During my tours I had met a fellow urban explorer, who knew a lot of abandoned and potentially abandoned places around the country. Their knowledge helped me to form the basis of my summer tour of 2021 along with my own list, which I had built up the previous summer and by reading news.
Their list had one funny mention, which didn’t specify, what exactly was there. The entire center of a small, rural municipality was tagged with the title (Insert village name here), you poor thing. This sounded like something, which I had to see with my own eyes.
And indeed it didn’t disappoint.
This is a former pharmacy, and that’s what the text on the wall says. The windows have been covered with plywood, but I have to admire the way they’ve done here. They’ve actually painted the plywood with views, that could be seen through the windows if the place was still operating. A lovely idea!
The place already looks like this on Google Street View from 2009. It’s been abandoned for at least 12 years.
And here we have a cute little former grocery store. There was still a store back in 2009, but in 2011 it looked exactly like this. Abandoned for 10 years.
Edit: The photo of one of the buildings has been removed from here. The owners contacted me, and turns out that it wasn’t abandoned. I am sorry.
Both all these buildings are in the absolute center of the village by the main street. Yes, I would really call this a poor thing. It reminds me of a business street in a former paper factory village, which I photographed around a year earlier.
Now let’s go take a closer look at the pharmacy.
There was a hardware store on the lot next to the building and a lot of lumber stored on the yard.
But the pharmacy itself looked very much abandoned. For a while I was wondering, if I should go to the hardware store and ask for a way in, but I decided to let it pass. Perhaps asking permissions isn’t really my thing, after all.