Beelitz, May 2014, service buildings

We, my brother, my brother-in-law and I, visited the ruins of “Beelitz Heilstätten” in May 2014. Beelitz is a town close to Berlin, Germany. “Beelitz Heilstätten” is a huge hospital complex that lied in ruins after the Sowjets left the area.

This was my first large photo trip with my Canon EOS 70D. And that to the most famous lost place in Germany. In the meantime most buildings are renovated and it’s no longer lost.

The following images are a small excerpt of the photos I made from the service buildings. I’d love to visit that place again with the experience I gained in the meantime but unfortunately this is no longer possible.

Pictures of the other buildings follow with the next posts.

Bakery

The bakery consisted of several small rooms and the main bakery room with the oven. If I have the time I want to try to get more out of the photos I took with the image processing experience I have now.

Cobweb in front of a window of one of the stairways of the Beelitz bakery

Butcher

The butcher building was a very interesting building. With some patience you could get many different light situations. Especially that machine in the basement was interesting but I took only a few photos and watched my brother disecting it for some time.
The photo of the rest of the shelf or whatever it once was was pretty boring when I looked at it in the building. But on the camera display it was visible already which colors are hidden in the rust and the tiles. The raw editor did the rest.

Stairway of the butcher shop — Stairway of the Beelitz butcher shop. The first step is missing completely.

Tank dropped into the basement — Some sort of tank that was once in the ground floor of the Beelitz butcher shop. Now it blocks the way to the rear part of the basement.

Machine in the basement of the butcher shop — Some sort of machine in the basement of the Beelitz butcher shop

Rusty rest — A rusty rest of a shelf in the Beelitz butcher shop right above a huge hole in the floor.

Plants coming through a window — One of the many broken windows of the Beelitz butchers shop

Kitchen

According to the plan that we got there were two kitchen buildings. I took only the large room of the first building although there were some intersting subjects in the upper floor. But I was too tired when I got up there so I only watched my brother taking photos there.
The second building was more interesting, especially the outdoor panorama that I created out of 40 individual photos.

Outdoor view of a panorama of one of the Beelitz kitchen buildings — An HDR panorama created out of 40 individual images of the side of one of the Beelitz kitchen buildings.

A door with pass-through to the entrance area of one of the Beelitz kitchen buildings — Although it doesn’t look like a panorama, there was so little space behind that door that it needed 14 images to capture this door with the gear I had at that time Kolor stitching | 3 pictures | Size: 3591 x 8102 | Lens: Standard | RMS: 3.86 | FOV: 42.78 x 96.53 ~ 2.58 | Projection: Spherical | Color: LDR |

Door closer in the entrance area of a Beelitz kitchen building — A very rusty door closer in the entrance area of the kitchen building. The saturation of the red-tones is a bit exxagerated

Colorful gooseneck in one of the Beelitz kitchen buildings — A single gooseneck survived in one of the rooms. Apart from that most rooms in that building were completely empty.

Cobwebs with paint and colored light around them in a Beelitz kitchen building — Some cobwebs with paint on them. The intense color was not visible when I shot the photo but it was there in the raw converter.

Paint peeling of the walls inside one of the Beelitz kitchen buildings — The main hallway in one of the kitchen buildings with a lot of paint peeling off of the walls. You can notice multiple layers on top of each other, even on the glass of the doors.

Room with internal and external windows in a Beelitz kitchen building — 20 images stitched together to one HDR panorama of some room with internal and external windows.

View from the cooling room of the Beelitz kitchen — View from the outer chamber of the cooling room of the kitchen with a painterly look and enhanced colors.

View out of a window to a flat roof of a Beelitz kitchen building on which trees are growing — Trees are growing on the flat roof of one of the kitchen buildings in Belitz

Laundry

The landry was a difficult subject. There were a few large rooms that looked interesting at some point in time when the light was right but I was too inexperienced to capture it.
“The alcoholic” was arranged by another photographer and killed shortly afterwards by third one. I really liked how the overall looked.
Another interesting subject was the plant that chose a ledge to try to grow into a tree. It was not very successful, though because it mummified within a year.

Bakery

Butcher

Kitchen

Laundry

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