[URBEX] Abandoned potatoflour factory Coevorden

[Frutsel]

Yesterday after visiting the potatoflour factory ago, i drove to coevorden to visit the potatoflour factory that is located overthere.

When i arrived some guys where showing up with their BMW's and some motorbike's in front of the factory. I parked my car in front and jumped over the fence to look for an entrance.. Couldnt find one at all :twisted:
So walking to the backside of this building i noticed an hole in the wall at the 2nd floor, so i climbed my way up with my backpack and tripod and i entered the building. Only one problem the way back, to high to jump and nobody to assist me climbing down...wish i didnt go alone..

Once i was in the factory i decided to look for an other easy way out.....well there wasnt. So i had to climb down the same way as i got in.... :twisted:

Some background information about this place:

- In the second world war the factory was found heavily, then allied B17 bombers on 21 February 1944 by accident their brisantbombs released above Coevorden. The actual aim for the bombardment was the surrounding track line Zwolle - Bentheim which frequently by nazi' s was used. These were only partly damaged. A direct hit devastated the first part of the factory. Three employees lost the life. A stone tablet reminded in the gable still to this unsuccessful mistake. The strocartonfabriek to the other side of the canal, at the time in the hands of nazi' s, by three screens it was devastated entirely. Shortly after the war became the central rebuilt and adapted annually to raise the production. Within the framework of the cleansing plan for the potato flour factories the company became, after a fusion with potato flour factory ' in 1963; Excelsior' closed in new Amsterdam, once and for all. After the fence the factory was used as store space and later as work shop space for local artists. Posters which we found in the wooden peat hut beside the factory, referred still to a recently there kept show. In 1996, the factory chimney for half gesloopt is; probably concerning collapse danger, since the bulk of the factory was, however, accessible, but the spaces which led to the chimney thoroughly had been boarded up or - had been built. -

Here are some of the pics i took.. Enjoy

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[Frutsel]

[purplerose]

Love the light in #9. Seems to have a bit of a tilt going on though.