During my holiday in Emmen (July 1998) I stumbled upon this deserted factory. It was just one block away from the family-hotel where we were staying. I could not let this chance pass, even though my wife wasn't enthousiastic (she likes nice old buildings and nature). So at 7:30 I slipped away before breakfast and inspected the area.
I still don't know what the factory made, although the name suggests something like "edible flour". It must have been nice looking with the stainless steel columns in the entrance. Now it was covered with graffiti, some of it very nice. I remember especially a well executed portrait of "Che Guevara".
Lots of large rooms with a laboratory atmosphere. White tiles on the walls. Floors full of broken glass. Nothing left of the furniture. In one room I found scattered drawings of electric installations and manuals of old administrative software. But no clue as to what was produced here.
Broken and toppled furniture in the cellar.
Several side buildings had been burnt down. This was some kind of boiler room, you can see the boiler on the left. The roof had collapsed after the fire. It looks very nice in real life, the rusty red on the burnt metal, the black of the burnt wood and the fresh green of the plants that are growing inside.
I got this nice reaction about this building. It was a milk-factory.
Er staat een gebouw op uw lijst waar ik wel in geweest ben; de Nutrimel fabriek in Emmen. Ik ben in Noordbarge, waar de fabriek staat, opgegroeid en weet dus al van kinds af aan wat daar geproduceerd werd, nl melk! Het is dus een melkfabriek. Vroeger (het klinkt alsof ik 80 ben maar ik ben slechts 28) reden de melkwagens van de Domo af en aan. Het prachtige herenhuis dat er naast staat was vroeger de directeurswoning. (Britt Sijbring / R.A. Voorintholt)
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© 1998 Petr Kazil - 12 November 1998