Picture Book...Germany's Far North-East and North Poland

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A loose collection of 2 weeks worth of places, towns, National Parks, coast, historic cities and odds+ends along the German and Polish Baltic Coasts and Islands, where each topic or place starts with a map (and the matching Gmap link) followed by pics and info


One stand-alone breakout section is Peenemuende, the WW2 Nazi Rocket Development Site on the island of Usedom, which is within the same general area.
Here : http://www.austouring.com/forum/showthread.php?p=77959#post77959



Sept 2019


...and a family visit turning into day-trips and a week of northern Poland (coast and inland).

Swapping the usual helmets and gloves for hiking-boots and rental-SUV didn't mean we'd stick to Autobahns and tourist traps.

Though...the Autobahns can be some fun, too.
After nearly 40hrs on planes and airports around half the globe it's time to de-numb the brain.

Hogging the slow-lane after making room for a blitzing VW-Transporter on the A20 from Berlin to Greifswald and the Baltic Coast.


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Map https://bit.ly/3fk9Poc


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Wolgast,, next to the old University-town of Greifswald is just on the other side of the Usedom-Island channel.

A recommendable and somewhat quirky, little historic place to avoid the high tourist $$-rates at Peenemuende.


Map https://bit.ly/2VYv6MM


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Wolgast Postel...a sort of Glam-Packer in the historic and ornate old Post-Office of the town.


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....and a neat, old town draped around it.


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Being the former Communist East Germany, there HAS to be a Trabbi (Trabant) around (the little plastic-bodied East German 2-stroke "Peoples' Car")
This one sadly just started moving, so it got a bit blurry.

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Wolgast...nice spot! :gday:
 

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Bodden Coast (Pomerania, Germany)

Map https://bit.ly/2WmiCO4

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A slow afternoon in the coastal flats of the Bodden Coast nature reserves, home of the cranes...

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The old Barhoeft Watchtower, now re-purposed as a wedding-venue.


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Many of the small byways are just twin-track concrete....and most of those going back to the '40s/'50s communist times.


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Watch tower or hunters-seat, it didn't say, but the gun-prop said enough.


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....and digging up some prized parts of the German Avenue Road.


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Ruegen Island...Altefaehr

Map https://bit.ly/2SBNl8K

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A quick sticky-beak to check how Stralsund foreshore looks from across the Strela Sound, the shallow Narrows between Mainland the island of Ruegen.
Altefaehr translates into Old Ferry...the ferry port to get to the island in ancient times.
Which was replaced by a hinged bridge to allow ships into the sound...paralleled by the 2007 high-clearance Ruegen bridge.

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A rich, old coastal trading town...and it still sort of shows. They just never got those church-towers to last any length of time :D

St. Mary's Church (German: Marienkirche) is a large Lutheran church located in Stralsund, northern Germany.[1] Built some time before 1298, it is architecturally Gothic, an example of the brick gothic style prevalent in northern Germany. Between 1549 and 1647, it was the tallest building in the world at 151 metres (495 ft) tall, excepting the interval 1569–1573 between the completion and collapse of the tower of Beauvais Cathedral.

The bell tower collapsed in 1382, and was rebuilt by 1478. In 1495, the steeple tower blew down during a severe storm, and was then rebuilt taller. This was subsequently struck by lightning in 1647, and burned down, and was rebuilt as a baroque dome, which, completed in 1708, can be seen today. The tower is currently 104 metres (341 ft) tall.



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Ruegen Island...Southern Snoop

Map https://bit.ly/3dlJWT9 and https://bit.ly/2W2Idwk

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This time it's across the Strela Sound to Ruegen Island via the Glewitz Ferry to spend a few hours around the southern parts of Ruegen....and some more of those plentiful dual-track and sandy dirt roads that seem to be around everywhere, like the one to the Maltzien Lighthouse.


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...then the coastal track to Old Grabow... and across the fields to Zicker...


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Following the small signs and curiosity satisfied.
Well and truly "gutsed" with a booty to drag home.
The Ruegener Dairy in Posewitz is one place NOT to be missed!!
https://www.ruegener-inselfrische.de/



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Polish Baltic-Crown...Gdansk/ Danzig
Wiki: https://ishr.site/U8Up

Map https://bit.ly/3c6CueC


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As near all of the Polish coast has been German for hundreds of years until 1945, much of the basic infrastructure, roads, buildings, history, signage, ports, military installations, railways etc. is German-based and either still or again bears the German names, since most of the coastal settlements and harbours are today's German holiday coast with tourism booming at significantly lower prices than along the German Baltic coast.

In short, it's a seafaring and trading city for over 1000 years that used to be swamped or sand-barred by high/ low water of the Vistula (Weichsel) river flowing through town into the Baltic Sea.
The river was ultimately re-aligned and dammed, leaving the city with many of the old waterways, canals and all its old trading and storage buildings.


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Wings & Dreams...Lilienthal Museum in Anklam/ Germany
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Lilienthal

Map https://bit.ly/3ffrRrX


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Anklam, a small town where the river Peene flows into the shallow Peenehaff, hosts an assuming, at first glance small museum of one of the Pioneers of Flight...
until one realizes that in those times there weren't wingspans of 60meters or 300 seats, but a armfull of timbersticks, some cloth and a bit of wire
in the attempt to get airborne.

Lots of original pieces, even more reproductions, early photos and a good bit of the technical thoughts on human flight at the time.

What came as a surprise was that Otto Lilienthal and his family were also businessmen, industrialists, inventors of all sorts of stuff from toys (forerunners of Lego and Meccano)
to mining equipment and well involved in politics and social + humanistic development of the general society.

Fascinating stuff!


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