Usually I am very careful with locations I am unsure of. If I’m not entirely sure that they are abandoned, I stay away. Of course sometimes I make mistakes, like I did with the abandoned looking one family house, where I encountered an old lady reading in the garden.
I had been tipped about this location by a former colleague. She described it as a huge blue mansion with broken windows.
Well, she was right about the broken windows, which can be seen to the far left of the picture. She was wrong about the mansion. The lower part to the left is a former store, which was enlarged in the early 20th century to become a weaving, knitting and kitchen garden school.
The school was short lived, and several businesses functioned in the house throughout the years. After a rather failed renovation back in the 1970’s, when totally mismatching windows were installed, it was in use until around the early 2010’s, when the town sold it to a private person.
The debt recovery authorities forced an auction in 2017. After that a local association took over. They were trying to rescue the building with limited rescourses.
But back in 2022 I didn’t know this. For me it was an intriguing, abandoned beauty.
Which I was more than eager to enter. The local car racing club has held its office in here at some point.
Judging by the empty and broken windows I had no doubts about abandonment.
So I happily entered the older part of the building. It was difficult to move around, as the floor had collapsed.
Like I said, the 1970’s renovations had done the building no good. There has probably been a fireplace over there, but it has been replaced by a central heating system.
Ugliness and plastics was visible everywhere.
Same view, different angle.
You shouldn’t treat old buildings with disrespect like this.
An awful, thoroughly plastic toilet.
The floor was gone even here.
I’m not sure about the walls anymore, either.
The house rules. In the 1990’s it has been used by different associations. I’ve removed some details again.
The section with the blocked windows. The floor has collapsed even here.
A small storage room.
A detail showing the sorry state of the floor.
It was only when I reached the other side of the building, that I started to wonder, if the place was fully abandoned after all. When writing this post, I realized that they had had a volunteer event where the house had been emptied of loose stuff. They had forgotten to lock the door.
They had also removed some of the wall boards to investigate the building’s condition. The walls seem solid.
There was still quite a lot of stuff to be emptied inside.
It seems it had mostly been about furniture.
The front of the building. A part of the majestic porch had been renovated in 2020, I later learned.
And finally the facade of the building. I really hope that the association manages to rescue the building and restore it to its former glory. Also I am sorry for the visit.