Lost Place
The expression Lost Place [ lɒst pleɪs ] ( ) is a pseudo-Anglicism and means "forgotten place". The correct expression in English is "abandoned premises" ( ) (in German: "abandoned property") or in everyday language off the map .
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Mostly these are buildings from recent history that have either not yet been historically processed (or recorded) or, due to their minor importance, are not of general interest and are therefore not particularly worthy of mention.
The term lost place is often used synonymously with ruins from industrial history or military facilities that are no longer in use (see military history ), but the actual term applies to any place that has been forgotten in the context of its original use. In particular, this includes places that are not consciously preserved as industrial monuments for posterity and thus made accessible to a broad public.
The fascination of these places, which "were not designed as a spectacle", as Guy Debord puts it, lies precisely in this originality and the lack of (tourist) development, which offers the visitor the opportunity to go on a "voyage of discovery" himself and thereby To be able to experience history individually and up close. On the other hand, this peculiarity of the places also sometimes harbors underestimated dangers. Furthermore, entering such places is rarely clearly regulated by law, which is why visitors to Lost Places sometimes prefer to act anonymously.
Often the occupation with lost places is equated with modern treasure hunts or collecting militaria or ammunition. That is a too short-reaching generalization. For many people who are preoccupied with the forgotten places, this is a serious form of home history. There are now numerous documentations of such places on the Internet. For others , the focus is on the emotional experience as examined in psychogeography . In nude photography there is a separate genre Lost Places, where pictures are taken in such buildings. The reason given is often that a tension is created between the morbid / decrepit and the often young models. But the lost places themselves can also become the central theme of photography, as is the case with ruins photography .
Lost places also play a role in location-based games such as geocaching . Often they are only identified by coordinates.
See also
Documentation
- Patina paradises - abandoned old buildings. 43-minute television documentary by Thierry Berrod (Arte, France 2018).
literature
- Marc Mielzarjewicz: Lost Places - Beauty of Decay . Mitteldeutscher Verlag , Halle 2008, ISBN 978-3-89812-575-8 (3 volumes)
- Bernhard Hoëcker: Hoëcker's discoveries: a strange picture book of long forgotten places . riva Verlag 2011, ISBN 978-3-86883-172-6
- Arno Specht: ghost places Berlin . Jaron-Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-89773-754-9
- Ciarán Fahey: Abandoned Berlin. Ruins and relics in and around Berlin . be.bra verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-8148-0208-4
- Georg Lux, Helmuth Weichselbraun: Derelict & Forgotten - Lost Places in the Alps-Adriatic Region . Styria Verlag, Vienna / Graz / Klagenfurt 2017, ISBN 978-3-222-13551-4
- Georg Lux, Helmuth Weichselbraun: Forgotten paradises - discoveries, excursions, adventures in the Alps-Adriatic region. Styria Verlag, Vienna / Graz / Klagenfurt 2018. ISBN 978-3-222-13608-5
- Stefan Hefele, Eugen E. Hüsler: Haunted houses. Abandoned places in the Alps . Bruckmann Verlag 2018 ( review of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung )
- Georg Lux, Helmuth Weichselbraun: Forgotten & Displaced - Dark Places in the Alps-Adriatic region . Styria Verlag, Vienna / Graz / Klagenfurt 2019, ISBN 978-3-222-13636-8
Web links
- broken-places.de - the decay of buildings and the history behind them
- Rottenplaces
- Website of the interest group for historical military, industrial and transport structures
- lost-place.org - photo documentation of abandoned places
Individual evidence
- ↑ Comment from alsterdrache , official translator of Geocaching.com ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c Felix Stephan : Window to the unadorned past. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . May 12, 2012, Retrieved May 12, 2012 .
- ↑ Ruin Photography: Detroit is also in Europe. In: DiePresse.com. April 16, 2015, accessed February 24, 2018 .
