The evening light brought me back to yet another familiar location – a regional hospital closed down in 2014. The previous time I had visited the place had been a year earlier, and that time I hadn’t been lucky in finding an entrance.
I wasn’t very hopeful this time, either, but I was ready for another walkaround.
You can only imagine, how longingly I am watching its windows.
But they all seem as intact as a year earlier.
Although it doesn’t look like it, the wing to the right is from the 1990’s, when the hospital was last enlarged.
You can clearly see, that it is made of precast elements.
In this photo it is even clearer.
Moving back towards the original buildings.
And behind the entire complex.
I’m now about halfway through, and everything is still intact. The 1960’s annex is visible up front.
The facade of the original part of the hospital.
It’s safe to say that the original one was far more beautiful than this one.
This, I believe, has been the main entrance back in the days.
The form of the building was fairly complex.
Even if I had gotten in, I might have gotten lost.
Garages downstairs.
And Christmas candles. A common sight in abandoned public buildings, as they are often closed for good around the New Year.
Almost gone around now.
The old apartment building of the medical superintendent.
And finally the main entrance with a beautiful red Volvo lurking at the parking lot. No luck this time.
In late 2024 the hospital was sold. Let’s wait and see what kind of plans the new owner has.