Welcome again to the world of crazy real estate deals. After the story of the mental asylum, which was sold until the new owner realized, that its toilets had been demolished, we tell an even more bizarre story.
It seems that these stories are customary to old public buildings, like schools, factories and hospitals. This is no wonder. They are large buildings, often publicly owned and located in places where the market isn’t doing that well. They are often sold to companies hoping to make investments in travel or social and health care.
And as with the previous one, we are again talking about a mental asylum.
There it is, in the woods in a small town behind a regional hospital.
I have suddenly become illiterate in all three languages.
A lower building, which I suspected to being staff apartments.
The lower wing was connected to the main hospital with a low corridor.
All doors and windows were tightly closed.
The hospital was built in the late 1950’s or early 1960’s. It was closed in the early 2000’s and that was when the bizarre story starts.
The town bought the hospital from the hospital district for 200 000 euros and sold it about a year later to a company, which was specialized in helping autistic children. Already a year later it was revealed that the company was in financial trouble and the heating to the hospital was cut off due to unpaid bills.
Eventually the company went bankrupt and its owner was convicted of several financial irregularities. Meanwhile the hospital had been sold to an investor for one euro.
The buildings stayed empty, were badly vandalized and decayed quickly. In 2017 the town decided to buy the hospital again, this time for 20 000 euros. They considered the building worth nothing but demolition, but thought that its location next to the hospital was strategic.
That was three years before I took these photos. So far nothing had happened. Apart from the fact that the doors and windows received new boards.
There was no way in, so there was not much more to see either.