## Halle or Germany again

Do you remember, that some years ago, I, Mutabor, have been living for three months in Chemnitz and have done a little bit of underground exploration? So, this story was continued: now I have moved to another Gernam city, Halle, for in principle, unlimited period of time.

Intro

First I went there for a couple of days to present an interview. The flight was nice with a good sign :) (pic 1–3) First, I had visited Daniel in Dresden, the guy who had saved me four years ago in the sewer in Chemnitz. Even during my trip by bus and train I had spotted some lost places (pic 4, 5).

Having arranged my business in Halle, I started walking in the city, where among the other sights lost places and sewer outlets were met. I had even tried to explore one beautiful abandoned house, but my first attempt had failed (pic 6–18).

At the hext day I continued my reconaissance. In the park I had found an underground passage and had chance to explore it. Since I had got only a pair of shoes, I decided to go there barefoot (pic 19–27). And to the end of my short trip I'd made a picture of a nice tram in Halle. As you know, I like trams :-) (pic 28)

Anatomy of Gingerbread House

So when I had come back to Halle, I already knew what to do. For that time I had prepared myself properly for the trip and had succeed in getting in the house, althoug it took me a little bit of a Spiderman skill ;-) Starting from the basement, then I had visited about a half of the house (pic 29–58). That I had seen, formerly was an appartment house, now foresaken but with some artifacts from the past. It was not consistent with the inscription at the house face, according to which the house was a brewery. But I had failed to enter the second half of the house, so probably the brewery was there.

The assault of the last part of the house had required more careful preparation. I had made a rope-ladder and using it I was able finally to explore the house completely. But in the rest of the house I had found traces of the incomplete reconstruction and no evidence of the brewery. So, if the brewery had ever been there, it was long time ago (pic 59–64).

Hostels of New Town...

Now Neustadt is a district of Halle. Formerly is was a standalone town, which name is translated from German as "New Town", by the way, the same as Russian city Novgorod. And Neustadt also has its prominet lost place: some similar blocks of the former hostels (pic 65–90).

Strange house

Once I was walking in Halle and had noticed a nice house looking something strange. The entrance door appeared opened, and the building itself — abandoned. What had amazed me at most, some rooms in the house looked like time was stopped in them: among ruins their interiors and furniture were almost intact (pic 91–110).

In between times

Near my place of living there also was a lost place: the abandoned DDR canteen, which turned out to be cheerless (pic 111–129).

Underground business

Probably, you rememder that being in 2009th in Chemnitz I had explored some of the underground brooks and sewers. So I had decided, that something similar should also be in Halle. And once I had found an inlet of an old sewer or something like it (pic 130). The water level was not so hight, the bottom was clearly seen, so I had decided that I could explore this place. But indeed the depth had increased rapidly right after the inlet, so I had even scooped water with my water mocassins and almost sank. So I had made only a picture of that place (pic 131).

The next underground place was a sewer of Beesener brook. Now there is about 300 meters of sewer passing by a path of the former brook which now is used as a sewer overflow (pic 132–142).

Alice in WoUnderland

Once living in Halle I decided to bring my daughter Alice together with me in the small underground passage found before (pic 143, 144).

Old New Mill

At my first day in Halle I have noticed some interesting lost places. Since that some of them (pic 18) I have visited, but the old mill (pic 15–17) still remains unexplored. As I already have written, this mill is called New while it's the oldest of the existing mills in Halle. It was built in 1582 and reconstructed in 1769 and 1840. The last reconstruction took place in 1999, where the roof was repaired. So at nice summer evening I have visited this beautiful place... (pic 145–157)

Salt of the Earth

I've always been interesting in old maps. Once I've found out that not far from my place of living in Neustadt there was a salt mine named "Saale" which had been stopped in 1980th. So I tried to find out what is the present state of the place (pic 158–170). And I had also found a picture of the enterprise when it was operating (pic 171). So now we have only miserable reminders of the mine.

The happy past of "Siebel"

That's good when you can take a tram and come to the happy future. It is a German name of the end station of the 1st tram line in Halle (pic 172). That location was interesting to me because in the 30th years there the aviation plant "Siebel" was built. Now only few pictures of the working plant (pic 173) have been remained. And in the pic 174 you can see one of its planes. During the WWII the plant was destroyed with bombs (pic 175). So I has visited this place but found almost nothing related to the old plant (pic 176–186).

Slaughter house

Central Slaughter House in Halle is a very popular lost place. I had visited it twice: first in winter just walked at the area, and than, in spring, explored some buildings (pic 187–217).

The mill of secrets

This lost place is also well-known. But when I have visited it, something has wondered me. First, it looked like it was bombed during the war. And at some buildings I've found some inscriptions in Russian! This place is also prominent by the reminders of their mechanisms. This water mill (by the way, stopped only in 70th years of the XX century) had mechanical transmissions through the whole hudge building. And now one can see a lot of steel shafts, flywheels and screws jutting out the brick walls (pic 218–241). Indeed, this mill was destroyed not during the war, but by two big fires in 1992 and 1994. And the Russian inscriptions were made there in the course of the film prooduction in 2011.

Area of Oblivion

Once I have found out that near my place of living there is a big abandoned factory. So I have decided to explore it and found not only the factory but relatively large abandoned territory with a concrete plant and other buildings. By the way, the factory itself is not accessible since locals have closed all the doors and windows and use it for various things' storage (pic 242–259).

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