Pleszów is a former village which currently is a part of Kraków (Poland). The first thing which you see when you are here is a great industrial place—Tadeusz Sendzimir Steelworks which makes the area around look grey and gloomy.
The Dr J. Babiński Neuropsychiatric Hospital [Kraków, Poland]
The Dr J. Babiński Neuropsychiatric Hospital, often called by locals ‘Kobierzyn’ because of the place where it’s situated, is the largest psychiatric hospital in Kraków. Apart from playing an important role in the provision of mental health services, the hospital is also a local heritage monument—the whole complex of the one-century old buildings surrounded by a picturesque park is listed in Kraków’s Monument Register.
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Tyniec [Kraków, Poland]
Tyniec is a historic village in Poland on the Vistula river, since 1973 a part of the city Kraków (currently in the district of Dębniki).
The Abandoned Church ‘Prinz Wilhelm Gedachtniskirche’ [Pisarzowice, Poland]
When you’re pasing through Pisarzowice, it’s worth to turn onto a backroad and visit a beautiful abandoned Protestant church hidden among trees. It was built at the beginning of XX century on order of Prince Gustav Biron von Curland in memory of his dead son Wilhelm. The church, known as ‘Prinz Wilhelm Gedachtniskirche’, was used by local Protestants. It started getting into worse conditions in 1945, after Polish militiamen had broke the doors to its basement when they had been looking for German soldiers. The church became easy to access for burglars and vandals who turned it into ruin. Despite the bad conditions, the place is really impressive which makes it popular for photo sessions (there was even one wedding photo session during my visit) and video clips (a video clip of Polish death metal band Behemoth was shot here).
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Żukowice, a Semi-abandoned Village [Poland]
Żukowice is a small village in Lower Silesia (Poland). Once the village was quite big (in 1973 it had 1060 inhabitants, there was a school, library, cinema here) but it became almost abandoned until 1995, as a copper smelter had been built there and the environment became too polluted to live. Now the village has only a little bit more than 30 inhabitants and some abandoned buildings reminding about its good times.
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An Abandoned Soviet Hospital [Legnica, Poland]
An abandoned Soviet Hospital in Legnica with the history reaching back the beginning of XX century can be definitely called one of the greatest abandoned places in Poland. This huge hospital complex, built in 1929 by Germans and taken over by the Soviet army after World War II, consisted of several deparments, including Surgery, Infectious Diseases, Psychiatry and other ones.
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Prefabet [Kraków, Poland]
Prefabet was one of the greatest abanoned industrial places in Kraków (Poland), full of huge halls and graffitis which just perfectly suited this place. The site already doesn’t exist, the photos below were taken when it was counting its last days.
The Abandoned Saint Helen’s Church [Wróblin Głogowski, Poland]
Wrocław Main Train Station. Here our journey begins. Trains are arriving from and departing to different places in Poland and abroad. One of them, before reaching its final station, stops in a small abandoned village.
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An Abandoned Protestant Church and the von Reichenbach Palace [Goszcz, Poland]
Goszcz is a small Polish town with two really impressive and a little bit unusual places—a mystic abandoned Protestant church and the semi-ruined Palace von Reichenbach, where, surprisingly, people are still living.
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Jaśliska, or in the Middle of Nowhere [Poland]
Sometimes it’s enough just to watch a movie to feel that the place which you saw there is the one where you simply have to go. That’s what can happen to you after seeing ‘Strawberry Wine’ which shows a magic life of a small village in Southeastern Poland.
The most amazing thing about Jaśliska, the village where the movie was shot, is that it’s so remote from everything and seems that the life here stopped long time ago.
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