A few abandoned houses, Berlin, Germany

 These never finished blocks of flats (probably from DDR) I noticed from the car window and have to take a few crappy photos. There were so many of them, standing side by side in melancholy.

 Also taken from car window. I think this was a school. So wanted to go in there!

 I was waiting a bus at the bus stop, and saw this behind a fence.

Funny contrast. How is this even possible?

Children's hospital (part 2), Berlin, Germany

Another post from the "Säuglings- und Kinderkrankenhaus". I think that the German name for hospital, Krankenhaus, really fits this place. I wish I could've stayed there longer. Even though the place was quite ruined, I liked it, its colourful graffitis and luminosity. There was also a bunch of kids playing, running and spraying around and throwing tiles from upstairs. Then their mother came to the yard and shouted them to come home for the dinner or something. In Finland it's not so common to play in the abandoned houses.

Children's hospital (part 1), Berlin, Germany

Visited 23.4.2012 by jonahi. For sure, Berlin is a mecca for urban exploration, but I had too little free time to spend there. I could only look all those abandoned buildings from the tram or metro window, but for sure I will some day go there only to visit them. But at least I managed to give a quick visit to this abandoned infants and children's hospital which was near my accommodation. The inside pictures are only from the  main building.

The hospital opened its doors in 1909 and was abandoned in 1997. In the early 1900's, it was said to be the best hospital of it's kind. On the yard there were a few other buildings and possibly a park as well, and I heard that the dead children's bodies were buried in one of them. The hospital also had it's own cow farm and dairy machinery to produce high quality milk for the babies.

The main building was huge, and to my eye it looked like a haunted castle from outside. Too bad that the weather was so sunny, otherwise the place would've looked way more spooky in the photos. Nevertheless, it was architecturally quite impressive with round shapes, nice windows and stairways where I could easily imagine the nurses walking. And those walls full of windows that were like a glass labyrinth or something. I'm still wondering if it was some kind of monitoring department.