And so the morning dawns to yet another ridiculous story from real estate business in decaying rural Finnish villages. Ready for it?
This is yet another former mental asylum, which became a regional hospital in the 1990’s and started treating even other patients. It was deemed surplus in mid-2010’s.
Again the staff apartments of the hospital were in a separate building connected by a shelter to the main building. These two were built in the early 1950’s, another building was added in the 1980’s. The newest one wasn’t abandoned, but was still used by some social and health care facilities.
But what happened to the older hospital buildings is yet again a unique story. The municipality put them up for auction and a buyer was found suprisingly quickly. The premises were sold for less than 5000 euros and the new owner intended to rent them out to social and health care use.
That was until he found out, that another division of the municipal administration had cut off the water to the building and started removing, toilets, taps and sinks without the knowledge of the auction. The owner called it off.
The building has been for sale since, but I’ve seen no news of a new owner.