it's mostly a tragic story of how a place becomes a lost place: investors who ran out of money, children who did not want the heritage, or people who just did not have children. Buildings whose substance is already so destroyed that it is not worth preserving or nobody wants to buy it. Thousands of places, thousands of stories ...
Sometimes, however, the tragedy begins even before the place is abandoned.
In 2014, I visited an abandoned confectionery and chocolate factory. It was one of the first "lost places" that I specifically explored with the right equipment (camera etc) and in which I took pictures. The photos I made in 2014 were upl