Modern Swedish Ruins

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We Swedes like to regard our country as very tidy. Decayed houses, industries and litter are taken care of. This is (un)fortunately not altogether true any longer. This site is mainly a photo site dedicated to such motifs, with a few comments here and there. The pictures are taken from abandoned and disrepaired houses, industries, mines, bunkers, tunnels etc. in Sweden. Some places are quite well known (in Sweden), others not. The best way to preserve them from vandalism is to keep them unknown. I won't answer questions about where they are situated.
I never break into a house.

The photo albums are sorted into 6 categories/galleries: A-F, to make it easier to find what you are looking for.

You will also find spherical panoramas.

New from autumn 2010: I have now slowly start to explore foreign ruins outside Sweden. You will find the albums in Section X, "X" as in "extern", "expedition", "exotic" and "excursion".

/Rutger

Main menu

Introduction

Galleries

All pictures © Rutger

Gallery A	Abandoned houses (10 albums)
Gallery B	Abandoned industries (12 albums)
Gallery C	Abandoned mines, tunnels, subterranean spaces, bunkers (9 albums)
Gallery D	Abandoned hospitals, schools, institutions (3 albums)
Gallery E	Abandoned smallscale enterprices (3 albums)
Galleri F	Abandoned amusement parks etc. (2 albums)
Panoramas	Spherical panoramas (5 panoramas)
Section X	Foreign ruins (3 albums)

Latest updates

2012-04-10 Section X Former DDR	Schloss Janus 22 from an empty manor in eastern Germany

2012-03-19 Gallery D	Crown princess Victoria's sanatorium 39 pictures from an abandoned snatorium building

2012-01-21 Gallery A	Ragnar the painter's cabin 30 pictures from an abandoned cabin with paintings

2011-12-27 Gallery B	Kodak Hill 45 pictures from Kodak's abandoned Swedish head office

2011-12-07 Section X France	French mixture 53 ruin-pictures from a church, a house and two factcories in France