609 Comments for Rathen State Hospital

Im sure there's a legit reason, but throughout your many explorations, I find it intriguing that whenever there's a bank of doors such as this, they are usually always open....

Wow.

LOL Canada .

Did anyone notice the curtains? At first I thought they were peeling paint.

nvusofmotts,
This probably won't answer your question but in the case of this picture (I'm assuming that this was taken inside the room) the door was hung so that the hinges were on the outside and the patient couldn't take the door off.

This is the lone chair's long lost cousin :-)

....ummm.."nature's"....

Natures cathedral ceiling :-)

WANT!..... could be a CD cover.

...or maybe this is the outside of a room...OK...I'm going away for now....

Cool. OK, does anyone have an answer for this question? I've wondered this forever. ?..(sorry, not picture related,please excuse my burning curiosity about an irrelevant topic.l). Why do people hang doors with the hinges on the "wrong" side (not against the adjoining, perpendicular wall side), which does not allow the door to open back away from the room itself, to sit flat against the wall? Unless this door opens OUT from this perspective, and there's a wall to the left on the other side of it that necessitates that, , it seems like the doorknob should be on the other side. I've noticed that a lot of houses in England have doors that open INTO the room, initially blocking the view of the room AS you enter, and making you actually walk around the door itself to get into the room ):-S...does that make sense? Why would you hang a door so you have to walk AROUND it to get into the room? Odd. --( OK, just realized that in an asylum, maybe it's to allow the person entering to "block" an disturbed patient if they tried to "make a run for it"....?)

nice shots mr. motts and u get the freaky feeling that it looks scary

Wonderful as always. Thank you very much.

Love the feeling in here and the lighting is fantastic. So bright and peaceful.

Very mysterious this message.