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The Ghent brothers had already founded the Sint-Servatius psychiatric clinic in Venray in 1907. In 1934, the Dutch branch of the brothers became an independent province, the Maria Province. A private novitiate was set up where the brothers were trained. Jos Bekkers designed the building...

The Ghent brothers had already founded the Sint-Servatius psychiatric clinic in Venray in 1907. In 1934, the Dutch branch of the Brethren became an independent province, the Maria Province. A private novitiate was set up in which the brothers were trained. Jos Bekkers designed the building...

History: We have to go back to the late 80s for the history of this former prison complex. In the late 80s most of the prison complexs in the Netherlands were all dating back to the pre war times, this meant that they were really outdated for modern standards. This kick started a movement of...

History: In 1675 the first recorded roof tiles ware made on this soil, after that the old pottery works expanded its operations over the years. In the first decades it was always kept inside the family. Because clay could be found in the next door river, the production for this was pretty much...

History: After WW2 all of Hollands infrastructure and industrial was in ruins, which meant a massive reconstruction had to occur. With the Marshall plan a electronics manufacturer in the south of Holland made the decision to expand out of the original city into the other cities around the...

History: The history of this old dealership started in 1939, at that time the Ford Motor Company of the Netherlands wanted a brand new hub in the northern part of holland, so the Geerling&Winkelaar dealership was opened. The opening was a rather unusual one though, this was because the ceremony...

History: The history or just information of this place is very scarce on the internet. But while exploring we found a couple of clues referring to the past of what happend. The first one was a ID of a man. The man was born in 1921, so what we could assume is that he isn't around anymore. After...

History: This place was probably built somewhere in the early 1900s as a farm. After the second world war this became a car garage owned by two brothers who were looking at the extensive car collection, heavy car enthusiasts. The collection they owned was really big and varied from all kinds of...

Roped into a family holiday in Amsterdam visiting in-laws, I was soon looking around for something to explore. I don’t know about the rest of the Netherlands, but Amsterdam seems to be an urbex desert - everything is far too tidy and developed. The only area that looked at all promising was...

History This factory was opened in 1900 and made cardboard out of straw, in that time this product was very popular so 8 years later the made another factory next to the other one. In 1968 the factory closed due to competition from abroad, after the factory was closed it was sold off to a men...

History This factory was opened in 1900 and made cardboard out of straw, in that time this product was very popular so 8 years later the made another factory next to the other one. In 1968 the factory closed due to competition from abroad, after the factory was closed it was sold off to a men...

This is an old paper factory were they would make cardboard, The factory opened in 1905 and closed in 2005 after the company was taken over by an other company which stopped the production. There was also this old burned out Jaguar which was quite nice to photograph. Thanks for...

I have passed this place quite alot but only actually noticed it a couple of weeks ago, so, not having any places under my belt in Holland, decided to go have a look. It is a beutiful building, 4 stories high, exterior looks amazing up close, so as I parked the car, I thought, fingers crossed...

Amsterdam's Crossrail Yeah so I could say what I like but we all know why I was in Amsterdam, Drugs?!?! Red Lights?!?! Of course not! Metro of course... What's Noord Zuid? North/south, that's pretty much it, a new metro line that goes from the north to the south and funnily enough back...

With loads of unknown KMZ files in our map we decided we want to visit them all in The Netherlands. A lot of fails, a lot of coffee in the sunshine and alot of fun. Sometimes you find something new ;) The floors rotten, the ceiling comming down, some details left and dead animals. For the...