The tiny metal works
We almost missed it by passing by. Small and inconspicuous, hidden behind trees and bushes. Even the huge yellow “For Sale” – banner is hardly visible from the busy street. About 8 years ago the little factory for domestic use and fire-resistant seals went out of business. Mostly untouched fabrication rooms and machinery, but [...]
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The underground facility
In the last years of the 2nd World war, the german military government was forced to relocate the production of important goods for the war into the underground. In addition to weapons and ammunition also machinery and vehicles were produced underneath the earth surface. This was the only chance to get a bomb-safe production against [...]
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The brickworks
The brickworks were closed in 1991. Most of the buildings are ruins now, the nature slowly conquers back the approximately 30,000 m² large area. Many of the buildings are partially collapsed, also are the roofs. References to the former usage are difficult to find, the plant is almost devastated.
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CONTI Tires
I could remember CONTI, better Continental ® since I was young. Both facillities Stöcken and Limmer are a part of my memories, my grandparents lived in Hannover. These times have past for a while, also the production of tires in Limmer has stopped a few years ago (2000). Unfortunately very late I had the idea [...]
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The House of Teeth
Only genuine with 32 teeth … this slightly modified phrase of an commercial for cakes came into my mind while walking through the otherwise fairly cluttered basement. Unfortunately only gypsum dental casts and temporaries -nothing useful for the toothless, legally insured Urban Explorer of modern times. At least I did not need to crop out [...]
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The underground operating shelter
Only underground Structures could be safe from the Allied bombing at the end of the 2nd World War. In almost every town were fortified buildings, bunkers, Command posts and underground shelters built, to save the population. Similarly, the production of weapons, ammunition, and Vehicles moved into the ground. Another problem was the medical care for the sick and injured. Hospitals were [...]
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Doel
-Ghost Town- was the first thing I thought as I passed the Placename sign. Empty windows, overgrown places, smashed doors. It commemorates me on “Otzenrath“,which had to go for the Open pit “Garzweiler 2″. Here at the “Westerschelde” it is not the brown coal which erases the village. Here it is the construction of a [...]
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The steelwirerope plant
Within with the intensive search for information for this article, the less glorious past of the former rope factory became obvious. The 1898 (in munich) founded company for the manufacture of cables, wire and hemp ropes, abused POWs in the time of 2nd World War. At peak times there were up to 40% of the workforce POWs, mostly [...]
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The Sand brick factory
Almost such like always, this facility was closed after the fusion of a few Sand-lime brick factories in 2001. Today only the sand pit (placed also on the areal) is still in use. In the future it is planned to build an
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The fabric factory
The latest records are telling a story about a fabric factory which was in use until the 1990´s. Since then, the premises are abandoned and a follow up use seems to be impossible already. The damage due to weather and corrosion is strong, ceilings and walls are collapsed partly. Left soil samples make me thinking [...]
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Mining
Hasard-Cheratte coalmine
The premise of the coal mine Hasard-Cheratte is placed in “Cheratte”, an little town nea
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Food
The brewery
The former “Schloßbrauerei” was established in 1880. It produces the types “Sch
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Iron and Steel
The steelwirerope plant
Within with the intensive search for information for this article, the less glorious past of the for
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Recreation
The city baths
Between 1929 and 1938 the three-floor indoor-swimmingpool building was established. As one of the l
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Plants
The tiny metal works
We almost missed it by passing by. Small and inconspicuous, hidden behind trees and bushes. Even
