We've visited this location two times in 2019. Our first visit was a blind visit, having seen a few photos and going in not knowing anything about possible entries. So we spent about half an hour sneaking around the building and trying to find a way inside, being successful in the end and not being spotted by any of the cyclists driving around. Unfortunately, we did not have much time, since this was in the winter and it was our last location on the trip. If I actually knew we would get inside I would've planned it so that we would have had more time, but we didn't actually think we would get inside, so we had around two hours of usable daylight, plus we didn't see the control room. So that meant a second visit was in order, which came around three months later. This time we budgeted enough time and explored the place properly, however, workers walking around the building complicated things a little bit and almost got us busted when we were standing next to a window on the ground level. I don't know whether they were workers or security, but afaik it was hard to get inside after summer 2019, so might've been security. Anyway, after enjoying enough control rooms and nice old brick boilers with sketchy grates all over them, we exfilled the property and went south to see another location. Overall an explore I would've regretted not doing since after our explore the access got complicated and the security better.
This place was built before WW2 as a 210MW power plant with 6 turbines, however after WW2 as part of reparations, the equipment was dismantled and sent to the Soviet Union. Then in the 50s, it was rebuilt and expanded to twice the size, commanding a solid 384MW with 12 turbines. Then in the 70s, a gas-fired power plant with about 160MW was built as a peak load unit. The power plant continued to operate until the 90s when first the coal-fired power plant got shut down, and then a few years later the gas-fired power plant got shut down as well. In the early 2000s, four chimneys of the coal-fired power plant were demolished, and then in the 2010s the gas-fired power plant was dismantled and nothing remains now. The coal-fired power plant was used as an event site until it was deemed to be too dangerous and now it remains unused, though the increased security could mean, that there are some plans for future use or demolition.
The main control room got a bit messy
Under the turbine hall
Turbine hall
A control room in the boilerhouse
Thanks for reading
This place was built before WW2 as a 210MW power plant with 6 turbines, however after WW2 as part of reparations, the equipment was dismantled and sent to the Soviet Union. Then in the 50s, it was rebuilt and expanded to twice the size, commanding a solid 384MW with 12 turbines. Then in the 70s, a gas-fired power plant with about 160MW was built as a peak load unit. The power plant continued to operate until the 90s when first the coal-fired power plant got shut down, and then a few years later the gas-fired power plant got shut down as well. In the early 2000s, four chimneys of the coal-fired power plant were demolished, and then in the 2010s the gas-fired power plant was dismantled and nothing remains now. The coal-fired power plant was used as an event site until it was deemed to be too dangerous and now it remains unused, though the increased security could mean, that there are some plans for future use or demolition.
The main control room got a bit messy
Under the turbine hall
Turbine hall
A control room in the boilerhouse
Thanks for reading
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