This is what will remain after a fairy tale ends.
A forgotten castle in the middle of nowhere.
Eerily beautiful to look at from the outside.
But from the inside it’s nothing more than a ramshackle hut.
It felt like this whole building would collapse at any second while exploring it.
As it seems people tried to renovate the place but suddenly stopped in the middle of construction works.
And all of this happened while the manor was used as some kind of office.
Among the personal and work related stuff we made some odd discoveries.
Make sure to turn on English subtitles and join our scouting tour through this enchanted palace.
It’s the backcountry of Poland we were visiting this time.
The palace is located on a farm complex with a park.
Most of the buildings are ruins but some of them are still inhabited today.
The outhouses can be dated back to the early 19th century.
Most of them were agricultural buildings like barns.
The oldest part of the main building has already been built in the 18th century.
In 1867, the manor house was extended with additional wings.
In the way it was constructed the building is a remnant of French baroque palaces
with elements of the Italian Renaissance.
Today it’s in extremely bad shape.
Even the emblem fell off and broke one day.
Let’s get inside and investigate the interior of the palace.
Do you hear that?
Yes, it’s dripping in the basement.
Look at that.
The whole place is being flooded.
Look what’s on these walls.
Gnats everywhere!
So this is the wine cellar or what?
So to say.
Where do those stairs go? – Up again to where we went down.
Just one room further.
Dude, this place is massive…
What’s in here?
Here’s another way down to the cellar. – What??
Is it? No, it’s the way out. That’s surprising.
But there’s a way down, too.
Where are we now?
Dunno. It’s another vault.
Ah, here are some conductions.
And down here there were probably the pipes.
The whole ground-floor looks like a construction site.
Pipes have been removed and new conductions were laid.
Apart from the building machines there was barely anything left to see down here.
These are marble tiles.
And those stairs are made out of marble as well. At least the first three steps.
The main entrance was pretty barricaded.
This is quite wondrous because there’s like a dozens of other possible access points.
This could have been the bathroom, right?
Yes. It looks like a bathroom.
Here are some conductions again. And all the pipes were probably removed, too.
The ground floor was the safest part of the exploration.
When we reached the upper floors it became really dangerous.
But also really interesting.
No way!
What?
What’s the matter?
It says…
„Child's clothing factory Oschatz“ – What??
“Oschatz”? That’s a city near our hometowns in Eastern Germany.
On the first floor we discovered several items that have been left behind.
In the old office there were quite a number of documents.
Partly written in German and partly in Polish.
We took a closer look at some of those papers and there were exactly two recurring elements.
On the one hand a lot of the documents focused on security and army equipment in particular.
Like this leaflet about a helmet with night-vision goggles.
But there was other gear as well.
Later we even discovered advertisement for mine detectors.
The second recurring element was diving.
“Diving company”
Interesting…
As chance would have it…
…we just found the certificate as well.
From 1990.
„Certified diver”
Army equipment and diving?
One can only speculate how these things fit together.
Please, tell us in the comments if you have a theory.
Apparently there was even a living area.
Since the early years of this millennium the building has been in private hands.
The owner of German-Polish origin
wanted to reconstruct the castle completely on the basis of historical pictures.
If you’re searching on the internet for this manor
you might even find plans of how the site was supposed to get redeveloped.
Since 2014 the palace has been abandoned.
At least we think so because we came across the number all the time.
For example on this receipt…
…or on this date stamp.
It’s hard to imagine that the whole building decayed that much in only four years.
So when people lived and worked here the place probably already was in desolate condition.
“2013” – Expiry date? – Yes.
Only by taking a look at older pictures you can realize how fast decay is proceeding here.
These photos have been taken not even a year before our exploration.
Most of the things you can see here have already been stolen.
And all of this happened under the watch of the neighbors which used to be very vigilant.
But much has happened since then.
Also we wanted to obtain the permission of the local residents.
But it seemed like they didn’t care at all who is entering the place.
Always extremely carefully we were moving through the once magnificent manor.
Unsound ceilings and ramshackle floors are showing that the building stock can’t be rescued any more.
On the one hand the building is under monumental protection.
But on the other hand there’s no one who will do something about the terrible condition of the site.
It’s said that the owner absconded abroad.
So as it seems there will be no happy end for this fairy tale castle.
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