Lean on me
This place is strange. It really it. It's an abandoned car mortuary near Ryd.
"Åke Danielsson (1914-2000), who initially only gained peat here, later devoted himself to car recycling. He left the well-nosed wrecks in the forest. He ran the business until the late 1980s and lived on his premises in a small house before he moved in 1992 in a retirement home.
As environmental legislation intensified, subsequent owners of the site received requests from authorities to clear the cars and clean up the land. But there were also advocates. TV and press reported nationwide, and eventually the case even involved the government. Unlike in similar cases, such as in the Swiss Kaufdorf or in the Belgian Châtillon, the Swedish authorities recognized the cultural value of the end-of-life cars and put them under protection until 2050. Until then, it is believed that the cars will naturally decay.
The car cemetery has become a popular destination for tourists. Not all visitors, however, behave according to its cultural and historical value. With the notoriety also the vandalism increased strongly, so that most of the externally still halfway intact car wrecks were deprived of their attachments in the meantime or was trampled on their roofs and hoods out of sheer destructive rage. The area is always accessible and unguarded." (Wikipedia, translated from German via Google translate)
Lean on me
This place is strange. It really it. It's an abandoned car mortuary near Ryd.
"Åke Danielsson (1914-2000), who initially only gained peat here, later devoted himself to car recycling. He left the well-nosed wrecks in the forest. He ran the business until the late 1980s and lived on his premises in a small house before he moved in 1992 in a retirement home.
As environmental legislation intensified, subsequent owners of the site received requests from authorities to clear the cars and clean up the land. But there were also advocates. TV and press reported nationwide, and eventually the case even involved the government. Unlike in similar cases, such as in the Swiss Kaufdorf or in the Belgian Châtillon, the Swedish authorities recognized the cultural value of the end-of-life cars and put them under protection until 2050. Until then, it is believed that the cars will naturally decay.
The car cemetery has become a popular destination for tourists. Not all visitors, however, behave according to its cultural and historical value. With the notoriety also the vandalism increased strongly, so that most of the externally still halfway intact car wrecks were deprived of their attachments in the meantime or was trampled on their roofs and hoods out of sheer destructive rage. The area is always accessible and unguarded." (Wikipedia, translated from German via Google translate)