It was almost time to find a good place for the night’s sleep. That was when I spotted this location.
It was clearly an association house, but what association? The workers? The youth? Something else, what?
The place seemed to be in a very bad condition alltogether.
The back side was a complete jungle.
And there had actually been a severe collapse.
The stairs upstairs were completely severed. I later guessed, that that had been the projector room. Yes, movies were shown here.
When I took the first photographs, I realized, that my flash didn’t work. It had been damaged in the rain around the sawmill and the co-operative store.
No matter how I tried, it didn’t work.
I had to resort to my phone with its memory full for the first time in ages.
There were very few places I could move around in, as the collapse was so total.
This seems like the hall of the building. This was probably where the patrons entered through.
I can’t really say what this mess has been.
Another view of the great hall.
Just look at the ceiling. This building comes down any year now.
Another look at the hall. I wonder, how Vokburger’s burgers have been.
And a final view towards where the ceiling has already collapsed.
I left, wondering what this place had been. I asked a friend and former colleague, who was born here in the 1970’s. She said, that it was the former workers’ association building built in 1950.
I did some research, and this workers’ association really seemed like a different one from all the others. The people in this municipality actually put the disputes of the workers’ movement aside. The different factions of the movement commonly managed the house until at least the late 1980’s, when the last movies were shown here.
Apparently the place was abandoned in the late 1980’s or the 1990’s. In 2011 a former active rescued the archives and the movie projectors of the already collapsing building to save for further generations.
So the building collapses, but the legend lives on.