Roaming in the small villages close to my childhood home town, I again spotted something interesting. I’ve spent 15 years of my life living less than 30 minutes away from here, and I never knew about this place.
This surely looks like a demolition site.
And a well closed one, too.
In fact, demolition work was ongoing. Workers were tossing stuff out of the windows and doing demolition of the interior.
A later research proved, that this was the old main school of the former municipality now turned into just a small village. This part was built in the 1950’s and was protected, the other wing seen earlier was from the 1980’s, in a much worse condition and being demolished. The school had been abandoned in 2008 because of air quality and mold problems.
And before being demolished, the new part had been turned into a legal graffiti wall for the local youth.
The newer wing had been built very much in the style of the old one. As you can see, demolition inside had progressed pretty far.
The demolition site seen from the back. The building to the right will be demolished. The canopy above the stairs seems like a nice feature. It is also amazing, how well they’ve honored the architecture of the original school building here.
The white block in the middle sure looks like the back of the old school gym.
A closer look at the canopy. It indeed seems like a nice feature.
The back of the original 1950’s school building. It indeed does seem quite nice and very original for its time. And so does the canopy.
The final photo, which completes the walkaround. I wonder, if the canopies were an original 1950’s feature, or added in the 1980’s enlargement and then duplicated to the old part.
Nevertheless, the new section of the school was demolished that summer. The old part still stands, and nobody seems to know what to do with it, as a new school has already been built.