A Belgian psychiatric hospital ***IMAGE INTENSIVE***

We dropped by this great little place on the way to our Maginot Line explores last week. It's an odd site because quite a lot of it is still active, albeit as nothing to do with psychiatric care any longer. From research it appears that there is now only one ward pavilion on the site that is still active, all the rest stand empty and mouldering, or have been rented out to small businesses etc. It was not clear from casual inspection but I think some of the smaller buildings have been converted into domestic housing too.

I'm not going into much detail on the place because it would be far to easy to work out what and where it is, so apologies for the somewhat cursory history.

Point to note, and I've added this retrospectively which frankly is inexcusable - so a huge apology for my lack of manners - to the peeps who helped make this possible for us to explore a HUGE THANK YOU - you know who you are!

The photographs...​

And that's all for now folks. Hope you enjoyed the pix. Thanks for looking.​

Superb T & T lovely images and a really nice looking explore...

Some beautiful stained glass especially the throne room,thanks for sharing.

always count on you guys to do an excellent report with brilliant pictures to match!

A stunning building aswel!

Very kind of you guys to say! Thank you very much fellas.

nice

Great photos as always you do get about abit don't you always interesting your posts thanks.

Stunning report both of you, looks like a great place with lots left behind to photograph!

Cheers for posting them up!

Love it great report like we always get from you and some wonderful photo's too

I wish ours were like that.

Awesome, I'd have loved to have been there with you guys...

Thanks guys, very kind of you all to be so positive.

UE-OMJ said:

Awesome, I'd have loved to have been there with you guys...

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Next time?

Fav thread of the year so far!

Wow . . . just . . . WOW!!!

Really impressive place love the morgue slab and that crazy wheelchair !

I hope you can forgive me but this is truly inspiring, your photographs are astounding and the detailed information is a 'must read'.
May I ask why you are reluctant to 'name' the site?

Top Notch Sir !!!

That is one special place for sure. Its sad to think that if it was in the UK it wouldnt look like quite like that. It says alot for our society.

Great report and great images too

What a place ! Very very nice report indeed !

Doesn't look like its changed much since last year, apart from they've removed a lot of boarding from the windows.

Kine means Cinema.

Jealous, much!!!!!!

Stunning!! Definitely has everything, lots of personal belongings and props make fantastic pics!!! Great report.

Thank you all for such lovely and positive comments!

DamnedBuster said:

I hope you can forgive me but this is truly inspiring, your photographs are astounding and the detailed information is a 'must read'.
May I ask why you are reluctant to 'name' the site?

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Thank you so very much for your kind words.

I'm reluctant to name the site (and sadly it means much of the detailed history I can't relate) is because lately certain undesirable elements have begun to make a nuisance of themselves in the urbex fraternity. Sites have been found stripped of anythuing of any worth within days of reports appearing in a certain forum and it's clear that members of that forum trawl this and other sites looking for access info. And even when a site may not have anything of worth for your average metal or artifact thief there's still other things happening which we need to guard against - the sticking up of those new fangled square barcode thingies for one thing and spray paint tagging and even random acts of vandalism.

Frankly it's sickening because I love sharing history on sites but I think that is going to become ever more a thing of the past.

Pen15 said:

That is one special place for sure. Its sad to think that if it was in the UK it wouldnt look like quite like that. It says alot for our society.

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Amen to that. It appalls me at times. Mind you, the amount of human faeces and used needles all over the place in one of those buildings shows that whilst it may not be random acts of vandalism that are the problem over there they still have problems of their own.

jjstenso said:

Kine means Cinema.

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We initially thouight that too but the literal translation from Dutch is "kinetic" so I can't see how that applies to a cinema. Neither could we see any evidence adjacent to that sign of there being a cinema even in that building.