After walking 3 times across the fence of the building we decided to take a take a beer at a bar across the street. (with a view on the left side of the building)

While sipping our beer we saw some guy walking with a women from the side/garden of the building towards an entree point of the fence and opened if with a key. After the women left he closed and locked the fence.
Our thoughts: WTF just happend!!??

My friend was wondering what was going on here, so he talked to the lady behind the bar. Her English wasn’t very good, so he tried to talk to her in German (our German vocabulary is about 10 words). At first she tried to tell him that it’s closed forever and there’s no way of getting in. After that she told him that it’s going to be a senior home, so we were a bit confused at that point. Is she telling us it’s gonna be torn down or what? After we finished our beer we decided to walk past it one more time. When we walked past the stairs on the front of the building, two girls ran/climbed out of the premises of the ballroom. After they got out we asked them if they got sent away by the guy with the keys from the fence. They told us they went in for an hour or so, but heard voices very close by, so that’s why they ran. After talking to them we basically decided: fuck it, we have to try now. Keep in mind that this is our first urbex-experience ever. We climbed the stairs/fence at the front and sneaked across the building knowing there were some people there (we had no idea if they were explorers, but one of them had the keys to the fence, so we were cautious just to be sure). The only way in was at the top of the stairs (through a window) on the backside of the building. We didn’t hear any voices at first, but after a few minutes inside I heard some tweaks snapping on the outside. I decided to take a look and I saw the guy we saw earlier with the keys playing with his dog.

We saw he was distracted with his dog and the music he was playing, so we decided to go deeper in to the building but stayed quiet and vigilant the entire time. It was amazing to see the hall, the ceiling and the cellar itself, but I’m not going to tell about everything we saw because I hope the opportunity presents itself to see it for yourself. After walking for about an half an hour (as quiet as possible) we got back to the main hall (which was VERY close to the window where we got in) we heard voices very close by. I decided to take a look and saw a second person there, throwing a ball for the dog. He threw it in my direction, so I thought I made eye contact with him. After being frozen for a minute I signed my friend that we were not alone. We both knew that this was the time to leave. After a few minutes without any response we realized that they hadn’t noticed us yet, and we decided to get the fuck out. Their music was playing a little bit louder and they were facing the water, so they weren’t looking in our direction. We sneaked out of the window from which we came in and silently walked back to where we came from.

When we were back on the streets we felt very relieved.

Palms sweaty, never forgetti, moms spaghetti

Recent pictures below:

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