498 Comments for Erich Wagner Kindersanatorium

that's crazy because that's what i want to do that 's why i'm apprentice for carpenetry. so i can fix them up and get a management team in there to run a business,fix up abandon property.

Just stunning.

Wow, that is a gorgeous shot.

Joe I agree - very Alice and Wonderland. Needs a resident Cheshire Cat. :D

^ what they've all said.

Absolutely stunning gorgeous.

Such a great title for a photo like this - die tiefen Schatten - the deep shadows

Stunning light and shadow.

How beautiful!

Trevor, don't you still have to be pretty careful going to certain places there? Radiation is still present.
This remeinds me of the house they find at the end of the first blair witch!

By the shape of it, it almost looks like a mangle, but then there must be something missing I guess..have got something that looks almost the same down in the basement of my house. Big wood-thing just like that. So press, mangle, something like that.

You always find the best angles. I love this photo Motts.

Another great one!

Woah, that totally threw me off for a sec. . .awesome

Great staircases. . .

I love this shot!! Great lines and movement. Caro, I agree

I think there has been a decline in the respect given to the property of others. When I was a child in the 60's, my parents and the parents of all my friends were strict about teaching us not to cut across the lawns of others. When I raised my children, I taught them the same rule. They obeyed (at least when I was watching), but thought I was crazy because none of their friends had parents who enforced that rule. When trick-or-treating at Halloween, I was taught to stay on the sidewalk while walking to doors, not across the lawn. Today I see parents actually leading their children across the lawns of others, because it's quicker and easier. I've seen parents let their children go into the unfenced yard of someone they don't know, and the parents stand and watch while the child plays on the swing set or tire swing. It's like the lack of a fence makes it public property, or that their child is so special s/he should never be denied anything. After shopping, too many people just abandon their shopping cart in the parking lot, rather than returning it to the store or placing it in the cart storage space. I know these are little things, and maybe I'm making a bit deal of nothing. But if it's nothing, then why not return the cart, stay on the sidewalk, etc? It is the little things, the things we do when no one is looking, that reveals our character. If we want to be trusted in big things, we have to demonstrate that we can be trusted in small things. With abandoned buildings, it seems like many people think it is okay to destroy them because they're not in use anyway--forgetting that the building is still owned by somebody, that perhaps it could be used again (either as a whole or in salvaged parts removed unharmed from the building), and that craftsmen years ago worked hard to make the items so thoughtlessly destroyed.