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Szczecin's housing administration ZBiLK lists 80 empty municipal flats on a permanent list of flats to be renovated by the future tenant, with 12 more on periodic lists and one ready to let (9 October 2026), and the City's property portal offers 23 plots sold with their buildings — among them the 9.2 ha Zielony Dwór, a children's home closed in 2012 and now offered at PLN 25m for a tender on 22 October 2026. The national topographic database records 357 buildings out of use and 85 ruined; the largest sit on the industrial belt around ul. Stołczyńska (a ruined 19,847 m² building). Offices are the tightest of the regional markets, 8.4% vacant or about 15,000 m² (BNP Paribas Real Estate, Q2 2026).
An empty building in Szczecin with homes, balconies and neighbours drawn onto it in ink
Empty buildings on record
355
and 86 more with an empty shop, flat or floor
Vacant office space
15,000 m²
8.4% of the stock
Homes potential
—
not in the economic model’s office data yet

Office figures: BNP Paribas Real Estate Poland, end of Q2 2026 — Szczecin 8.4% of the stock vacant, about 15,000 m² (read from the report chart), the lowest of the eight regional markets; the average is 17.3%. Szczecin took under 2% of the quarter's leasing. Map built 2026-10-09.

Empty buildings in Szczecin

One point per building, from public records, open data and cited reports. Filter by type, size and how sure the evidence is; open one to see who says so and whether it could become homes.

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3 more buildings in Szczecin reported in the news, not yet on the map

The articles do not give an address we could place, so these have no pin yet. From news reports, summed up in our own words with a link to each article — not checked on site by EHC.

  • budynek przedszkola przy ul. Noakowskiego, Noakowskiego — reported empty · formerly schoolHeadline: the former kindergarten building in the park on Noakowskiego street has been decaying for seven years. Głos Szczeciński (2025-01-06)
  • pustostan przy ul. Kolumba, Kolumba — reported demolition plannedHeadline: a vacant building on Kolumba street, judged a real danger to residents, will be demolished. wSzczecinie.pl (2024-09-10)
  • pustostan przy ul. Mickiewicza, Mickiewicza / Waryńskiego — reported empty · formerly residential building · owner: Dzwoniarek InvestmentAn unfinished Pogodno block of flats has stood as a vandalised shell for twenty years; its new corporate owner has barely started work. Głos Szczeciński (2026-03-30)

Where conversion makes sense, and who to talk to

The districts where empty space, the right zoning and a working neighbourhood come together, and the owners and programmes that open a door. 15,000 m² of offices stand empty (8.4% of the stock).

A hand outlining a neighbourhood on a city map, with small houses drawn inside

Turzyn — al. Bohaterów Warszawy and ul. Żółkiewskiego

Two protected modernist brick buildings of 1923 have been unused for a long time next to the centre; the City is preparing to sell the plots once a new plan allows multi-family housing or services at 2–6 storeys.

  • Two buildings of 1923 by Adolf Thesmacher, managed by Szczecińskie TBS
  • New plan: 2–6 storeys, up to 19.5 m, ceramic-brick ground floors required
  • 26 BDOT10k out-of-use or ruined records within 1.5 km, 10 of them of 500 m² or more (14,022 m² of footprint in all)

Risk: The buildings are protected and the City's earlier redevelopment attempt failed on renovation costs; they are only temporarily secured and the courtyard is let as a guarded car park.

2 sources

Zdroje — Zielony Dwór and Willa Grünebergów

The two best-known empty heritage complexes in the south sit a kilometre apart: the 9.2 ha Zielony Dwór (empty since 2012, now PLN 25m) and the Grünebergów villa (empty for years).

  • Zielony Dwór: 92,103 m² of plots, tender 22 October 2026, starting price PLN 25m, 50% discount on the heritage part
  • Willa Grünebergów: heritage register A-762, moved in 2014, bricked-up windows (May 2026)
  • 10 BDOT10k out-of-use or ruined records within 1.5 km (6,317 m² of footprint)

Risk: Zielony Dwór is on the heritage register with strict protection and the plan bars housing; the villa's fate waits on legal and formal questions and on the Voivodeship conservator.

2 sources

Stołczyn and the port belt — ul. Stołczyńska and ul. Nad Odrą

The biggest recorded out-of-use floor space in the city is here: a ruined 19,847 m² industrial building, out-of-use halls of 4,031, 3,831 and 3,604 m², and the City's offer of a heritage-listed house at ul. Nad Odrą 6.

  • 26 BDOT10k out-of-use or ruined records within 2 km, 15 of them of 500 m² or more (43,329 m² of footprint in all)
  • Nad Odrą 6: heritage-listed house (225 m² footprint) on a 3,126 m² plot, offer in preparation

Risk: Working port land: ownership unknown, remediation likely, and the BDOT10k flag lags (halls may be let or cleared).

2 sources

Golęcino–Gocław — Strzałowska and Dębogórska

The City offers four run-down office and warehouse buildings on a 4,351 m² plot at ul. Strzałowska 16 that the 2023 plan zones for multi-family housing, and the 180-year-old Stara Olejarnia on ul. Dębogórska is being turned into a hotel after 30 empty years.

  • Strzałowska 16: office 275 m², warehouses 227 and 57 m², office 191 m² (footprints), "technically poor", plan symbol P.G.1109.MW,U
  • Stara Olejarnia: conservation permit 28 January 2025, hotel by November 2028, owner Arche S.A.
  • 23 BDOT10k out-of-use or ruined records within 2 km (14,599 m² of footprint)

Risk: Strzałowska 16 buildings are in poor condition and the offer says nothing on vacancy; the Olejarnia is already in private hands with a hotel permit.

2 sources

Signals to watch

Decisions, auctions and closures that change what becomes available, and when.

  1. 2026-10-09Zielony Dwór on tender on 22 October at PLN 25m

    The City's oral tender for the 9.2 ha former children's home complex; deposit due 15 October; 50% discount on the heritage part.

    1 source
  2. 2026-10-07ZBiLK publishes new lists of empty flats

    A new list of flats ready to let (7 October) and of flats to be renovated (5 October); the permanent renovation list holds 80 flats.

    2 sources
  3. 2026-05-04Councillor raises the alarm over Willa Grünebergów

    The Deputy Mayor says decisions wait on legal and formal issues; the villa has stood empty for years.

    1 source
2 earlier signals
  1. 2025-01-29
    Stara Olejarnia gets its conservation permit for a hotel

    After about 30 empty years; about PLN 100m, completion planned by November 2028.

    1 source
  2. 2024-09-06
    City: former animal-shelter plot can only be sold after a plan change

    The building on al. Wojska Polskiego is decaying; the current plan allows only an animal shelter, and the City started a new plan in April 2024 (multi-family housing of low intensity).

    1 source

Sources, and what we cannot see

23 sources connected, 1 waiting for access. We only use data we may lawfully reuse; where a publisher blocks automated access we do not work around it — a person downloads it, or we ask for permission.

Every source, its licence and when we last read it
SourceAccessRecordsStatusLicence
OpenStreetMap disused/abandoned tags and brownfields
OpenStreetMap contributors
Open API124Live
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
Rail, S-Bahn and U-Bahn stations (OpenStreetMap)
OpenStreetMap contributors
Open APIscoringLive
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
Building heights: GlobalBuildingAtlas (TU Munich)
Zhu, X. X., Chen, S., Zhang, F., Shi, Y., Wang, Y. (2025), Technical University of Munich
GlobalBuildingAtlas: an open global and complete dataset of building polygons, heights and LoD1 3D models. Earth System Science Data 17(12), 6647–6668, doi:10.5194/essd-17-6647-2025. Read from the Parquet copy on Source Cooperative. Satellite-derived heights (typically 1.5–3 m error in Europe), turned into storeys with storey heights fitted on Berlin; used only where no register or official 3D model sizes the building.
Open download329 buildings sizedLive
2026-10-09
CC BY-NC 4.0 (heights); footprints from OpenStreetMap and Microsoft: ODbL
Road noise (EU Environmental Noise Directive, Lden)
European Environment Agency
Open APIscoringLive
2026-10-09
EEA standard re-use policy (attribution)
Leerstandsmelder.de — public reports of empty buildings
Leerstandsmelder (Gängeviertel e.V., Hamburg)
Shown while we ask Leerstandsmelder for permission. Reports since 2016 only, with the address, the month reported and a link to each entry; not checked by EHC. Each point says when a report has since been marked demolished, lived in, in interim use or rebuilt on Leerstandsmelder, and the owner type the reporter gave (private owners are never named).
Asking for permission0Pending
2026-10-09
Credited to Leerstandsmelder.de; asking for permission
Open-ended property funds: buildings they report partly empty
Open-ended real-estate funds (each point names its fund and report)
German and Austrian open-ended public property funds must list every property with its vacancy (or letting) rate in their annual and half-year reports. scripts/reuse/import-fund-reports.ts reads those lists; properties at 10 % vacancy or more are shown, those at 25 % or more count as evidence.
Open download0Live
2026-10-09
Published fund report (KAGB / KARBV property list), cited per point
Co-working spaces, department stores, banks, hotels and cinemas listed as permanently closed
Overture Maps Foundation (closure data: BrightQuery company records)
Places with operating_status "permanently_closed" in the monthly Overture release, read by scripts/reuse/import-overture-closures.ts and matched to the building they sit in. A closed business is usually one unit; names are shown only for companies, never for sole traders.
Open download0Live
2026-10-09
CDLA Permissive 2.0 (Overture Maps Foundation)
Land without current use and stalled construction, mapped from satellite imagery (Copernicus Urban Atlas 2006–2018)
European Environment Agency — Copernicus Land Monitoring Service
Urban Atlas class 13400 (brownfields, demolition sites and gaps in the built-up area, 0.25 ha and up) compared across the 2006, 2012 and 2018 editions, so each plot says how long it has stood unused; plus construction sites (13300) already under way in 2012, and 2012 construction sites left unused by 2018. Read from the EEA's open ArcGIS services, the same way in every radar city. The 2021 edition (Copernicus Data Space) drops plots built on since 2018 where scripts/reuse/import-urban-atlas-2021.ts has been run. Points are context, never evidence of vacancy.
Open API88Live
2026-10-09
Copernicus open data (© European Union, Copernicus Land Monitoring Service 2006–2021, EEA)
Stalled construction and buildings held by insolvent developers
EHC research (dated press and court sources per point)
Signa, Adler/Consus and other developer insolvencies since 2022 and stalled sites, each with its latest dated status (src/scripts/data/reuse/stalled-projects.json; news leads from scripts/reuse/mine-news.ts are reviewed before they join).
EHC research0Live
2026-10-09
Cited publisher per point
Church buildings the dioceses and regional churches plan to give up
Catholic dioceses and Protestant regional churches (their building plans), via EHC research
Buildings a church body’s published building plan or recent reporting names as to be given up, without church funding, for sale or lease, or profaned (src/scripts/data/reuse/church-plans.json and brussels-churches.json).
EHC research0Live
2026-10-09
Cited publisher per point
Named buildings and sites from EHC research (each with its own source)
European Housing Coop research
Includes the library’s public lighthouse conversions (src/scripts/data/reuse/lighthouses.json), shown under "Already converting" with a link to their library page.
EHC research7Live
2026-10-09
Facts cited to their publishers
Year built and listing: OpenStreetMap building tags
OpenStreetMap contributors
start_date / construction_date and heritage / listed_status of the OpenStreetMap outline a record is matched to, where no register answers. Read with the outline match, not a separate query.
Open APIscoringLive
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
Buildings recorded out of use in the national topographic database (BDOT10k)
Główny Urząd Geodezji i Kartografii (GUGiK) — BDOT10k, county package 3262 (Szczecin)
Open download237Live
2026-10-09
Free reuse without restriction (Prawo geodezyjne i kartograficzne art. 40a; GUGiK: no fees) — credit GUGiK. Street addresses from OpenStreetMap contributors' address points (ODbL; in Poland the national address points of GUGiK)
Buildings recorded as ruined in the national topographic database (BDOT10k)
Główny Urząd Geodezji i Kartografii (GUGiK) — BDOT10k, county package 3262 (Szczecin)
Open download44Live
2026-10-09
Free reuse without restriction (Prawo geodezyjne i kartograficzne art. 40a; GUGiK: no fees) — credit GUGiK. Street addresses from OpenStreetMap contributors' address points (ODbL; in Poland the national address points of GUGiK)
Office buildings of four storeys or more in the national topographic database (BDOT10k)
Główny Urząd Geodezji i Kartografii (GUGiK) — BDOT10k, county package 3262 (Szczecin)
Open download175Live
2026-10-09
Free reuse without restriction (Prawo geodezyjne i kartograficzne art. 40a; GUGiK: no fees) — credit GUGiK. Street addresses from OpenStreetMap contributors' address points (ODbL; in Poland the national address points of GUGiK)
Industrial and warehouse buildings of three storeys or more in the national topographic database (BDOT10k)
Główny Urząd Geodezji i Kartografii (GUGiK) — BDOT10k, county package 3262 (Szczecin)
Open download69Live
2026-10-09
Free reuse without restriction (Prawo geodezyjne i kartograficzne art. 40a; GUGiK: no fees) — credit GUGiK. Street addresses from OpenStreetMap contributors' address points (ODbL; in Poland the national address points of GUGiK)
Empty municipal flats on the City housing administration's lists (ZBiLK)
Zarząd Budynków i Lokali Komunalnych w Szczecinie (ZBiLK, a budget unit of the City) — "Wynajmij mieszkanie"
Open API93Live
2026-10-09
No licence stated — City of Szczecin public information (ZBiLK), used with credit to ZBiLK Szczecin
City of Szczecin plots sold with their buildings, on its property portal
Urząd Miasta Szczecin — Nieruchomości Szczecin (miastooferuje.szczecin.eu, "all the City's offers in one place")
Open API23Live
2026-10-09
No licence stated — City of Szczecin public information, used with credit to Urząd Miasta Szczecin
Flats and premises the City and its companies offer for sale in Szczecin
Urząd Miasta Szczecin — Nieruchomości Szczecin (miastooferuje.szczecin.eu, "all the City's offers in one place")
Open API14Live
2026-10-09
No licence stated — City of Szczecin public information, used with credit to Urząd Miasta Szczecin
Unbuilt City of Szczecin plots on its property portal
Urząd Miasta Szczecin — Nieruchomości Szczecin (miastooferuje.szczecin.eu, "all the City's offers in one place")
Open API119Live
2026-10-09
No licence stated — City of Szczecin public information, used with credit to Urząd Miasta Szczecin
OpenStreetMap: land mapped as brownfield
OpenStreetMap contributors (via overpass.openstreetmap.fr)
Open API49Live
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0
Buildings State-controlled companies and the Military Property Agency offer for sale
Ministry of State Assets — register of State-company asset sales; Agencja Mienia Wojskowego
Open download2Live
2026-10-09
not stated — credited to the publisher
Buildings named in the news (each with its article)
Local and national press, read by EHC
Buildings the news reports empty, for sale or to let, to be demolished or being converted (src/scripts/data/reuse/news-building-leads.json; rules in src/lib/reuse/news-layer.ts). A report that names a building already on the map is shown on its card instead of a second point; one an open source contradicted, or that says the building is in use, is left out. Not checked on site.
EHC research2Live
2026-10-14
Facts with a link to the article; the one-line summary is ours — no article text is republished
Probable era: estimated from a street photo (Panoramax, Mapillary, Google Street View)
Panoramax and Mapillary contributors; Google Street View (research use agreed with Google, 14 Oct 2026); estimate by EHC with a vision model
Where no register dates a building: its era read from a Panoramax or Mapillary photo looking at it — Google Street View only where no open photo answers (scripts/reuse/estimate-photo-eras.ts), only when the building is clearly visible and the model is confident, and only as “before 1945” or “1945 or later” — the split it got right for 89% of buildings with a register year in Amsterdam and Paris, and 89% from Street View pictures alone (photo-eras/calibration.json). An estimate: a sentence in the conversion check, never points.
Open APIscoringLive
2026-10-14
Open photos CC BY-SA 4.0 or Licence Ouverte 2.0 (per picture); Street View read for research only, never stored or shown; only the estimated era is published, never a photo

What this radar cannot see yet

  • ZBiLK's lists are of flats let to individual tenants; no list of empty municipal BUILDINGS was found, and no open ownership layer: the City's spatial portals (geoportal.szczecin.pl, gis.um.szczecin.pl) did not connect from here and dane.szczecin.eu answered HTTP 403.
  • The City portal gives no coordinates: 63 of the 156 placed offers sit on OpenStreetMap's geocoder answer and 18 of 174 could not be placed; plots in the area of a street are placed on the street.
  • gs24.pl answered HTTP 403 (a lead on the former kindergarten at Noakowskiego 64) and was not read; the former animal-shelter plot on al. Wojska Polskiego is not on the map because the article gives no address.
  • BDOT10k flags lag reality and name no owner; the Stołczyn port belt needs an owner check before it counts as empty.

Know an empty building we have missed?

Open data cannot see everything. Tell us about a building in Szczecin that stands empty or barely used; once we have checked it, it joins the map under “Reported by visitors (checked)”.

A phone held up to photograph an empty shopfront, with a map pin drawn above it

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Radars nearby

The other radars in the same country and the nearest beyond. All 149 cities in the atlas

The figure on each card: empty buildings on record.

Berlin, Germany1,902empty buildings on recordBydgoszcz, Poland285empty buildings on recordDresden, Germany347empty buildings on recordGdańsk, Poland421empty buildings on recordKraków, Poland356empty buildings on recordLeipzig, Germany345empty buildings on recordŁódź, Poland485empty buildings on recordLublin, Poland205empty buildings on recordMalmö, Sweden19empty buildings on recordPoznań, Poland314empty buildings on recordWarsaw, Poland1,369empty buildings on recordWrocław, Poland680empty buildings on record