By koenau on Skatehive
Creaking timbers, fluttering pigeons, and the skeletal remains of a vanished empire. Once the "Zuckerfabrik Glauzig AG" - a global titan with its own railway - this red-brick giant now stands as a haunting monument to industrial decay. Journey inside the "Brick Castle," a hidden gem for Lost Places explorers where time stopped shortly before the millennium. The way into the building. The timbers in the great hall creak suspiciously. It is dark and quiet all around, apart from a few pigeons fluttering under the high roof truss and the groaning beams. These are likely more than 100 years old. The tabak castle As early as 1847, a sugar beet refinery was established in Glauzig - a village of 300 inhabitants near the small German town Köthen -which quickly became economically successful. On the right hand side a former new build house From 1872, the company operated as Zuckerfabrik Glauzig AG; its shares were traded on the stock exchanges of Halle/Leipzig and Frankfurt am Main. When the fac