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Villa Symmetry Urbex Germany Adam X Urban Exploration Access 2016 Abandoned decay lost forgotten derelict location Deutschland

Explore #169: Villa Symmetry, Germany – May 2016

Explore #9 of ‘The Picnics & Palaces Tour’ Sorry for the long delay since my last post – it’s been a busy couple of months at work, home, and on holiday! I’ve got the next batch of reports from my never-ending backlog coming up now – first a short and sweet one from this little gem. I think it was a former guesthouse/lodge in a picturesque alpine region of East Germany. As always, click on a photo to VIEW LARGE…

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Skis ski boots lodge alpine resort Ferienhotel Sachsenhof Hotel Ski Alpine Urbex Germany Adam X Urban Exploration Access 2016 Abandoned decay lost forgotten derelict location Deutschland Mould

Explore #168: Ferienhotel Sachsenhof, Germany – May 2016

Explore #8 of ‘The Picnics & Palaces Tour’ Next up in the gorgeous alpine landscape of Eastern Germany was this abandoned hotel which apparently never even opened… History (rewritten from here) Originally built in 1905 as a sanatorium, during the post war years of East Germany it was owned by the Free German Trade Union Federation (Freier Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund /FDGB). After reunification the building was sold, but development into a hotel stalled and the hotel never opened. It lay disused…

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Green Control Room Amazing fantastic retro vintage old Kraftwerk V Urbex Powerplant Germany Adam X Urban Exploration Access 2016 Abandoned decay lost forgotten derelict location Deutschland

Explore #162: Kraftwerk V – May 2016

Explore #2 of ‘The Picnics & Palaces Tour’ After our permission visit of Kraftwerk Plessa it was time to get down to some ‘proper’ exploring at another huge decaying powerplant with an equally impressive control room… History This large coal-fired powerplant was built in the 1930s, and expanded substantially after the Second World War to help meet East Germany’s growing energy needs. As with many other such plants it closed down in the 1990s. Today it sits empty, partially stripped…

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