belgium

This is such a lovely small mine, it is not really urbex, it is publicly accessible and thanks god it still looks pretty good. I love these little gems:

This abandoned chateau in Belgium was found by accident, we saw the building from the highway and decided to check it out on our way home. This was once a beautifull small chateau but sadly the vandals and thieves wrecked the place!

Somewhere in Belgium you can find these abandoned cars, 2 Porsches 924, a volkswagen, and a Jaguar, there is also a house where the owner of all these vehicles lived, hopefully the vehicles get saved one day.....

This large abandoned steel plant dates back to the 1970s when Cockerill builded a 70 ton electric arc furnace and the world’s largest round strand caster. this was built in 1972 to provide steel blooms for the rolling mill that was located across the river. In 2009, the factory was required to...

History: Centrale Des Awirs got established all the way back in the late 40s, just after the war. In this period the majority of industry was in ruins including many generating stations. This situation kick started a large project to built a series of brand new modern power stations all over...

History: This manoir was build around the end of the 1800s as a hunting lodge for a rich Belgium family. Throughout the years parts of the family decided to live here, It also expanded more trough the years. After the family decided to move out it was sold to a famous Belgium painter. You can...

A couple of months ago i visited a real classic in the urbex scene in Europe. Powerplant IM. This Powerplant was build in 1921 in a modernistic industrial style which was very futuristic for the time. The facility in its whole was also one of the most modern powerplants in the whole country...

This was a really fun explore, even though it was quite challenging... It was challenging on a photography level, because the highest part of the tower was pitch black. Every photo we made up there had to be made with additional light. Luckily, to this end I always carry a small, but strong...

A friend asked me recently what my favorite location was so far. It would surely have to be one of the industrial sites I’ve visited and this one, an abandoned power plant, that was part of a large steel mill, was certainly among the top favorites! Even though the steel mill it was attached to...

What better way to kick off the new year then to infiltrate in a still operational steelworks? When we took on this challenge, we knew that we would come across motion detectors and that there was active security on the premises. The question wasn't so much IF we were going to be caught, but...

At the end of the 13th century a convent was erected on the instructions of a noble lady who lived in this town. The convent at the same time served as a hospital and a monastery for the Augustinian sisters, who were responsible for the care of the sick. Barring a short interruption at the time...

In 1958 it was put into operation as one of the most modern coking plants in the world and in 1981 it was extended by another battery. 2007, Due to the high environmental impact, the decommissioning of the coking plant. There were still discussions to modernize the coking plant for a...

In this former factory building, the famous StreetArt artist ROA has created some great graffiti. The outbuildings have already been demolished and apartments have been built there. So it's only a matter of time until this location disappears.

In the meantime, the demolition work in this hospital is very advanced. Last year we had the opportunity to take some nice pictures there.

On a main road in Belgium is an old factory site. There is not much left, but the machines already have something.

On a large main street is this little house. There is no vandalism here and many little details to discover.

In a small Belgian village is this house on the roadside. There are still a few things that are worth being photographed. In the meantime it should not look like the pictures anymore .

History: A blast furnace is an installation that makes steel from iron ore and coke, this happens at a temperature of around 2400 degrees Celsius. When there is quick liquid in the oven, one is drilled open and the steel flows out Steel production and further activities in this area stopped in...

I visited this little cemetery a few times in the last years cause it's not far from my home town. It is nothing unique but in the early daylight or the late evening light the atmosphere is fine. The pictures I made there before were not that bad but also not that special. This time it...

Last week I tried to go to Antwerp metro to take pictures of the tunnels, but the mission was fucked up, because one of the guys opened an emergency door as he wanted to see how alarm works... I only took one good picture by that moment and cannot express how strongly I was pissed off with...