Internationale Film-Union (IFU)

The history of the IFU started with the foundation of the company Internationale Film-Union and the authorisation for the construction of the studios in the year 1947, near Remagen in Germany. The workers, craftsmen, engineers and architects realized the construction of the synchronization studio between May 1946 to September 1948. Despite the difficult conditions for material procurement at that time, they achieved an architectual masterpiece. This was the most modern studio of its time in Europe! The heart of the studio is a large hall, which was mainly used for music and voice recordings of large crowds as well as a cinema to show movie scenes to a larger audience. Since the founding of Panacolor, more than 800 films were synchronized, including French-Italian and American productions such as LOHN DER ANGST, DON CAMILLO UND PEPPONE and DICK UND DOOF. Hans-Jörg Felmy, Hildegard Knef, René Deltgen, Romy Schneider, Lotti Krekel, Fritz Wepper or Harald Juhnke and many others gave their voices for well-known films. The studios were also used as a powerful film copying institution and definively closed in the year 1996.

The buildings of the IFU have been destroyed in 2009, that's why I mention it's real name here.

Justizvollzugsanstalt - Abschiebeknast

An abandoned prison in Germany used as a deportation prison for refugees in its latest years. The prison was used for 9 years and has been closed and abandoned in 2005 (30/06/2005).

Fortress Luxembourg (Casemates)

The first underground tunnels were built in 1644, in the era of the Spanish domination. The 23-kilometre long galleries were enlarged only 40 years later by Vauban, the French military engineer and fortress builder, and in the eighteenth century by the Austrians. The subterranean defensive passages were placed on different levels and reached down as far as 40 metres. It is these impressive defence works that conferred Luxembourg the name of “Gibraltar of the North”. After the dismantling of the fortress in 1867, 17 kilometres of the casemates were spared, left in good condition.

La Venerie

An abandoned restaurant in France.

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mochel said:

Fotoen
Sali,

hei deng Fisheye Foto as jo mega gin. Dei aner mat der Kichen ewer och freen mech schons wanns de se online op photogen setz

bis dann

misch

February 11, 2009