Adandoned Villa Schöningh & Railway Station


Built for a Cigar Tycoon in 1898.

In 1945 Allied forces forced the occupants to leave within 3 hours.
1945 - 1952 British troops/ Red cross occupied the building.
Guests Known to have stayed here were Montgomery and Princess Margarete.
1952 - Villa was sold to the town, it was then used as an Old peoples home.
1978- was sold and reused again as an Old peoples home, but courts closed it in 1982 as the owner was found guilty of dishonesty and mistreatment to its residents.
1988- Villa & the Train Station was sold to a citizen of Berlin for DM200.000 he wanted to use the villa as a retirement home for himself. but in his absence and at night, Vandals destroyed much of the restoration work cthe building.
in 2003 the town council orders that the premises become inaccessable and all windows and doors to barred up.

Rumours say that the villa is haunted, fires break out on the wooden floor boards for no reason, and the Tycoon's spouse commited suicide in the bath. Her ghost and those of British soldiers supposedly haunt the house.
In May 2011, within a week four fires broke out in the building,again on the floor boards, the roof was completley destroyed.
I visited the building once more in October 2011 and took a few shots of the remains before the Town council demolish it.

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