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Wrocław

Wrocław's national topographic database records 259 buildings as out of use and 41 as ruined, 36 of them with a footprint of 1,000 m² or more: the old factory halls of the HACO machine-tool works on Grabiszyńska and two former hospitals among them. The City runs a property exchange that listed 48 built properties and 126 units on 9 October 2026, Długa 49 (a 14,523 m² plot with office and warehouse buildings, asking PLN 130m) the largest. Offices stand 21.8% empty, about 295,000 m².
Vacant office space295,000 m²21.8% of the stock stands empty
Empty buildings on record67641 confirmed, 45 likely
Flagged unused258buildings in the official cadastre; 36 have 3,000 m² or more
Homes potential—not in the economic model’s office data yet

Office figures: BNP Paribas Real Estate Poland, end of Q2 2026 — 21.8% of the stock vacant, about 295,000 m² (read from the report chart); Property Forum puts the stock at 1,353,800 m². Katowice (22.2%) is the only regional market with a higher rate; the eight-city average is 17.3% (PINK). Map built 2026-10-09.

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The map

Every building a record says stands empty, one point per building: filter by type, size and how sure the evidence is, and open one to see who says so. “Opportunities” switches to the co-op lens: public land, conversion potential and projects already under way, every source as its own layer.

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Check any building in Wrocław: could it become homes, and could the EHC model work there?

Where to look first

Buildings with evidence that they stand empty — a second source agrees, a public record names them, or we have checked them — ranked by a score you can read: co-op scale, daylight depth, a station nearby, a zone that allows homes, affordable land and an open route in. Checked buildings carry their result; nobody has visited them on site yet. Leerstandsmelder reports join the list when they sit in a large non-residential building and a second source agrees.

PriorityBuildingFloor areaDepthStationConversion checkActions
72Generała Kazimierza Pułaskiego 73b / Generała Kazimierza Pułaskiego 73a / Generała Kazimierza Pułaskiego 73
Flagged unused in the cadastre · block of flats · 5 storeys · 5 other sources nearby
3,018 m²14 m437 mA fit only
65Sołtysowicka 15Not confirmed yet
Flagged unused in the cadastre · block of flats · 4 storeys · 1 other source nearby
3,972 m²15.5 m959 mA fit only
65near Romana Dmowskiego 53
Flagged unused in the cadastre · warehouse · 2 storeys · 1 other source nearby
3,648 m²12.8 m570 mA fit only
63ul. Zatorska 7 i 9
On public land · multi-family housing · 2 other sources nearby
—9.4 m397 m—
63ul. Strachocińska 139
On public land · single-family housing · 1 other source nearby
—9 m399 m—
63ul. Miłoszycka 56
On public land · single-family housing · 1 other source nearby
—2.2 m409 m—
62Grabiszyńska 279aNot confirmed yet
Flagged unused in the cadastre · industrial building · 3 other sources nearby
15,745 m²37 m455 mA fit only
62Near Przedwiośnie
Flagged unused in the cadastre · industrial building · 1 other source nearby
20,825 m²28.3 m229 mA fit only
61Near Fabryczna 14b
Distressed or stranded (named) · industrial building
3,140 m²18.2 m699 mA fit only
58Kołobrzeska 42-44
Distressed or stranded (named) · industrial building
4,742 m²61.3 m411 mA fit only

Districts where conversion makes sense

Where empty offices, the right zoning and a working neighbourhood come together — and what could go wrong.

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

Grabiszyn (HACO works, Grabiszyńska and Klecińska)

The largest cluster of industrial buildings recorded out of use: six halls of 3,100 to 8,000 m² footprint along Grabiszyńska and Klecińska, on the site of the Fabryka Automatów Tokarskich (HACO), which OpenStreetMap mappers mark abandoned.

  • Ten buildings of 500 m² or more recorded out of use or ruined within 1.6 km, 40,243 m² of footprint (BDOT10k, 2025–26 records)
  • Halls of 7,956, 7,768, 7,608, 6,394, 4,021 and 3,132 m² recorded out of use (records of 6 Feb 2026 and 5 Aug 2025)

Risk: The site was the works of the machine-tool maker FAT (HACO group): some records may be a partial closure rather than a derelict works, and the owner is not named in any open record.

1 source

Stare Miasto and Nadodrze

The City's own sale list is densest here: Długa 49 (PLN 130m, 14,523 m² plot), the three listed tenements at Piłsudskiego 70/72 and a built plot at Żiżki 3 and 5, plus 63 BDOT10k records within 2 km.

  • Długa 49: PLN 130m asking price, offer in preparation since 10 Aug 2026
  • Żiżki 3 and 5: tender on 15 Dec 2026, PLN 10.5m
  • The 14,354 m² Arkady Wrocławskie site (1.7 ha) is being cleared for a mixed scheme

Risk: Prices are high and heritage rules apply; the exchange does not say which buildings are empty.

2 sources

Ołbin and Przedmieście Oławskie

The old Traugutta hospital stands here, and the City's own tenements in Plac Grunwaldzki and Przedmieście Oławskie are in the PoWROty kamienic renovation programme.

  • 44 BDOT10k records within 1.5 km, 13 of them of 500 m² or more
  • PoWROty kamienic: 100 City-owned tenements to be renovated by 2029; 7 of the 22 first-stage buildings (PLN 51m) are in Plac Grunwaldzki and 1 in Przedmieście Oławskie

Risk: The hospital is owned by a company and has been empty since 2015; the tenements are the City's housing stock and are mostly lived in.

2 sources

Krzyki and al. Wiśniowa

The former Railway Hospital (2.38 ha, 1901 main building) sits on al. Wiśniowa; the BDOT10k flag was refreshed in February 2026, so it was still recorded out of use then.

  • Hospital departments moved out in about 2015; the Marshal's Office sold the site for over PLN 28m in February 2018
  • Record out of use dated 6 Feb 2026 (3 storeys, 2,561 m² footprint)

Risk: Heritage protection limits the work to modernisation, and the developer who bought it in 2018 may already be building.

2 sources

Owners and routes in

Who controls the space, and what a housing cooperative can actually do with them.

A door key on a doorstep with a drawn path leading to an open door
Public owner

Gmina Wrocław — property exchange (Giełda Nieruchomości)

The City lists what it sells with coordinates, plan symbols and tender dates: 48 built properties and 126 units on 9 October 2026. Tenders open on 30 Oct (Osobowicka 134, 136, PLN 1.85m), 17 Nov (Kamieńskiego 58, PLN 1.08m), 27 Nov (Pszczyńska 22, 24, 26, PLN 2.35m) and 15 Dec 2026 (Żiżki 3, 5, PLN 10.5m). A co-op needs the offers' buildings checked on site; the exchange does not say which stand empty.

1 source
Allocation rule

Rada Miejska Wrocławia — sales under the Housing Co-operatives Act

A council may resolve to sell municipal land only to housing co-operatives and members acting under a co-operation agreement, by limited written tender, with a repurchase right if the homes are not built (Arts. 12–19). Wrocław already supported three co-operatives at Nowe Żerniki through a city company before the act existed. The act covers sale of land, not leases.

2 sources
City agency

City housing stock — Zarząd Zasobu Komunalnego and the PoWROty kamienic programme

The City is renovating 100 tenements it owns outright by 2029 (22 in the first stage, PLN 51m). Ask the housing company which of them stand empty after renovation or are earmarked for a long lease to a resident-run organisation; the City's own page does not say whether any are empty.

1 source

Signals to watch

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

  1. 2026-10-09
    48 built properties and 126 units on the City exchange

    The exchange lists 158 property offers and 126 unit offers not yet sold: 48 of the property offers are built plots, 43 of them still in preparation without a price.

    1 source
  2. 2026-07-23
    Regional office vacancy 17.3%, Wrocław 21.8%

    PINK's average vacancy across the eight regional markets is 17.3%, with 1.17 million m² immediately available (BNP Paribas Real Estate); Wrocław has about 295,000 m².

    2 sources
  3. 2026-04-03
    Arkady Wrocławskie demolition runs to mid-2027

    Vastint is taking down the closed shopping centre on 1.7 ha for a scheme of shops, flats and offices; no building permit had been applied for.

    1 source
  4. 2025
    Habitat Poland: BDOT10k flags about 2.5% of buildings as out of use or ruined

    A national study of empty non-residential buildings takes the topographic database as its first filter, and warns that it rarely shows a recently abandoned building and has no ownership data.

    1 source
  5. 2024-08-02
    PoWROty kamienic: 100 City tenements by 2029

    The City starts a programme to renovate 100 residential buildings it owns outright and about 70 courtyards; 22 buildings in the first stage.

    1 source

Sources and freshness

19 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.

Show every source, its licence and when we last read it
SourceAccessRecordsStatusLicence
OpenStreetMap disused/abandoned tags and brownfields
OpenStreetMap contributors
Open API606Live
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 download608 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 API120Live
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
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 0264 (Wrocław)
Open download258Live
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 0264 (Wrocław)
Open download41Live
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 0264 (Wrocław)
Open download498Live
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 0264 (Wrocław)
Open download17Live
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)
Built properties on the City of Wrocław property exchange (offers open or in preparation)
Gmina Wrocław — Giełda Nieruchomości (Wydział Nabywania i Sprzedaży Nieruchomości)
Open API48Live
2026-10-09
No licence stated — Gmina Wrocław public information (the exchange of the Urząd Miejski, Wydział Nabywania i Sprzedaży Nieruchomości), used with credit to Gmina Wrocław
Units on the City of Wrocław property exchange (flats, shops, offices, storerooms)
Gmina Wrocław — Giełda Nieruchomości (Wydział Nabywania i Sprzedaży Nieruchomości)
Open API126Live
2026-10-09
No licence stated — Gmina Wrocław public information (the exchange of the Urząd Miejski, Wydział Nabywania i Sprzedaży Nieruchomości), used with credit to Gmina Wrocław
OpenStreetMap: land mapped as brownfield
OpenStreetMap contributors (via overpass.openstreetmap.fr)
Open API149Live
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0
Buildings the Military Property Agency offers for sale
Agencja Mienia Wojskowego (Military Property Agency)
Open download1Live
2026-10-09
not stated — credited to the publisher

What this radar cannot see yet

  • The City publishes no register of empty municipal flats or buildings: the Zarząd Zasobu Komunalnego manages the stock, but no vacancy list was found; an access-to-public-information request is the only route (draft only, never sent).
  • The property exchange says 'built', not 'empty', and gives the plot's area, not the buildings' floor area.
  • The BDOT10k out-of-use and ruined flags lag reality (Arkady Wrocławskie is being demolished) and name no owner; the City geoportal (geoportal.wroclaw.pl) exposes no open EGiB or building service we could find, so storeys and floor area come from BDOT10k.
  • bip.um.wroc.pl's robots.txt disallows PDF files and searches, so the City's sale notices (wykazy) were not read; the exchange carries the same offers.

Know an empty building we have missed?

Open data cannot see everything. Tell us about a building in Wrocław 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

We publish the address, the kind of building and your description once we have checked it — never your email. Please do not name the people who own or live in a building.

Radars nearby

The other radars in the same country and the nearest beyond. All 134 cities in the atlas

The figure on each card: empty buildings on record.

Brno, Czechia181empty buildings on recordBydgoszcz, Poland276empty buildings on recordDresden, Germany341empty buildings on recordGdańsk, Poland415empty buildings on recordKraków, Poland351empty buildings on recordŁódź, Poland481empty buildings on recordLublin, Poland200empty buildings on recordOstrava, Czechia42empty buildings on recordPoznań, Poland307empty buildings on recordPrague, Czechia1,058empty buildings on recordSzczecin, Poland353empty buildings on recordWarsaw, Poland1,352empty buildings on record