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05Mar

All That Glitters

By johnAuthor /
5 Mar ’13 /
In The Abandoned Places, The Industrial Sites /
Last Update 5 Mar ’13 /
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Don’t sniff the green puddles, though, and the floor looks like all the cyanide used in production might have done a pretty good job having a go at its structural integrity.

09Aug

Sugar And Spice

By johnAuthor /
9 Aug ’12 /
In The Abandoned Places, The Industrial Sites /
Last Update 9 Aug ’12 /
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This was formerly a sugar beet refinery, a product I’d previously only known to exist as a World War II ersatz sweetener. If the stink in this place was anything to go by, I kind of wish that were the case,

20Jul

R.A.G.

By johnAuthor /
20 Jul ’12 /
In The Abandoned Places, The Industrial Sites /
Last Update 20 Jul ’12 /
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Wherein our heroes check out one of the larger German coal mines on its path to destruction.

12Jul

Nat King Kohle

By johnAuthor /
12 Jul ’12 /
In The Abandoned Places, The High Places, The Industrial Sites /
Last Update 12 Jul ’12 /
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Setting up the photo studio 50 meters above the countryside.

11Jul

Schloss Rostenburg

By johnAuthor /
11 Jul ’12 /
In The Abandoned Places, The Industrial Sites /
Last Update 11 Jul ’12 /
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The Thyssen-Krupp sintering plant in Duisburg, Germany – picked over by everyone under the sun, and yet, there are so few nice photographs of it…

09Jul

Men At Wörk

By johnAuthor /
9 Jul ’12 /
In The Abandoned Places, The Industrial Sites /
Last Update 9 Jul ’12 /
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…wherein our hero disregards the scary caterwauling emanating from the christian cult next door to a nicely hidden bit of industrial equipment.

This place is typical of the sort of “open secret” that’s guarded relatively closely by those who’ve found …

12Jun

Hot Stuff

By johnAuthor /
12 Jun ’12 /
In The Abandoned Places, The Industrial Sites /
Last Update 12 Jun ’12 /
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Once we burst forth from our crawl-a-thon, a light-flooded open space awaited us that only a few comparatively non-destructive (!) copper thieves had ventured into during the decade or so of this heating plant’s abandonment.

26Apr

Grube 4

By johnAuthor /
26 Apr ’12 /
In The Industrial Sites /
Last Update 26 Apr ’12 /
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A trip not really into the bowels of the Earth – but about as close as you’re going to get to it without a whole lot of digging.

24Apr

Steel Mountain

By johnAuthor /
24 Apr ’12 /
In The Abandoned Places, The Industrial Sites /
Last Update 24 Apr ’12 /
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A few more pics of the Phoenix Werke, this time with some antiquated kit, proving that newer isn’t always better.

06Apr

Print Shop

By johnAuthor /
6 Apr ’12 /
In The Abandoned Places, The Industrial Sites /
Last Update 6 Apr ’12 /

Big printing plants are extraordinary things. Gigantic halls of machinery, huge vats of chemicals, incredibly complex arrays of industrial gimmicks, pipes, conduits, etc. etc. etc.

22Feb

Soleil d’Acier

By johnAuthor /
22 Feb ’12 /
In The Abandoned Places, The Industrial Sites /
Last Update 22 Feb ’12 /

Abandoned after a well-intentioned but fundamentally ill-conceived government nationalization in the 1970s, this office building once served as headquarters to the family concern that owned many of the surrounding steel mills.

27Jan

Slaughterhouse VI

By johnAuthor /
27 Jan ’12 /
In The Abandoned Places, The Industrial Sites, The Tunnels /
Last Update 27 Jan ’12 /

The latest entry in the “oops-bombers-let’s-move-stuff-underground-department”, this large bunker in Northwest Germany is one of the more beautifully intact World War II relics I’ve seen in a while, thanks to my associate D. for the tip and tour.

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