Lost & Dark Places Vorpommern and Rügen
The Baltic Sea is not far away, the stately towers of the Hanseatic City of Greifswald or Stralsund are in sight. Or the mighty pylons of the new Rügen Bridge, which connects the largest German island with the mainland. Wide sandy beaches, the steep coast shines brightly in the sunshine. For many, Vorpommern is associated with vacation time, beaches and seagulls circling in the sky.
But the most sparsely populated region in the country, in the far north-east, is also home to abandoned places, spooky ruins that tell stories of past wars or even just times of economic crisis.
The Swedes once came and conquered large parts of Pomerania, and it took several centuries for the Prussians to recapture it.
It was not only the Thirty Years' War that left its mark in the form of many castle and monastery ruins. The remains of the buildings that were once intended to express the National Socialists' claim to power and megalomania can still be found today. Some were cleared out of the way during the socialist era. But the GDR also left its mark with new buildings, of which only remnants remain today.
And that's not all: tombs older than the pyramids of Giza and a sunken city, the Atlantis of the Baltic Sea, have found their way into this book with their stories.
Lost & Dark Places Vorpommern" tells the stories of 33 of these mysterious and eerie places.