Urban Exploration: Infiltrating Old Cities In Europe

When vacationing in a new city, most people go to pretty monumental buildings and take pictures. Not Andre Joosse. Joosse uses his Nikon and flashlight to break into old industrial factories, coal mines, abandoned hospitals, and wartime military barracks throughout Europe. The results of his findings are documented on his Web site, Urbex.nl, complete with […]

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When vacationing in a new city, most people go to pretty monumental buildings and take pictures. Not Andre Joosse. Joosse uses his Nikon and flashlight to break into old industrial factories, coal mines, abandoned hospitals, and wartime military barracks throughout Europe. The results of his findings are documented on his Web site, Urbex.nl, complete with beautiful photos and notes explaining the history and current state of the place.

A part-time firefighter from Goes in the Netherlands, Joosse's so obsessed with this stuff that he even puts together an annual party for fellow urban explorers to congregate--in an abandoned building somewhere in Europe, of course. This year, the venue is an undisclosed building in Guisburg, Germany. An example of one of his infiltrations after the jump...

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From Joosse's notes:

These buildings were built in 1836, the owner wants to start a candlemaking factory. The production never really starts, the company soonwent bankrupt. The owner tries a second start as a spinning mill butfails again. In 1843 the buildings are sold to the train company whouses it as a storehouse.

In 1868 the mail company sells the place and the buildings arenamed “Het Zegel”. Stamps and train tickets were printed. It was thefirst and only printing company for stamps for many years.

For 125 years the building was used by the mail company, in November 1993 they move out and leave the buildings abandoned.

Urbex.nl [Main Page]