Another German sanatorium that is abandoned and forgotten. 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 the 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.
That’s a nice place, when I was there some time ago we ran in to some problem 🙂
Almost done with the photograping I heard a dog outside and some german talking and whistling, at the moment we were at the basement floor in the other end of the building from were the piano was.. I looked out through a basment window and saw two EMGE guards.. As we were almost done with the photographing in the house we started to walk as quiet we could up to third floor to have att better view out to the guarden outside.. Suddenly my girlfriend freezed and looked scared, just outside the window was another two emge guards!! Now there was problem because they was standing around the corner were we sneaked in 🙂
In the panic we started to change memorycards in our cameras and waited 4-5minutes hiding in a stariway out of sight from the windows, felt like hours.. however we walked down to groundlevel and carfully moved through the last section of the house where we got in, I looked carfully through the windows in all directions and listened for de dog and guards, as I could not see or hear them we took the chance and got out and half running out off the property in through the woods to the car parked on a small gravelroad..
It was indeed the most scary 30-40minutes ever out on a phototrip 🙂
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