An old villa and a very familiar one. For years I used to take bike trips past it several times a week always admiring it. It had seen better days, and I was feeling a bit sorry for it. The city had put it up for auction the previous year.
Since then it had suffered a lot of vandalism.
It was all open doors here.
The place was in an awful shape. The floors were covered with ugly plastic and the doors were damaged.
There was also a basement, which looks like it is flooding. Guess, if I went or not.
A room with very old wallpaper. It looks like there has been a fire on the floor.
Another room. The bad condition was evident even here.
A very strange arrangement.
There wasn’t a single intact window in the building.
The porch of the house with the door wide open.
Take care of yourself and the environment, the leaflet says. There were also loads of needles and syringes here, but I didn’t photograph them, as I suffer from trypanophobia.
Even the walls in the stairway had suffered quite a lot.
The text says mold spores. It was also present downstairs.
A small room with a blocked, half round window.
Another room with old fashioned wallpaper.
Another room with very worn out paint.
Time to move back down.
Well, I did take a photo of the needle packages.
And one final look from the outside. It seems as if the windows upstairs had originally been half circles, but had been replaced at some point.
Later that autumn I returned here to take pregnancy photos of my friend. We took a lot of shots in a park, but as I am known among my friends as an urban explorer, she wanted to try a photo shoot in an abandoned building. At that time the doors were locked, though, so we photographed in the garden.
Little did we know, that the house and garden actually were a murder scene. Back in 2007 a group of people were drinking in there. One of them had heard a rumor, that the tenant of the house was a child abuser. He convinced the others to beat him up.
The people thought that he was dead, dug a grave and buried him there. But he wasn’t dead. They actually buried him alive in the field next to the house, where we took the pictures.
The house burned down in June 2023 and was demolished later that summer.