718 Comments for Irrenanstalt Weiler

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Tuo näkyy olevan hyvä tila työskentelylle. :)
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Which makes me wonder what they did with it...burn it...bury it...toss it in the nearest landfill?
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I absolutely love your work, it is incredible!!!
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It's a bit blurry but what I can guess is:" Tritt niemals rückwärts in einen Fahrkorb" - so "never enter backwards" and " Fahrkorb nur betreten wenn er hell beleuchtet ist" - " only enter if the light is fully turned on"

It is written in the old german font "sütterlin" - so the sign was there in the 1930s already....
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OMG, this pic give me chills thinking that among those millions of slides are probably slides that represent each one of poor souls that were murdered here.
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Few random thoughts:

It seems unlikely to me that any of these samples would date back to WWII, if they do they're probably not related to Aktion T4. Note that some of the storage racks seem to say "1978".

I think I've read anthrax spores and tuberculosis bacteria can remain infectious for a long time. Unless cooled and probably removed from oxygen or anything reactive, even a month would be a long time for a virus to remain viable in the atmosphere. Some type(s) of Hepatitis remain viable in the atmosphere for several weeks in dried blood.

And a personal thing: the amount of hand-wringing about diseases magically becoming airborne from old, dead, samples or that OSHA hasn't swooped in from the U.S. to Germany to scold them really irks me. I think it's cool that an explorer can visit such a site at their own risk, just like the other very cool but potentially dangerous German industrial sights Motts has on this site.

Don't let American fear, risk aversion, and liability mentality 'infect' you!

Thank you for the awesome web site, I've been visiting off and on for years, vicariously urbexing!
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I wouldn't mind finding a fetus in a jar. .
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Wow, this is so morbidly fascinating!
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Amazing!
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They sure did, when I returned a year later it was all gone...
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Nothing more horror movie-esque! I absolutely love it! You'd think someone or some agency would have, at some point, removed all the bulk biohazard.
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The Tar Man, from "Return of the Living Dead"! :D Great photo. The issue of ancient tissue is indeed intriguing. I wish I could have been there.
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Hi, HyPe! Adventurers didn't steal the brains! Motts is an adventurer (not to mention an outstanding photographer)! ...Scrappers stole thé brains! They'll steal ANYTHING out of a building, if they think they can sell it. Unfortunately, I don't know the German word for ''scrapper''. : )
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Very unique pictures! But I do think there is now more in those jars than the original samples! How can anyone honestly study the ''very old'' samples when they've been tainted? Seriously!? Whoever currently owns that hospital should make a concerted effort to clean up all of that Bio-Hazardous Waste!
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I don't even want to imagine what might be in that barrel!