Already tired of my never ending stories about bizarre and failed business ideas and real estate businesses? No? Good! Here’s another one.
This here is a former nursing home. It was originally built in the 1940’s as a municipal home and enlarged in the 1960’s to a new use. The building visible in this picture is the 1960’s part, the older is behind it.
The building’s use ended in 2018, when the town built a new nursing home. After that the town tried to sell this one. The older part was protected, but they rezoned the area to remove the protection status to attract buyers.
This is the old 1940’s part.
Finally they found a buyer. Some Russian guy, who would pay 5000 euros for the buildings to make it a camping centre. The town thought about the deal for a long time, but eventually agreed.
Just before I took these pictures in August 2020, the potential buyer cancelled the deal citing Covid-19 as the reason. The buildings were then sold to a seamstress from a nearby city with a little more than 1000 euros. She wanted to bring her business there and eventually live in the buildings.
One of the baristas in my former favorite café was from this town and she arranged her family member to do some scouting for me in 2021. I got the message, that some lady and a horse were living here.
Flash forward to 2022, the old nursing home was sold again to a company from the same city as the buyer was. The company was managed by a man, who had previously been condemned for a killing.
In late 2022 the building became nationwide news. The company was about to sell the buildings to three Russians for 15000, a large profit. The Defence Ministry blocked the sale. The nursing home is close to a large garrison, and after Russia’s invasion to Ukraine the sale to Russians wasn’t considered to be of a national interest.
The owner has a year to get rid of the buildings or they will be auctioned. I visited again in the summer of 2022, but freshly appeared signs saying it’s a private property prevented me from taking a closer look.