Kaserne Krampnitz - a return trip! LOTSA PICCIES!!!

[TeeJF]

Lets face it, despite good help from Red Dave we undeniably fc*ked up on our first trip to KK a few weeks ago because we didn't find the Adler ceiling. It turns out we had gone to the right building but we took it for a Soviet barrack block, and with the crappy and somewhat childish artwork on the doorway it's not surprising. The other reason (oh OK then - EXCUSE) is that there was a dirty great truck and some workmen nobbut a few yards from the one external feature of this building that would have given us a clue it wasn't actually a Soviet army barrack block after all and made us attempt a penetration

So... armed with some more info and with no workmen in sight we went back for seconds - we weren't dissapointed!

A huge thank you to Red Dave again for all his help...

The piccies!



There had been a wagon here and men working on the wall. No surprises then that we didn't get round to this point last time!

Not a soul in sight today though!!

This ornate balcony points at the building being German in origin, not Soviet as we had previously assumed...

Despite being very gloomy it was immediately clear that these ground floor corridors were much more asethetically pleasing than those in comparable Soviet blocks elsewhere on site...

A tin of boot polish on a table in an office that had clearly been used fairly recently, perhaps during the filming that was done in this building...

The huge map on the wall is of the USSR...

Up on that balcony...

A padded door? You'd be forgiven for thinking this was an asylum perhaps!

Harry Ramp Hilton Room 101! Evidence of occupation within!

The main staircase leading up to the Adler landing above. I'm not a lover of graf but I thought this was quite good!

As you climb the ornate staircase you soon catch sight of the Adler...

It is orientated away from the staircase...

The staircase itself is quite beautiful, constructed as it is of polished stone...

Sadly the graf nobbys clearly have no respect...

The Adler in all it's glory...

Feeling suitably chuffed! Thanks again Red Dave...

Finally, a shot from directly beneath the Adler. Sorry it's not a full width image but I desperately need a wide angle lense and a camera to carry it on!

That's all folks, hope you liked the pix!

Thanks for looking.​

 

[Priority 7]

Damn you tee....I do a 24hr shift and you ruin my day further by posting these urbex jewels Lovely work as always

 

[Seahorse]

Excellent stuff.

 

[King Al]

Good stuff TeeJ, I really want to see this place.

 

[KingRat]

Awesome

Nice shots. I keep missing this bloody building !! I've been 3 times now and still I miss it.
Been floorboard mining yet ? Last trip saw me find unopened soviet ****, toilet kits, badges, pfennigs, postcards, letters, books ........

 

[TeeJF]

Nice shots. I keep missing this bloody building !! I've been 3 times now and still I miss it.
Been floorboard mining yet ? Last trip saw me return with unopened soviet ****, toilet kits, badges, pfennigs, postcards, letters, books ........

Well it took us two goes to find the Adler to be fair and we had a lot oc help too. Floorboard mining? I don't follow you?

 

[KingRat]

Well it took us two goes to find the Adler to be fair and we had a lot oc help too. Floorboard mining? I don't follow you?

Floorboard mining : Looking under floorboards, don't go ripping them up, fin som that have been lifted by the metal miners, pull all the foof out from the void and 9 times outta 10 - goodies

 

[TeeJF]

Oh I see. No we have never done that.

 

[Pincheck]

superb mate

 

[smiler]

Fantastic Post, you guys are on a roll keep it coming, Thanks.

 

[night crawler]

Awesome stuff your report is top notch as ever.

 

[krela]

Floorboard mining : Looking under floorboards, don't go ripping them up, fin som that have been lifted by the metal miners, pull all the foof out from the void and 9 times outta 10 - goodies

Not sure about the law in Germany but wouldn't that be theft?

 

[flyboys90]

Amazing,had to see to belive it.

 

[lilli]

Not sure about the law in Germany but wouldn't that be theft?

Twas just to see what was there tbh, I found .50 cal shell ... but I wasn't bringing that home through customs!!!

 

[PaulPowers]

Great report, shame about the graff

Nice shots. I keep missing this bloody building !! I've been 3 times now and still I miss it.
Been floorboard mining yet ? Last trip saw me return with unopened soviet ****, toilet kits, badges, pfennigs, postcards, letters, books ........

And that would be theft.

 

[RedDave]

Well worth going back for.

 

[heeftmeer]

You can go for a third time I geuss. Very niced report TeeJF

 

[TeeJF]

Thanks for your kind comments. Yes it is a really good place Heeftmeer but I think once you've seen it you've done it. I don't think we'd go back again unless we were guiding someone so that they could see it.

One thing I have thought is that to see a site in good condition, then to go back 12 months, 18 months later, and find it wrecked, well that must be quite upsetting. We did an old people's care home a while ago and even before I had uploaded our report and photos someone else had been in and written a stupid comment on a wall in spray paint. That made me really angry. So I think maybe Mookster had it right when he said it's best to see a place, and move on, remembering it how it was when you saw it.

The reason we did Krampnitz twice was because we didn't find the adler on the first trip for a variety of reasons so we went back just to see it.

We weren't dissapointed!

 

[TeeJF]

Well worth going back for.

It certainly was Red, thank you again for all your help.

 

[Foxylady]

...So I think maybe Mookster had it right when he said it's best to see a place, and move on, remembering it how it was when you saw it...

That's how I feel too, and like yourselves I've usually only gone back to explore the bits I missed the first time. Just can't beat the feeling of that first virgin explore.

The Adler is totally amazing. Love the cobbled courtyard too. Excellent stuff as always.