Abandoned veterinary school somewhere in Belgium. This school is also known as “Horror labs” by the urbex community. The community gave it this name due to the formol jars containing animal parts in the basement. I explored this one with some fellow english urbexer that I met for the first time there. It wasn’t an easy one to enter, but it’s been even more difficult to get out of it ! Hopefully, I’m here to show my pictures…
Abandoned swimming Pool somewhere in Belgium. This swimming pool has been nuilt during the first world war in the Art Nouveau style. It is really an amazing place, absolutely beautiful. In the 50’s, due to a lack of maintenance, the impressive metallic structure of the ceiling had to be demolished. With this demolition, the building lost of its magnificence. The place has been closed in 2001 due to safety standards being outdated. The town built a new pool elsewhere letting this one fall into oblivion.
Abandoned sanatorium somewhere in Germany. This sanatorium is a well known place in the urbex community. This is a huge hospital with a lot of buildings. It’s been built in 1898 and has been used as a military hospital during World War 1. Adolf Hitler spent some times there when he was wounded at the leg during the battle of the Somme. After 1945, it became a Soviet military hospital. The atmosphere of this place is incredible, and the site is so huge that one could spend at least three days to see everything. Unfortunately, I only had one day there, so I missed a lot of things. I’ll definitely have to come back !
From the 4th of january to the 31st of january 2014, I’ll be holding an photographic exhibition about urban exploration in the Galerie Parfum d’Ambre in Brussels.
I recently spent a few days in Germany, and this is one of the places that I’ve explored there. The Bärenquell Brauerei is an abandoned Brewery. From what I know, it opened its doors in the years 1880 and was closed in 1994. This was a huge site with many buildings and the place is heavily vandalized. Nevertheless, it was still a very nice exploration to do.
Hidden in a wild garden, lies this beautiful house. It’s been incredibly well preserved and is still filled with a lot of furnitures. One can easily think that the owner of this villa has just left and will come back soon. The walls are filled with wooden panel behind which you can imagine there’s a hidden treasure. A really nice urban exploration ! Unfortunately for this house, the usual story begins: a real estate agent bought the place and will be demolishing the house to build luxury apartments. It seems that the greed of real estate agents is way stronger than their interest in architecture…
Abandoned factory somewhere in Belgium. I’m not really sure what this factory was producing. I’ve searched some information about it, and from what I’ve found, I think it was producing beer kegs. It was in a really bad state, but all in all, it was still a very interesting exploration. I don’t know what will happen to this factory, but it’s in the process of being cleaned, and some of the buildings have already been demolished. The office building was very interesting, with a very luxury director’s office. Let’s hope they will at least keep this building !
Abandoned coal washing facility somewhere in Belgium. This was a huge place to explore. One could easily imagine being lost in some mythological maze with a lot of stairs. The place has been abandoned since the 70’s when the coal mine closed its doors. In 2005, the government began rehabilitation works which cost hundreds of millions euros. Like many things in Belgium and for some unknown reasons, the works have been stopped. The only thing that proves the place was being rehabilitated is the thousands of windows that have been put there. The place is now left to rot with its thousands of new broken windows…
Abandoned military airfield somewhere in Belgium. This airfield was used as a training ground for the air cadets and has been abandoned for many years now. Part of it, mainly the airstrips, are now used by leisure civilian aviation. The place looks very interesting, there are a few buildings, warehouses and of course a control tower, but unfortunately, I haven’t been able to explore much of it, as I had to flee because the military police came while I was there. I’ll have to get back there one of these day…
Abandoned hospice somewhere in Belgium. This old people home was build in the middle of the 19th century and is part of an hospital. It is no longer in use and most of it has already been demolished. All that is left of it is a few offices, a few patient rooms and the old chapel. There are plans in the future to build new buildings for the actual hospital, so it will be demolished soon. All in all, it was a very nice exploration.