Walk through the abandoned factory in Belgium

Belgium without reason is considered the reference site for the urban explorer. But the cherry on the cake, she saved up not only for lovers of churches, castles and mansions, but also for industrial fans. On its territory there are plants such proportions that the infamous ZIL in his best years seem against the background of a grain of sand.

Abandoned Belgian plants perfectly preserved than happy to use various dubious and criminal groups: here, after giving protection to the paw, many days and nights of looters sawed metal and steal copper wire ...

Traces of their stay in a week's supply of food and water can be found everywhere, as well as their own. Here come the shadow of the transaction of purchase and sale of banned and withdrawn from circulation things. I often come across in a long time abandoned shops, new boxes and barrels with unknown contents.

Undoubtedly, urban explorers are at the bottom of the food chain, which is questionable characters are there good guess: they are not opposed to profit expensive appliances, which carry with them the unfortunate photographers, because a visit to the plant should be carefully prepared: to go at least four of them, with reserves food and water, take on the study of the whole day and be prepared for any consequences, ranging from robbery (this happens there all the time), and ending with a fall from a height of one hundred meters due to blatant holes in the pitch darkness. And, of course, understand that no one will come to the rescue.

However, all these details only fueled my interest, and I was with anticipation of something grand went to study plants. And it was the best experience stroke perecherknuvshy all my previous polazki the factories.

Heavy Metal

First place in today's collection - a large metallurgical plant, built in the 1960s.

The most interesting plant were behind a double fence with barbed wire. Moreover, he belonged to the still existing plants, and because the territory is often went round perimeter security. It took about an hour to overcome the first perimeter, wait the right moment for the final march-cast, and then run 200 meters to the fence with a thorn. At that moment, we were visible from all directions. Badly scratched themselves and the clothes we were inside, and I was once again for the trip was speechless.

It is difficult to judge the size of the place of the images. It is so great that here would put several dozen football fields with tankers in addition to a large margin. I have spent here more time walking than taking pictures.

To be honest, I've never been in such a large-scale abandoned places and at first quite taken aback - it was not very clear how to organize a walk through the plant - wanted to see everything!

The plant had a capacity sufficient for the production of 1, 6 million tons of steel using the Linz-Donawitz process. He was equipped with torpedo cars on the rail.

Production ceased in 2012, and since then mothballed plant.

Heavy Metal was the most dangerous, dark, and one of the coolest visited factories. Often had to walk in the darkness, and even beam headlamp dissolved in the dark, unable to light the way. In such places there were a lot of holes, and a couple of times I have kissed a good head on top of a piece of iron sticking out. This walking in a vacuum at high altitude elevates adrenaline to the next level.

Like many other businesses the steel industry in Belgium, it was closed due to unprofitability. Such is the fate of the industrial history of Belgium, which has sunk into oblivion. I've always loved plants. It is hard to imagine how big and vast can be this kind of industry, until you see it with your own eyes.

The location was so great that I was able to study only part of it. Even being neglected, this place lives his life: it looks at you empty eye sockets of windows at the top of the wind howled, forcing flimsy structures be set in motion and filling the space with a frightening roar, and the exquisitely light passes through a hole in the ceiling, showing excellent svetopredstavlenie. In general, all gave the feeling that we are not alone. I think that a couple of days here and would not be enough.

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If suddenly someone will be able to identify the machines shown in the pictures \ generators \ Turbine \ oven - do not hesitate to write in the comments! Educational program - to the masses!

Many photographers come here for them - a hefty covers boilers, which are among its called "satellite dishes".

Because of the play of light it seems that if the plant operates. In fact, we were very lucky to be at this time in the factory. You will soon see why

In my humble opinion, that's fine. Rays of light give further aesthetics thrown place.

The man in the shop background seems bug.

conditioned place is divided into 3 large shop different degree of safety.

The shop №2 came across this:

What is it? If Michael Bay was here, the next "Transformers" it would be developed on the basis of these units.

And in this place I will ever come back!

Blue tower

Another healthy Coke Plant, finally closed about 10 years ago. His neighborhood is tuned to a specific way: already at the approach to the plant we realized that caught in the most real ghetto around walked gypsies, blacks calmly smoked marijuana a few meters away from us, the window half the houses were tightly boarded up, and themselves the streets were covered with a layer mud. It seemed that the police here do not fuss so that you can with no problems at all to climb over the fence, which we have used, and after some searching found the way to the 9-storey tower.

The building, of course, is not as interesting as the heavy metal, but here it is nevertheless possible to roam the urban photographer. As with all plants, each step of the raised black dust into the air, and by the end of the day we all looked, to put it mildly, is not comme il faut.

Here we met photographers colleagues from Holland. Due to its good location, places frequented by the French, British, Dutch. Russian visitors hardly get to these places.

The big problem was that at this point I dolman your tripod, and therefore had to contrive to shoot footage in low light without camera shake.

I love industrial!

Bags with coke and main source of black dust in plants.

Alien works

The only place in the series of posts about the plants located in France - an old, but quite well-preserved farm in France, received his urbex-name because absolutely stupid graffiti in the main hall. Since the days of the 30s five turbines are still in good condition, but, unfortunately, signs of graffiti everywhere. All five turbines have different designs and different sizes. Presumably they were added at different times for different purposes.

For a long time before power could be reached without any problems, as long as this does not strayed from the neighborhood kids and fell to his death after falling from Verkhoturov. After many complaints area enclosed by the inner wall and the perimeter trench dug. To get here was really hard. fences tip was sharpened, painful bites in the hands and feet and the height of the fences itself was more than 2 meters, and in the power of the ditch dug total height reaches four meters. Beating a vast territory along the perimeter, we finally noticed the tree, through which and got inside. There I pierced hand and the sole of the foot to the most. In general, the activity only for very enthusiastic "adepts", a pleasant enough. Control Room is located on the mezzanine floor overlooking the Turbine Hall, with a wide curved staircase on both sides.

The plant was once part of a vast and highly loaded steel plant. Most of the territory is now demolished or rebuilt, but the power remains with one blast furnace, which is now used as a museum.

In fact, interest is only the hall.

In the first part is completed. The next outing is better acquainted with the metallurgical and coke plants, overcome a four-meter fence and run through the cross, so as not to get caught on camera, as well as face to face with evil thieves of copper wire and metal raspilschikami. All interesting - ahead!

Thank you and see you soon