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Moth goes exploring in suburbia
Seeing as I only went into the inner city (one-hour commute) to get one signature, I took some pictures of the city and, more importantly, of an abandoned house that I've been wanting to have a closer look at for years.
These canals are everywhere in the inner city.
Our town hall. I think that I've posted it before. It was finished in 1897 after the old one had burnt to the ground in the great fire. Due to the wet ground, it had to be built upon 4.000 pine trunks. I want to visit it again, the interior is so wonderfully overdone with lots of gilt and marble.
Yay, columns. Very up-market shopping area next to it. There are usually several buskers around here, and due to the snobbishness of the area, it's usually a bunch of music students playing well-known classical music on violins in tailcoats.
If you turn and walk away from the town hall, you come to the Binnenalster, the smaller of the two lakes in Hamburg. It's a very broad part of the Alster. And what you can see here is the reason why Glaswegian weather was no change for me.
I am obsessed with those lamps.
I have been driving past this house on the bus on my way to university from my parent's place for years, and I always wondered what it looked like from the inside. When I was younger, it was still in its original state of decay, then, around 2000, the city refurbished it, but apparently abandoned the project or ran out of money half-way through and now it's just sitting there, large, beautiful, abandoned and decaying. It's really a shame - I would have liked to see it whole again. Now it's haunted by drunken teenagers who tag the place and have barbecues indoors.
This pile included what looked like half a kitchen and a bed.
I was really curious about what the first floor would look like, but after seeing those stairs, I really did not dare to go upstairs.
The basement looked similarly uninviting.
The next room - which was apparently going to be the kitchen, judging from openings in the wall and cables.
Room next to that - with the remains of what appears to be the frame of a bed.
A smashed window - all the windows were smashed. It's a real pity, they were new when the city still had the money to refurbish the house.
View from the other side of the room with the frame. Someone thought it was a good idea to have a barbecue in here.
It opens up into a hall and an ... is it called oriel? A very small room whose walls are made up of windows.
The ceiling did not look trustworthy.
Kitchen again, with remains of wallpaper.
View of the ... oriel thing.
Water had destroyed most of the roof, which they hadn't finished, either.
They covered the smashed glass in doors and windows with a sort of blue plastic foil. Without any success.
And out the door again... I love that door. I love that it is possible to open the window in the door - or would be, if it wasn't smashed.
The basement windows had also been smashed. Looks as though they forgot some of their gear.
Other side, as seen from the "garden". The house is located between a busy street and a nature reserve. Judging from the vegetation it is a swampy area and very wet ground indeed - which might be part of the reason why they abandoned the project.
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And back to work. I have to prepare tomorrow's office hour visit and catch up on sleep for the commuting marathon that awaits me.
These canals are everywhere in the inner city.
Our town hall. I think that I've posted it before. It was finished in 1897 after the old one had burnt to the ground in the great fire. Due to the wet ground, it had to be built upon 4.000 pine trunks. I want to visit it again, the interior is so wonderfully overdone with lots of gilt and marble.
Yay, columns. Very up-market shopping area next to it. There are usually several buskers around here, and due to the snobbishness of the area, it's usually a bunch of music students playing well-known classical music on violins in tailcoats.
If you turn and walk away from the town hall, you come to the Binnenalster, the smaller of the two lakes in Hamburg. It's a very broad part of the Alster. And what you can see here is the reason why Glaswegian weather was no change for me.
I am obsessed with those lamps.
I have been driving past this house on the bus on my way to university from my parent's place for years, and I always wondered what it looked like from the inside. When I was younger, it was still in its original state of decay, then, around 2000, the city refurbished it, but apparently abandoned the project or ran out of money half-way through and now it's just sitting there, large, beautiful, abandoned and decaying. It's really a shame - I would have liked to see it whole again. Now it's haunted by drunken teenagers who tag the place and have barbecues indoors.
This pile included what looked like half a kitchen and a bed.
I was really curious about what the first floor would look like, but after seeing those stairs, I really did not dare to go upstairs.
The basement looked similarly uninviting.
The next room - which was apparently going to be the kitchen, judging from openings in the wall and cables.
Room next to that - with the remains of what appears to be the frame of a bed.
A smashed window - all the windows were smashed. It's a real pity, they were new when the city still had the money to refurbish the house.
View from the other side of the room with the frame. Someone thought it was a good idea to have a barbecue in here.
It opens up into a hall and an ... is it called oriel? A very small room whose walls are made up of windows.
The ceiling did not look trustworthy.
Kitchen again, with remains of wallpaper.
View of the ... oriel thing.
Water had destroyed most of the roof, which they hadn't finished, either.
They covered the smashed glass in doors and windows with a sort of blue plastic foil. Without any success.
And out the door again... I love that door. I love that it is possible to open the window in the door - or would be, if it wasn't smashed.
The basement windows had also been smashed. Looks as though they forgot some of their gear.
Other side, as seen from the "garden". The house is located between a busy street and a nature reserve. Judging from the vegetation it is a swampy area and very wet ground indeed - which might be part of the reason why they abandoned the project.
.And back to work. I have to prepare tomorrow's office hour visit and catch up on sleep for the commuting marathon that awaits me.
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My favourite is the picture of the dark, glass-covered floor with the out-of-focus oriel thing in the background.
*hugs*
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The abandoned office building sounds intriguing! It's hard to get in, though. There's an abandoned IBM office building directly behind our house in Hannover, but I feel that if IBM abandons things, they are bound to leave behind security nonetheless.
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IBM probably has some kind of security left behind *nods*
BTW, es gibt ein Forum namens Schwarzes - Hamburg . com, und in einem der Threads im Bereich Kunst & Kulturwerden regelmäßig leerstehende Gebäude und laufende Abrisse gepostet. Als Gast kannste das auch lesen. Nur so als Tipp.
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I really, really love this house for years!
I think one of the biggest problems is that you cant buy the house. you have to lease(? pachten) it for 50 years. So you have to repair everything with your own money an than after 50 years it is probably gone....
I was always afraid to go inside, the last time I was there it looked a bit better. Once I found the ground (Grundriß?) in the net and build it in the "SIMS". That was fun.
I'm really sad to see it like this...
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With this house as well as with the abandoned flats five minutes from the university I wish they'd just give them away for really low rent to people who can do repair works to keep these places in a good condition until the city figures out what to do with them or find someone for a that long-term lease. Everything would be better than letting things fall to such disrepair. I'd move into that house at once if it were in a better condition- but repairing all that? No way.
Where did you find the floor plan (I think that's "Grundriss")? I tried to find out more about this house (why they first half repaired everything and then suddenly stopped, for example), but couldn't come up with anything.
Hat der letzte Pächter das Haus nur halb repariert und es dann aufgegeben, oder hat die Stadt angefangen, es zu reparieren und hat dann aber tatsächlich aus Geldmangel aufgegeben?