Sanatorium E (DE)

Another German sanatorium that is abandoned and forgotten near Potsdam. This one lays in a forest with roads and heavy traffic passing by. The building is a gem and a cool urbex stop. It was built between 1912 and 1914 which means it’s almost a 100 years old. It was built as a lung hospital, probably treating tuberculosis patients, by a doctor called Walter. The sanatorium itself is named after his wife. Before it was abandoned it served as a skin clinic, but since 1994 it has stood empty.

The rooms are mainly empty. The main attraction is the magnificent piano which is left behind. Pianos and dentist chairs are heavy objects that are rarely moved from buildings. Seen a lot of them.

Soon I will start upload my pictures and posts from several locations from United Kingdom. Very difficult country do to urbex in, but very rewarding and exiting as well. Some pictures have already found their way to my flickr stream.

The exterior of the main building.

Another angle.

The main stairs in the middle of the building.

The stairs. The roof is almost collapsing.

Door to ‘Station 1′, whatever that means.

The leftover grand piano is quite nice.

Just a detail shot of the piano.

From second floor.

A room with tiles. Something to do with a kitchen or shower room.

A room on the upper levels.

Another room with a view.

From the loft.

In a room in the top of the loft this desk stood with a huge map over Berlin.

Stairs to the basement.

No keys.

The exterior of the building from the opposite side.

Soviet clinic – second visit (DE)

Last time I went to this mysterious location, I didn’t really feel that we used enough time here. The main building is big with long corridors stretching in every direction on different levels. Last time didn’t even go upstairs. So it was quite amazing to be able to go back and explore the building further. I still don’t know much about the place and what it was used for but guessing military hospital used by the soviets after second world war because of the Russian words and letters everywhere. I don’t even know the name of the place. Guess that not many Norwegians have ever been here besides me and a few others I know.

It was a great explore with a really great quite large crew and the building was explored from top to toe. Many empty rooms but there are lots of operating lamps (“compound eyes”) still hanging and the chair is always a winner. On the top floors there was a room with amazing yellow light and volume light coming through the window. Fantastic trip and I’m happy that I was able to visit it once more. We didnt enter the other buildings on the site expect this large one. But there might be other secrets here. Pictures from my first trip this year are here if you want to see more pics.

The facade from a strange angle.

A painting on a window or wall. Those doctors have creepy eyes…

Evening sun through a room on second floor.

Room with strangely loose wallpaper.

Endless corridors everywhere.

Door

Angled empty room.

The chair is still there.

The bench under the cool operating lamps.

The lamps once more. These lamps are well documented now.

More rooms with operating lamps …

… and more lamps …

… and another one.

It is fun to shoot 90 degree angled corridors with wide angle.

And another corner of the hospital.

Great light in this room.

Attic windows.

Looking out on the roof.

Mental asylum TZ (DE)

Another great abandoned area in Germany. It was a quite foggy morning that made the buildings look even more haunted. Some of the buildings was inaccessible and some accessible through a maze of underground tunnels between the buildings. A really great explore with lots to see an photograph. The building with the large tower is really immense and looks real unsafe with large cracks on the walls. We walked up some floors, but collapsed elements of the building made it quite dangerous and difficult to find a safe passage so we went down again.

This facility was built between 1905 and 1908 and served as a state mental institution. It was closed in 1923 due to a economic crisis, but reopened in 1925 with capacity for 1400 beds. In the thirties the capacity increased to 1800 beds. During the war the hospital was damaged and many of the buildings was used as an army hospital for Soviet Forces after 1945. There are around 28 buildings on the site. It was completely abandoned in 1992, but some of the buildings are turned into homes for people.

The sun set quickly and when one of the crew members had lost his backpack somewhere, we had to go through some buildings in the darkness to look. Quite cool since I’m not used to be at places like this in the pitch black. Luckily we found what we were looking for.

The massive tower building doesn’t look to safe.

Looks like a haunted house.

Nice foggy morning.

Fisheye shot of a overgrown porch .

Some showers.

The large theater (or cinema) with large parts of the roof collapsed.

Stairway in one of the buildings.

Lots of letters and stuff with Russian text laying around.

More nice stuff and a phone.

The laundry building is really cool. Lots of rusty machines.

More washing machines.

Lovely evning light in this room, also in the laundry building.

Details form the ironing boards.

A cash register.

Great room with a really nice painting on one of the walls. Another view here.

A surgery room shot with fisheye.

Some nice bottles.

More left over medical stuff.

Some parts of the buildings were burnt. Like this one with a bed.

The whole floor had collapsed in this room. Not a very safe place to be.

Love this room. The green wallpapers match the vegetation growing through the floor.

An apartment room.

Close up of the crazy tower.