park.

The sign at the entrance listing up all the activities.

Bridge without water.

Western theme objects

Decayed western theme carriage

Creepy trolls in the woods.

Close up of one of the strange faces.

Saloon caravan.

A grill

Inside a kiosk

Vippehest

Mini-golf

Top of the water slide. Sign:”Depth 1.3 m”

Water slide, another angle.

Car track.

Damaged petrol pump.

Inside the hidden tunnel.

forgotten house in the fields (no)

A forgotten swiss villa in the middle of a field and hidden by thick vegetation and trees. No roads headed to the house so I had to cross the muddy field to get there. I crawled through a broken window to get inside just to discover that a whole wall was missing in the other room. Sometimes I just have to choose the difficult entry point. It was pretty empty, but not vandalized. Just natural decay. In the kitchen a nice oven and some other stuff was spread around.

The old house hidden in the vegetation.

Exterior front.

Exterior side.

The kitchen.

Nice old oven.

Room in the middle of the house.

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Nice paint peeling and collapsed ceiling.

Creepy window.

Side exit with lot of vegeation.

Main entrance and exit. Difficult to use.

Factory M (NO)

I had a very interesting trip to this Norwegian abandoned factory earlier this year. I found an inside space with trees and vegetation growing, and it was really cool to see how nature was taking the place back. A huge hole in the roof, which probably once supported a tank, made a perfect opening for incoming rain. The factory once received dead animals and waste parts from slaughter houses and these materials was grinded up to bone meal. High levels of animal fat in the ground, as well as residues from the factory operations, caused a peculiar smell on the entire first floor.

The place was abandoned in 1995 and is now demolished, but is well documented by a few Norwegian urbexers who suddenly found an interest in this place.

Factory exterior.

Another shot of the derelict factory in the distance.

Inside on the first floor.

A tank and other ruble on the messy first floor.

A room on second floor.

The two cool scales with faces.

Details of a wall.

Top floor.

Work bench and view over the top floor.

Another top floor shot looking towards my favourite area.

Really cool how nature is taking back the place.

Another shot of the trees and vegetation inside the factory.

Gauge detail 1

Detail shot

Gauge detail 2

Looking upwards from the bottom floor to the top with fish-eye.

Another part of the factory.

Easy access in and out.

The grinders.