No beer...

Tracks
Park-station
Switch
Half-abandoned
Back side
Small towers
Side view
Being reconstructed...

What do we associate with the word "Germany"? Right, beer! And in the country, where a lot of beer is produced there should be also abandoned breweries. This kind of the lost places had appeared to be so notable, therefore I have deciced to devote a special page to them.

Preparing to transfer to Halle, I'd found out the website where many abandoned buildings were listed. Among others, I had mentioned an abandoned malt-house. And after I had moved to Halle, in the very first days I decided to visit this place.

The first interesting place I had met on the way: it was a kind of the rest-ground arranged at the place of the cargo station (pic 1–3). And many years earlier in this place was the Thüringer Railway Station. The malt-house itself appeared to be under the reconstruction, so I couldn't visit it (pic 4–8).

Palace of King Gambrinus

Palace
Entrance
Pools
Collapse
Vat
Roof
Under the roof
Elevator
Valves
Near left building
Inside
Far left building
Assembly hall
Ivy
Top view
Buildings to the right
Tower label
Lift
Safe
Bunker bottom
View out the window
Bunker top
Barn on roof
Passage
Rotten floor
Tower top
Barns
Big barn inside
Small inside
Hall with holes
Stalagmites
Mutabor and unit
Chaos in the refrigerator room
Chaos in the corridor
Dates
Door to nowhere
Chaos in the dark shop
Shaft with wheel
Laboratory or shop
Nature morte
Device

Living in Halle, I'd like to taste some local beer. So I asked Google about something like "Halle brauerei", that ment "Halle, brewery", and was amazed with the result. There was a brewery in Halle, but it was abandoned! So I had been visiting it for several times since it appeared to be quite large (pic 9–49).

Cellars of the palace

Pools, dark part
Pump
Rusted floor
Sustained yard
Cut tank
Cloak-room
Oil tanks
Utilidor
Wheel
Backing
Behind the backing
Valve mechanics
Domes
Arches
Tanks
More tanks
Scale
Tool
Coolers
Empty hall
Gas cylinders
Hall with steel frames
Pipes
Tank room
Dust? Mist? Spores?
Pump
Barrels
Door
Room with pipes
Apparatus
Elevator top
Elevator bottom
Vault basement in color
More arches
Hall with steel frames
Lift
Heffalump
Evening
Technical details
Old picture

This brewery also has outstanding cellars. It was a new experience for me, because I had never visited such large old basements before (pic 50–88). And once walking on Saale bank, I had met an info plate with a picture of the brewery at the end of the XIX century (pic 89). One can see that the brewery had inhereted cellars from the old building that was rebuilt at the beginning of the XXth century.

A strange story

Majectic
Gate
Machine building
Inside
Fans
Tanks on roof
Large building
Pools
Pools' bottom
Tags
Laboratory
Small bottle
View
Management building
Cabinet
Safe
Tower
Machine building
Elephant
Bunker
Furnance
Landscape

Once being on a business trip in Berlin from the window of the city train I had seen a promising ruine (pic 90). It was the brewery called "Bärenquell", that means "Bear spring". There is a strange story with this brewery. Unlike many breweries in East Germany closed just after the unification of the state (like the "Freiberg", brewery described above) it had survived and was one of the four largest breweries of the united Berlin until 1995 when it was suddenly closed. Since that it has not been being in use, and the years of the oblivion have made their work (pic 91–111).



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