This is a well-known location for urban explorers, but unfortunately also for the vandals who really have to demolish everything and clamber under. A shame, because this must have been so beautiful inside.
Belgium Urbex
Belgium Urbex, a mecca for explorers. After the Netherlands, Belgium was the country where I explored in the early years of my urbex adventures.
Château Nottebohm and Château Noisy were the highlights when I started in 2014. I’m glad I was able to visit both with my son and partner in crime Twan, before they were demolished. We visited more places, for example in Charlerois and Liège, among others.
From disused coal industry to fully furnished small houses, Belgium is still the place to be in terms of urbex.
Top 5 Belgium Urbex Locations:
- Château Nottebohm (BE)
- Sanatorium Du Basil (BE)
- Salve Mater (BE)
- Black Cokes (BE)
- Château Lindenbosch (BE)
Trainstation Homburg (BE)
Homburg station is a former railway station along line 38 in Homburg, a part of the municipality of Plombières.
Black Cokes II (BE) – A desolate industrial site near the river Sambre
Once prosperous and influential due to mining and steel industry, now a city that looks gloomy and blows the last smoke out of the chimney of the remaining steel works.
Black Cokes (BE) – A desolate industrial site near the river Sambre
Once prosperous and influential due to mining and steel industry, now a city that looks gloomy and blows the last smoke out of the chimney of the remaining steel works.
Château des Muscles
We visited this great location during a two-day trip and I was very glad that we could find and enter this huge complex. As a matter of fact, pretty special how we could come in … the backdoor was just invitingly open!
Remise Monceau – abandoned train workshop (BE)
Remise Monceau is part of a freight station along a railway line that serves a Walloon industrial city. It is one of the six large shunting stations in Belgium and has more than thirty distribution tracks.
Château Lindenbosch (BE) – Abandoned, burned down and destroyed
Anyone who drives along the A12 from Brussels to Antwerp, or vice versa, knows the Chateau Lindenbosch. The castle was built in 1895.
Villa Bom (BE) – A formely hotel, somewhere in the Belgian Ardennes
During a holiday trip in the Belgian Ardennes, on our way to the beautiful city of Durbuy, we passed this abandoned building. There is not much information to be found about this urbex location, but what I know is that it used to be a small hotel. We named it Villa Bom.
Salve Mater (BE) – Psychiatric Clinic, founded in 1920
Salve Mater originally was a mental hospital which was run by a religious order.
Fort de la Chartreuse (BE) – A famous abandoned army base
Fort de la Chartreuse was built to defend the Belgian city of Liege. It was built by the Dutch in 1817 at Mont Cornillon and came after the Belgian Revolution in 1830 in the hands of the Belgians.