Beelitz is one of the most known places here in Berlin, when the topic is Abandonware.
from WIKI:
Beelitz-Heilstätten, a district of the town, is home to a large hospital complex of about 60 buildings including a cogeneration plant erected from 1898 on according to plans of architect Heino Schmieden. Originally designed as a sanatorium by the Berlin workers' health insurance corporation, the complex from the beginning of World War I on was a military hospital of the Imperial German Army. During October and November 1916, Adolf Hitler recuperated at Beelitz-Heilstätten after being wounded in the leg at the Battle of the Somme. In 1945, Beelitz-Heilstätten was occupied by Soviet forces, and the complex remained a Soviet military hospital until 1995, well after the German reunification. In December 1990 Erich Honecker was admitted to Beelitz-Heilstätten after being forced to resign as the head of the East German government.[...]The remainder of the complex, including the surgery, the psychiatric ward, and a rifle range, was abandoned in 2000. As of 2007, none of the abandoned hospital buildings or the surrounding area were secured, giving the area the feel of a ghost town.
I've always been fascinated by old places, abandoned, but as a photographer for me now, it's very hard to go into a place such this and not thinking about a shooting there, with people, to tell a story. Beelitz it's amazing, from inside as well as from the outside, but unfortunately vandalism has mostly destroyed it and there's a very few opaque sense of human stories inside. No objects, no furnitures anymore.
I'll be back there for sure, to explore more this place, but i guess my idea will be to bring a story there.
