Industrial and derelict locations to film in the Czech Republic
22 of them, 4 with a photo and 8 with practical details the location publishes itself. 2 have a documented shooting history. Every entry links to the location or to the body that manages it.
Factories, warehouses, power stations, mines, depots and abandoned buildings: raw space, hard surfaces and the kind of decay that is impossible to build.
Shooting in the Czech Republic pays back through the Czech production incentive (Audiovisual Fund) (25% (35% animation and VFX)): work out the net value on your own spend in the incentive comparison.
Dolní Vítkovice
Industrial & derelict
Former ironworks and coking plant just south of Ostrava's centre, with blast furnaces, a gasometer and a coal tower preserved as an industrial heritage site with exhibition and event space.
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Landek Park
Industrial & derelict
Former hard coal mine at Petrkovice on the edge of Ostrava, now an open-air mining museum with pit head towers, wagons and underground galleries open to visitors.
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Michal Mine
Industrial & derelict
Complete early 20th century coal mine surface plant in Ostrava-Michálkovice, with preserved machine hall, boiler house and pithead baths run as a branch of the National Technical Museum.
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Zbrojovka, Brno
Industrial & derelict
The former Czechoslovak state arms works in Brno's Husovice district, founded in 1918, which also repaired cars and rail equipment and made weapons before its 1945 machinery seeded the Zetor tractor brand.
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Automatic Mills, Pardubice
Industrial & derelict
A 1909 Gocar-designed automatic flour mill on the Chrudimka river in central Pardubice, in continuous operation until 2013 and now being redeveloped as a cultural quarter with a gallery and public square.
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Brněnec Textile Factory
Industrial & derelict
19th century textile mill complex on the Svitava river in the village of Brněnec, with brick production halls, a chimney and former worker housing.
Budweiser Budvar Brewery
Industrial & derelict
Working state brewery on the northern edge of Ceske Budejovice, with early 20th century brick brewhouses, cellars, bottling lines and a visitor centre offering plant tours.
Coal and Water Storage Tower Vratislavice
Industrial & derelict
Early 20th century coaling station and water tower on the edge of Liberec, with a 75 metre boiler chimney and a steam power house linked by a two arch bridge, largely unaltered.
Boiler room with a 75 metre chimney and a steam power plant connected to a tower bridge with two arches (Czech Film Commission listing).
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Dalesice Brewery
Industrial & derelict
Small joint stock brewery in the village of Dalesice with 19th century brewhouse machinery, a malting floor, an on site hotel and restaurant, and a brewery museum.
Seen in: Postriziny (Cutting It Short)
Dlouhe Strane Power Plant
Industrial & derelict
Pumped storage hydroelectric plant in the Jeseniky mountains with an upper reservoir on a bare ridge and a turbine hall built deep inside the mountain, open for guided tours.
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Hlubina Coal Mine, Ostrava
Industrial & derelict
A former coal mine in Ostrava's Lower Vítkovice industrial complex, reconstructed since 2015 into a cultural centre with studios, rehearsal rooms and multipurpose halls inside its 19th and 20th century mining buildings.
Seen in: Ghost Recon: Alpha
Screening rooms for 22 and 60 people, 368 m2 of open office space, music rehearsal rooms and a recording studio in the Cineport building
Horní Bradlo Glassworks
Industrial & derelict
A partially abandoned 1866 glassworks in Horní Bradlo covering about 6,000 square metres, combining the original building with a 1960s extension and boiler house, with a Christmas-decoration shop still trading on site.
400 volt electricity supply on site
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Lachema, Brno
Industrial & derelict
Empty production halls and corridors of a former Czechoslovak chemical works in Brno that made laboratory reagents, dyes and biochemicals from 1953 until its 2010 closure, now home to a stunt team.
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Mladotický mlýn, Mladotice
Industrial & derelict
A former mill estate of over 1,000 square metres near Ronov nad Doubravou, with three reconstructed buildings and one original late 19th-century mill, a natural lake, a theatre, an outdoor amphitheatre, an old forge and stables.
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Teplarny Brno (Spitalka heating plant)
Industrial & derelict
A working district heating and power plant on Spitalka street in Brno, opened in 1930 on piled marsh foundations, with an old boiler house still holding historic Kolben-Danek machinery.
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The Factory, Lichkov
Industrial & derelict
A disused timber factory in Lichkov near the Polish border, running from 1871 until a 1973 fire and 1990s privatisation closed it, its chimney with a stork's nest above an empty 22,400 square metre brownfield.
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The Papirna Multifunctional Center
Industrial & derelict
Renovated paper mill building of about 4,000 square metres by the Radbuza river near central Plzen, holding a large industrial hall, an art studio, cafe and exhibition rooms.
Renovated 4,000 m2 industrial space including an art studio, a cafe, exhibition spaces, a large industrial hall, rehearsal rooms, dance halls and an...
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Underground Water Reservoir Brno
Industrial & derelict
Disused 19th century brick water reservoir cut into a hillside near Brno's exhibition grounds, with vaulted underground chambers now hired out for exhibitions and events.
Vaulted underground spaces; declared a cultural monument in 2019 (Czech Film Commission).
Vodojemy na Zlutem kopci, Brno
Industrial & derelict
Two disused brick water reservoirs from 1872 on Zluty kopec hill in Brno, joined later by two concrete tanks, decommissioned in 1997 and now toured as cavernous underground chambers.
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Vonwiller Factory, Zamberk
Industrial & derelict
A former 1838 textile mill on the edge of Zamberk, now a museum of antique machinery and vehicles, with a working line-shaft machine shop, forge, narrow-gauge railway and a stock of vintage cars.
Functional line-shaft machine shop with over 30 machines, forge, narrow-gauge railway, vintage car and motorcycle collection, restoration workshop
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Wesselský Water Mill, Loučky
Industrial & derelict
A working watermill on the Oder river in Loučky, with a functioning 3.6 metre mill wheel, eight farm buildings and period interiors that can be adapted to different historical eras.
Accommodation for up to 12 guests on site, parking for up to 10 cars and a bus, lockable storage space
Zlín Factory Complex
Industrial & derelict
Grid of red brick functionalist factory halls built by the Baťa shoe company in Zlín from the 1920s, now reused as a university, offices and cultural venues.
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Other kinds of location in the Czech Republic
- Theatres, arenas and venues 13
- Offices, schools and public buildings 11
- Transport and infrastructure 8
- Hospitals, prisons and institutions 10
- Houses and apartments 8
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