Industrial and derelict locations to film in Poland
28 of them, 6 with a photo and 19 with practical details the location publishes itself. 5 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.
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EC1 Lodz
Industrial & derelict
A former coal-fired power station of 1907 in central Lodz, restored as a science and culture centre with its original turbine hall, boiler house and control rooms intact.
Manufaktura
Industrial & derelict
Izrael Poznanski's 19th-century red-brick textile mill complex in Lodz, converted into a shopping, leisure and museum quarter around its original factory yard and chimney.
Stary Browar
Industrial & derelict
A former brewery in central Poznan converted into a mixed retail, dining and contemporary art complex, with the original brick brewery buildings kept alongside new gallery and shopping spaces.
Szombierki Coal Mine
Industrial & derelict
A disused coal mine in Bytom dating to 1870, with two shafts, winding towers, tracks and utility buildings behind a perimeter fence; the Krystyna shaft tower is a listed monument.
Parking available on site
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Warsaw Uprising Museum
Industrial & derelict
A former tram power station on Wola's Przyokopowa street, converted into a museum of the 1944 uprising, retaining its brick turbine hall and machinery among the exhibition spaces.
Wieliczka Salt Mine
Industrial & derelict
A working salt mine near Krakow dating to the 13th century, its tunnels reaching over 300 metres deep and including carved underground chapels and chambers open to visitors.
Seen in: On the Silver Globe (1988), Spellbinder: Land of the Dragon Lord (1997)
Central Museum of Textiles (Biala Fabryka)
Industrial & derelict
A 19th-century cotton mill on Piotrkowska street in Lodz, the White Factory built by Ludwik Geyer, now a textile museum with large weaving halls, a chimney and a steam engine room, with space to hire.
Wynajem przestrzeni (venue rental) available for events
CMC Poland Steelworks, Zawiercie
Industrial & derelict
A working steelworks in Zawiercie founded in 1900 that rolls steel bars and profiles, with a gated entrance, caretaker's lodge, and a large yard usable as a parking or unit base.
Gated entrance with caretaker's lodge, large parking and staging area
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E64 Tower, Wrocław
Industrial & derelict
A 1952 railway water tower in Wrocław converted into a brick and steel venue of over 350 square metres, with a cafe, a workshop and conference space, two studio apartments and a rooftop terrace with a 360 degree view.
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Elektrownia Powisle
Industrial & derelict
A former Warsaw power station on the Vistula riverside, its turn of the century turbine and boiler halls converted into a retail, dining and event complex while keeping the original brick and steelwork.
Industrial-style halls for events and exhibitions, food hall, day spa
Former Halemba-Wirek Mine Dismantling Centre
Industrial & derelict
A former coal mine site in Ruda Śląska with intact workshop halls, overhead cranes, technological tracks, warehouses and an abandoned residential building, used mainly for exteriors.
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Gdansk Shipyard (European Solidarity Centre)
Industrial & derelict
The historic Lenin Shipyard gate and slipways where the Solidarity movement began in 1980, bordered by the European Solidarity Centre's rusted-steel museum building and surviving shipyard halls.
Seen in: Man of Iron (1981)
Capacity: 417 · Auditorium: 483 sq m, up to 417 people, with a 7x11 m stage, a 12x7 m movie screen, 4 simultaneous interpretation booths (8 language channels) and 2...
H. Cegielski Works, Poznan
Industrial & derelict
The last working section of the historic Cegielski engineering works in Poznan, with early 20th-century production halls, later office blocks, in-house built machinery and its own rail siding.
Rail siding on site, mixed production and office halls
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Historic Guido Coal Mine
Industrial & derelict
A former working coal mine in Zabrze, now a branch of the Museum of Coal Mining, with underground tours down to 320 metres and a preserved pithead machine hall.
Jotes Machine Factory, Lodz
Industrial & derelict
A working machine-tool factory in Lodz tracing back to an 1866 mechanical workshop, still designing, building and distributing surface, cylindrical and internal grinders.
Seen in: Weekend
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Koneser (former Warsaw Vodka Factory)
Industrial & derelict
A former vodka distillery in the Praga district of Warsaw, its 19th-century factory buildings and central plaza now hosting restaurants, shops, galleries and a vodka museum, hired for markets, concerts and exhibitions.
KWK Centrum Coal Mine
Industrial & derelict
A Bytom coal mine, working from 1881 and in liquidation since 2015, with a mining shaft, an escape-apparatus store and a security building still standing among the halls being demolished.
Vehicle access, on-site production base, parking
Laziska Power Plant
Industrial & derelict
A coal-fired power station at Laziska Gorne built in 1917, still operated by Tauron, with heat-exchanger halls, an on-site energy museum and surrounding woodland and meadow.
Electricity on site, parking available, energy museum on the premises
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Miechowice Combined Heat and Power Plant, Bytom
Industrial & derelict
An operating heat and power plant in Bytom-Miechowice built 1950-1954 on former power-station grounds, with four chimneys, boiler halls and turbine sets amid urban forest.
Large parking area on site
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Mieszczański Brewery, Wrocław
Industrial & derelict
A 19th-century brewery complex on Hubska street in Wrocław's Huby district, operating from 1894 to 1996 and now a cultural venue with galleries, a theatre, a photography studio and workshop spaces.
Seen in: Breslau (TV series)
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MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art
Industrial & derelict
A contemporary art museum in Krakow's Zablocie district, built into the former administrative building of the Oskar Schindler Enamel Factory, with galleries laid out through the historic industrial structure.
Muzeum Hutnictwa Cynku Walcownia (Zinc Metallurgy Museum)
Industrial & derelict
A zinc-processing museum in the Szopienice district of Katowice covering over 5,000 square metres of former rolling-mill halls, with an intact production line of furnaces and rollers.
Norblin Factory
Industrial & derelict
A 19th-century metalware factory in the Wola district of Warsaw, its brick production halls preserved as an open-air industrial museum alongside offices, shops and restaurants across a 2 hectare site.
Atmospheric post-industrial halls used for conferences, premieres, concerts and fashion shows
Stara Gazownia, Poznan
Industrial & derelict
A mid-19th-century former gasworks on the Warta riverbank in central Poznan, part restored as red and clinker brick offices with a period staircase, part left in ruin.
Seen in: Transatlantyk Festival
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Sztygarka Training Mine (Kopalnia Ćwiczebna)
Industrial & derelict
An underground training mine built in 1927 for mining school students, with three levels of tunnels and period equipment, now a branch of the Sztygarka municipal museum.
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Tyskie Brewery (Tyskie Browary Książęce)
Industrial & derelict
A working brewery in Tychy dating to 1629, with a visitor centre inside its historic industrial buildings, noted by the regional film commission for its industrial character.
Wieża Ciśnień Katowice-Borki (Borki Water Tower)
Industrial & derelict
A 66-metre brick water tower in the Borki district of Katowice, built 1911 to 1912 to a design by the Zillmann architecture studio and topped with a helmet-shaped dome.
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Żywiec Brewery Museum
Industrial & derelict
A working brewery museum in Żywiec, opened 2006 on the site of an 1856 Habsburg-era brewery, with a recreated 19th-century street, a tavern, a bar and manufacturing spaces.
Electricity and on-site parking
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Industrial and derelict locations elsewhere in Europe
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- Czech Republic 22
- Netherlands 15
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- Portugal 11
- Hungary 10
- Serbia 10
Other kinds of location in Poland
- Theatres, arenas and venues 22
- Offices, schools and public buildings 18
- Transport and infrastructure 17
- Hospitals, prisons and institutions 10
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