After a long break I returner back to the city where I lived for 10 years. My real reason was dance practise, but as I stayed with a couple of friends, with whom I had explored before, we used our day off to go and try to find new locations.
The first one was – or were – a row house built for the doctors of a mental asylum in the 1950’s.
But when I published a photo of the location in my private Instagram story, I was contacted by a friend. She had lived in the house in her childhood, but back then it wasn’t a row house with four different apartments. it was four separate houses.
I believe, that the building had been used for some functions of the hospital after apartment use ended. It looks like it has been abandoned for some time.
There are new plans for the lot, which probably means, that this building will be demolished to make way for something more efficient.
The lights have probably been out for years.
The vandals have found the place, but there wasn’t much damage. An active hospital building is less than 100 meters away.
If I didnt’ know that the houses had been separate, I wouldn’t notice it. There’s also an abandoned Fiat on the yard.
Each one of the apartments had a small back yard.
The yards were separated with fences. We couldn’t really go further than the first one because of the jungle of burning nettles.
Although the walls had been plastered and painted yellow, some details in plain brick were still visible.
This set of stairs has been added later. It’s probably been built as an emergency exit, when the use of the building shifted from apartments to hospital.
In this end of the building the back yard was better kept.
Although the lower wings are a later addition, they look original. I couldn’t determine when they had been built.
The ivy makes the entrance a lot cozier.
But maybe the gardener should pay the place a visit.
No entry here this time.