There is almost something magic in the feeling of entering a closed zone of an abandoned village or residential area. Although my mindset of an abandoned and sealed village points toward something like the restricted zone surrounding the wrecked nuclear power plant of Chernobyl, there are other and perhaps less drastic reasons for a village being wiped out from the map. Here in Sweden, there is a certain amount of buzz surrounding the planned move of large parts of the municipality of Kiruna up in the very north. A move being forced by the expansion of Europe's largest iron ore mine, where cracks in the ground as a result of deep mining has put certain parts of the city and the railway in danger of being swallowed by the ground.

Here, something very similar was found, but with the difference that it happened more than thirty years ago. A complete village was bulldozed and moved to a more secure location and the area was sealed off. Today, everything is entirely overgrown and lost in a dense forest.
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